Sentences with phrase «estate law firm run»

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.»

Mr. Silver was said to have persuaded developers who had business with the state to use a real estate law firm run by a former aide.

The lawmaker is accused of using his influence to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by his former counsel in the Assembly, which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Silver is accused of directing Glenwood to hire a real estate law firm run by a former aide, which then paid him handsomely for doing no work, while Skelos is charged with directing the developer to pay his son's title insurance company $ 20,000 for work it did not do.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors say Silver also supported legislation that benefited a big real estate developer and pocketed kickbacks when the developer sent legal work to another law firm run by a Silver pal, according to prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors say Silver ran schemes using two law firms, one specializing in real estate, the other in personal injury law, to collect money for work he did not perform.

Prosecutors have accused him of running two separate schemes, steering real estate developers to a law firm that paid him kickbacks, and funneling state grants to a doctor who referred asbestos claims to a second law firm that employed Mr. Silver and paid him fees for referring clients.

Prosecutors allege Silver steered real estate developers to a law firm run by Silver's former counsel in the Assembly, which handled complicated real estate tax cases, and that Silver received kickbacks at his own firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, from referrals of asbestos cases that were sent by a doctor who received state research funds.

Peter Myers runs an eponymous law firm in San Francisco specializing in estate and retirement planning.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.