Sentences with phrase «with clients of the law firm»

They alleged: «While employed at the law firm, Dean Skelos repeatedly met with clients of the law firm to discuss legislation.»

Not exact matches

As an advisor with a traditional wealth management firm, Ahluwalia witnessed a burgeoning need, which led him to co-found National Social Security Partners, a national network of advisors that provide outsourced Social Security income - maximization planning to clients of CPAs, law firms and banks.

After becoming an attorney, Frazier practiced with the Philadelphia law firm of Dinkler, Biddle & Reath, where Merck & Co. was one of his clients.

Ranked in the top five percent of law firms for client service, * Polsinelli lawyers provide practical legal counsel, infused with business insight, in 100 service areas and 70 industries.

Mr. Lieberman is working with the Firm's international clients to craft a response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Morrison v. Nat» l Australia Bank, Ltd., which limited the ability of foreign investors to seek redress under the federal securities laws.

Many law firms, like many of the corporate clients they served, came under the control of people with a raider cast of mind.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

We like to refer to Rosenstein & Associates as being «The Temecula Law Firm» and that our clients can rely on us to help in the formation of a new business, help manage the legal needs of an existing business, including when necessary business & corporate litigation; ongoing transactional matters (more commonly referred to as contractual matters); assisting with the filing of copyrights and trademarks; assistance with real estate transactions, assistance with tax audits, tax litigation, and when necessary with business reorganization, including filing a Chapter 11 or a business Chapter 7 under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the continued expansion of its Alcohol Beverage Industry Group with the addition of three former alcohol beverage industry regulators, Thomas «Tom» Busey and Loy «Tony» Haynes in Miami, and Debi Pender in Tallahassee.

Reform advocates also want greater disclosure of lawmakers» outside income and more information on legislators» whose law firms have clients that do business with the state.

«Harvey Newkirk, an attorney with a major law firm with an obligation and responsibility to practice law in good faith, instead violated the law by lying and defrauding lenders out of millions of dollars in an attempt to help his client purchase Maxim Magazine,» said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

According to his form, Silver engaged in «general practice of law with emphasis on representation of individual clients and personal injury actions and «of counsel» to law firm.»

The law, which becomes fully effective when a new Legislature is seated in 2013, will require disclosure of the names of a lawmaker's clients and / or customers doing business with the state, as well as the clients of the lawmaker's own firm that may be doing such business.

As the criminal complaint against Silver alleges, he used his authority to disburse HCRA grants to enrich himself, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars to renowned Columbia University physician Dr. Robert Taub for the completion of a center to study mesothelioma, a rare cancer that can be caused by asbestos exposure, in exchange for Taub's agreement to direct clients with cancer to Silver's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specializes in lucrative asbestos lawsuits.

The the 24 - hour, toll - free number intended for clients of a Long Island adoption law firm, has been flooded with hundreds of calls from Trump supporters across the country.

A two - attorney law firm that has made substantial payments to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, which are the focus of a federal investigation, also counts among its clients a wealthy landlord with a troubled past who has ties to the Manhattan Democrat.

But a deal with the Senate, where a number of lawmakers are lawyers who work for law firms that represent clients with interests before state, has been more difficult to reach for Cuomo.

A letter disclosing the referral - fee arrangement between Sheldon Silver and a law firm to which he directed a lucrative developer client was shared with a politically connected top executive of that client but not with its chief financial officer, the officer testified in the former Assembly speaker's corruption trial.

And, to be fair, Hodgson Russ is one of the city's largest law firms with an impressive stable of government clients.

Mr. Molo, in rejecting the government's charge that his client's actions were illegal, said Mr. Silver's referrals of patients with asbestos claims to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg was a means of getting «economic justice» for them, many of whom were blue - collar workers who had «unfairly and unjustly» contracted mesothelioma, a particularly deadly form of cancer, through work with asbestos.

A letter disclosing the referral - fee arrangement between Sheldon Silver and a law firm to which he directed a lucrative developer client was shared with a politically connected top executive of that client but not with its chief financial officer, the officer testified on Thursday.

The U.S. attorney also charges that Sen. Skelos was paid $ 2.6 million by the law firm, of which he was «of counsel,» but did not perform any actual work for them — paid for referring clients to the firm who had business before the state, and meeting with law firm clients «including about legislative matters.»

