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LPS got "kickbacks" from law firms by illegal "fee-splitting", agreeing to share late fees, etc, piled on mortgages in return for sending foreclosure cases to the firms.
L. Randall Wray: Nightmare on Wall Street L. Randall Wray 2011
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It's been my understanding ever since law school that fee-splitting, except where both lawyers actually do some work AND where the client consents -- is indeed unethical according to state codes of ethics for lawyers.
Why is This Legal? 1 Dinosaur 2008
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You're probably right that part of it is this sort of fee-splitting happens with contigent fee no money up front cases, so the originating attorney isn't going to get anything directly from the client.
Why is This Legal? 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Excuse me, but as a doctor we call that a kickback and/or fee-splitting.
Archive 2008-08-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Fidelity National's practices, the lawsuit contends, run afoul of bankruptcy-court rules requiring the disclosure of fees and ethics rules banning fee-splitting by lawyers, a practice in which law firms pay for client referrals.
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Excuse me, but as a doctor we call that a kickback and/or fee-splitting.
Why is This Legal? 1 Dinosaur 2008
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It has been a matter of public record for more than a year that Scanlon and Abramoff had a fee-splitting arrangement and represented several American Indian tribes.
11/19/2005 2005
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The Southern attorneys, including Robert G. Taylor of Texas and Robert A. Pritchard of Mississippi, meanwhile had an incentive to maximize settlements for their Southern clients, who came unencumbered with any fee-splitting deal at all, the court said.
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Solid though his enthusiasms were in the matter of medicine — his admiration of this city surgeon, his condemnation of that for tricky ways of persuading country practitioners to bring in surgical patients, his indignation about fee-splitting, his pride in a new X-ray apparatus — none of these beatified him as did motoring.
Main Street 2004
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A new article has also been added to the code of conduct of ICTR defence lawyers, making "fee-splitting" illegal.
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