Not exact matches
Although a small business should be a separate
legal entity, it
has to generate enough cash for a
salary that will cover your student loans.
This is not yet a complete transaction; although the fundamentals of the deal
have been agreed upon, the Rockets will need to move a bit more
salary in one way or another to make this a
legal trade.
The fake
salary cap put in place by the new collective bargaining agreement negotiated at the end of 2016 is to blame, but that mostly just suggests that what we're seeing is a form of
legal collusion, where the owners managed to put one over the Players Union by making it seem as if the savings from the international and amateur markets
would come back to veteran MLB players.
Now I'm
having to pay not only MY
legal fees but hers as well because my
salary is greater than hers.
With Hawthorne's continuing to refuse to accept these staff and slashing the
salaries of the teachers they
have employed, we
have no option but to press
legal claims».
Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a
legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative
salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City
has.
Adding insult to injury, Larkin
has the gall to talk about pension reform at the same time he is exploiting a
legal loophole to collect his own taxpayer - funded pension on top of his Senate
salary,» Broge said in the statement.
The statements, which were made public by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded
salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (
D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside
legal work.
The Chairman explained how the additional budgetary provision
would be expended to include
salaries and Social Insurance contributions, recurrent expenses such as utilities, maintenance and others for 867 offices and residencies nationwide, including staff welfare, provision of core electoral expenses like the conduct of voter education,
legal services and for renovation of office and residential buildings.
This practice is
legal, and
has been accepted in Yonkers for decades, and those officers on the Journal News list worked massive hours to reach those
salaries.
As a foreign national (like fully half of the postdocs in the United States), I was prohibited from taking a (
legal) part - time job, so I
had to make it on my BNL
salary alone.
Flansburg rummaged through his desk drawers and found recently filed paperwork for a
legal marriage separation, as well as an IRS earnings statement that showed her boyfriend's
salary was only one - quarter as much money as he
'd told her.
Nearly fifteen years
had passed since Ruma's only European adventure, a month - long EuroRail holiday she
'd taken with two girlfriends after college, with money saved up from her
salary as a para -
legal.
And the problem was, this type of stock - option
had historically only been offered to $ 20 - million
salary CEOs and CFO's, who retained professional
legal and financial counsel and knew how to deal with the pitfalls and traps of this type of option.
We
'd all like to think that the
legal playing field is entirely level, but do you really think you're on equal footing with the IRS, who is responsible for collecting the money that pays the judge's
salary?
Most recently, Sean found out that James V. DiPaola, the sheriff of Middlesex County in Massachusetts, was about to take advantage of a
legal loophole by which he
would be able to take an annual pension of $ 98,500 while continuing to receive his sheriff's
salary of $ 123,000.
For example, it
would generally be
legal for a current or previous employer who was not subject to the Privacy Act (most small business) to disclose your
salary; they just don't.
Just a few of their efforts and costs are:
having attorneys and
legal staff spend billable time on the non-billable hiring process; your
salary and benefits; payment to a
legal recruiter (if you're using a headhunter); and the costs of training you (again, this takes considerable time away from your bosses» billable work).
Have legal fees and associate
salaries reached the tipping point where client pushback will force fees (and potentially
salaries) back down?
But as The
Legal Intelligencer reports, we haven't seen mass
salary cuts yet primarily because no one wants to be first.
Alternatives that
have been used successfully in other schools or otherwise proposed include a certain number of seats of lower tuition for those experiencing financial hardships, public - private partnerships for projects and initiatives in the areas of
legal technology and artificial intelligence to provide
salaries while in law school, and a tuition forgiveness program for those who enroll in post-graduate access to justice programs.
Professor Bill Henderson of the Empirical
Legal Studies Blog
has opened an interesting discussion with his recent analysis of the bimodal distribution of law firm starting
salaries.
Instead, it offered the class of 2009 an opportunity to work for a pro bono
legal service provider, at a paid
salary of $ 60,000, with the understanding they
would be hired back when openings at the firm became available.
In theory, the firm
would use its retained earnings (monies left over after payment of
salaries and other expenses) to invest in innovations that re-invent how services are delivered (taking off the pressure lawyers
have to chase billable hours), which in turn
would reduce prices — or the firm
would invest in
legal services that can be done without lawyers, thereby creating an additional income stream.
Legal education: as the cost of legal education has increased the debt load gets tougher to repay at salaries that may be a fraction of big city f
Legal education: as the cost of
legal education has increased the debt load gets tougher to repay at salaries that may be a fraction of big city f
legal education
has increased the debt load gets tougher to repay at
salaries that may be a fraction of big city firms.
Having posted here earlier today about big - firm
salary wars carrying fresh - out - of - school associates to the absurd pay level of $ 160,000, I was reassured that there remains some hope for the
legal profession by this article to appear in Monday's National Law Journal: Interest in summer jobs at top firms cools down.
