Sentences with phrase «many private law firms»

The unit has a fraction of the paralegal and administrative help of even a small private law firm.

The same would go for a Navy reservist who joins a private law firm that happens to have a sovereign wealth fund as a client — even if the reservist doesn't work on that account.

To mount his challenge to EPA's rule to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, he took the unusual step of accepting free help from a private law firm.

In the event that you are currently involved in legal proceedings, the private law firm Jaroslawicz & Jaros says that it's better not to post at all.

Previously, Gates had a lawyer from private law firm, with whom he cut ties just before his indictment.

Mr. Silver, an attorney by trade, collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002.

The private law firm made the following demands:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and the legislature are spending around $ 1.3 million this year in payments to private law firms, and the public is paying for it, says a fiscally conservative study center.

Earlier in the year, the Speaker of the Assembly was arrested and charged with running multi million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Several, including Senate Leader Skelos, earn over $ 100,000 a year from private law firms, according to financial disclosure forms that they are already required to fill out.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, who works part time at a private law firm, says he expects to agree on a «robust» new disclosure law, but concedes that it may only apply to new law clients, not existing business arrangements.

The reforms were proposed after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Mr. Silver collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002, according to the complaint.

Former speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in late January and charged with running a multi million dollar fraud scheme that included payments from two private law firms.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

Silver is charged with subverting his employment at two private law firms to gain nearly $ 6 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

Several senators, including Skelos, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside income from private law firms, and if the governor's ethics package is adopted, would have to disclose more details, including names of their clients.

Silver, a Democrat who represents Lower Manhattan, hired Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman to support several private law firms — including Weitz & Luxenberg, where he is of counsel — that employ legislators as they resisted the Moreland Commission's subpoenas.

The government claims Silver steered public money to Taub in exchange for referrals of cancer patients who Silver presented to the private law firm «Weitz and Luxenberg,» where Silver served as «of counsel.»

Some of those firms were title insurance companies that Skelos steered to his son from the Senate leader's work at a private law firm.

In March, Boehner announced that if Obama wouldn't defend DOMA, he would, hiring a private law firm to defend it on behalf of the House.

Earlier in the year, the former Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a multimillion dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

The private law firm made the following demands: The interlocutory injunction suit filed against Dr Zanetor Agyeman - Rawlings by incumbent Klottey Korle MP, Nii Armah Ashitey, is «dead on arrival», Dr Rawlings» Lawyer Godwin Tameklo has said.

Silver has been accused of receiving millions of dollars in illegitimate income from two private law firms.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Governor Cuomo's now disbanded Moreland Act Commission has a $ 300,000 contract with a private law firm, with one of the attorneys charging $ 550 an hour for his services.

The commissioners did not subpoena the legislative leaders; they were granted status as «intervenors» in the challenges brought by the private law firms.

He says while the million dollars in private law firm fees are listed on the legislature's expenditure reports, there is not explanation listed for why the outside counsel was hired and paid.

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

There would be more disclosure of the law clients from Senators and Assemblymembers who work for private law firms.

But one day after the governor's ambitious budget was released, the Assembly Speaker was arrested by US Attorney Preet Bharara, charged with illegally making millions of dollars through his employment at two private law firms.

The new rules stem from the arrest of the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, who is accused of using his outside employment at two private law firms to illegally net millions of dollars.

Some of those firms were title insurance companies that Sen. Skelos steered to his son from the Senate leader's work at a private law firm.

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

Earlier in the year, then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running multi-million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

The problem isn't the arrest itself or the charges levied against the speaker, who for years has accumulated wealth through private law firms in New York City.

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.

Two of the sources, citing conversations with D.F.S. employees, said they expect Lawsky would take a job with a private law firm.

Several, including Skelos, earn over $ 100,000 a year from private law firms, according to financial disclosure forms that they are already required to fill out.

The reforms were proposed after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Skelos, who makes over $ 100,000 a year in income from a private law firm, declined to name his clients, but says greater disclosure of law clients is part of the budget talks.

But the private law firm representing Antonacci (paid for by county taxpayers) is fighting with the county attorney's office (taxpayer - funded and controlled by Mahoney) over what information the county should turn over to all parties in the case.

An anti-corruption commission appointed by the governor, known as the Moreland Act Commission, subpoenaed state lawmakers who earn more than $ 20,000 a year from private law firms, asking to see their private client lists.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

Practicing in a private law firm if he was a lawyer or doing some nice things that get his name associated with good works first.

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Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

The state, under Governor Davis, had fought the lawsuit, using an expensive private law firm to argue that the problems, if they existed at all, were the responsibility of local school districts.

The Lafayette Parish School Board wants to bring on a private law firm as its legal counsel Wednesday, but Superintendent Pat Cooper wants the board to address several concerns he has about how they handled the matter.