PEORIA — The city of Peoria spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, including paying one attorney more than $1,000 an hour, on a new law firm it hired to help draft a lawsuit and settlement with the Par-A-Dice Casino.
Peoria hired the law firm Taft, Stettinus and Hollister, replacing the law firm of Elias, Meginnes and Seghetti, late last year to assist in both simultaneously drafting a settlement agreement with Boyd Gaming and drawing up a lawsuit against the company that operates the casino in East Peoria.
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