Reform Group Tallies Lawyer-Lawmaker Outside Earnings

New York state legislators who are attorneys were paid between $3 million and $4.19 million for private legal work while they were in office in 2014 and averaged $130,000 to $182,000 in outside income each, the Lawsuit Reform Alliance said in a report released Wednesday. Personal injury attorneys accounted for 65% of the outside income earned by lawyer-legislators, between $207,000 and $271,000, the advocacy group said. The Reform Alliance said 42 members of the state Legislature are attorneys, or about one in five. Of those, 23 reported income to the New York State Joint Commission on Publi...