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"retainer" Definitions
  1. a sum of money that is paid to somebody to make sure they will be available to do work when they are needed
  2. (British English) a small amount of rent that you pay for a room, etc. when you are not there in order to keep it available for your use
  3. (North American English) a device that keeps a person’s teeth straight after they have had orthodontic treatment with braces
  4. (old-fashioned) a servant, especially one who has been with a family for a long time

487 Sentences With "retainer"

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The payments, he said, could have been for services based on a retainer, although Mr. Cohen said there was no such retainer.
Most agencies are paid either on a retainer, or retainer plus a percentage of the ad spend they manage on behalf of the brand, or just based on a percentage of spend.
At that point, Cosby had the firm on a retainer.
He has had large law and lobbying firms on retainer.
I just clenched my jaw so hard my retainer snapped.
Rudy Giuliani says it came out the president's monthly retainer.
If not, time to get Dr. Krista on retainer, stat.
Mr. Trump already has a number of lawyers on retainer.
I'm on retainer with one client and get a monthly stipend.
In modern times, that's usually a wage, a retainer, or salary.
However, it is difficult to turn down such a large retainer.
Contracts with children, including retainer agreements with attorneys, generally are voidable.
The firm is the company's fourth K Street firm on retainer.
Most 16-year-olds don't have a lawyer on retainer — they're teenagers.
He charged $2,000 for a retainer, which McCall said she didn't have.
I could feel his retainer, the clack of it in the dark.
I wouldn't be sleeping in a retainer every night if I had.
He's also said to keep her on retainer 24 hours a day. 
Firms on retainer declined to comment on the record to The Hill.
Khuri is one of eight clients who pay Weitz a yearly retainer.
He reiterates that the retainer had nothing to do with his campaign.
Qatar has more than 20 lobbying and public affairs firms on retainer.
" She took out Sadr's retainer: "I just need you to sign this.
If your reservoir properly locks in place by the retainer ring, the company said you may continue using your pump, but remember to always follow the device instructions and routinely examine your pump retainer ring, according to the letter.
He did so through, they claim, monthly payments to keep Cohen on retainer.
They may charge a start-up fee, along with a monthly retainer fee.
He might want to put her on retainer if this case moves forward.
"He's like on retainer, I call it, I guess," Paddock said of Winkler.
He attached copies of the retainer agreement and his lawsuit against Mr. Schlesinger.
Teva has four other firms on retainer, including one run by former Rep.
It agreed to pay Alston & Bird LLP a $20,85033 monthly retainer in 2016.
That means you can get your aligners before getting your permanent retainer removed.
REPORTER: When did you find out what the retainer was being spent on?
One of the teens I have on retainer is 19-year-old Nabil.
But although Chapo signed a retainer agreement, Lichtman never formally joined his defense team.
"I'm on a retainer for him" Paul said in a text message to CNBC.
But is it bad for your teeth if you just stop wearing a retainer?
But those familiar with such arrangements say the retainer in this case is standard.
Saudi Arabia alone has 22 U.S. firms on retainer, while the UAE has 10.
They're in a pink retainer case that has my younger sister's name on it.
He might get a partition, rampart, restriction, retainer, rail, restraint, roadblock, screen, or trench.
He knew that Cohen was on a monthly retainer to handle matters like this.
This 'monthly retainer' theory makes no practical sense since lawyers don't operate that way.
Cornerstone Government Affairs is also on retainer, taking in $85033,000 from July through June.
The company spent $220006 million on lobbying in 2202, with 2628 firms on retainer.
The company spent $22019 million on lobbying in 2018, with 16 firms on retainer.
I couldn't help but think how great it'd look with my retainer, though. Anyways.
The company also has public relations and lobbying firm Glover Park Group on retainer.
Saudi Arabia, which has accused Qatar of funding terrorism, has 20 firms on retainer.
The idea of wealthy people paying doctors a retainer for exclusive service is not new.
If you don't wear your retainer, your teeth will shift and crowd, Dr. Hong says.
Michael B. Jordan hasn't forgotten about the fan who broke her retainer because of him.
