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The typical practice in securities class actions, according to lawyers on both sides I have spoken with, is to hire contract attorneys to perform the grunt work of sifting through millions of pages of documents obtained in discovery.
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Officials said the company decided to demobilize approximately 25% of the contract workers, or around 500 miners, to hire and train direct mine workers to enhance safety and efficiency.
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On the plaintiff side, class-action lawyers have an incentive to hire inexpensive contract attorneys, work them for thousands of hours, and present those hours to the court at a much higher price as justification for their fees, which a judge must approve.
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The company has already bowed out of Manhattan, where it had to contract with a doctor to hire the staff for outlets in Times Square and on the Upper East Side.
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Mr. Ceglia's suit claims a work-for-hire contract he signed with a 19-year-old Mr. Zuckerberg gives him control of Facebook.
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While 39% plan to hire full time workers in the next year, 21% expect to increase the percentage of contract or temp workers that they employ.
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