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Candidates spar over Sheheen's legal cases
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2010/09/04 23:19
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pDemocratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen has handled 90 workers' compensation cases since 2006, according to state records, earning more than $38,000 from his law firm's clients in 2008 and 2009 combined. /ppSheheen, a Camden state senator and attorney, last handled a case before the state Workers' Compensation Commission -- whose members Sheheen votes to appoint -- in October, according to agency records. /ppHow the state's gubernatorial candidates earn their living has become an issue in the race, with both Sheheen and Republican nominee Nikki Haley seeking to restore trust in the governor's office and in elected officials. /ppHaley, a Lexington state representative, has made transparency and requiring lawmakers to disclose their income a foundation of her campaign. /ppShe has characterized Sheheen as a rich trial lawyer and pressed him to release his firm's clients so voters know about any potential conflicts of interests. Haley has also criticized Sheheen for known possible conflicts, such as Sheheen's workers' compensation work and his role in a $2.5 million class-action lawsuit settlement against payday lenders that could pay attorneys up to $1 million in fees. /ppBut Haley has also said -- inaccurately -- in an interview with Fox News that Sheheen is a trial lawyer that makes $400,000 a year off the state. Haley, who was paid $42,500 from 2007 to 2009 by an engineering firm for consulting work while a lawmaker, declined to answer questions about her income. /ppSheheen said he follows Senate ethics laws, including disclosing his firm's publicly funded clients and recusing himself during budget votes, and there is no conflict of interest for votes on workers' compensation or payday lending legislation.
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The Rosen Law Firm Announces Investigation
Network News |
2010/09/03 23:18
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pThe Rosen Law Firm today announced that it has commenced an investigation into allegations that China-Biotics, Inc. (China-Biotics or the Company) may have violated the federal securities laws by issuing false and misleading statements to investors about its business and financial condition. /ppRecently, market commentators have published reports questioning the truth of China-Biotics' disclosures about the nature, quality, and number of the Company's retail outlets. Additionally, a recent report calls into question the veracity of China Biotics' financial statements filed with the SEC for the fiscal years ended 2007 and 2008; China Biotics' financial statements filed with the SEC report much higher revenue, income, and assets than the financial statements filed by China Biotics' main operating subsidiary Shanghai Shining Biotechnology Co., Ltd. with the China State Administration for Industry and Commerce. /ppAs a result of these allegations, the Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action lawsuit on behalf of investors who suffered losses purchasing China-Biotics stock. /ppYou may access the website at a href=http://www.rosenlegal.comhttp://www.rosenlegal.com/a to participate in the proposed class action. /ppIf you purchased China-Biotics securities and would like further information concerning your legal rights or your ability to recover your investment losses, please contact Laurence Rosen, Esq. or Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email a href=mailto:lrosen@rosenlegal.comlrosen@rosenlegal.com/a or a href=mailto:pkim@rosenlegal.compkim@rosenlegal.com/a or visit the website at a href=http://www.rosenlegal.comwww.rosenlegal.com/a
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Gail Koff, Principal in Jacoby Meyers, Dies at 65
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2010/09/02 23:22
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| pGail J. Koff, who could be considered the silent partner in the national law firm Jacoby amp; Meyers, a sort of legal Wal-Mart for the middle class, died Tuesday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 65. /ppThe cause was complications of leukemia, her former husband, Ralph Brill, said. /ppMs. Koff was not there in September 1972 when Stephen Z. Meyers and Leonard G. Jacoby, his former law school classmate at the University of California, Los Angeles, opened their first storefront office in Van Nuys. But her aspirations matched those of the founders, and six years later she became the third partner, though unidentified in the firm’s name, assigned to open the first New York office. /ppRecognizing that the rich can afford lawyers and that the poor have access to free assistance programs, Jacoby amp; Meyers focused on serving average people who could often not afford to hire a lawyer at prevailing rates. /ppThe firm set off something of a revolution in the field by using mass-marketing techniques and charging flat fees for services. It opened walk-in neighborhood “legal clinics” staffed by general practitioners who had access to teams of specialists in areas like bankruptcy, real estate, personal injury, divorce and criminal law. /pp“My main interest in the law has always been the availability of local services,” Ms. Koff told The New York Times in 1979. /ppBy then, Mr. Jacoby and Mr. Meyers had started the first television advertising campaign conducted by a law firm. The advertising had a folksy appeal, featuring “two guys named Jacoby and Meyers,” and offered free consultations. It appeared in 1977, just weeks after the United States Supreme Court ruled that law firms, like any other business, could advertise their services. /p |
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An Attorney General Bid Sets a Rare Focus Upstate
Lawyer News |
2010/09/02 23:21
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pThe math is easy: As much as 70 percent of Democratic primary voters in New York State live south and east of Bear Mountain. Accordingly, the candidates in this year’s primary for attorney general have spent much of their time seeking votes in New York City and its suburbs. /ppBut with just a week to go before the vote, an unlikely contest is heating up for the allegiance of upstate Democrats, long the overlooked stepchildren of primary elections. /ppSean Coffey, a wealthy lawyer who is a former federal prosecutor, has in recent weeks saturated markets outside the New York City region with television advertising, doubling the amount spent by the next closest candidate, Kathleen M. Rice, the Nassau County district attorney. Since May, Mr. Coffey has spent at least a day or two each week campaigning upstate. And in debates he has made a point of highlighting the issue of high property taxes, an issue with limited relevance to the attorney general’s office but major importance to suburban and rural voters. /pp“I’m running to be the attorney general of the entire State of New York. Not Manhattan. Not Long Island,” Mr. Coffey said at a debate in Rochester last week, a shot at two rivals, State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, who is from the Upper West Side, and Ms. Rice, neither of whom showed up for the event. /pp“I can’t win without upstate, and I know it,” Mr. Coffey said. The heavy investment by Mr. Coffey, a novice candidate, reflects a calculation that his most likely path to victory against more established contenders is to win by large margins upstate and place well in New York City’s suburbs. Westchester County is Mr. Coffey’s home base, but it is also home to another candidate, Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky of Greenburgh. In Nassau County, Ms. Rice is highly popular. /ppMr. Coffey, who is from Bronxville, is also investing heavily to reach out to black and Latino voters, through targeted radio advertising, and to middle-class white voters in Queens and Brooklyn, who are widely seen as the swing vote in this year’s primary. /pp“We’ve actually looked at the history and know that behind every upset victory, upstate has loomed large,” said Bruce N. Gyory, a consultant to Mr. Coffey. “Our read of political history, in a statewide primary, you ignore upstate New York at your peril.”
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