If your employees regularly receive tips, you may have considered or even implemented a tip pooling arrangement to collect and disperse tips among tipped employees. As Keith Goodwin and Greg Labate of Sheppard Mullin outline, employers should be aware of how new tip pooling guidelines may affect your business:
By Charles Berwanger
Imagine a client who during the course of your representation of her disputes your billings and your handling of her funds. Such a client may file a State Bar complaint potentially triggering a State Bar investigation or worse. The Ethics in Brief article appearing April 9, 2018 discussed best billing practices. This article will focus on ensuring compliance with State Bar rules relating to billings and financial records, on avoiding financial disputes over billings and on measures to minimize your risk of destroying a client relationship. The referenced rules are found in the State Bar Act and the California Rules of Professional Conduct (CRPC).
By George Miller
An Industry is Born
Most would not associate Philadelphia with the birth of the modern American securities industry. Traders auctioning stocks on the street corners of downtown Manhattan instead come to mind. But in 1790, the City of Brotherly Love spawned the nation’s first market maker.