Sentences with phrase «old law partners»

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He said Enterprise» recent acquisition of a new strategic partner, Black Star Holdings, and the shedding off of an old partner, Sanlam, vandalized Securities and Exchanges Commission law, because the SEC does not have a Board and therefore did not exist to approve of the deal as required by law.

Garcia, 54 years old, is a partner at a Manhattan law firm and leads an advisory board for fantasy - sports operator FanDuel, which is facing intense legal scrutiny nationwide — including in New York.

Mr. Garcia, 54 years old, is a partner at a Manhattan law firm and leads an advisory board for fantasy - sports operator FanDuel, which is facing intense legal scrutiny nationwide, including in New York.

It's the age - old question single women are confronted with each time they swipe right to a man driving a Porsche in his main photo or hear a man is a partner at his law firm on their first date.

In «Fargo,» Thornton's character was pure evil, but in Goliath he's just flawed — despicable at times, but with a good heart that shows often as he pursues justice against his old law firm and partner.

be 18 years of age or older or have a spouse or common - law partner or live with your dependant child on May 31, 2010

show identification, are 16 years of age or older, and are your: parent, child, parent's spouse or common - law partner, child's spouse or common - law partner, brother or sister, half - brother or half - sister, stepbrother or stepsister, spouse or common - law partner, or are relatives of your spouse or common - law partner, including their: parent, child, parent's spouse or common - law partner, child's spouse or common - law partner, brother or sister, half - brother or half - sister, stepbrother or stepsister.

If you have no other full - time employees, or less than 50 % of the employees are at arm's length, the deduction for you and your dependants is restricted to an annual maximum of $ 1,500 for each of you, your spouse or common - law partner and other family members 18 years of age or older, and to $ 750 for each member of your household under 18.

GIS is currently available to Canadians earning less than $ 17,784 per year, and for couples with joint incomes under $ 23,520 (if your spouse / common - law partner receives the full Old Age Security pension).

An outright gift to a child who is 18 years or older — or anyone other than a spouse or common - law partner — is not subject to this rule.

However, if you have earned income and your spouse or common - law partner will be under 72 at the end of the year, you can still make a contribution to his or her plan, even if you're 72 or older.

It's not just young people, either; «Henry Minnerop, a partner in a Manhattan law firm and «70 - plus» years old, said he drives each day — year round — to Englewood Cliffs, and then bikes about 12 miles into Midtown.

Calling him «Eric Holden,» Spence says that when a lawyer works long enough for big corporations, as Holder did as partner at a corporate law firm, «the human psyche begins to dry up and one day will fall out on the carpet of the boardroom floor... like a dried up old prune.»

In fact, his oldest daughter Stephanie is an attorney and a partner in the law firm.

Tom Wells is the founding partner of Wells, Jaworski & Liebman LLP (www.wellslaw.com), a 30 year old Paramus, New Jersey - based commercial and corporate law firm.

In this post, How Many Hours Does Your Managing Partner Bill, Bruce MacEwen analyzes the age - old question of whether a law firm managing partner should serve as a full - time CEO or maintain an active practice, «billing gobs of hours.»

By day, the 74 - year - old Nathan is a senior partner in Minden Gross LLP's business law group, but by nights, weekends, and whenever else he can squeeze it in, he writes and lectures about the legendary detective.

For example, the law firm could have argued that the policy was not designed on the basis of a stereotypical belief that older partners were not productive, but rather was designed to benefit all partners by ensuring the regenerative turnover of partnership shares.

Whilst most partners still pine for the old golden days of law practice, a sense of realism and the urge for survival has enabled most law firms to keep their heads above water.

People in this category could include attorneys returning to the firm after a stint in government, older attorneys interested in gradually downsizing their practice, and parents returning to the workplace who want a better work - life balance than being a law firm partner typically affords.

It's a hoary old debate in law, but one that many managing partners still wrestle with.

An old partner of mine said in 1995 that he expected a law firm without paper to arrive at the same time as the paperless toilet.

