Sentences with phrase «mandatory retirement programs»

Though the ABA recently adopted a recommendation that law firms reject mandatory retirement programs, some firms need no convincing — and are turning to older lawyers to help build their practices, as reported in this article, Desperately Seeking Seniors (The American Lawyer, September 2007).

At the same time, I find it ironic that while the ABA opposes mandatory retirement programs, it has also issued an ethics opinion holding that law firms can ethically make retirement benefits contingent on a lawyer's agreement to sign a non-compete clause (as a general rule, law firms can not bind lawyers to non-compete agreements because to do so would violate the client's unfettered right to a lawyer of his or her choosing).

But in response to this New York Times story on law firms» mandatory retirement programs (12/08/06), MacEwen comes out swinging, decrying these programs as idiocy or atrocity and an inherently inhumane practice.

Not exact matches

It includes every entitlement or mandatory benefit program with annual federal and state expenditures of over $ 10 billion other than veterans» and federal retirement programs.

On the spending side, reconciliation can be used to address «mandatory» or entitlement spending — that is, programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, federal civilian and military retirement, SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), and farm programs — but not Social Security.

Trainees must begin the training program before their 31st birthday; at age 56, controllers are subject to mandatory retirement with full federal benefits.