Teachers» attrition rate is similar to that of police officers, far
higher than lawyers, engineers, architects, pharmacists, and academics.
Even the folks in the banking industry — linked to the current foreclosure crisis and our widespread economic woes — ranked
higher than lawyers, with a 28 percent holding a positive image.
Not exact matches
The outside firm can often cost less
than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a
higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a
lawyer specializing in tax law.
· Brevity and clarity: The form can be answered in less
than an hour, without any
high - priced assistance from a company's
lawyer or accountant — and without disclosing confidential information on topics such as succession plans, customer history, and financial stability.
An experienced biotechnology patent
lawyer, Dr. Noonan brings more
than 20 years of extensive work as a molecular biologist studying
high - technology problems in serving the unique needs of his clients.
The S&P 500 has merely regained yesterday's late - day selloff; it traded to a
high of 2653.75 before dropping more
than 1 % in the last hour as news broke that the FBI raided the office of President Trump's
lawyer, Michael Cohen.
If there is one dogma to which
high - minded
lawyers cling more tenaciously
than any other, it is that the legal profession ought to be above the «morals of the marketplace.»
My
high - powered
lawyers are on stand - by in case things go beyond the denial strategy, but here goes, a Pomocon exclusive: Lena Dunham: Well, the thing I mentioned yesterday is actually much further along
than that.
In a primary
High Court hearing on Thursday, the company's
lawyers said the singer has run up costs of more
than # 500,000.
You'd think
high - priced
lawyers working for a mega-multinational conglomerate such as Coca - Cola might have better things to do
than send silly threatening letters to tiny nonprofits like the Center for Environmental Health.
IBT also reported that Vance received more
than $ 42,000 from
lawyers at a criminal defense firm whose clients received plea deals from Vance's office that let them avoid prison, including another
high profile sexual assault case.
The seeming implication by Breslin's camp is that Martland, an Albany
High School graduate who left the Capital Region for Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School and spent more
than two decades as a prosecutor and
lawyer in the public and private sector downstate, is an outsider.
The prosecutor's next stop was two blocks away, in the baronial chambers of the state's Court of Appeals, where Bharara joined more
than 100
lawyers, judges, politicians and well - wishers who came to see Janet DiFiore sworn in as the next chief judge of the state's
highest court.
The
lawyer for indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) wants to know if prospective jurors may be swayed by the
high - profile nature of his client's federal corruption trial when it kicks off in less
than two months now that the presiding judge has refused to throw out the charges.
Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial
lawyers, and construction workers experience
higher testosterone levels
than men in more sedate occupations.
The average of 12 hours extra a week was
higher than financial directors (11 hours) or
lawyers (nine hours).
The proportion of teachers who quit in their first year on the job has increased steadily since the late 1980s, according to Prof. Ingersoll's research, which also has shown teachers» turnover rate is
higher than that for nurses,
lawyers and architects, but lower
than child - care workers» and paralegals».
In other analyses of national data (Ingersoll & Perda, 2010), we have found that, as one might expect, teaching has more annual turnover
than some
higher - status professions (such as
lawyers, engineers, architects, professors, and pharmacists); about the same turnover as some occupations (such as police officers and corrections officers); and less turnover
than some lower - status lines of work (such as child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals).
Good doctors earn more money
than their less talented colleagues; good
lawyers command
higher fees
than those who regularly lose their court cases, etc..
Did you know: Washington, DC has a
higher concentration of
lawyers per capita
than any other city in America, with one
lawyer for every 19 residents.
For example, if you want to be a
lawyer and the median income is $ 100,000, your loan debt should not be any
higher than $ 50,000.
J.J. Charlesworth on Berlin's Volksbühne controversy and the arrogance of the global artistic elite;
lawyer Daniel McClean on the Peter Doig trial and proving a negative; Jonathan Grossmalerman on getting
higher than he's ever been; and the first in a series of columns by artist Heather Phillipson, on love, havoc and man's best friend.
Aside from the merits of the decision, which puts the cost of the courts not just on the users but on all the taxpayers (which may be the appropriate place for them), it is amusing to see
high - priced
lawyers say that access to justice is greatly improved because of the abolition of hearng fees that are less per day
than the
lawyers charge per hour.
