McMahon was critical of the thousands of hours Lowey Dannenberg and other firms including Bernstein Liebhard and Cohen Milstein spent reviewing documents.
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All 50 consular offices in the United States have organized information sessions on the issue, and consular officials are also carefully reviewing documents to avoid fraudulent applications, she said.
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Mortgage settlement: For more than a year, banks have been negotiating a settlement with Federal and state regulators over alleged improper foreclosure practices including robo-signing, where officers approved foreclosures without reviewing documents.
Critics including the NYAG in this case say class-action firms spend far too much time reviewing documents, knowing they can submit the hours run up by low-paid contract attorneys at a substantial markup.
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Vasil says they often performed glorified secretarial work, including reviewing electronic documents to identify their author and destination.
An underwriter is tasked with reviewing the documents submitted to support the information provided to secure mortgage approval.
The deal was the result of improper foreclosure on homeowners where so-called robosigners hired by banks signed foreclosure affidavits without reviewing the documents.
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Reviewing legal documents, Mr Justice Mitting said they suggested the alleged co-conspirator - who has claimed he had been tortured before giving evidence - had been given the money by Abu Qatada.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola testified that he had been unprepared for the trial, but also conceded that after reviewing the documents post-trial, he didn't see anything he would have done differently in defending the former coach.
"I knew that something was very wrong here" after reviewing the court documents, he said.
Thousands of hours must be spent reviewing and producing documents (trolls have no documents to produce).
The subcommittee conducted a thorough investigation of the allegations, interviewing numerous witnesses and reviewing thousands of documents.
Unaware of that case, a small law firm called Ice Legal took a deposition from another GMAC employee, who also testified to routinely signing foreclosure documents without reviewing the loans.
For four months Swartwout and two other executives learned all they could about Plastron, reviewing reams of financial documents, meeting with its largest customers, talking to plant workers, hiring an environmental consultant to evaluate the site.
Debevoise deployed 100 lawyers and 110 support staff who billed 582, 000 hours, while Deloitte put 1, 300 staff members on the job, who worked 949, 000 hours searching 40 million bank documents and reviewing 127 million accounting records.
The lawsuit contends that in filing the debt-collection lawsuits, company officials similarly signed legal documents, including sworn declarations, without reviewing the related files and bank records or even reading the documents.
In response to the Committees requests, Under Secretary Feith and his staff have spent more than 1800 hours reviewing thousands of pages of documents for relevance and responding to Committee inquiries.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is reviewing the newly released set of documents, spokeswoman Jane Robison said Friday.
Vidler has selected about 400 items for display after reviewing 5, 000 of the more than 40, 000 documents that span Stirling's career from 1949 to 1992, from his student days through his early work with James Gowan, and final partnership with Michael Wilford, to the year of his death.
The process of reviewing all of the materials could take a month or longer because some documents are encrypted and written materials have to be translated from Arabic into English, officials said.
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