Sentences with phrase «fee billing work»

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Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

Orr has ties to the state other than his work with Chrysler (for which he billed more than $ 1 million in fees), having received his law and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan.

PBSC has been working on the fee waiver initiative and the bill, aimed to amend the Photo Card Act, 2008 and the Vital Statistics Act so people who can not afford to pay the associated fees for government photo cards or for birth certificates no longer have to.

Products that can be used on his fee platform, where Curry can bill an advisory fee appropriate for the work involved would be a start.

Topics in a post-announcement press Q&A included whether Cuomo will support Bronx Borough President, and Cuomo ally, Ruben Diaz Jr. in a 2017 mayoral run against Bill de Blasio, details on a state program to fund the green card application fees of 2,000 applicants, delays in the Cuomo administration response to the still unfolding Hoosick Falls drinking water catastrophe, whether Cuomo will work to turn control of the state senate to the Democrats, whether Cuomo will sign recently - passed AirBnB legislation, the State's response to increasingly severe occurrences of K2 / spice overdoses and whether he will support 2014 gubernatorial opponent Zephyr Teachout in her congressional campaign.

Questions - EU nationals» access to UK benefits, BBC licence fee, hydration in hospitals, landlord and tenant legislation Legislation - health and social care bill Short debate - impact of budget cuts on the work of secure children's homes in reducing children's reoffending rates

The agreement, which was widely criticized by village residents and others, would have covered more than $ 570,000 in fees still owed for the work of FitzGerald Morris Baker Firth and Behan Communications, which billed the village for $ 121,000 of that amount.

He billed the taxpayer for # 304.10 for work on the swimming pool, and more than # 11,000 in professional fees and costs incurred with the move to the property in 2005.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Look, these fees, sales deals, and low quantities at bookstores will not have you light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and they are very labor intensive, but catering to brick and mortar stores is something an Indie Author should do for several reasons — to build some local cache, get more experience pitching his or her art, and garnering that genuinely terrific feeling of seeing your work on the shelf of a reputable bookstore.

Every day that car needs fixed and can't get you to work, bank fees pile up or that unpaid bill gains interest is more money out of your pocket.

Some higher education advocates like that the bill expands work - study programs, offer students added incentives for graduating in four years, and gets rid of student loan origination fees.

It may not be the most exciting use for payday loans, but for someone who works hard and still struggles to cover costs on time, getting bills paid without late fees is a major victory.

Explain how credit cards work, and that if the bill isn't paid on time, the account will be hit with late fees.

In particular, the federal government plans to crack down on what it calls «hidden fees» by ending extra fees for paper bills; expanding no - cost basic banking services, working with the provinces and territories to regulate predatory payday lenders and further close the U.S. - Canada price gap.

We look forward to working with the D.C. Council on the carbon fee bill with our strong coalition when it is introduced on June 5, as Councilmember Mary Cheh has proposed.

Energy Guardian (2/14/13) reports: «Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer on Thursday put a new carbon emissions fee bill on track for committee action by this summer, even as the chances for the proposal to be enacted appeared slim... The fee is part of a package of two climate bills by Boxer, D - Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., that sidesteps President Barack Obama's call for a market - based mechanism to cut greenhouse gas emissions.»

The judge then listed, in paragraph 192, the fees charged by the legal team of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP for 3,780.9 hours of billed work.

Avila, who bills his work in these cases at $ 725 an hour, would not tell AP how much he has earned in fees.

PBSC has been working on the fee waiver initiative and the bill, aimed to amend the Photo Card Act, 2008 and the Vital Statistics Act so people who can not afford to pay the associated fees for government photo cards or for birth certificates no longer have to.

The main concern with flat - fee billing is that «if you're skimping on the work, the result might not be as good.»

To ensure the cost - effective delivery of legal services, a lawyer in private practice needs to: (1) operate in a skilled and efficient manner; (2) keep accurate records of time and costs; (3) maintain communication with the client as the matter progresses; (4) inform the client is there is a need for change in the arrangements concerning the scope of the work or fees and expenses; (5) bill clients monthly or quarterly, or as arranged, but promptly in accordance with the arrangement; and (6) maintain an internal rate schedule justifiable to the consumer, and review it at least annually.

They do more, too, like relieving in - house counsel of the burden of acting as fee cop and catching the billing «errors» or other problems that crop up in bills and always seem to work in favor of their firm.

