Sentences with phrase «defense lawyers paid»

This also means that after most car accidents in Florida, accident victims will have to deal with an insurance adjuster, insurance company investigator, and sometimes, a defense lawyer paid by the insurance company to represent the at - fault driver.

Not exact matches

Opponents of the estate tax like to pretend that it's really about a defense of small farmers, such as when White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn said, «You have a family farm that's big enough that it's going to hit the estate tax, you start paying lawyers, consultants, and accountants to break up your land, and break up your farm» (Source).
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and a Brooklyn state Senator cut hefty checks to the campaign of Assemblywoman Pamela Harris after she found out she was under federal investigation — and she promptly drew on the funds to pay for high - priced defense lawyers.
That's because run - offs fall under state law, not city law, and the state allows campaign funds to pay for criminal defense lawyers.
Since news of these investigations broke in March, de Blasio has not made clear who would pay his criminal defense lawyers.
* Forbid using campaign funds to pay criminal defense lawyers and ban convicted felons from pocketing their campaign accounts.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.
NEW YORK (AP)- A defense lawyer says New York's former assembly speaker didn't do special legislative favors for those who paid him millions of dollars in fees.
By late 2015, with the federal investigation active, Mangano was using his campaign account to pay a criminal defense lawyer.
When defense lawyer Daniel Gitner first challenged his $ 600 - a-night Waldorf stay while meeting with prosecutors in 2016 as an example of extravagant spending despite his agreement to pay restitution, Howe first brushed it off, saying he had gotten a «deal» and only paid a couple hundred dollars.
Joseph Tacopina (r.), who has been state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's (l.) defense lawyer for years, is now requesting to be court appointed to Monserrate's recent fraud case after Monserrate said he could not pay him.
He's using part of his $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer to represent the office of the governor against the US Attorney's investigations.
Moreover, the lawyers argue that the defendants all live and work in the Buffalo area and that they will be calling numerous defense witnesses from Western New York, whose travel expenses, to be paid for by the defense, will soar if the trial is held in Manhattan.
Cuomo is using campaign funds to pay a criminal defense lawyer representing his office, and several of his aides hired their own counsel.
On this week's Gazette: Governor Andrew Cuomo is tapping his campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said his office is looking into possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering in the activities of the Moreland Commission.
When Mayor Byron Brown found himself facing allegations of a pay - to - play scheme at City Hall, he turned to one of Buffalo's most respected defense lawyers.
It's not unusual for politicians in New York to use their campaign funds to pay for a criminal defense lawyer, since there are few restrictions on how donor contributions can be spent.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.
Defense lawyers for hedge funder Murray Huberfeld — accused of paying ex-NYC prison guards» union head Norman Seabrook illegal bribes — demanded an «evidentiary hearing» to suss out Rechnitz's role in Nissen's alleged Ponzi scheme.
On cross-examination defense lawyers pointed out there were other clerical issues with Aiello's pay.
A legal defense fund created in 2009 is to receive $ 564,547; Bruno's company, Capital Business Consultants, will get $ 50,358, and two lawyers who worked on his second trial — E. Stewart Jones and William Dreyer — will be paid $ 51,228 and $ 188,742, respectively.
Monserrate, who is battling fraud charges and recently lost his high - powered Manhattan defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina after being unable to pay his fees, has found a job at restaurant Papaya Pizza -LSB-...]
Defense lawyers say Gerardi and Aiello believed they were paying Howe for work on the Mathis Harple funding.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign committee revealed yesterday that it has paid an additional $ 100,000 to Cuomo's criminal defense lawyers.
De Blasio hinted that he will fundraise to pay defense lawyers on his improper fundraising probe.
The $ 50 or less cap for each contribution to his legal defense fund means de Blasio will struggle to pay off those $ 500 - an - hour lawyers hired to defend him against two criminal probes that had been looking into his sketchy fund - raising efforts.
The Espadas» defense lawyer, the Daily News reports, is claiming the men assumed their use of taxpayer funds from the Soundview Health Clinics they controlled — to pay for things like sushi restaurant tabs and birthday party pony rides — were legal because the expenses were approved by an accounting firm.
