Another lawyer, who was assigned 805 parole-violation cases last year and frequently spent only 30 minutes on case preparation, has resigned from the panel of lawyers who represent indigent clients, officials said.
Steven Greenhouse (NYT) NEW JERSEY ORADELL: MAYOR RESIGNS AFTER ARREST -- Mayor James D. Snedeker resigned Monday night, hours after his arrest on charges that he had misappropriated money from law clients, officials said.
The indictments describe elaborate schemes based in law offices in Manhattan's Chinatown and in Flushing, Queens, which involved teams of paralegals and office managers, translators and a church official, who conspired to dupe immigration officials by inventing stories of political and religious persecution for their clients, officials said.
WASHINGTON — When news surfaced in May that the State Department had approved an arrangement that allowed Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to take on work for private clients, officials at the department described it as nothing unusual.
A Glendale attorney pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he attempted to extort $2 million from the brother of a bakery owner who had been suspected of shooting two of the attorney's clients, officials said.
Arab Bank argued that it had never intended to provide any service that contributed to terrorism, and to that end had screened its clients using official lists of known terrorists.
Stu Loeser, the mayor's spokesman, explained that in the year after leaving a city job, public servants are permitted to contact their former agencies for personal or ministerial matters, but not to represent clients on official business.
There are shared overtones there with Twitter and its choice to later impose its own clients as official, crowding out third-party talent.
The bill also requires attorneys to provide non-English speaking clients with official translations of any contracts.
Similarly, while local officials may not lobby their own local government bodies, they can represent clients to officials at other levels of government.
