Sentences with phrase «outside legal work»

It can be used to monitor not only the status of outside legal work, but also invoicing and budgeting.

The statements, which were made public by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal work.

The Manhattan Democrat and lawyer makes between $ 650,000 and $ 750,000 in outside legal work in addition to his $ 121,000 speaker salary, according to his 2013 state financial disclosure forms.

A J&J spokesman says the practice is one of several used to reduce costs for outside legal work.

Though Silver has had his share of problems — from a failed coup mounted in 2000 by ex-Central New York Assemblyman Michael Bragman to, more recently, the spate of sexual harassment scandals to the recent NYT reports on the US attorney's probe into his unreported outside legal work — no lawmakers have been seriously trying to put together a coalition of support to oust him.

In fact, when outside legal work reaches a certain level, Coca - Cola in Canada will consider bringing another lawyer aboard, says Scott Kirkpatrick, vice president and general counsel.

Under extreme pressure to lower legal costs in the current economy, companies have been increasingly turning to smaller firms like Magleby Cataxinos & Greenwood to handle outside legal work.

The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, managed to earn more than $ 650,000 last year from outside legal work.

Defenders of the process, which dates to a 1997 agreement between county leaders that subsequently was ratified by voters, say it allows for prompt approval of smaller contracts when time is short, such as those for outside legal work and for in - demand entertainers for free county events.

«What Shelly is doing now to my knowledge he was doing 14 years ago,» Bruno said of the speaker's outside legal work.

The complaint, brought by the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, focuses on Silver's outside legal work, primarily for the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver served as of counsel.

Silver's outside legal work — which is not reflected in public court filings — has propelled him to the top of the list.

The outside legal work of former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was the basis of his arrest on federal corruption charges last month.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earned up to $ 150,000 last year from a Long Island law firm despite claims that he was giving up his outside legal work, according to documents made public yesterday.

The complaint focuses on Silver's outside legal work, primarily for the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver served as of counsel.

ALBANY — Last year, lawmakers brought in money from outside legal work, lottery winnings and even an appearance in a Jennifer Lopez movie, but they appeared to earn less in outside income than in the past, according to legislators» financial disclosure forms.

Several lawmakers did identify information about their outside legal work in 2014.

The government introduced into evidence audio recordings between Silver and various political reporters, including the New York Post's Fred Dicker, Capital Tonight's Liz Benjamin and POLITICO New York's Jimmy Vielkind, that included nearly identical statements by Silver regarding the nature of his outside legal work and the type of clients he represented.

In the recorded interview with Dicker, Silver presented his stock version of his outside legal work.

Ousted Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal work.

Upon replacing Skelos in 2015, Flanagan vowed to give up his outside legal work but still reported earning more than $ 100,000 in legal income that year.

ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earned up to $ 150,000 last year from a Long Island law firm despite claims that he was giving up his outside legal work, according to documents made public Tuesday.

The feds took specific aim at Skelos» claim that he'd walled off his government and outside legal work - noting that he met with a lobbyist who was doing business with the state including «legislative issues relating to pharmacies» at his law firm.

Silver, who was one of the state's three most powerful political figures, often told reporters he spent «several hours» each week helping «little people» through his outside legal work as a personal injury lawyer, and that he did not represent corporations or anyone with business before the state.

Four other GOP senators — Michael Nozzolio of Seneca County, John Flanagan of Suffolk County, Michael Ranzenhoffer of Erie County and Phil Boyle of Suffolk County — also reported making at least $ 100,000 from outside legal work.

The ACC Value Challenge: if you want more value from the law firm doing your outside legal work, you have to train them to work more efficiently.

Allstate's legal department decided to divvy up all its outside legal work among 13 firms instead of tapping more than 100 providers, as it routinely used to do.