While attorneys for the DeKalb County School District haggled over documents and attorney-client privilege in multi-million-dollar civil litigation with school project management companies, the school board tried to justify its legal spending on the case against criticism from a recently completed grand jury.

In a written brief, signed by Board of Education Chairman Eugene Walker and filed on May 10, the school board said reimbursing taxpayers is the goal of pursuing a $110 million countersuit against Heery International, E.R. Mitchell & Co. and joint venture Heery/Mitchell. A trial has been scheduled for February 2013.

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