Complex sentence: A Cook County Circuit Judge appointed an outside lawyer to represent Berrios before the Board of Ethics beginning in April 2011, and the outside lawyer's firm billed the county $4,773 for its work as of September, 2012.
Split into simpler sentences: A Cook County Circuit Judge appointed an outside lawyer to represent Berrios before the Board of Ethics beginning in April 2011. The outside lawyer's firm billed the county $4,773 for its work on the case as of September, 2012.