Azzopardi said the governor does not know how Percoco is paying his lawyers and that Cuomo has not personally contributed to any kind of Percoco legal defense fund - if one exists.
We know what lawyers cost, and you don't want to have to pay a defense attorney to defend you against a frivolous claim.
But that coverage also provides a defense against those claims, should it be necessary, so you won't have to pay for a lawyer to defend you against a claim that your policy would cover.
Defense outside the policy limits just means that the amount spent on lawyers by the insurance company does not reduce the amount available to pay the claim.
Lawyers are paid to argue in court in defense of their client and prove that they are right, stock traders are paid to agree with the market action and admit when they are wrong.
You probably can't afford an insurance defense lawyer, much less to pay for the claim.
Instead of you hiring a lawyer out of your own pocket to defend you against the claim, the insurance company pays for your defense.
That means that if you are sued over that injury, your renters insurance provides and pays for a lawyer and your defense costs.
Liability coverage even provides you with a lawyer and pays for defense costs against the claim.
Personal injury lawyers work on contingency and get paid out of the settlement, but your defense attorney does not.
Herman Alexander Pope's model — too qualitative M.A.Vukcevic — too obscure Fred H. Haynie — bad premise Oliver K. Manuel — whacko Harry Dale Huffman — double whacko Girma Orssengo — trendology does not make a model Tony (climatereason) Brown — reliance on anecdotal info David Postma — bad physics Arno Arrack — bad writing makes it inscrutable Nasif Nahle — bad experimentation Chief Hydrologist — appeal to authority model Joachim Seifert — if I have to pay for it, it's not worth looking at Stephen Wilde — a lawyer's model Nicola Scafetta — use enough variables and one can fit anything Alexander Biggs — a half - way - there model The SkyDragons — say no more «Joe's World» LaLonde — an idea written with crayons Stefan «TheDenier» Mikitch — a crazed Chewbacca Defense model David Wojick — some sort of anti-model that teaches «controversy» Doug Cotton — a SkyDragon acolyte Paul Vaughn — Pay him some money please so he can work his ideas pay for it, it's not worth looking at Stephen Wilde — a lawyer's model Nicola Scafetta — use enough variables and one can fit anything Alexander Biggs — a half - way - there model The SkyDragons — say no more «Joe's World» LaLonde — an idea written with crayons Stefan «TheDenier» Mikitch — a crazed Chewbacca Defense model David Wojick — some sort of anti-model that teaches «controversy» Doug Cotton — a SkyDragon acolyte Paul Vaughn — Pay him some money please so he can work his ideas Pay him some money please so he can work his ideas out
A large firm could own, for example, an insurance defense firm, pay the lawyers bottom dollar, and be able to bill out at $ 100 an hour.
Given the sheer preponderance of keywords like «lawyer,» «attorney» and «criminal defense law firm» in legal consumers» search queries, people in the legal industry tend to pay the highest price in PPC management fees.
To justify their low offers, adjustors and defense lawyers have a variety of flawed arguments to claim they can only pay you a small fraction of what your case is worth.
Criminal defense lawyers like me get paid lots of money to help people make decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives.
-- The letter recipient's criminal defense lawyer can consider contacting the collections lawyer seeking an agreement to pay on the letter in exchange for the store's recommending no prosecution in the matter.
And so then not only has the insured, the attorney who has filed the collection action, not only have they incurred cost for the lawyer that they retained and the collection action, they may have a deductible on their policy that they're paying for defense counsel assigned for the counterclaim, they may be losing lost billable hours.
But how much impact will these rulings have for the majority of criminal defendants whose employer isn't contractually obligated to pay for their defense or who lack the money to hire the lawyer of their choice?
Moreover, I add that since police are public servants paid through our tax dollars, it is unsatisfactory to have them clam up with criminal defense lawyers.
Fort Lauderdale criminal defense lawyer William R. Moore does not engage in direct mail advertising, pay per click Internet campaigns, Yellow Page Ads, bus bench advertisements, billboards or TV and radio commercials.
Defense lawyers are paid hourly, summary judgment motions take lots of time.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that people accused of a crime deserve the right to a defense lawyer, no matter whether they can afford to pay for one.
We understand that every person's financial situation is unique, and that the last thing anyone expects is to have to pay for a criminal defense attorney or bankruptcy lawyer.
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