LIT COMMENTARY
What are the criteria for PPP loan forgiveness?
Funds are allowed to be used for payroll costs, rent, utilities and interest on mortgages. At least 60% of loan must be used for payroll costs. While the loan is being used, employers must attempt in good faith to maintain similar levels of employment and pay that they had prior to the pandemic.
Does that include PPP loans when it is later announced you can Afford to Pay Your Legal Staff $20k bonus before they even commence employment?
Of course, we’re lawyers, we make the laws advantageous to us.
Payment Protection Plan (PPP) is administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA), correct?
Yes, but BigLaw is just a fancy name, we’re really just a boutique law firm. However, we need to give these bonuses as well as the salaries so we use the monies before the fiscal year end to get forgiveness.
“We Run the Country. Lawyers Do Not Go To Jail. We are Members of the Privileged Class.”
The former @ABAPresident was caught in this sting too.
It’s frightening what #WeThePeople do not know about lawyers.
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Biglaw Firm Offers $20,000 Bonus For New Associates Who Don’t Even Work There Yet
Boies Schiller is sharing the love with associates before they even start working.
Just today, Boies Schiller & Flexner announced bank breaking bonuses that pretty much everyone at the firm is excited about. But they aren’t done spreading the good news.
Now, we all know COVID-19 is screwing up pretty much everything, but the law school class of 2020 has taken an especially big hit. The bar exam — ugh, don’t get me started on how screwed up that’s been, there’ve been technical screw-ups, relying on discriminatory tools, and plainly cruel test-taking procedures.
And start dates for folks starting at Biglaw — they’ve been all over the place. Some have been pushed back to as late as summer of next year. Between all of this nonsense, you have to imagine it’s been a frustrating time to start your legal career.
But Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has revealed a new program designed to make it a little easier for those that are on the precipice of starting their legal career.
Though they’ve yet to start work at the firm (they’re scheduled to start next month), they’re still sharing in the firm’s successes — to the tune of $20,000.
That’s right: incoming associates will receive sizable welcoming bonuses at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. Hell, it’s more than some firms are even giving first years that have been working for a whole year. Impressive.
Here’s the email that incoming associates received today:
Welcome to Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. We are very excited that you are joining the Firm next month. In the meantime, please continue to stay safe. Those of you who received an advance will have the advance forgiven and will receive the difference between your advance and $20,000 as a welcoming bonus; those of you who did not receive an advance will receive a $20,000 welcoming bonus.
Congratulations to those getting a nice payday from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP before they’ve even billed an hour. And kudos to the firm for sharing the wealth.
Boies Schiller Promises More Bonuses
On top of previously announced special bonuses, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP will award associates who bill exceeding hours with an additional “extra-extraordinary” bonus at the end of the year, the firm announces. https://t.co/HioDdH2VCT #greed pic.twitter.com/C3mW8CKy6w— LawsInTexas (@lawsintexasusa) June 3, 2021
This Homeowner has Two Residential Properties, One in Foreclosure and One For Sale
The initial burning question for LIT revolves around whether the court has been made aware of this in the IFP application.
BDF Hopkins Still Operating as a Woman Owned Business in Harris County Foreclosure Cases
QUINN, JACQUELINE (A/K/A GOOSBY) (WIFE OF ERIC E GOOSBY SR) vs. WILSON, COREY S (INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR ESTATE OF ERIC E GOOSBY
Discovery at a Crossroads Over Jurisdiction in Arkansas
In the latest federal filing, the PPP Lenders from Texas Are Being Obtuse with Opposing Counsel and Plaintiffs seek to clarify their claims.
Is it Shelley Douglass, Is it Shelley Hopkins or Is it BDF The Undertaker?
A Confused Legal Entity in Austin, Hopkins Law aka BDFTE aka BDF Law group is claimed as Woman Owned but Contradicted per TX SOS.
Has Anyone Seen Austin Lawyer Mark Hopkins Working at His Woman Owned Aged Debt Collection Business Recently?
It would appear that Shelley Hopkins is forging ahead with an old flame, Robert D. Forster II at BDF after ditchin’ the Crystal.
President Biden to Name a Special Chief Prosecutor for PPP Loan Fraud and Identity Theft Task Force
LIT suggests the largest crime syndicate is PPP lenders and Wall Street Bankers themselves, but they will not be prosecuted for their crimes.
Hopefully one of the next new batch of federal judicial nominees in the new presidency, this lawyer, Jared Westbroek, gets LIT’s vote. https://t.co/Rt7bSXXRHi @FedSoc @JCNSeverino @judicialnetwork @glennbeck @SCOTUSblog @GACourts @JudgeDillard @TheJusticeDept @senatemajldr https://t.co/KTs0QKyaK2 pic.twitter.com/HvbpnEhMjN
— LawsInTexas (@lawsintexasusa) December 4, 2020
“Misrepresentations, Deceitful and Dishonest.” Add https://t.co/T7RLHkNQUz to that “Disbarment Would Be Appropriate” category. https://t.co/6jPqA1PTdp
We’re talkin’ Catalina Azuero before @TheFlaBar right now. https://t.co/HgLtKwkQVZ @StThomasLaw @MilbergLaw @MiamiHerald https://t.co/iMmizdTj3H pic.twitter.com/y2WoS70fjK
— LawsInTexas (@lawsintexasusa) December 4, 2020
