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December 29th, 2009 - 06:20
if you met all the people you can, then maybe you would find a scenario for being a software writer that is better than where you are currently at. or an exciting new venture. or new knowledge or information. who knows…? give it a shot.
December 29th, 2009 - 07:03
Without a good marketing strategy you are dead.
December 29th, 2009 - 06:49
all income must be reported
December 29th, 2009 - 06:57
With multiple choice, the best thing he can do is practice. There are a lot of sources for practice questions (i.e. Q&A books, MBE study guides), all of which should be available in his school's library. He might want to talk to his professors to see which ones they would recommend.
He needs to be able to eliminate the wrong answers first. The best way to do this is to read the call of the question (i.e. the question posed at the end of the scenario), then read the answer choices. At that point, one (maybe two) will pop out as just plain wrong (e.g. the answer mistates the law). Then, read the problem. Having an idea of what to look for in the problem reduces the need to go back through it again. That's the biggest piece of advice.
However, in order to do this well, he needs to practice. By that I don't just mean "do a lot of problems". He needs to do them under timed conditions (something approximating the time he will have on the exam).
December 29th, 2009 - 21:26
Stay ahead of the reading. Try to guess the questions your professors will ask, and keep at it. Ask the questions you think everyone knows. (They don't)
Have fun. It is a game, the more you enjoy it, the more work you'll put into it.
Finally, after the first semester, try studying with the people who didn't do well. By teaching them, you'll learn it more, and they'll take away some of the A's from your main competition in the first semester.
December 30th, 2009 - 02:40
Interesting in a sense but i wonder if Thomas has any proof of any of his assertions. do business with 1 in a 100. Do good business with 1 in a 1,000 etc. Of course Thomas runs a subscription based social network, so large numbers of contact regardless of quantity will earn him money & as his job is to get subscribers meeting people is his job. My job is writing software so why would i spend all my time meeting people. And where would i find the time? CAn we have a 5 minute video with hard facts
December 30th, 2009 - 03:06
Seriously consider dropping out. Law is mindless paper pushing and unless your going to a big-time program you will be hustling after graduation for a job paying 40-55k. This could be the biggest mistake of your life.
However, if you have researched the decision and decided you want to push paper/are attending a top 14 school then it really is fairly simple.
Study- get outlines from 2Ls, commercial outlines, answers and explanations. But, the most important thing in my opinion is practice exams. The fact is just about everyone studies enough to know the law well. If you take practice exams, and can learn write answers that are close to final draft copy under a time pressure situation you will have a chance at being in the top 10%- which is critical if you want to get on law review / have any career prospects if your not going to a top school. Good luck.
December 30th, 2009 - 16:17
just adding to the above. The Ecademy does not publish any statistics that make sense on it’s numbers of members or it’s earnings, all money appears to go in expenses and sucked out to a holding company and they certainly never publish any case studies showing how successful it’s membership is at using the network It is all unsupported assertions and sales talk pitched at a vague level. As Thomas one said, “Blackstar is the mystery i always intended it to be”. So lets have some proof please.
December 30th, 2009 - 16:53
Get ready for a long answer because that is a loaded question.
You are correct to be cautious of "Low ranked" schools and the employment prospects coming out of those schools. But "low ranked" is a relative term and even though you might already know this I'll go over the info for anyone else reading this answer. I'll base everything on a scale 1-10. 1 being a virtual guaranteed job to 10 being unemployment and the poorhouse.
Lets say you get into a tier 4 or tier 3 schools. Those schools have an employment rate of 30%-50% nine months after graduation. The median salary for these jobs is 35K-65K and they are mostly public interest jobs. So if you went to one of these schools you are looking at an 8 or 9 on a scale of 10.
If you go to a tier one or tier two school then you are looking better. They have employment rates of 65% to 90% with some even higher. The median salary is normally in the 70K-85K range upon graduation with most of the higher ranked schools (ranked 15th – 35th) having 100K-135K range jobs. Difficulty level is a 3 to a 7 with some variation that I will discuss later.
The Top 14 are noted as being the elite schools in the country and 92% -100% of students upon graduation are employed. The average median salary for jobs from the t14 schools is 135K – 160K. Difficulty of finding a job…. 1-2 Graduate and it is almost guaranteed… in fact you usually have a job lined by the second semester in your second year.
Now there is one thing that can make a HUGE difference when trying to find a job out of a tier one or two school. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
If you go to a tier 2 school like Rutgers – Camden then upon graduation you will be competing with graduates from NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cornell, Fordham, UConn, Yeshiva, Brooklyn, Seton Hall, and Rutgers Newark… not to mention other top 25 law schools that have strong ties to NYC like UVA, Duke, Chicago, Stanford, Emory, and Notre Dame which are all ranked above Rutgers Law – Camden. Difficulty level of landing any job is a 6-7. Difficulty of landing a top-paying job (160K) is a 8-9.
