Sentences with phrase «than lawyers of»

And that lead only widens with age — by 35, white male lawyers made, on average, $ 50,000 more per year than lawyers of colour.

I doubt whether lawyers fifty years ago were more polite to each other than lawyers of today.

I'd also argue that with the advent of the Internet and access to information, lawyers are able to ferret out leads on where the best jobs are and are more inclined to move than lawyers of 15 years ago.

First, a paralegal's time can be leveraged just as (or even more) profitably than another lawyer of any experience level.

Not exact matches

Ironically, the government doesn't trust that lawyers will report all of their income, so even if your lawyer is «incorporated,» you are still required to send them a Form 1099 if you paid them more than $ 600.

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

In a series of orders last week, Alsup disclosed that a former Uber security analyst's lawyer sent a letter to an Uber in - house lawyer more than six months ago.

Eighty percent of those polled say it's more important to have access to the cheaper legal advice that A.I. might offer than to preserve the jobs of lawyers.

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

For the «vast majority of candidates,» says Aiken, the intervention of a lawyer or bot is unlikely to do more than an accurate self - assessment using government - provided tools.

Meanwhile, Richard Herman, a Cleveland immigration lawyer and the author of Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy, claims nearly all of the net job creation in the past 20 years has come from companies less than five years old.

Feldstein says his lawyer had to lean on the insurance company before he could collect on the hotel job, and that it took him more than a year of negotiation to secure his money.

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

Consider whether the person's services are «an integral part of the organization's activities» and whether the relationship is «permanent or indefinite, rather than for a determinable time,» suggests employment lawyer John Thompson on the Wage and Hour Laws.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

Founded in 2003 by CEO Kirt Montague, a lawyer, and Cary Wasden, a banker, Prometheus is trying to do more than simply create a new source of energy.

Rich Palma, president of Golden Pear Funding, said plaintiffs who take out advances receive better protection than borrowers may in other lending situations, because their own lawyers typically review, and often sign, advance agreements.

We've long seen businesses pay outside lawyers or accountants rather than bring them on staff, but now outsourcing has become more popular for a growing variety of services.

The SOPA bill (and DNS blocking) is what happens when someone with the title of anti-piracy or copyright lawyer has greater clout than your head of new technology.

He has interviewed more than four dozen White House and campaign aides and requested more than 1.4 million pages of documents, according to Trump's lawyers.

His lawyer, a former FTC attorney himself, argues in court documents the company had more than six million customers, meaning the 4,000 complaints collected by the FTC comprise only 0.067 % of the total customers.

The lawyer also claimed in the letter that the timing of the Times article, coming less than a month before Election Day, is evidence that the report «is nothing more than a politically - motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy.»

In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.

CHICAGO, April 11 - Retailer Toys» R» Us has received multiple bids of more than $ 1 billion for an 85 percent stake in its Asian business, its lawyer Joshua Sussberg said at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on Wednesday.

Lawyers and law firms have so far donated a total of $ 24.3 million to all presidential candidates in the 2011 - 2012 election cycle, and more than half of that — $ 15.4 million — has gone to President Obama.

«The goal of the administration seems to be to grind the process to a halt or slow it down so much that they achieve a reduction in legal immigration through implementation rather than legislation,» Ben Johnson, the executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which typically takes a pro-immigration stance, told the Journal.

The lenders want the stake to be sold for top dollar but fear it will be sold for less than that to McClendon's wife, Kathleen, because she is family, said a lawyer representing a syndicate of banks led by Wilmington Trust that loaned $ 465 million to a company McClendon founded in 2013, American Energy Partners LP (AEP).

This kind of behaviour is more than a simple wrong being committed against a single entrepreneur, a mere victimization of David by Goliath's over-zealous lawyers.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

It also faces more than 4,300 claims for compensation from people who said they suffered injuries related to the faulty switches or from relatives of those killed in related accidents, the lawyer overseeing the program has said.

The firm they're suing: Morrison & Foerster, which was ranked # 31 in the annual list of the world's most successful law firms by American Lawyer, with nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue and more than 1,000 lawyers around the world.

A bouquet of roses on Valentine's Day or a candlelight dinner with chocolate - covered strawberries would probably be less expensive — and a lot more fun — than giving away the store to lawyers and forensic accountants.

«Find a lawyer who is experienced,» urges Peters, stressing that the complicated nature of the transactions results in heftier legal fees than for a straight asset or stock purchase.

In a quicksilver marketplace like this one, entrepreneurs more often than not need the assistance of a well - plugged - in investment banker, a corporate finance lawyer, or an accounting firm to help them track down one of the new breed of specialty investors who are definitely not listed in the yellow pages.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

For more than seven months, Sumner Redstone, now 93 and barely able to speak, has asserted (through lawyers and PR teams) that he remains mentally competent — sharp enough to change his health care agent, to erase a $ 70 million bequest to an ex-girlfriend from his will, and, most important, to remain in control of Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS), the jewels in his $ 42 - billion media empire.

The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

No one other than Trump, and possibly (though not necessarily) his lawyers know what he is seeking to conceal from Mueller, but there's something from which he feels he must protect himself, and he is willing to take large legal risks, and to undermine rule of law, to do so.

Antitrust approval has become an interesting question in the Trump administration, which bankers and lawyers had thought would be more tolerant of consolidation than its predecessor.

Today, many of those who graduate with more than $ 50,000 in debt aren't the students who are pursuing highly - lucrative careers, such as becoming a doctor or a lawyer, but undergraduate students and their parents.

An experienced biotechnology patent lawyer, Dr. Noonan brings more than 20 years of extensive work as a molecular biologist studying high - technology problems in serving the unique needs of his clients.

The transport authority's list of concerns with Uber has more than halved to 11 from 25 after it committed to governance changes and apologized for setting up hostile software, a lawyer for the ride - hailing app said at a hearing Monday.

Michael being the lawyer who less than a month ago was the subject of a massive FBI raid.

The S&P 500 has merely regained yesterday's late - day selloff; it traded to a high of 2653.75 before dropping more than 1 % in the last hour as news broke that the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.

And it has been reported that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the lawyer and trustee of Mt. Gox, has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash — worth more than $ 400 million — over the past few months, starting in September of last year.

Her other work experience prior to joining JAFCO Asia includes more than 3 years as a corporate lawyer with the Corporate Department of Allen & Gledhill.

He has been quoted frequently by Bloomberg, Law360, The New York Times, and Reuters and was honored in 2016 and 2017 by Super Lawyers ® as a «Top - Rated Securities Litigation Attorney,» a recognition bestowed on no more than 5 % of eligible attorneys in the New York Metro area, and as a 2018 Super Lawyer.

It's also part of Hermitage Capital, an investment fund that was being investigated by Magnitsky (the Russian lawyer who was killed in a Moscow prison in 2009) more than 10 years ago.