"It was a retainer agreement that complied with the rules applying to lawyers," Pardo said.
Ohlin said neither payment nor a formal retainer are necessary to a claim of privilege.
The source said all the paperwork and retainer may not have been finalized just yet.
BGR Group is the Ukrainian government's only K Street firm that it has on retainer.
LifeLock has the K Street firms Ogilvy Government Relations and Polaris Government Relations on retainer.
Then there were various governments, each offering him an average of $210,2000 a month on retainer.
They cannot easily retain an attorney, because contracts with children, including retainer agreements, usually are voidable.
Yet well-heeled clients — who pay $220,22011 an hour, plus a retainer — insist that it works.
Cohen has acknowledged the payment, and Trump has said he reimbursed Cohen through a monthly retainer.
Last year, the company only had two firms on retainer, APCO Worldwide and Strategic Public Affairs.
The lawyer quickly became suspicious of Mr. Farley's bookkeeping, especially when the club's retainer check bounced.
Last year, the company only had two firms on retainer, APCO Worldwide and Strategic Public Affairs.
Mr. Cohen sent the company phony monthly invoices for legal services under a nonexistent retainer agreement.
There's a financial upside as well, as she's found retainer agreements to be the most lucrative.
In addition to its in-house lobbyists, the group also has QGA Public Affairs on retainer.
Texts between the pair also allude to a retainer for Toensing and her husband Joe diGenova.
It's unclear if Weisselberg knew the purpose of the retainer was reimbursement for the Daniels payoff.
Her GoFundMe, created in mid-October to help cover the retainer, had raised $965 at publication time.
They promote smugglers, who pay them a retainer fee, and set up deals between refugees and smugglers.
But for many early stage companies, committing to an agency on retainer is too much too soon.
He consulted for sports teams on the side, sometimes on retainer, sometimes called in like a fixer.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has a coterie of advisers on retainer, would face less pressure on this front.
I've never thought about it before, but my bottom retainer might be the oldest thing I have.
The newspaper said it could not verify how much, if anything, Haney paid Cohen in retainer fees.
Erickson also sent checks labeled "Butina retainer" to an unidentified law firm in June and July 85033.
Kept doctor 'on retainer' Paddock's testimony offers little insight into what could have prompted last week's attack.
"We're seeing a growing percentage of firms charging hourly, retainer or value-based fees," said Pershing's Garcia.
Citgo has three lobbying firms on retainer, including Avenue Strategies, which has ties to the Trump administration.
After you complete the aligners portion of the treatment, Candid sends you a free retainer and case.
He had an aggressive P.R. firm on retainer, ready to counterattack the second Bharara made his announcement.
"They've got their veterinarians on retainer," Mike Callicrate, a cattle rancher in Kansas and Colorado, told me.
If there's any balance left on the retainer, then the lawyer should return that money to you.
The movie star responded to Robb's tweet with an offer to pay to have her retainer fixed.
Several later draft retainer agreements involved Ms. Toensing and Mr. diGenova but did not reference Mr. Giuliani.
Two weeks after the meeting, Mr. Harris pulled out his personal checkbook and paid a $450 retainer.
A spokesman for Zuberi, Steve Rabinowitz, said his client wrote the check to Cohen as a retainer.
But Cohen conceded that there was no retainer agreement for his legal services, and the retainer payments were, in part, reimbursements for payments to Stephanie Clifford, known also as Stormy Daniels, who was compensated as part of a hush agreement over an alleged affair between Daniels and Trump.
Michael B. Jordan's latest film, Black Panther, has broken a slew of box office records — and one retainer.
Per a 2015 interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the firm charges $850 an hour, and has a $25,000 retainer.
Apple alone is paying a $9,000 a month retainer for a lobbying firm named Roffe Group, Motherboard said.
Hannity has denied ever having Cohen on retainer, saying that he consulted him about questions on real estate.
A Tesla spokeswoman said Denholm would receive an annual cash retainer of $300,000 and 8,000 stock options annually.
Cohen paid her the hush money through Essential Consultants, and was reimbursed by Trump through a monthly retainer.
He took Valium at times for anxiousness, and had the doctor who prescribed it to him on retainer.
