Sentences with phrase «legal bills after»

The Tezos project founders reportedly asked their foundation to pay for their legal bills after being sued multiple times.

Ironically, in the quest for certainty, employers may achieve uncertainty (and larger payouts to employees and higher legal bills after court battles).

So far, the commission has cited just one instance of wrongdoing: a legal defense fund that was set up by disgraced former Sen. Hiram Monserrate to raise money for his legal bills after he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend.

Not exact matches

When it comes to retirement, whatever money an older divorcing couple has needs to be divided — after high legal bills.

Fyfe was assistant deputy attorney general in October 2010 when the BC Liberal government agreed to pay the $ 6 million legal bill for former aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after their plea bargain halted the BC Rail corruption trial.

After the bill came into effect in February 2005, pro-hunt campaigners sought to contest the Hunting Act using two legal challenges: the validity of the 1949 Parliament Act; and on the basis that the ban infringed their human rights.

Thus after repeated entireties by your elected Governor to both the Assembly and the Legislature, to take up action and to pass my Anti-Corruption Bill, I was ignored this past Legislative session and now deem it in the essential interest of the people of New York to accomplish the goals of my Anti-Corruption Campaign via other means, a «Mooreland Commission» composed of the best legal minds in the State of New York.

On August 4 th, The Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Bill, 2016, was passed into law, after a long and extensive consultative process, aimed strengthening and improving the legal environment governing the exploration and production of fossil fuel.

The mayor put up a brief explanation of his decision on Medium.com, saying that after «giving this a great deal of thought» he will submit a bill for $ 2 million for legal work «tied to my government service.»

After months of squabbling over how to pay for immigration - related legal services for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes and facing deportation, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's office and the City Council came to a compromise.

After NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton addressed the roll call of the 103rd Precinct on the anniversary of Byrne's murder near the spot where it took place, Lawrence Byrne, who was sworn in as deputy commissioner for legal matters at the NYPD on Sept. 14, 2014, told the New York Daily News: «It eases the pain to know that people remember that Eddie's life and death made a lasting difference in the city.»

New York taxpayers may pay more than $ 700,000 to cover the legal bills of a former state lawmaker whose conviction on charges of lying to the FBI was vacated after his death.

The veteran Nassau County legislator, a Democrat from Merrick, suddenly dropped out of one of the year's most closely watched races, one on which the Senate's balance of power might hinge, after his former law firm alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he defrauded a client of $ 2 million by billing for legal services he never performed.

«Time after time, the discretionary funding system has led to bribery, political blackmail and a boatload of big legal bills paid for by taxpayers,» de Blasio said.

Speaking to reporters after an unrelated bill - signing ceremony in lower Manhattan, Cuomo said, «it's the city's legal obligation to be funding» subway upgrades and improvements, «even though we stepped in on a moral level» to provide state funding.

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After Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have required the state to pick up the cost of providing indigent legal services from the counties, Assembly sponsor Patricia Fahy said she is committed to addressing the issue again in the upcoming legislative session.

«But please note that if after seven days the constitutional procedure is not complied with, we shall have no choice but to initiate legal proceedings to enforce the decision of the federal high court and set aside the 2018 appropriation bill.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted language into the city budget today requiring that the $ 26 million plan to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those convicted of serious crimes — after she and Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to reach an agreement on the matter before the «budget handshake» last Friday at City Hall.

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After a far - reaching debate that was broad enough to encompass complex legal issues, Jennifer Lopez» fashion sense and disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the House passed a bill bolstering the state's laws regarding voyeurism and...

After a meeting on Tuesday with the General Legal Council and Attorney General's office to consider the Legal Profession Regulations 2017 LI, Mr. Ayariga revealed that the Council said it had Bill to allow...

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

One bill would have required officers to identify themselves by name, rank and command after encounters that do not result in arrest or summons; another would have required that officers, before requesting consent for a search in the absence of any legal basis, to inform the person of his or her right to refuse the search.

The governor also refused at the end of session to issue special messages of necessity to bypass the legal three - day waiting period for bills after they are introduced and before they can be taken up on the floor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito revealed a $ 93 million program to guarantee legal counsel to any tenant facing eviction — after nearly three years resisting a push from the Council to create such an initiative.

The complaint alleges that none of his legal bills incurred after June 30 have been paid.

After a federal magistrate judge dismissed a similar lawsuit in 1999, finding the state was immune from the legal action, the western New York tribe in 2007 sent a $ 2 million bill for back tolls during a dispute with the state over cigarette taxes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo should sign a bill that will allow media outlets to recover legal costs after successfully challenging Freedom of Information Law requests.

The village was on the verge of accepting first an $ 850,000 settlement, then a $ 1.04 million settlement offered by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastic and Honeywell International, but tabled the matter this week after an uproar from residents and warnings from the former EPA regional administrator, Judith Enck, and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, against signing away any rights to legal action just to pay some immediate bills.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

After months of squabbling over how to pay for immigration - related legal services for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes and facing deportation, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office and the City Council came to a compromise on Monday.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

The SEC came after him for insider trading and he wasn't prosecuted but the legal bills were still there.

If the bill does come into effect, you'd also be able to sign an opt out, but only after getting legal advice, and it would still be possible (though presumably hard) to persuade a court to overturn an opt out.

Writing a will may be at the bottom of many to - do lists, but financial and legal experts say that laying out your wishes can ensure your money goes where you want and may save your estate from unnecessary bills after you're gone.

So after converting to the HST three years ago and applying 12 - per - cent HST to all our legal bills, we must now charge five per cent GST and seven per cent PST just like we did before.

Yesterday's street protest by legal professionals of all stripes really began last week, a few days after Bill 78 was adopted with a few lawyers sharing concerns about its implications on a Facebook page, Bourget said before the march.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»

She had an initial meeting with her solicitor to discuss the case and decided not to proceed, but complained to the Legal Ombudsman after being billed for the meeting.

David Moran, senior director for product management, legal analytics portfolio, told me during a preview yesterday that corporate legal departments that had been testing this service had seen savings of 4 to 8 percent off outside counsel invoices, even after the firms had been given the opportunity to correct invoice entries and remedy non-compliance with billing rules.

«But it is unusual that after seven years all legal efforts are so narrowly focused, especially since Avila told lawmakers when he testified for the bill in 2002 that he expected other attorneys would take on cases because of favorable incentives written into the measure.»

Hourly billing did not become of age in the legal profession until the 1950s, after a series of reports showed that firms that charged by the hour were more profitable than those that charged on the basis of the service sold.

According to the decision, after mounting legal bills of about $ 1 million dollars a quarter (total fees amounted to roughly $ 18 million), Lawrence approached her attorneys for relief.

After sifting through all the legal bills, she ordered the insurance company to pay the victim a total of $ 237,017.50.

His 2011 report said it was highly unusual for the government to pay the massive legal bills of former political aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after they pleaded guilty to breach of trust.

It is billed as a video directory for finding lawyers, but in addition to advertising video, there is legal humour, courtroom stories, and a «webisode reality series» called Law After Dark.

A Kelowna, B.C. criminal law practice faces a tax bill of $ 200,00 after failing in its latest attempt to have GST on criminal defence legal services declared unconstitutional.

If the changes made to the Cross-border trade bill last Monday were to enter the UK's legal framework after it leaves the customs union, the impact on over 130,000 of the UK's firms would be catastrophic.

Effectively, the Bill converts EU law into domestic law in order to maintain legal certainty after Brexit.