The DeKalb County school board has capped legal fees for former Chief Operating Officer Patricia Reid at $100,000.
The board voted Monday night to hire Austell law firm C.F. Brock and Associates to represent Reid in the district’s civil suit against construction manager Heery/Mitchell, district spokesman Jeff Dickerson said.
This is the fourth law firm the DeKalb school board has hired to help with the suit. Heery sued the district in 2007, alleging breach of contract. The district filed a counter-suit for $100 million, alleging fraud and mismanagement of school construction projects. The school system has already paid $15.5 million in legal fees in the case.
Reid was indicted last year on charges she ran a criminal enterprise at the school system.
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