Now what about a tier 2 school like U of Miami…. other than the national t 14 schools you will have a great handle on the market with you main competition coming from U of Florida, maybe Florida State and Emory University. Even though Miami is ranked below Camden you can see why finding a high paying job in Miami with a law degree from "The U" would be easier than a the Rutgers situation. Ease of finding a job, 3-4 Ease of finding a high paying job 5-6.
Tips for admissions.
1. Schools primarily care about three things LSAT, GPA, and Ethnicity.
Now I'm not going to do into the affirmative action debate but I will say that it does matter and I don't think anyone can dispute that.
Schools look for specific ranges of GPA's and LSAT's. It doesn't matter if curing cancer is one of your extracurriculars you won't get a second look if you don't meet one or ideally both of the above. The wild card is the ethnicity. If you are an under represented minority the requirements for the GPA and LSAT range is stretched. So study hard…. real hard for that LSAT. I studied for 2 months I don't think that I was adequately prepared to reach my full potential. One other note, any practice test you take should be strictly timed. That is what makes the LSAT so hard is that it is difficult to finish with the allotted time, so practice under the gun.
2. Beef up you extracurricular activities.
If all you have done in college is school and party then you are going to be at a loss when it come admissions time. Find local charities and non-profits that you can help out. Be a part of multiple organizations, not just one or two. Try to attain a leadership role in at least one charity. This shows responsibility and that you are adamantly for the cause. You have to differentiate yourself from all the other people who have virtually the same LSAT and GPA that you do.
3. Do not get your local senator, congressman, mayor, ect … to write your letters of recommendation. Get someone you know well, very well. Sit down with that person tell them why you want to go to law school and what brought you to this decision. Ask them if they will write a positive letter on your behalf. Get a person who can write well.
4. Apply to a lot of schools. I applied to 4 reaches, 7 primary schools, and 4 safety schools. I was accepted at 2 reach, 5 primary, and 2 safety schools.
You never know what an admissions board will be planning for the upcoming class. I had a 166 LSAT and 4.0 GPA. Vanderbilt and UCLA median LSAT the previous year was 166 so I thought, that's perfect for me. Well both schools decided to try to up their median this year and only accepted 2 or 3 166 lsat's initially and only wanted 167's. (UCLA didn't accept any 166ers initially) They waitlisted all the 166's to see how their strategy would play out. I was waitlisted at both and withdrew from both. (I got into a better school)
Well, sorry it was so long. If you have any other specific questions then just ask in a follow up and I will check back and answer then to the best of my abilities.
December 30th, 2009 - 17:57
I know it seems strange, but you have to study very differently in law school than undergrad. The most counterintuitive thing you have to get used to is that 1) the professors tell you not to study in ways that are helpful 2) almost everybody studies in a way that is not helpful so when you are doing things right it'll feel like you're alone.
And that's completely understandable. No one likes to swim against the tide. Here's a few things I would recommend:
1. During class and throughout the semester you are going to be reading cases. So you can read the cases, brief them, go to class and look smart. But you know what? No one is going to ask you a single thing about those cases on the exam. Instead, you have to work problems. And those problems usually are not even in the book. If you have not worked problems before the exam, you're screwed. But it sounds like you are/have . . .
2. Get the "Examples and Explanations" series books (esp. Glannon Civ Pro) and "Crunchtime" books for every class: prop, contracts, con law, torts, crim law, civ pro. Get the law in flash cards. Know the latter two verbatim and use them to work the problems in the E&E book without looking. Get all this stuff on half.com, it's cheap there.
3. Don't worry about looking like an idiot in class. They will try to give you the idea that you might get a bump in your grade for participation. They won't. Sometimes, esp. near the end of the semester don't bother reading the cases, just work problems. It's your time – do you want to spend it making other think you are smart?
If you follow the sheep you'll get slaughtered. I did it the first semester and got owned.
4. The only thing they will tell you to do that actually is potentially worthwhile is making an outline of everything that was covered. This is crucial for an open-book exam.
5. Get all the professors old exams and work them. Don't look at the answers. Do them blind and time yourself.
If you think I'm advocating a risky set of study habits ask some upperclassmen how often they brief. There was maybe one person in my entire class who did it after 1L. In bar review you will be tested on all this stuff over. You won't read cases – you'll work problems and memorize rules out of a bunch of condensed books.
It's good you think you made a good decision to go to law school. You might change your mind . . .
Do all this stuff and you'll get on Law Review. I did it, and I was kinda crappy as an undergrad and middle of the road in terms of speed on exams.
