Sentences with phrase «dozen private law firms»

Lawyers for State Senate co-presidents Jeff Klein and Dean Skelos along with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have pushed to be «intervenor» plaintiffs, effectively joining a half - dozen private law firms that employ lawmakers as those firms challenge the commission's subpoenas for client lists and invoices.

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The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

Hoefer says the legislature chose private law firms even though the Senate and Assembly have dozens of attorneys on staff.