If banning ODR is warranted because 13 % of litigants do not own a computer, then should we not bar
lawyers from pleading since the percentage of unrepresented litigants is more
than four times
higher than the number of individuals on the wrong side of the digital divide?
Judges are held to an even
higher standard of conduct
than lawyers.
Flaherty admits that comparing the gain from earning one corporation's legal business to the
high cost of extensive computer training at a law firm with hundreds of
lawyers makes his test little more
than academic.
Let's start a count of negative words and images about
lawyers in this article: «greedy,» «over-aggressive,» «manipulators» — each receiving
higher billing and more attention
than the nice words later in the sentence.
According to the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, the rate of addiction amongst
lawyers is estimated to be 50 %
higher than the general population.
It's estimated that despite qualifying in
higher numbers
than their male counterparts, 42 per cent of female
lawyers leave the profession within nine years of qualification.
Hence, the needs of the
lawyer will be scaled
higher than of the holiday novel reader.
Beyond law schools, mental health issues in the legal profession is something that is increasingly addressed: «But research suggests that [
lawyers] are at much
higher risk of depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues
than people in the broader population — and may even be more susceptible
than those in other
high - stress professions, such as medicine.»
It reports that 6.4 percent of
lawyers had such an episode in the past year, with the incidents
higher among female
lawyers than male (8.2 percent for women and 4.6 percent for men).
Access problems in our country are well - documented but when even medium - to -
high income people are avoiding
lawyers the problem is clearly larger
than legal services for those who can't pay for them.
The ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs recently stated: «Our research indicates that
lawyers and law students use and abuse alcohol at rates far
higher than the public in general and suffer from mental health disorders, particularly depression and anxiety, leading to both debilitation and suicide in inordinate numbers.»
According to Dr. Larry Richard, who has examined thousands of
lawyers with the Caliper test, «low sociability scores have broad implications for many aspect of law firm management — mentoring, teamwork,..., and rainmaking... rainmakers scored nearly three and a half times
higher on Sociability
than service partners!»
The
highest rate increase, 11 percent, was at firms with more
than 1,000
lawyers, and M&A work posted the
highest hourly rate increase of 18 percent, according to the report, which included 113,651 hours billed in 2015 to in - house legal departments by 914
lawyers at 103 firms.
The Super
Lawyers publication is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achie
Lawyers publication is a listing of outstanding
lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achie
lawyers from more
than 70 practice areas who have attained a
high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Hourly rates of
lawyers have risen with inflation and costs that are relatively
higher today
than they were ten years ago.
Assuming you live somewhere other
than deep in a bear cave or
high up in a tree, you have seen the hourly stories screaming «robots will take your job,
lawyers.»
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Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury
Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 There have reportedly been more
than 200 reports of people sustaining serious health complications from taking Pradaxa.
Since
lawyers typically bill for their work at
higher rates
than those charged by IT service professionals, outsourcing IT responsibilities can be more cost - effective
than the DIY approach.
For more
than twenty years, Tom has enjoyed an AV (
highest possible) Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell national
lawyers directory.
The costs of these expenses are much
higher than the cost of hiring a motorcycle accident
lawyer.
Being an in - house
lawyer means that you are allowed to get more engaged with the commercial activities, rather
than working for private practices (such as the «Magic Circle firms» mentioned before) which are generally much more
high - pressured jobs.
In addition, once a firm has more
than a few
lawyers, it may also provide other core services such as a library, mail room, photocopying center and
high - speed Internet services.
Susan Eleff is a highly respected
lawyer with more
than 35 years of experience, a top 10.0 Superb Avvo rating and an AV Preeminent peer - review rating through Martindale - Hubbell, its
highest rating.
For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather
than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have
high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the
lawyers practicing before them.
Rob has held the
highest professional rating from Martindale - Hubbell, AV, for more
than 10 years and has been listed in Connecticut Super
Lawyers ® since 2008.
With litigation costs
higher than ever before, it has never been more important for
lawyers to ensure claims are supported in the best manner possible when considering bringing proceedings or seeking settlement.
Set up in the UAE last year, The Bench is able to offer cheaper rates to clients because it is free from
high overheads such as offices, meaning clients pay roughly half the price for senior
lawyers than they would at a big law firm.