L. Rev. = More misery – yet it helps you get a job. That's your reward for your grades.
Important: Listen and work hard in your legal writing class – if you are good it help with L. Rev. and you'll get a good reference from your summer job.
sorry for the typos i am too lazy to correct them.
Good luck! It all sucks IMHO! But you can do it.
December 30th, 2009 - 18:34
PatrickMCC55 did not read the entire article.
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW in your case.
Just report it anonymously….or print the article and leave it on his desk somewhere.
They cannot fire you if you report them.
You'll have a HUGE lawsuit if they do.
December 30th, 2009 - 20:34
The Business owner needs to report the information to the IRS as follows: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/article/0,,id=98401,00.html
Employer Requirements: Allocation of Tips
As an employer, you must ensure that the total tip income reported to you during any pay period is, at a minimum, equal to 8% of your total receipts for that period.
In calculating 8% of total receipts, you do not include nonallocable receipts. Nonallocable receipts are defined as receipts for carry out sales and receipts with a service charge added of 10% or more.
When the total reported to you is less than 8%, you must allocate the difference between the actual tip income reported and 8% of gross receipts. There are three methods for allocating tip income:
Gross Receipt Method
Hours Worked Method
Good Faith Agreement
Employers can request a lower rate (but not lower than 2%) for tip allocation purposes by submitting an application to the IRS. Detailed instructions for computing allocation of tips, reporting allocated tips to employees, and for requesting a lower rate can be found in the Instructions for Form 8027. (PDF)
Note: The amount shown as allocated tip income is for information purposes only. You are not required to withhold Income or Social Security taxes on the allocated tip income. The amount of tip income allocated to each employee is shown in box 8 of their Form W-2.
Tip Reporting Requirements for Employers
Employers who operate large food or beverage establishments must file Form 8027 (PDF) to report employee tip income. A large food or beverage establishment is defined as business where all of the following apply:
Food or beverage is provided for consumption on the premises
Tipping is a customary practice
More than 10 employees, who work more than 80 hours, were normally employed on a typical business day during the preceding calendar year.
December 30th, 2009 - 21:01
It wouldn't be a Las Vegas or Nevada law .. there is not income tax in Nevada.
Perhaps a law by the Fed Govt.
The only reason that an employer would have any interest in this is that they have to prove that you made at least minimum wage. If your aunt's hourly rate is above minimum wage, then I would question this practice.
December 31st, 2009 - 04:15
You have quite a job on your hands. I have found that when dealing with a major case the index of what documents you do have and where they are located is crucial. I do the index in a word processor that lets me set up a table which will automatically alphbetize the document or I assign a numerical code to the document and sort by that.
The other issue, of course, is how do you handle all the documents. Try to group them by type of document, by date, then by client if the case has multiple clients.
The worst case that I ever was thrown in the middle of had 7 clients. We received 9 3 inch binders of discovery provided which covered subjects for all 7 clients. We had 25 separate depositions that were in there own individual binders. Plus each of the clients had documents –signed retainers, notes on their portion of the case, copies of their terminations, each one's human resources file, and other pages of evidence that were particular to each client.
I set up an identifying number for each client — case# + client initials + sequence number — which ended up being a date. Anything that pertained to the individual client had that type of number on it. Those things that pertained to the case in whole, I indicated by an "XX" in the client initials column. For the discovery binders I did an index and inserted page separators for each individual binder — each document was given one of these numbers. The depositions were also numbered an kept in a cardboard box with an index sheet laid on top showing what was in the box. For the rest of the stuff I numbered and grouped by type of document. All retainers were together, all personnel files together, etc.. What I ended up with was individual indexes that I merged into a master index. Each attorney who worked on the case was given a copy of the master index each time it was updated.
Hope this helps.
January 1st, 2010 - 00:41
Ok after over a week of deliberating over SocialBlaster, I made my decision. This has been the next best decision I have made in a long time.
Simple, and very effective…update to 40 + social networks with multiple accounts
NO MORE iMACROS bullchyt for me…THANK GOD!!
December 31st, 2009 - 20:11
The general rule is 3% of the total tips go to the busing staff.
January 1st, 2010 - 02:00
The employer is taking the *beep* here in England employers and employees share the tips.
January 1st, 2010 - 03:44
That would be an excellent idea. These unscrupulous bas****s, have no problem using whatever means available to harrass and annoy and scare people into giving them money .
A bit of payback would be very sweet. If you know how to legally catch them breaking the law ,you should tell the world!!
January 1st, 2010 - 16:06
January 1st, 2010 - 17:43
Doesn't sound right to me. It could be legal just because they pay you minimum wage. But a tip is money that you've earned. It shouldn't be forfeited because you've decided to move on before Christmas and money you've earned shouldn't be given away to someone who wins a monthly award. You're going to have to check with your state's division and labor and ask them. See if you can email these guys:
http://www.michigan.gov/cis