Sentences with phrase «not legal work»

We recognize that not all legal work — especially that residing further down the complexity scale towards commodity — can bear the typical costs required to produce it at the highest levels.

It's not legal work.

Prosecutors allege he illegally cashed in on his outsize influence, making big money by doing political favors — not legal work — for law firms.

Prosecutors accuse Silver specifically of taking millions of income from the firm, including a salary that was premised on his official position, not his legal work, along with kickbacks from an attorney - referral scheme.

«But not if it is at the expense of saying what I have done for a decade isn't legal work.»

There are other tasks you can outsource that aren't legal work.

The debate over whether document review is or isn't legal work isn't new, but it is pivotal in the lives of those young lawyers stuck in the middle of this debate and relying on relatively low - paying contracts to get by.

Not exact matches

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Sure, he's out some $ 200,000 in fees to Six Degrees for design work and for overseeing the repositioning process, not to mention $ 20,000 in legal costs.

Ironically, when the legal barriers to a merger were lowered, it was the economics of the deal that couldn't be worked out.

A prime reason they do this is that they don't really have to hire anyone, instead they use an army of so - called 1099 employees, who work for an hourly wage, with no benefits and very few of the legal protections that full - time employees typically get.

Even couples who split amicably may find their legal fees spiralling out of control as they work to divvy up their nest egg.

When I was working on it from 1974 to 1994, it did not cross my mind that a legal case that would end up in the Supreme Court would be the consequence of my work and I'm so gratified that it was a unanimous decision.»

The kind of working conditions that lead into this legal danger zone include not just «egregious acts of harassment and bullying» but also chronic stress, excessive demands by managers, and unpaid overtime, wrote the report's author, Dr. Martin Shain of the University of Toronto.

Make it clear in writing that anybody you speak to about the idea does not constitute their contributing to your IP and if they do any work for you please make sure you sign a legal agreement assigning the IP to you.

Eventually, a smaller publisher took my book and after going through six months of work with them, they decided my book wasn't working for them for «legal» reasons and canceled the contract.

«I knew people in Missouri who would go to Iowa, where same - sex marriage is legal, to get married, and then not tell people at work, because they were afraid,» Sanchez says.

And Palantir, a data - mining firm he cofounded that works with US Customs and Border Protection, didn't join its industry brethren on the legal brief.

«If we had a legal visa category that let people go back and forth, many wouldn't feel the need to put down roots and instead would work for a time and go back.»

However, for that schedule to work out, Congress will need to make a legal change that allows the Treasury Department to hold prepayments from the big carriers ahead of the auction — according to Pai, banks are not willing to do this anymore due to their capitalization requirements.

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

I asked if there was anything she had learned through the experience that she didn't pick up in her academic, legal, or political work.

Tony focuses on whether or not the numbers make sense, takes care of the legal work, patents, contracts, professional business plans and often helps secure funding for many of their projects.

Aereo's founder, Chet Kanojia, says the decision confirmed the fact that his company's technology not only works, but is legal.

The company claims it was not, however, people protested Uber by deleting their accounts and its app, despite the creation of a legal defense fund for affected drivers that would also pay them even if they're unable to work.

«This [compliance] work is very difficult and somewhat expensive, and the smaller RIA firms... might not be seeking legal advice, and they need it.

We then must not just promote care work but also accord these workers decent wages, legal protection, and basic social security rights such as health care, pension, and employment insurance.

Both companies» CEOs worked to explain that this is not a legal or economic merger, as the companies faced antitrust and pricing claims.

Instead, the U.S. government's opposition appears to center on a belief that legal settlements that pave the way for a merger — yet include lengthy rules policing the behavior of two companies — tend not to work.

«The legal work isn't done,» one administration official said Wednesday night, expressing shock that Trump would make an announcement so quickly.

«We have been working with our legal counsel at Dentons LLP for almost a year to ensure we are compliant with the existing securities regulations in Canada,» Pastoll said, adding that Lending Loop doesn't intend to challenge the regulatory interpretation that extending peer - to - peer loans could constitute dealing in securities.

Though all plan sponsors have that obligation, unfortunately not all service providers working with retirement plans accept that same legal requirement.

Some experts have estimated that the case could cost Starbucks alone seven figures, and that all California employers with hourly workers could find themselves in legal and financial jeopardy if they aren't paying their workers for all the time they've worked.

But just because independent contractors and sole proprietors may work for a larger concern, doesn't mean that the company will indemnify them from legal issues arising from their actions if they aren't employees.

Prosecutors have defended the search in part by saying that the investigation has shown that Cohen does not do much legal work and does not appear to have many clients.

Having a college degree doesn't help you with those kind of jobs, and the kind of professional work that rewards higher education typically can't be obtained by someone without legal permission to work.

«Of course,» McDonald noted, «the Ogilvy jury could not have known, nor could the ARF have known, that the work being awarded that night might have been based on pilfered data to which CA had no legal right.»

The CFPOA, FCPA, UKBA, and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws do not prohibit companies from entering into a contract with a government, including public works projects; however, payments made under those projects must comply with applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and often trigger other special legal requirements.

And isn't it all just so sad, and if only we didn't have this American political / legal system of marriage it wouldn't be working out in such a devastating way for «the suffering spouse,» would it?

We should not be naïve to these challenges, and we should work diligently to find appropriate legal and policy responses.

Those who come to work hard and are eager to be part of the American mainstream should be welcomed; the best of intentions and behavior does not justify flouting the law; any self - respecting nation must be able to control its borders; an underclass of millions with no legal existence poses a serious security problem; the economy depends on those who do the work Americans will not do; and on and on.

Dear I am not working or aware of the laws of legal or sharia systems but as a Muslim know that cursing all that is considered holy can bring a whole lot of trouble for Muslim or not Muslim specially if there were many witnesses against you, said tobe not less than two men or four women.

To many, it is basically a middle - class organization catering to those who want to take advantage of its insurance policies or its vacation discounts; they do not know of its legal and lobbying work on behalf of legislation to benefit the elderly of all economic levels.

In such a short book, Merkle can not be faulted for failing to include all the sources of Heschel's life and work, but apart from rabbinic tradition» the legal foundation and theological speculation that shaped and shapes Jewish life» he can not be understood.

Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»

Britain will argue that the two Christian women at the center of the case had the option of quitting their jobs and working elsewhere, so they are not covered by European human rights law, according to legal papers obtained by CNN.

First, I don't think the analogy comparing the death penalty to legal abortion access works.

She got her first driver's license 90 - years - ago by manipulating the legal system as a 12 - year - old, and hasn't stopped driving since (even learned a few tricks from a young Henry Ford, who worked with her grandfather.)

So my question to catholic engineer... Would you contribute to a special fund, not for every day expenses and charitable works, but to pay for the legal fees and damages incurred by the abusive priests that have, we hope, been expunged from the RCC?

The smell like someone jamming two large needles a good deal up into your nasal cavity and then taking them out and then jamming them back in the diaper had to be changed though so I learned along with the wonder and amazement of responsibility in the life of a little universe just learning about how wonderful and talented it is and all it had to do was be born and stuff just worked unless the cuts came but I did let that happen not when homosexuals could get married and marijuana was legal now to remove the guns and evangelicals and live in peace with the other people.