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May 2009
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Greetings!
Welcome to the May edition of the Custom Legal Solutions newsletter.
In this edition of our newsletter, the Custom Legal team extends our sincerest gratitude to our mothers and to mothers everywhere. Raising a family is certainly no easy task, and as a certified Women's Business Enterprise, Custom Legal is proof that it is possible to have a successful career and raise a family. In this edition of our newsletter, we honor those women who have made their dreams of having it all a reality.
Additionally, our good friend, Tally Weiner has tapped into her research and drafting skills this year to co-author an article in the area of Bankruptcy Law. We thought that this article would be of interest to our clients, and so Tally was gracious enough to provide us with a summary and citation to her article which we share below.
Happy Mother's Day!
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read our May newsletter. |
Custom Legal Salutes Motherhood
Every year, more and more women enter the legal profession. Is is no secret that the profession is extremely demanding and most attorneys rarely have a 9-5 schedule. Mothers are usually the first to wake up in the morning, and the last to go to sleep at night. Even after a full day at the office, many women have little league games, band concerts and homework assignments to tackle.
Is it possible for women to have a full career on partnership track, or does the desire to have a family compromise their professional goals? Luckily there is no single definition of success. Some women choose to stay on Partnership track, and others may decide that it is not the best course of action for them and choose alternative legal careers. In honor of Mother's Day, this month Custom Legal salutes all mothers and their personal choices for striking a work-life balance.
We would like to share an article with you that explores creative opportunities that some firms are offering women so that they can find the balance between work and family. Please click here for the full article. |
Bankruptcy Buzz
Tally Weiner, a talented attorney, has co-authored an article that explores the statutory fee awarded to Chapter 7 trustees. According to Ms. Weiner and her co-author, the volume of Chapter 7 filings is up in the down economy. As a result, Chapter 7 trustees have been called upon to service an increased caseload and are rising to the occasion. The trustees' services are very much needed and yet a meager $60 statutory fee will be awarded to them for time and effort spent on the vast majority of cases in which there are no assets to be administered.
The article, entitled "On the Nature of the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee Fee"* argues that commission-based awards in asset cases are a step towards remedying chronic trustee under-compensation and appropriately focuses on benefits obtained for creditors. Stay tuned as the issue works its way up through the appellate courts, perhaps all the way to the Supreme Court.
*Tally M. Wiener & Nicholas B. Malito, On the Nature of the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee Fee, Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2009) published by Thomson Reuters. This summary of the article appears with the permission of the copyright holder, West Services, Inc.
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About Custom Legal Solutions
Custom Legal Solutions is WBENC certified and provides its clients with innovative solutions to their legal staffing requirements. We use our 24 years of experience to solve your employment needs, allowing you to concentrate on your business. Custom Legal Solutions is comprised of attorneys and recruitment professionals that have years of experience in the legal community who put their experience to work for you.
Custom Legal Solutions staffs:
· Temporary and permanent Attorneys
· Document Review contract Attorneys
· Supervising Attorneys for litigation projects
· Temporary and Permanent Paralegals
· Compliance Professionals
· Litigation Support Professionals
Custom Legal Solutions attracts the best attorneys, paralegals, and administrative support candidates in the marketplace by providing our candidates with top assignments and the personal attention of our professional internal staff. Our candidates have learned that they can depend on Custom Legal Solutions to find them the right assignment and environment for their specific needs.
Custom Legal Solutions is an affiliate of Custom Staffing which was founded by Pat Rohe and Diane McGaw in 1985. After successfully supporting the largest law firms in New York City for over 23 years with support personnel, largely due to client demands and needs, Custom expanded by launching Custom Legal Solutions, a company geared solely to the unique legal arena. Pat Rohe is currently a board member of the American Staffing Association.
The firm is a member of NMWBE and is a Certified Minority and Woman Owned Business.
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