Under a retainer agreement, Mr. Luczak was owed about $22012 million after Mr. Schlesinger took his legal fee.
Last year, he arranged for the Trump Organization to pay Cohen a $35,000 monthly retainer, the newspaper noted.
The oil-rich country also has Podesta Group on retainer under a contract worth $45,000 per month.  MARIJUANA.
What happened: On the final lap of Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt crashed head-on into the retainer wall.
It's enough to make you wonder if the woman has David Milch on monthly retainer, generating her dialogue.
The company's list of nearly 100 registered lobbyists already on retainer in 2016 includes former members of Congress.
Canadian Natural Resources also said its board has also agreed to reduce its annual cash retainer by 10%.
It also had material costs, as he kept a lawyer on retainer to protect him from unjust retaliation.
The reservoir can become loose due to a broken or missing retainer ring that prevents a proper lock.
The payments were for fake legal invoices in connection with a nonexistent retainer agreement, according to the report.
Sources told the Journal that real-estate developer Franklin Haney also agreed to pay Cohen a monthly retainer.
Baseball's commissioner, Rob Manfred, rallied to the Wilpons' side Thursday with the alacrity of an old family retainer.
We last see Elsie, at 82, with an old family retainer, taking long walks through the English countryside.
The company also has law and lobby firm Steptoe & Johnson, Emmer Consulting and Dunkel Government Relations on retainer.
But the cost of keeping a financial planner on retainer may not necessarily be worth it for you.
" But Dillon would not allow OGE staff to see the retainer agreement because, she said, "it was privileged.
He charges an upfront cost of $2,000, and a monthly retainer of $200 for the first year of service.
He didn't have enough to cover the $5,000 retainer of the cheapest attorney he could find to represent her.
"I had braces as a kid, however, my teeth moved after years of not wearing my retainer," she says.
The bottom retainer no longer fits, thanks to a wisdom tooth I foolishly chose to leave in my head.
The country also has law and lobby firm Greenberg Traurig on retainer, according to an agreement inked last July.
It sounded as if he had dentures or a retainer that he was struggling to keep in his mouth.
The Japanese American Erskine sports a bowl haircut—Asian viewers may feel personally attacked by this—and a retainer.
And now I have really nice teeth, except for that one right there because I didn't wear my retainer.
Possibly. Hannity said Cohen never represented him in any matter and he never paid him any retainer or fee.
JetBlue hired the law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in April and also has Federal Hill Group on retainer.
It spent $15.1 million on lobbying in 2018 with 31 in-house lobbyists and 21625 lobbying firms on retainer.
Weyerhaeuser also has Monument Policy Group on retainer and terminated its relationship with Van Scoyoc Associates earlier this year.
They fixed the small gaps in my teeth and my slight overbite, and I moved onto a retainer thereafter.
In addition to Bockorny Group, the company has The Kutler Group, Van Scoyoc Associates and Holland & Knight on retainer.
In a deposition, he said he was typically paid a retainer of $200 a month to sign collection letters.
Others, however, charge a retainer fee or they bill their clients by the hour or through a monthly subscription.
In addition to its in-house team, the organization also has law and lobby firm Holland & Knight on retainer.
When a guard realized that Amini was not Leyla's lawyer, she exploded in anger and confiscated the retainer form.
Work on retainer whenever possible Harley explained that one of the top ways he grew and maintained his own graphic design business was by always presenting an option for a retainer fee —  an advance payment from a client that a contractor can draw funds from — when starting work with a new client.
From this photo, we can see that Arie is a skinny tie enthusiast, and has an excellent tailor on retainer.
The Alzheimer's Association has three other lobbying firms on retainer: Tarplin, Downs & Young; S-3 Group; and Crane Strategies. PIPELINE.
So wear your retainer, fly your flag… All the coolest people in high school always end up… not so cool.
Trump's tweet also made the idea of having a lawyer on retainer to deal with a threat like Daniels' commonplace.
Trump then denied that any campaign money had been used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.
Trump previously said he had no knowledge of the payment, then tweeted Thursday Cohen was paid back through his retainer.
