Embroiled in a nasty battle over a proposal to outsource work now done by municipal employees, the city of Costa Mesa, Calif., has hired Jones Day to represent it in litigation brought by a union representing some of those employees.

Facing a revenue shortfall, Costa Mesa distributed layoff notices to almost half of its workforce earlier this year and announced plans to outsource the work of more than 200 municipal employees to private companies.

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