Paid by the city

HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP

The city's published checkbook records $2,407,922 paid to HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP across 100 payment lines, from FY2019 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018—

FY2019$200

FY2020—

FY2021$8,360

FY2022—

FY2023—

FY2024$201,370

FY2025$759,234

FY2026$1,438,758

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Legal Department$2,407,922

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $2,304,519

PO One-time — $103,403

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contracts billed under

4600018530 — $888,655

4600019284 — $765,864

4600017732 — $650,000

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.