The lobbying firms on retainer, which hadn't yet been paid by the families, received contingency fees for the successful effort.
All told, the government of Saudi Arabia has more than 20 U.S. law, public relations and lobbying firms on retainer.
Based on Kraemer Manes' stellar reviews on Facebook and Google, Wolfe said, she signed a retainer agreement with the firm.
Trump a day later confirmed he had made a series of monthly retainer payments to Cohen that covered the reimbursement.
The point man during that time, Jim Cicconi, (Quinn's predecessor) is now retired and still on retainer for the company.
Take, for example, the young woman who got so worked up at Jordan's, uh, performance, she completely destroyed her retainer.
Trump addressed the payment in a series of tweets early Thursday, saying that Cohen was paid through a monthly retainer.
Cohen testified the payments were broken up precisely to provide Trump with deniability; the retainer story is the cover story.
Those countries — Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, Australia, United Arab Emirates, China, Canada and Mexico — already have other firms on retainer.
After one month, the startup has paid a $23,22 retainer and may very well not see a single piece of coverage.
By April, Aramco stopped paying some of the banks working on the deal their retainer fee, three banking sources told Reuters.
Andy Desai of SW & Associates Public Relations recommended keeping a public relations specialist on retainer — which costs about $5,000 per month.
Trump denied in the tweets that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.
The United Arab Emirates-based airline also has public affairs giant APCO Worldwide on retainer and its own in-house lobbyists.
In addition to its in-house team, Uber has Federal Hill Group, Franklin Square Group and The Doerrer Group on retainer.
No dollars need be exchanged, nor does a retainer or contract have to be signed for the communication to be protected.
Cohen has recognized the payment and Trump has since acknowledged that he reimbursed Cohen for the payment through a monthly retainer.
Again, it is not a retainer so there is no overage, They can come to me as much as they want.
Beyond well-formed social media campaigns, the contractors hired by Recorded Future had reporters on retainer to run stories they drafted.
We found out this week that WeWork is currently paying ad holding company Publicis around $22020,216.2 per month in retainer fees.
The role pays her a $2600,264 annual retainer and gives her a grant of restricted stock worth several hundred thousand dollars.
She leverages her acquisition of Gross (whose retainer helps with her capital contribution) as a client to become a name partner.
Amini had arrived with a retainer form from the law office of a friend, a human-rights attorney named Shadi Sadr.
Retainer agreements and confidential documents permit some lawyers to take 40 percent of each settlement, and in some cases 45 percent.
Even though Gore did not have a valid retainer agreement with Nagel Rice or the Potts Law Firm, the complaint said, those firms signed a mesh lawsuit on her behalf in New Jersey state court – just as Nagel and Potts allegedly did in 1,450 other suits, "all with similarly noncompliant or nonexisting retainer agreements," the complaint said.
The startup is about to be in Forbes, the agency saves their retainer and the contributor gets a piece of the pie.
The problem with Charlie's type is, once he's found her and locked her in like a retainer, her gums begin to disintegrate.
Might a cagey executive put a dormant publicist on low-cost retainer during Oscar season, protecting and perhaps influencing that member's vote?
"Washington largely worked on a retainer model instead of high-end billing, which worked when dealing with unexpected political crisis communications." p.
When we arrived, we were greeted by a black retainer who had known Bill from his childhood—he called him 'Master Billy.
I still sometimes wear my top retainer: I grind my teeth in my sleep, unconsciously undoing the work that made them straight.
That's why your orthodontist makes you wear a retainer full time for a year after you get your braces off, she says.
"I had a permanent retainer since I was 13 and it was just glued to the back of my teeth," she began.
The energy company now has three lobbying firms on retainer, with Alston & Bird and Blue Water Strategies also working on its behalf.
Hannity has denied that he ever had Cohen on retainer and instead claims he merely relied on Cohen for real estate questions.
But for some larger clients, I work on a subscription fee basis (not a retainer, rather a flat fee with no overage).
"That's a hell of a bribe, to spend million of dollars on lawyers when you have a senator on retainer," he said.
If you happen to drop the pump, check to make sure there is no damage to the device and its retainer ring.
