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VARIATIONS/EXCEPTIONS The City will need assistance with the creation, acquisition, and recording of required easements, which we are looking forward to doing. We do expect that some Legal Services will be required to accomplish easement acquisitions. Because the professional liability related insurance coverage demands of attorneys are quite different than that for engineering firms, having an attorney subcontract through an engineer will present insurability concerns for the engineer, who as prime holds contractual responsibility for its sub- consultants. We anticipate that our team’s services will include project management of and coordination of any required legal services needed related to the team’s work In order to eliminate professional liability insurance related issues for the team we respectfully request that the City contract directly with the Attorney for legal services related to this project. That would allow the City to avoid potential uninsurable circumstances for the Engineer as well as allow the Attorney to function directly for the City, with the protections of their insurance flowing directly to the City. This would also establish clearly that the Attorney’s client is the City and no other party under this arrangement giving the City all the benefits of an Attorney-Client relationship. We take this project very seriously and fully expect to be performing work for the City for this effort in the next few months. We take the quality of our work and our indemnification of our clients seriously. Therefore, we consulted our professional liability carrier to review the details of the City’s indemnification and insurance requirements. If we are selected for this assignment, we would work in partnership with the City to confirm that the contract language complies with the state statutes Chapter 725.08 and is insurable. Our goal is to protect our clients so that our indemnification is legally valid and so that it provides you with the requested protection by our Professional Liability Insurance policy.