State law obligates you and your former partner, or former spouse, to provide financial support for any children that you birth or otherwise adopt, until they reach the age of majority, 18 years old, or graduate from high school, whichever is later.

[1] According to The American Lawyer, about 16 % of partners in the 200 top - grossing law firms are 60 years old or Read More...

Edward Drummond says that this is because leading law firms are aggressively meritocratic so top talent tends to be promoted earlier, and older partners also tend to be moved aside more pro-actively to make room for younger partners or as their income generation slows.

According to The American Lawyer, about 16 % of partners in the 200 top - grossing law firms are 60 years old or older and more than half of them are at least 65; over the next five years, another 7,000 partners will turn 60.

Further, it may be unrealistic for the firm to expect an established or older partner to be willing to learn an entirely new area of the law.

However my classmates graduated into a legal profession that was still predominately male, especially among the older attorneys would were most likely to be judges, law firm partners, mentors and those with hiring authority.

If you're a 50 year - old partner at a law firm you've had quite a good career, the legal climate has been good to you, and therefore people with less experience have the desire to attain that same «good life» and are afraid that they're not going to get it and so they're worried about that more broadly.

[1] According to The American Lawyer, about 16 % of partners in the 200 top - grossing law firms are 60 years old or older and more than half of them are at least 65; over the next five years, another 7,000 partners will turn 60.

A 34 - year old man was arrested after assaulting both his common - law partner and her daughter.

KWIKA is proud to announce that founding partner Larry Iser has been named 2016 «Lawyer of the Year» for the Los Angeles Area in the specialty of «Entertainment Law — Music» by Best Lawyers ®, the oldest and most respected peer - review publication in the legal profession.

Every Partner a Working Partner: Mid-size law firms will have stronger centralized management, including (a) increased accountability and less autonomy for partners» concerning their actions / inactions; (b) greater emphasis on every partner to be a «working partner;» (c) more merit - based compensation decisions; and (d) diminishing feelings among partners about those «entitlements» to older partners by virtue of seniority.

The D.A.I. case involved a mentally challenged 23 - year - old complainant who alleged that her mother's common law partner had repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of four years.

My 11 year old son thought that it was important that, as the partner in charge of technology at my law firm, I «walk the talk» so I am now the proud owner of a sleek black iPod Nano.

As part of this commitment, today we are proud to announce that Foxwordy is partnering with the National Bar Association, the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African - American lawyers, judges, law professors and law students.

After winning two Queen Elizabeth Scholarships, he practiced law from 1973, in 1979 becoming a partner with one hundred - year - old Emery Jamieson and then in 1984 becoming the Managing Partner of Snyder & Company with offices in Canada and Hong Kong.

In a recent Altman Weil survey, it was found that for the majority of the law firm respondents, 50 % — 70 % of the business base was controlled by partners aged 60 and older.

He argues that the practice of law is itself changing The old mindset used to be: do whatever it takes for the client, do whatever the client asks, partner profits are a function of one variable — billable hours and lawyers solve legal problems not business problems.

The Palacios decision follows another high - profile age discrimination decision — a UK employment tribunal recently decided in Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (July 2007 Central London Employment Tribunal) that City law firm Freshfields could justify its decision to re-organise pension arrangements to the detriment of some older partners (see NLJ, 2 November 2007, pp 1526 — 27).

Another important, often overlooked, issue when dealing with common law partners is the emotional baggage that some of their «old life» can bring with them, says Sullivan, which can include tensions around previous children, child support obligations to ex-spouses and the difficulties with blended families.

These include: • Trust issues • Infidelity • Hurt feelings • Triggering old wounds • Power struggles • Differences in upbringing • Conflict over child rearing • Communication problems • Blaming each other • Nitpicking • Insecurity and neediness • Competition between partners • Keeping secrets • Financial difficulties • Trouble with in - laws, friends and family • Keeping romance alive • Sexual dysfunction • Neglect and disconnection • Emotional or physical abuse • Feeling disrespected or taken for granted

Prior to opening my own family law practice, I was a partner with Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, one of the oldest and largest law firms in North Carolina.