Sentences with phrase «than an attorney working»

Maybe that's high, maybe it's more 60/40, but I think it's that way because the volume still demands it and ultimately because of the way our firms set up because we have a blend of attorney's who are independent contractors versus W2 employees so the way our firm is setup, the firm still currently relies on me to be a significant revenue generator for the firm and if I step back where I was doing more marketing and managing than attorney work, we would see I think a significant impact on the financial end without me continuing to be a revenue generator, and that's something I'd love to tackle longterm because frankly the best advice I got in this process when I was considering expanding was do you want to be an attorney or do you want to be a business owner?

A solo lawyer could handle fewer cases than an attorney working for a big law firm, which made it hard to generate revenue and stay in business.

Not exact matches

A well - known attorney in Silicon Valley, von Lohmann left in March after working at Google for more than seven years.

In other words, if you ever have a legal problem, a letter from a prestigious firm is going to be more intimidating than one from a local attorney who works out of his or her home.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to work off the clock.

Michelle Erich is an open adoption attorney in Ventura, California with more than 20 years of experience working with expectant parents and hopeful adoptive parents.

«No office in the state has pursued public corruption more viorously or more successfully than this office, and still, we are up to our eyeballs in corruption work,» the clearly exasperated US attorney said.

Caplin's comments makes it quite clear the Democratic senator's team feels they've got more than enough to work with should Turner beat out Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, attorney Wendy Long and Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin to land Row B.

Published reports say Schneiderman retained Kirshner, who has been a defense attorney for more than 30 years, and previously worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney'sattorney for more than 30 years, and previously worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney'sAttorney's office.

The firm held these earnings by submitting allegedly falsified workers» timesheets to its payroll processing company with lower weekly hours than the amount laborers actually worked, according to the district attorney's office.

According to documents displayed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office during Curcio's testimony, the younger Skelos set his own hours, going into work two days a week for a few hours, less than what his agreement with PRI stipulated.

In 2002, Sheldon Silver began working for the Weitz & Luxenberg firm, which specializes in asbestos litigation and paid him $ 120,000 a year «based on his official position rather than any work he was expected to perform for clients of the firm,» said Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.

Bergh, another attorney who worked under Perez Williams, said she caused some headaches in the office because she «did things differently» than many longtime employees were used to.

Stevens, who previously worked for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and makes more than $ 90,000 a year, was immediately suspended without pay, said Office of Criminal Justice spokesman Patrick Gallahue.

Running for statewide office has indeed been like running a marathon, but I'm privileged to have a job I love, and tomorrow I'll be at work in the district attorney's office fighting Nassau County's most serious problems with more energy than ever.

District Attorney Division Chief Edward Heilig has said the bonuses were initiated to keep up with rapidly escalating county police salaries and were based on factors that included merit and working more than 35 hours a week.

The documents allege Silver received $ 1.4 million in salary from the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg based on his official position as assembly speaker, rather than for work he performed, and $ 3.9 million in attorney referral fees.

«As the only candidate who's actually worked in the Attorney General's office, Eric Dinallo would prefer to talk about his time as Deputy Sheriff of Wall Street under Eliot Spitzer than sign pledges about the controversy surrounding State Senator Schneiderman's time as Deputy Sheriff of Berkshire County.»

Prior to his appointment to the Erie County Legislature in April of 2014, Savage worked in local government for 19 years, including more than 10 years as a practicing attorney.

More than two dozen attorneys will be devoted to working with the new civil frauds unit and another recently - established unit targeting complex frauds, «using every weapon... to combat financial fraud and to vindicate its victims,» Bharara said.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

Mychajliw says he finds it unfortunate that the League is spending its resources on attorneys, rather than programs for the working poor.

Nixon, the Working Families Party candidate for governor and Cuomo's Democratic primary foe, made the anti-corruption vow after it was revealed that the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office has launched a probe into an Orange County health care company, Crystal Run, that received more than $ 25 million in state grants after officers and family members contributed $ 400,000 to Cuomo's re-election campaign.

He moved to East Hampton more than 30 years ago after graduating from Yale University and working as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan.

A Queens - based contractor that worked on a number of New York City projects, including 111 W. 57th St. on Billionaires» Row, was charged with stealing more than $ 1.7 million in wages from its workers and $ 7.8 million from the state by manipulating the workers - compensation system, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who announced the charges at a Wednesday press conference.

