Search for: "Weitz Luxenberg" Results 21 - 40 of 66
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
2 Dec 2015, 9:00 am
Prosecutors say Silver was using public money to fund an asbestos disease researcher in exchange for patient referrals to Silver's colleagues and personal injury law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg PC. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 5:17 am by SHG
Silver was “of counsel” to Weitz & Luxenberg, and took his piece of the referrals. [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
As Kim Strassel notes at the WSJ, “Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s top contributor from 2009 to 2014 was Weitz & Luxenberg. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 6:01 am by Staci Zaretsky
[FanSided] * After being arrested on bribery charges, New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has decided to take a leave of absence from personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg -- and to think, he was originally hired “to bring prestige to the firm. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 10:52 am by Joe Consumer
  Part of the case surrounds asbestos litigation, summarized in typical fashion here: The federal government alleges that Silver received roughly $3 million in additional attorney referral fees when the speaker obtained referrals of asbestos cases to Weitz & Luxenberg from a New York City doctor, identified as a mesothelioma expert. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 3:59 am by Eric Turkewitz
— that Silver simultaneously worked for Weitz & Luxenberg as a rainmaker. [read post]
25 Jan 2015, 9:16 am by Walter Olson
More links: “Silver’s perversion of a health-care grant that was earmarked for post-9/11 programs” [New York Daily News editorial] Columbia University closes its Mesothelioma Center, deeply involved in the scandal, which had been given a commendation by the New York Assembly in 2011 as its director quietly referred millions in cases to Silver [Daily News] Circle wagons first, name committee chairs later: Albany in panic over Silver nab [New York Post, Albany Times-Union] Lawyer… [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 7:42 am by Bill
I have no insight into whether Sheldon Silver is guilty as charged or not, but the mere fact that he has disclosed three  quarters of a million bucks a year in income from Weitz & Luxenberg is enough to make even the most cynical observer believe that there is more than merely smoke emanating from the Speaker's office. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 6:42 am by Walter Olson
On the latter, it alleges that Silver directed state research money to a university doctor in Manhattan, and that the doctor referred lucrative asbestos cases to Silver’s firm of Weitz & Luxenberg. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 8:30 am by Jim Sedor
In 2013, Silver said he made from $650,000 to $750,000 from outside work including, though not limited to, Weitz & Luxenberg. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 10:25 am by Schachtman
Supp. 2d 789, 800, 802 (E.D.La. 2007)(“We could not see the legal significance of these comments…” by in-house counsel on “scientific reports, articles accepted for publication in noted journals, and research proposals”); Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. v. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 3:35 am by Walter Olson
Did we mention that representing her is the politically well-connected New York firm of Weitz & Luxenberg? [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 4:32 pm
Weitz & Luxenberg has been designated as one of the lead counsel of the litigation filed in New Jersey, and are nationally-recognized counsel with extensive expertise in such claims. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 4:32 pm
Weitz & Luxenberg has been designated as one of the lead counsel of the litigation filed in New Jersey, and are nationally-recognized counsel with extensive expertise in such claims. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 6:15 am by Schachtman
In a recent post, Celeste Monforton, of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services, wrote about conflicts of interest and the recent Georgia-Pacific decision out of the First Department of the New York Appellate Division, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. v. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 5:23 am by Schachtman
Ruskin acknowledges, the case of Weitz & Luxenberg v. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 9:35 am
Our Boston mesothelioma lawyers understand the decision was an anonymous one for the panel ruling in the case of Weitz & Luxenberg v. [read post]