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

The jury also found that the Lower East Side resident earned $ 700,000 from a separate law firm after hooking them up with a pair of lucrative real - estate - developer clients.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

His white - shoe law firm — which has yet to receive a penny from him despite nearly a year's worth of legal work, essentially extending him a line of credit — itself lobbies city agencies on behalf of clients with business before the city.

In a culture in which it can almost seem eccentric not to be «of counsel» to a major law firm that represents clients with state business, say, or to have a beef with the practice of steering pork, tax breaks or other public benefit to political donors, this sets significant precedent.

Silver was accused of receiving $ 700,000 in payments from one law firm in exchange for using his official position to obtain recurring tax certiorari legal claims of two real estate developer clients with business before the New York State Legislature.

Still, the judge argued there was no proof that Mr. Bharara's commentary prompted the grand jury to decide to indict Mr. Silver on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion for earning referral fees from two law firms toward whom he directed clients with business before the state.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has accused Mr. Silver of collecting referral fees as outside income from law firms with clients who have business with the state, and thus monetizing his powerful position.

In their cross hairs from the outset were the pots of money that had long spawned scandals in the Legislature: campaign donations and spending; the easy - to - abuse expense reimbursements known as per diem payments; and the outside income that some lawmakers earned in lucrative part - time jobs, often at law firms representing clients with business before the state.

A law firm is a public entity visited by people from all walks of life - clients, employees, students and interns and you can not relax with sauna like at home or you wouldn't want to check heater buying guide if you are talking about a law firm's toilet.

I'm in a specialty practice — I get to work on transactions, I actually really like the corporate teams I work with (you might be with just some not - nice people; or maybe just not used to the crazy high level of perfection demanded by law firm clients), and I don't have to stay until midnight every night.

*** (out of four) With his small - time New Jersey law firm's business at a standstill, plus a wife (Amy Ryan) and two kids at home, Mike (Paul Giamatti) takes advantage of an elderly client so he can earn money as the man's guardian.

Currently, I still specialize in legal marketing and work with a few law firms, but also work steadily with some resorts, oil companies, etc. — really a vast variety of clients.

We have over 30 law firms that we retain on a regular basis to assist clients with certain situations that need an attorney to be involved and all of these law firms are A + rated at the BBB.

STATE OF THE ART SOFTWARE: Inside your software you will be able to align each client with an attorney in their state, and the law - firms we market for are all highly rated with the Better Business Bureau.

HQ: Bridgewater, NJ NYC&LVPA About Blog NMM is one of the most respected law firms in NJ, NY and PA, providing clients with solutions to commercial and personal legal issues Frequency about 3 posts per month.

With over 20 years of experience in the practice of law, we distinguish ourselves as premiere Belize attorneys, not by the size of our firm, but by our competence and passion for excellence and for efficient client service.

Your law firm website may be the first contact a potential client has with your firm and their first impression of you.

Despite this considerable grounding in working with risk and counseling clients on methods to minimize and avoid risk, seemingly very few law firms in Canada actually engage in any sort of structured or coordinated risk management activities for their own organizations.

Millennials come to the table with a set of expectations that are very different from most traditional law firm clients.

It all comes down to intake — the processes a law firm uses to collect and manage leads, with the goal of converting them into clients.

ACC believes that many traditional law firm business models and many of the approaches to lawyer training and cost management are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value - driven, high - quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost and develop lawyers as counselors (not just content - providers), advocates (not just process - doers) and professional partners.

The Hoffman Law Firm works with a number of business clients, various start - ups and individuals.

Clients now wield more power in the relationship with their lawyer, as they have benefited from greater access to information about cost, greater ability to unbundle services and an expanding array of alternative law firms from which to source work.

These categories encapsulate maybe 90 % of a law firm's organizational interactions with its clients and the legal marketplace generally.

«Easily the best example of how law firms can engage with its clients — offering training to junior in - house counsel,» praised a judge.

A communication with a potential client may be misleading when a lawyer recommends the services of another lawyer not in the same law firm and receives something of value for that recommendation without prior notice to the potential client of the recommendation.

And I actually DO agree with you that it's ironic a law firm would cough up for an accountant to guard against trust report problems, and at the same time have its members travel with unencrypted flash drives of client data, leave their wifi networks open, or use pet names as passwords — or any number of things that an IT consultant would tell you not to do.