The Law Department would get an additional $9 million and 51 new employees in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s preliminary budget for the coming fiscal year, according to testimony at a City Council hearing Monday.
The new employees, 27 of them attorneys, would be assigned to various units within the Tort Division, including its special litigation unit, which is handling more than 1,200 multimillion-dollar cases and notices of claim, and its early intervention unit, which pursues early settlements.
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