Last year, on July 28, 2014, Governor Cuomo called the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption (created by Governor Cuomo in July 2013 and shuttered less than a year later) a «phenomenal success,» following a report into the relationship between the governor's office and Moreland amid reports that Cuomo was being investigated by United States Attorney Preet Bharara for interfering with the commission's work.

A Greenport woman accused of embezzling more than $ 400,000 from two Deer Park companies where she worked as a bookkeeper is to be arraigned next week on felony grand larceny charges, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

Mr. Abelove, who is also backed by the Independence and Conservative parties, points proudly to the conviction record of a previous district attorney for whom both he and Mr. Laquidara had worked in Rensselaer County, Patricia DeAngelis — a rate he says was more than 20 points higher than that of her successor, Richard McNally.

He also appointed Daniel Horwitz, a lawyer who formerly worked in the frauds bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's office; he has donated more than $ 4,000 to Cuomo in recent years.

«Citizens working together are more powerful than US Attorneys.

Led by the efforts of Linda, John and Jackie Romano and Rob Esche, more than $ 100,000 was also raised recently to support the clinic's important work of providing free legal services to Oneida County veterans and their families, training local attorneys, and educating the next generation of veterans advocates at the College of Law.

Mr. de Blasios» defense of Mr. Donovan was perhaps less full - throated than that offered by several of the district attorney's fellow Staten Island Republicans last week, who have worked more closely with him over the years.

An attorney who works near Wall Street, his daily commute takes more than an hour.

Reed is now working as a patent attorney at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis and reports that he is enjoying his new job, which affords him much more contact with inventors (the scientists) than when he worked for a law firm.

«Many experts estimate that less than 1 percent of the recreational diving population possesses the knowledge, skills, attitude, and judgment needed to cave dive as safely as possible,» says Johnny Richards, a former attorney who now works full - time as a cave diving instructor in northern Florida and runs the informational Web site CaveDiving.com.

As a chief financial officer and attorney who has worked in the charter movement for more than six years, and also as an elected member of my hometown traditional School Board, I am fortunate to see education from both sides.

COSA supports school attorneys and provides leadership in legal advocacy for public schools; its 22 - member Board of Directors oversees its continuing legal education programming and working groups for its more than 3,000 members across the United States and Canada.

Patrice began working with FAA's industry drug and alcohol testing regulations as an FAA enforcement attorney more than 20 years ago.

I had a successful career as a practicing attorney, but since I worked for the federal government, once my writing became more than a hobby, I became subject to certain restrictions on outside employment.

Today we have less than 20 Blackberry's in use from an even larger attorney force, and the scary thing is we have people who are over 40 and over 50 working here.

Experienced debt settlement attorneys dare to promise that they can work out a better deal with a creditor than you could work out for yourself.

It's 100 % legal & works faster than any other method by leveraging the law in your favor & doing 90 % of the work; order free credit reports, remove errors, dispute negative items with removal letters written by attorneys, negotiate with creditors & keep organized.

Which is why, when we're thanking all the legal services attorneys we get to work with, I'm going to tell you a few stories, rather than simply list the...

In fact, California reorganization plans are accepted in fewer than 1 % of all cases when the applicant is not working with an attorney.

Even if I could sell the paintings for huge amounts of money [It seems a distinct possibility, after some of the back - channel conversations I've had with potential patrons of the enterprise], it would still mean working my butt off and making no more than an average, second - tier attorney.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

The article reports that in reality, about 80 percent of law graduates work at firms with fewer than 100 attorneys and, thus, are making far lower salaries that those in the news.

Do movies like The Devil's Advocate (where Al Pacino's Satan - working - as - a-sleazy-defense-attorney character lives by the motto, «Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven») have a negative impact on juries» perceptions of defense attorneys» performances?

A freelance attorney with ten years of experience working in a large metropolitan area on brief - writing projects is going to charge more than a freelance attorney with five years of experience working in a remote location on document - review projects.

A $ 45 / day contribution for 10 weeks comes to $ 2,250 per associate; and if the firm has 50 summer associates, that's $ 112,000 for a legal aid group (which goes a lot further than using a summer associate to do the work pro bono; $ 112,000 could hire one, maybe two full - time legal aid staff attorneys).