He officially signed a professional contract with the club on his 17th birthday, in August 2008.
Since signing his first professional contract at Carrow Road in 2006 Spillane has made just 18 first-team appearances.
These are amateur athletes who are playing sport at its purest level and not locked into a multimillion-dollar professional contract.
The Canaries manager is set to add another youngster to his squad after offering 18-year-old forward Luke Daley his first professional contract.
He then signed a professional contract with St Johnstone in September but became a free agent after leaving McDiarmid Park earlier this month.
Harris earned a Bunbury scholarship to the National Academy in 2005 and signed a professional contract for Glamorgan just nine days after his 16th birthday.
He was invited to train with several clubs before he signed for Bury, then in England's third tier, becoming the first Indian player to sign a professional contract in Europe.
It was a fine reward for the youngster, impressive on his first FA Cup outing, who only turned 17 on Boxing Day and has just signed his first professional contract.
At the age of 18, Erasmus signed a professional contract with Dutch club Feyenoord, though he is back now in South Africa with Supersport United, where he is the team's captain.
By playing in his sixth NHL game, the 18-year-old's entry-level professional contract officially began and he is no longer eligible to return to the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec junior league.
The Swansea-born defender signed for Cardiff's academy aged eight and after signing a professional contract in January 2009, Matthews made his full debut coming on as a late substitute at Blackpool in August 2009 in a 1-1 draw.
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With the likes of Messi on a fast track to the first team and fellow midfielders Xavi and Andres Iniesta starting to establish themselves, Fabregas sensed his opportunities would be limited at Barca and decided to take up the offer of a professional contract at Arsenal.
Their options range from using online app-building tools, to taking crash courses in computer programming and coding languages, hiring a costly professional on contract, or recruiting a full-time developer.
Last week the FDIC filed suit against Colonial Bank auditor PwC, and internal audit co-source vendor Crowe Horwath, for professional malpractice and breach of contract.
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James' call-up caps a remarkable first year as a full-time professional, winning a regional contract after bursting onto the scene playing for the Cardiff club side with 11 tries in nine matches.
After getting laid off from a security software firm in Atlanta, Mr. Deitch immediately received offers for contract work through his professional network.
When he was 17 he moved back to England in a bid to make it as a professional and managed to secure a contract with London Irish two years' later.
Not a month seems to pass in which there's not some new TV contract announced for a professional or college sports league, and the figures are astonishing billions of dollars, piled high over years, sometimes decades.
This may be a subject for contract terms and conditions with professional services firms who perform these services.
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That has been a major sticking point in agreeing the new contract between the Union and its professional regions, represented by Regional Rugby Wales.
"Aaron's a good professional and he knows that whilst he's under contract he has to continue give his best for the club, " he said.
According to the fee request Kirby McInerney filed with the court, the law firm and others including Motley Rice and Glancy Binkow, along with outside contract attorneys, racked up 87, 000 hours of professional time after filing the lawsuit in 2008 accusing Citi of misleading investors about the risk of its derivatives business.
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"Michael's a consummate professional and is not going to talk to any club until his current contract with Newcastle expires on 30 June and therefore there's no active conversation, " added Duffen.
GPs view the new-style contract that the government wants them to sign as a slur on their professional integrity.
Many IT professional see outsourcing as giving up control, when in fact, a well-structured outsourcing contract actually gives the district far more control of the quality of services and the associated costs.
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