Sentences with phrase «even be a lawyer»

He or she may not even be a lawyer (though most are, it's not a requirement).

Who knows, a friend of a friend may even be a lawyer who's willing to represent you at a reduced fee.

Not exact matches

Ironically, the government doesn't trust that lawyers will report all of their income, so even if your lawyer is «incorporated,» you are still required to send them a Form 1099 if you paid them more than $ 600.

But while «doctor,» «lawyer» and «engineer» have been joined by «entrepreneur» and even «YouTube celebrity,» one historically high - achieving and well - paid career remains conspicuously absent: salesperson.

For fear of losing business, some lawyers are wary of referring clients to other attorneys, even if they have expertise in a particular area, such as tax law.

«In fact, some Canadian retailers were told they couldn't even talk to Club Coffee,» Robert Russell, the smaller company's lawyer, told The Globe and Mail.

«That is the term that lawyers use to describe a situation in which an owner has poked so many holes in his or her legal safeguards — by failing to follow the rules that govern corporations — that a judge decides it's fair to poke some even bigger holes.»

OneOne is aimed at business executives, lawyers and even doctors, according to Abosch, who said professionals could use the app to send sensitive documents and messages to each other.

Legal experts are divided on whether the state's lawyers should be allowed to question the president's advisers - and possibly even the president - in depositions.

When interests between management and shareholders become adverse, even through the regular course of events, it's important for boards to have their own set of lawyers who are independent from management and seen as objective and willing to act in the interest of directors, not management, and ultimately shareholders.

Those who think the SEC will approve the ETF point to the skillful work carried out by the Winklevoss lawyers, and to the fact that bitcoin is far more mainstream than it was even two years ago.

What the Payscale research shows is that getting a highly ranked MBA can leave even the docs and lawyers in the dust.

But anyone I've seen who pushes back or questions the policy is told some variation of «someone checked with a lawyer when they came up with this, so don't even worry about it.»

In certain occupations - lawyers come to mind - the expectation may even be to work 80 or 90 hours during particularly busy periods.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

«It wasn't a nutty thing,» he said, «because here I was a lawyer but I wasn't even doing finance.

Mnuchin stressed that the change for small business owners — a group that under the current definition could include doctors, lawyers and even major real estate companies — would be done to ensure that wealthier Americans could not exploit the change to pay less in taxes.

Things must be truly getting out of hand when even senior members of the legal profession complain about high lawyer fees.

If it turns out to be right, that means most check - out clerks and truck drivers, warehouse workers and even lawyers will soon go the way of travel agents.

Though frail, the billionaire initially appeared eager to engage, answering the first question from his lawyer even before being sworn in, with speech that was readily understood.

Yes (as his lawyer pointed out) people do make mistakes, and even a mayor can be forgiven for an incidental breach of a rule now and then.

After 44 such responses (including two instances in which Redstone blurted out «I don't remember» before the IRS lawyer had even finished asking her question), the judge finally interrupted and suggested to the government attorney that her queries were futile: «I don't think you — he's not going to be able to give you anything.»

But even if there is an overlap in business and friendship, investment deals always need to be mapped out obsessively by the most stringent lawyers, says Nikhil Varaiya, the director of graduate programs and a professor of finance at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University.

If you ask most startup founders, they don't even know what general solicitation ban is until their lawyer tells them after the fact once they tweeted something,» he says.

I was applying for incorporation, and shopping for lawyers before I even had a cent of profit, distracting the rest of the team.

Even though Multicom drew on its in - house legal counsel as well as on outside lawyers, its legal expenses were about average, according to Nasdaq.

All stakeholders of the startup ecosystem â $ «entrepreneurs, investor and even lawyers - are welcoming the Securities and Exchange Board of India's decision to relax rules for angel investments in startups.

All stakeholders of the startup ecosystem â $ «entrepreneurs, investor and even lawyers - are welcoming the Securities and...

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, noted that the bar for wiretapping a suspect is high, even more so when the target is a lawyer.

This is the same Prime Minister who threatened a flurry of lawsuits if the RCMP even tried to take a peek at Mulroney bank accounts in Switzerland and who received $ 2 million from the government for his troubles, one for himself, one for his lawyer.

That said, if you're personally involved a volume of virtual currency that the IRS would even want to tax, I would check with a lawyer who has expertise in finance and business finance law

There are journalists, writers, even a few lawyers.

This thought system has been embraced not only by hedge fund activists like Ackman but also by institutional investors more generally, along with many boards, managers, lawyers, academics, and even some regulators and lawmakers.

Argentina had even become something of a pariah state, unable to fly its presidential plane or dock its naval ships in some cities abroad out of fear they'd be seized by Singer's lawyers.

Which is not much of a moral defense even if the company believes its lawyers can sway judges with it.

We already know Cohen said he didn't inform Trump about the Daniels payment, which experts say means he wasn't even acting as Trump's lawyer.

Michael Cohen will be in court Monday — along with President Trump's lawyer and even porn star Stormy Daniels — as a judge weighs whether to halt the government's review of materials seized from Cohen's office and hotel room a week ago.

Meanwhile, for issuers of new tokens, it's almost impossible to walk the line, even with more feedback from regulators and lawyers.

And there's a corollary: Even Trump's private lawyers don't have the maneuvering room they had in the past.

Here's the letter that its lawyers sent to Judge Griesa about its plans, and it is a nervous letter: One could imagine that even shutting down the custody business (and transferring its assets to another bank) will enrage the judge, since a new custodian will probably make it easier for Argentina to pay off the bonds that Judge Griesa is dead set on preventing it from paying.

Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better work than humans who are dermatologists, insurance claims adjusters, lawyers, seismic testers in oil fields, sports journalists and financial reporters, crew members on guided - missile destroyers, hiring managers, psychological testers, retail salespeople, and border patrol agents.

If the «taint» team finds documents that indicate a lawyer participated or even unwittingly facilitated some type of fraud, then the attorney - client privilege would no longer apply and that information would also be turned over to investigators.

One of the most important pieces of advice we give clients at my office is to take responsibility for your own immigration case, even when you have hired representation by a lawyer or immigration consultant.

The comments were reported as Trump's lawyers are in discussions with Mueller's team about a potential presidential interview, and while an effort from the White House to discredit Mueller's probe — and perhaps even lay the groundwork for firing Rosenstein — is heating up.

Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.

The result was term sheets that were so complex even good lawyers couldn't fully understand what they really meant unless they had been practicing in the specific area, and sitting on venture backed company boards, for many years.

It's something even fellow Trump defender and lawyer Alan Dershowitz scolded Hannity about on his program Monday night, telling the host that he should have disclosed his relationship with Cohen to viewers.

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Appleby is a member of the global network of lawyers, accountants and bankers who set up or manage offshore companies and accounts for clients who want to avoid taxes or keep their finances a secret from authorities, business partners or even spouses.

This means even more money to be made by the lawyers.