Sentences with phrase «over legal bills»

Billable hours have been back in the news over the past month thanks to a dispute between DLA Piper and one of their clients over legal bills.

Here are five of the more common issues that clients raise over legal bills in disputes over payment.

Not exact matches

The defeat was the most serious setback for Prodi's nine - month - old coalition government, also deeply divided over a host of domestic issues ranging from the budget, pension reform and a bill giving legal recognition to gay and unwed couples.

That amendment, the last of the Bill of Rights, is central to the debate over whether state's can make marijuana legal if federal law declares it illegal.

Republican legislators are trying to break a political stalemate in Kansas over a bill granting legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Or, allow me to be a member of a Catholic church where my money goes to support the legal bills of child molesters, while schools are closing all over the country (hmmm — can't imagine why enrollment is down).

Proponents hope the inevitable legal fight over the bill will be a stepping stone to overturning Roe v. Wade, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court is ready to reconsider the matter.

The e-mails and the voicemails... The stack of bills needing to be paid, and requests from overnight camp for items scattered all over town... The legal stuff that comes along with getting divorced, which I'd been putting off until my trip was over... The appointments and work responsibilities and conference calls... The Trump insanity.

Disability Alliance (now Disability Rights UK) stated that it was «very concerned» the timetable allowed for the passage of the Bill could «prevent adequate analysis of the potential impact of plans to be undertaken» and warned that it may take legal action against the DWP over some of the proposed changes.

A GoFundMe page launched to assist him with his legal bills has taken off over the last few days and is now over $ 100,000.

The recent case of a couple faced with legal bills of over # 29,000 for opposing a late licence at the local pub shows just how weighted the system is against local communities,» he said.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.

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.

Two former state lawmakers over the last six months have used campaign cash to pay their legal bills, filings with the state Board of Elections show.

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

[28] The legal status of MMA had been a state political issue for years; the state Senate passed legalization legislation seven times over six years, but the bills were not taken up by the State Assembly.

These are major victories for Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who threatened to block the bill over what they considered «poison pill» riders.

Aaron has faced the sort of legal problems — from payment disputes with contractors to his protracted battles with local governments over property tax bills — that are not unusual for real estate developers.

A Manhattan federal judge rebuffed Bill Cosby's attempt to force New York magazine to turn over unedited interview recordings, transcripts and related notes from a story about a group of women who have accused the comedian of sexual assault, calling it a fishing expedition that ignores legal protections for the press.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Lawmakers passed a bill that, over seven years, shifts payment responsibilities for indigent legal services from counties to the state.

Shobowale said legitimate legal concerns have been raised over whether the bill amounted to a minimum wage for a small segment of the economy.

Ms. Burke - Gonzalez said at the town board meeting Tuesday that airport - related legal bills incurred since the current administration took the reins in 2014 have reached just over $ 2 million.

The bill, which awaits action in the Senate, would regulate the ability of individuals to make campaign contributions over the legal limit through the use of LLC's.

Whitehall negotiations are currently ongoing over whether to toughen up community sentences in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently working its way through parliament.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a frequent target of Cuomo's, had unsuccessfully tried to persuade Durst to end his legal challenges against the park over the summer.

So it remains to be seen just how bomb - proof this bill actually is over the next couple of weeks, but much will hinge on whether there is a clear legal separation between notification and negotiation.

Malloy's budget director, Ben Barnes, said that the legal language in the budget bill could cost the state as much as $ 1 billion over two years, but legislators in the House and Senate did not make any changes.

While on recess, the joint committees on Communication and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs have been working on the over decade old bill which has been moving in and out of parliament over the years.

Malloy's budget director, Ben Barnes, said the legal language in the budget bill had so many problems that it could cost the state as much as $ 1 billion over two years.

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.

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.

Both the Scottish government and Scottish Labour have taken legal advice over the Trade Union Bill, which could put curbs on trade union powers and make it more difficult to call strikes.

«The Senate version of «TrumpCare» is even meaner than the House bill,» Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) told reporters at a press conference.

From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.

Well over 90 % of constitution law scholars and legal professionals, including not only the Japan Federation of Bar Association, but also former Cabinet Legislation Bureau Chiefs and judges, consider the bills to be unconstitutional.

Many of the original plaintiffs have backed out of the lawsuit because of legal bills that have added up over the history of the case.

The state's new plans for that district, created through House Bill 70 over the summer, has been controversial and the center of a legal challenge — a challenge that failed — over the state taking control of the district from voters and the elected school board.

This week Governor Dannel Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor are working with Senate President Don Williams and others to push through an «emergency bill» that would overturn the Supreme Court's ruling by retroactively saying that although the state broke the law when it took over the Bridgeport schools, the state's action was nonetheless legal.

According to D&B: Their commercial credit scores ``... predict the likelihood of a business paying its bills in a severely delinquent manner (91 days or more past terms), obtaining legal relief from its creditors or ceasing operations without paying all creditors in full over the next 12 months.

If you get sued over such an incident, renter's insurance can help cover your legal costs and the injured person's medical bills, according to Allstate.

Some of these limitations include how long a hospital must wait to turn over an unpaid bill to a collection agency and in what circumstances they are not allowed to seek a lien to satisfy a legal judgment.

From the web site: «The initial effort raised over $ 100,000 to pay for Mann's legal bills.

A Bill designed to give citizens more control over their data could end up stripping back the fundamental British right to confidential legal advice, the Bar has warned.

Current legal trends reveal that sophisticated in - house counsel increasingly choose small high - quality law firms over bigger firms with excessive overhead and inflated billing rates.

An Essex family ended up with a # 60,000 legal bill over a # 137,000 estate, when the executors defeated their claim that a brain tumour had robbed the deceased of «testamentary capacity» when he left most of his estate to his Filipina fiancée, alongside whom he used to work at a care home.

The Data Protection Bill will implement GDPR provisions into UK law — the Bar Council is hoping its concerns over legal professional privilege and immigration law will be tabled as amendments at Report Stage.

Client's often ask for Bill's business advice in addition to his legal expertise knowing that they can benefit from his over thirty - five years of experience.

So I was surprised when I read this post over at Legal Underground where Evan Schaeffer referenced a post by torts professor Bill Childs who wonders whether law schools should address the issue of human suffering when teaching torts.