Attorneys don't start working until they're paid a retainer and generally do a bulk of their work before the contract is signed.
Jessica found it darkly funny that it was a missing retainer, and not her brain injury, that ultimately led to Matthew's arrest.
The Times added that one potential deal went so far that Giuliani prepared and signed a retainer agreement on his company letterhead.
Cohen on Wednesday provided Congress checks that were given to him over a "retainer" period, one of which was signed by Trump.
When the tally is expanded to include firms the countries already had on retainer, the figure climbs to upwards of $13.7 million.
Meanwhile, 79 percent said they preferred a compensation model that charged a percentage of assets, a set retainer fee or an hourly fee.
"I just got done zip-lining and I lost my fucking retainer," the man said with one of his front teeth now missing.
As a kid, I sewed rag doll versions of myself and my friends, and fabricated elaborate beds for everything down to my retainer.
"If you could pull this off, would be a great way to get you a solid ongoing retainer," Reines wrote in an email.
Hollywood hair trends come and go, but many of them are a little ambitious for those of us without stylist pros on retainer.
Read More: How Meme Culture Is Getting Teens into Marxism One of the teens I have on retainer is 19-year-old Nabil.
For some people, it's a bragging right that their retainer from middle school still fits, but we can't all be such orthodontic overachievers.
Trump then acknowledged the payment, but said no campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and that he had been paid via retainer.
After Giuliani revealed the reimbursement, Trump confirmed that he paid Cohen back through a monthly retainer, but insisted that Daniels's allegations were false.
However, the president acknowledged last week that he had paid Cohen a monthly retainer that was used to cover the payment to Daniels.
Some respondents said that to avoid feast-or-famine syndrome, they sought retainer-based client relationships to ensure a steady stream of income.
Johnson explained that since she was 13 years old she'd "had a permanent retainer" that was "glued" to the back of her teeth.
In May, however, he and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani revealed Cohen had been repaid through what Giuliani described as a legal retainer arrangement.
Ohlin said, however, that it was not clear that Trump's retainer agreement with Cohen created a financial obligation that should have been disclosed.
The complaint alleges that Gore signed a retainer agreement in 2013 with an unspecified firm that was allegedly invalid under New Jersey law.
That could be costs associated with civil and criminal legal defenses, bail payments, legal retainer fees, and replacement of firearms, among other items.
I certainly fall into that camp — I&aposm earning a decent living, but I can&apost afford to keep a CFP on retainer.
She still had her own personal security detail, drivers, personal assistants and a personal publicist who was on retainer for $25,000 a month.
She also hired a lawyer on retainer who helped her understand and negotiate her contracts, an investment she encourages all influencers to make.
" Then Donald Trump says back to you, "Oh, what's interesting is that I have a team of lawyers on retainer all the time.
According to other advisers, wealthy collectors can be charged a retainer of between 5 to 10 percent of their total annual spending on art.
The Sunday Times had Trevor-Roper on retainer to write special reports on big news stories and Taylor's televised lectures attracted millions of viewers.
Each of these services takes a fixed cost — a bank of servers, a lease, a legal retainer — and transforms it into a variable cost.
After all, a paycheck is a paycheck and WWE has plenty of old stars on retainer for appearances and promotions via its Legends contracts.
Ms. Cappellazzo and Mr. Schwartzman will oversee specialists in those areas, private sales and the development of a retainer-based advisory business within Sotheby's.
Twin River has Cove Strategies on a $85033,000 retainer and also retains Black Diamond Strategies and Locke Lord Public Policy Group, both at $30,000.
Requiring clients to agree to a retainer fee allows you to receive a rate that's either fixed or variable, but is negotiated in advance.
So far, I have only been paid per article, but I know a few writers that are paid a monthly fee (retainer) to write.
On Thursday morning, Trump denied that any of his campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said the lawyer was paid via retainer.
Scott said the transaction was handled by Peter Bessell, from whom he reportedly received a "monthly retainer" for six months in the late 1960s.
A big lobbying or law firm, with teams of para­legals or assistants and high overhead, might charge twice that, with a three-month retainer.