Two - thirds of 2,882 corporate counsel polled by
legal recruiter Laurence Simons said the loss of income (representing about # 16,500 of an average # 82,500
salary)
would be worth the extra day.
There
have been a number of developments since our first report was published including the
Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum salary and legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LA
Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum
salary and
legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LA
legal aid cuts brought in by the
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LA
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).
Given that women
have long outnumbered men among the ranks of paralegals, it
would seem safe to assume that here is at least one segment of the
legal profession where
salaries are blind to gender.
Historically, a school's percentage of employed graduates and the associated median
salary have been the primary indicators of the potential payoff of
legal education.
61 For example, the 2010 survey revealed that the
salaries of directors and full - time faculty continue to increase; 62 that while most faculty are on short - term contracts, the vast majority are not limited in the number of years they may be renewed; and that the number of programs offering long - term contracts and tenure - track positions
has increased.63 Even with these achievements, equality for full - time
legal writing faculty
has not been reached at all schools.
However, Dragon
Legal has some added features, and a lawyer or law firm may be able to justify the expense not by comparing the different software packages but instead by factoring in support staff
salaries.
The right mix of
salary and benefits may be contributing to strong tenure within
legal departments, with nearly half of respondents saying they
have been at their current job for six years or more (48 percent).
Sidley Austin
has increased the
salary of all its London associates to at least # 100,000 to match Kirkland & Ellis» London rates as it hires a team from its US rival,
Legal Week understands.
The debut issue includes an article that argues that raising judicial
salaries would do nothing to improve judicial performance, another that contends that judges should be deferential in reviewing class action settlements, and others, all from well - known names in
legal academia.
The services of Salvos
Legal Humanitarian are offered free of charge; the firm
has a staff of lawyers whose
salaries are paid from the income, less expenses, of Salvos
Legal.
While you could argue this comes at a price since, historically,
salaries in the region
have been on average between 20 and 30 % lower than in the major
legal markets, Danielson notes: «We
have been seeing a small but potentially significant shift in thinking among many firms towards raising their compensation packages, in part to be competitive for top candidates from other markets, but more likely because the econ
Even though
salary continuance is not a
legal mechanism for the payment of statutory termination pay, and even though judges will often not order it as a remedy in a wrongful dismissal case, that does not necessarily mean that (a)
salary continuance is never «
legal» or (b) employees may not
have to accept it.
10 Jill
had been working tirelessly on surveying the state of
legal writing programs at the end of the 1980's — including status,
salaries, and job security of
legal writing professionals — and her compilation and conclusions were extremely important.
Huq also questioned Truss on diversity in the
legal profession, referring to research by YLAL about the
salaries of junior
legal aid lawyers and asking if the Lord Chancellor
would consider reinstating the training contract grant scheme which was abolished by the Coalition government in 2010.
In any event, I can provide your company with the advantages of
having an experienced, senior attorney available to meet your ongoing business
legal needs without
having to pay a full - time
salary, or law firm rates.
Criticism of the high costs of
legal bills
has not gone away in recent years, despite the drop in lawyers»
salaries and the saturation of the
legal market with too many attorneys.
As for increasing the number of lawyers seeking to serve society rather than make money, a small quibble with your quote: I suggested not that not free tuition
would attract more publicly - minded law students, but that free
legal services (and the consequent lower average
salary)
would — or at the very least,
would discourage the singularly money - minded applicants.
[108] Others raised the objections to alternative structures that are commonly raised: [109] that they are a threat to the profession's core values, [110] that they will trigger irresolvable conflicts of interest, [111] that lawyers will lose their independence, [112] that there is no evidence that alternative structures
have increased access to justice in Australia or England & Wales, [113] that law firms can attract employees by paying competitive
salaries without the need to offer employee shareholding, [114] that the burden of proof lies with those who advocate for alternative structures, [115] that there is no way to regulate alternative structures, [116] that alternative structures will lead to a consolidated market for
legal services, [117] that more research is required, [118] etc..
If you're a law professor and you want to get depressed, try to figure out how many of your recent graduates
have real
legal jobs that pay enough to justify the tuition that funds your
salary, and also involve doing the kind of work they wanted to do when they went to law school.
Legal salaries abroad
have performed as strongly as in the UK, say Laurence Simons.
Senior in - house solicitors now take home # 165,190 on average, in
salary and bonuses, while basic
salaries have risen by 12 % annually to # 126,100, according to
legal recruiters Laurence Simons.
A steady rise in profits and revenues expanded headcounts and significant
salary increases
have provided plenty of job opportunities in a broad range of
legal positions.
Assume our lawyer
has $ 125,000 in loans (about the average amount borrowed for a private law school) and starts a public interest job at a starting
salary of $ 45,000 (about the mean for a public interest
legal job).
Figures from Incomes Data Services (IDS) show 30 % of heads of
legal had their
salaries frozen, up from 13 % in 2012, while pay freezes doubled overall on the previous year.