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Firms' bills in tobacco case included non-lawyers Paralegals, clerks, assistants put in 14.2% of billed hours, document shows
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Paralegals and other non-lawyers put in 3,540 of the 24,895 hours
three private law firms recorded in negotiating Wisconsin's tobacco
company settlement.
Records released Tuesday show that 14.2% of the hours the three
firms recorded were chalked up by either paralegals, law clerks or
legal assistants.
The remainder of the hours were put in by attorneys, according to
itemized records the three firms provided to settle an open records
lawsuit the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and two ...
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Orkney men work longest hours
The Scotsman
; MEN in Orkney work the longest hours in Britain, seven hours a week more than their counterparts in Edinburgh and over eight hours more than Londoners. The figures are revealed in a new survey by the GMB union which found full-time workers in Orkney put in an average shift of 45.8 hours per week,
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American workers are laboring longer hours
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; Photocopier technician Timothy Hutson of West Mifflin recalls working extra hours for a previous employer, sometimes being on call 24 hours a day and once logging more than 80 hours in a week. "It was a grind. It causes you to lose out on too much" time with family, said Hutson, 47, who has a wife
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Workaholics beware: long hours may not pay.; the most productive workers often finish earliest.
U.S. News & World Report
; Workaholics beware: Long hours may not pay Extended work has never been Ronald Reagan's trademark. A master delegator, the nation's Chief Executive belies the notion that laboring long hours is essenstial to a successful career. In fact, all work and no play may not be a wise career strategy,
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U.S. expected to cut trucker hours Effects of plan on business, safety at issue
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Wisconsin trucking companies said new federal limits on the number of hours truckers may drive each day would unfairly hurt their business and might force some out of business. But proponents of the regulation -- the first changes in 60 years -- applauded the proposed changes. The Federal Highway
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The effects of hours of work on health: a meta-analytic review.
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
; Mann (1965) suggested over 30 years ago that `hours of work have long been recognized as having a marked effect on the way an individual and his family lives'. Research investigating the relationship between work hours and health, produced findings which raised concern about the impact of long work
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