Earlier this week, Melvyn Weiss, Plaintiff’s Attorney with the firm Milberg LLP, was sentenced to 30 months in jail for pleading guilty to participating in a conspiracy whereby plaintiffs were paid a kickback in lucrative class action settlements. His attorney, Ben Brafman, is a well respected criminal lawyer in New York, and a Lawline.com faculty member.

We caught up with Mr. Brafman earlier today and asked him about the sentence. He mentioned that the 30 months was below the maximum sought by the government of 33 months, but more than what he had been hoping for. He said that he understood why the court had imposed such a sentence, with Mr. Weiss’s age and years of respectable work helping to keep the sentence below the maximum that the government had been seeking.

This marks the end of a 7 year investigation into the activities of the firm and the suspected conspiracy. Mr. Weiss pled guilty earlier this year and had been awaiting a sentence until earlier this week. He is to report to jail in West Virginia this August. For more information, see the Wall Street Journal article June 3^rd.