Epstein on detailed staffing breakdown for GC and OLPS
Epstein confirms 20 new GC positions (17 lawyers, 3 investigators) and 29 OLPS positions (11 lawyers, 10 investigators, 8 data scientists), asking if this mix is appropriate for handling larger corporate defendants.
Thank you all.
So just so I'm clear, so labor and policy standards getting 27 positions and general counsel is getting 25 positions.
Is that right?
I believe it's 29 for labor and policy.
And 20 for general counsel.
Thank you.
20 for general counsel.
20 for general.
Do you want me to go through the division breakdown?
And what jobs are they?
Are they lawyers, paralegals, investigators, researchers?
Sure.
So it's 20 for GC, I think.
Lawyers.
Only lawyers?
No, it's lawyers and investigators in the first fiscal year in our industry.
Fiscal years, there'll be additional clerical support staff.
So how many lawyers, how many investigators?
The current plan is of those 2017 lawyers at different levels of seniority.
17 lawyers, some supervisors, I assume, in that mix, and then three investigators?
Yes.
And you think that's the appropriate mix?
Yeah, I think this really gives us a chance to thrive as we move forward.
What we're seeing, Councilmember, unsurprising, is we take on bigger firms like Extra Space, a publicly traded firm.
These are serious companies with serious lawyers, and we need to be sure that in settlement negotiations, if they don't go well, we can take them to court.
Right.
For that, we just simply need...
You got a lawyer up.
We got a lawyer up.
Okay.
Okay.
And then you don't have out your projections because you just want to see how the staffing goes?
I'm sorry, can you say that again?
So you don't, because you have 20 for this year, but you don't have projections what you're going to do next year?
I mean, I think we do have a sense.
I'm a little hesitant because, obviously, as the year progresses, there may be decisions made to move things around.
So I think we do have a general sense.
I don't think that's necessarily ready for discussion because I don't want to, like, houseify it right now.
Okay.
And then Office of Labor Policy and Standards, you said, what's 29, 10 investigators, we said?
Right.
So I've written it down since you asked me the question.
So we've got 11 lawyers.
There's 10 investigators and eight data scientists, and that includes the supervisory staff in each category.
Great.