Consider the litigation partner who typically works 2,300 billable hours per year, bills that commensurate amount and has exceptionally high working attorney fee receipts.

Rather than billing $ 300 - $ 500 per hour to have an associate review thousands of documents, research medical records, or manage contract preparations, a firm can outsource this work at a significantly reduced fees.

Attorney Mesa works on a contingency fee basis, which means that you won't be billed for anything until you win.

Whether you bill hourly or use alternative fee arrangements, knowing how much work you're putting into a matter versus how much you think you should or want to put into it is critical.

Productivity per Matter report details include user, fees worked, fees billed, hours worked, hours billed, and effective billing rate:

Of course, certain types of legal business do not lend themselves to monthly billing - e.g., class = Section2 > probate administration, contingent fee litigation, certain financing work, etc..

Unlike most law firms that bill clients based on the total billable hours each lawyer works on a particular matter, M&A Law Firm, P.C. employs a variety of alternative fee structures.

In addition to retaining individual attorneys in different firms to perform specific legal work, it is commonplace for business and corporate clients to negotiate fees, seek volume discounts, and, for certain types of matters, propose flat fees and contingency / risk forms of billing.

In a recent British Columbia case, an appeal court struck down a law firm's bill because the client hadn't been advised that the firm planned to bill what it considered was a «fair» fee for the work it performed, not simply its hourly rate.

A file of complete and thorough notes are gold when you have to detail your work for an ethics or malpractice claim, to work through a billing dispute, to transfer a file to another lawyer, to prepare a declaration in support of a motion for legal fees, etc..

In the new position, McIver would earn a contingency fee based on work billed on behalf of the firm.

St. John firm Gilbert McGloan Gillis billed more than $ 500,000 in fees, disbursements and taxes between June and September for their work on a restructuring plan for the holdings of Hank Tepper under the Companies» Creditor Arrangement Act.

HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.

Specialist claimant firm Leigh Day & Co has billed # 105m in fees for its work on the class action brought against oil company Trafigura, in one of the highest - ever costs claims for a single litigation case.

The results of the latest Big Question survey show that while 63 % of respondents find it «quite easy» or «very easy» to place an accurate value on work delivered when using hourly billing, 80 % described such valuations as either «quite hard» or «very hard» when using fixed fees.

Most lawyers know why it is important to have an engagement letter or retainer agreement that memorializes the work they will perform for a client, the fees and expenses to be charged and the firm's billing practices.

While some types of work, like litigation, are going to stick to billable hours, many other tasks are better suited to fixed - fee billing.

It is not unusual for law firms to negotiate split - fee agreements that account for lawyers moving on after they have worked on contingency fee matters, Toronto business lawyer Bill Northcote tells Law Times.

If you're lucky, there's another person there who has tried it and maybe is even billing flat fees and then you can have maybe a drink with them later and have a productive conversation but that automatic defensiveness that that's not how we do it, it won't work, is one of the most toxic things that I see and it doesn't mean that you have to adopt everything but I feel like a willingness to engage with new ideas or even just other ideas is probably the one biggest most important thing that lawyers can do and learn how to test those ideas, bounce them off of people who will listen and engage with them too.

On litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of trying to get either flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney bills.

One Davis Polk partner billed 1155 hours for the four and a half month period, generating $ 755,000 in fees (and you wonder why partners hoard work!)

This may not work for every practice area, but most lawyers can benefit from adding flat fees to their billing toolboxes.

The typical alternative to the billable hour model is where a piece of work, say a slip and fall case, is billed by by the lawyer on a flat fee instead of by the hour.

Once profitability by matter can be calculated, profitability for many other sub-units — such as by client, practice area, type of work, type of fee arrangement, billing partner and supervising partner — can be calculated simply by aggregating profits for the matters comprising the relevant sub-unit.

It found that most law firms continue to rely on traditional billing for the majority of their work, and law firms are on whole less delighted with alternative fees than the corporate law departments they serve.

In the interest of coming in at a lower overall fee, the partner could overweight the matter with partner time, in the belief that even at their higher billing rates the partners will be sufficiently more efficient that they will do the work more cheaply than the associates.

With subscription billing a client pays a monthly fee, which entitles him or her to x amount of work, or, e g., to so many contracts, etc..