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GAO-01-887R 1 (2001-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptanqe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 July 3, 2001 The Honorable William D. Delahunt House of Representatives Subject: Hourly Fees Paid by Various Federal Agencies to Private Attorneys for Legal Services Dear Mr. Delahunt: This report responds to your request that we provide you with information on hourly fees paid by the federal government to private attorneys for legal services in fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001. Relevant legal services include federal employee defense, litigative consultation, intellectual property consultation, and asset forfeiture-related services. For these types of legal services, we obtained information regarding hourly fees paid to private attorneys by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Generally, we focused on these agencies based on our 1992 report on private attorneys.' Scope and Methodology We found no centrally available source identifying all federal agencies' contracts with or uses of private attorneys. Thus, we focused our work on four federal agencies-DOJ, AOUSC, NASA, and VA. In selecting these agencies, we first reviewed our 1992 report, which was based on an extensive survey of federal agencies in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. In total, that report identified 59 agencies that reported awarding 4,567 contracts for legal services during fiscal year 1991. For that year, the seven agencies with the most contracts accounted for 4,129 (90 percent) of the total-Resolution Trust Corporation (1,782), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1,392), Department of Defense (382), VA (203), U.S. Department of Agriculture (176), NASA (99), and DOJ (95). 1Private Attorneys: Information on the Federal Government's Use of Private Attorneys (GAO/GGD-93-17FS, Oct. 20, 1992). 2Six of the 59 agencies awarded no contracts in fiscal year 1991 but made payments in that year based on contracts awarded in previous years or other arrangements. GAO-01-887R Fees Paid to Private Attorneys

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