Copies of Mr. Zarrab's retainer agreements with Mr. Giuliani's and Mr. Mukasey's law firms were also filed with the court but were not unsealed.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund has also had K&L Gates on retainer since 85033 and reports spending $120,000 per year on its lobbying efforts.
Hannity is downplaying the development, saying Cohen gave him advice but was never on retainer or acting in any official capacity on his behalf.
"When I heard of Cohen's retainer for $130,000, he was doing no work for the President," Giuliani told conservative pundit Sean Hannity in May.
More dangerously, the awkward theory of "reimbursement" via retainer fees over time does not solve the problem of an illegal campaign contribution in 0003.
Alkin is the only in-house lobbyist, but there are 85033 others on retainer, including the Duberstein Group, Ernst & Young, Ballard Partners and Hogan Lovells.
With concierge medicine, which was introduced in the 1990s, patients pay physicians a monthly or annual retainer and expect more personalized care and greater access.
I also floss, brush my teeth, and wear my bottom retainer to bed both to keep my teeth straight and act as a night guard.
Michael Bowen, Meli's lawyer, said anticipating the probe, Meli recently put down a large retainer with his law firm and gave his lawyers his passport.
Giuliani tried to clarify on Friday that his statements reflected his understanding of the repayment, which Trump said occurred via a legal retainer for Cohen.
Brian Ballard, a lead fundraiser in Florida for Trump during the 2016 presidential election, continues to be on retainer as one of Amazon's outside lobbyists.
Trump offered his explanation for the payment in a series of tweets early Thursday, saying that Cohen was reimbursed for the payment through a retainer.
The bankers were paid retainer fees but were expecting around $200 million would be shared among all the banks involved when the deal was done.
Whether such an effort would be mounted in Albany is unclear, though giants like Google and Facebook keep lobbyists on retainer in the state capital.
Weisselberg worked with another, unidentified, Trump Organization executive to make those payments, though it's unclear if Weisselberg knew the purpose of the retainer to Cohen.
The company also received an undisclosed amount from clubs as a retainer for consultancy and scouting services, a point of contention in the transfer market.
Mr. Facher (pronounced fasher) was on retainer to Beatrice, his biggest corporate client, which had recruited him because of his reputation as a ferocious litigator.
Once they get good enough, students can start competing in House of Glory shows, joining the cast of colorful characters the gym keeps on retainer.
The actor's performance seemingly captivated his biggest fan, Sophia Robb, so much that she clenched her teeth hard enough during the movie to break her retainer.
In exchange, 10x Ascend collects between 6% and 8% of first-year salaries (the percent is lower for high-level jobs), starting with a $3,500 retainer.
So this technology is just a little retainer-like thing that you clip onto your teeth, it proved to be really useful to troops on patrol.
The rest is just a series of pushes or pulls on particular parts: the charging handle, the buffer spring, the bolt carrier group, the retainer pin.
After Giuliani revealed for the first time on Wednesday that Trump had reimbursed Cohen the $130,000, Trump said on Twitter that Cohen was paid via retainer.
The president has since acknowledged that he paid Cohen a monthly retainer, which he said was used to cover the cost of the payment to Daniels.
Or you can select a bionic offering, which is a combination of both, or choose to work with a financial advisor on a retainer-fee basis.
Trump initially denied he knew of the payment, but acknowledged last month that he paid Cohen a monthly retainer that was then used to pay Daniels.
Turner also took Panamanian General Manuel Noriega off his $22000,212-retainer on the CIA payroll, although other forces in the Carter administration sought to protect him.
Where some financial advisers work for commission, fee-only advisers offer their advice and expertise for an hourly fee, retainer fee, or asset under management fee.
Fee-only financial planners typically charge clients in one of three ways: a flat retainer fee, an hourly fee, or an asset under management (AUM) fee.
In July 2012, Falcone and Dontzin signed a retainer agreement that included a $2.5 million success fee for settlements in each of the SEC's two cases.
Ms. Walsh-Shields's consulting firm receives a $2000,2155-a-month R.N.C. retainer and 22019 to 223 percent of money it raises for the party's 20123 convention.
Mr. Sanger, a Wells Fargo board member since 2003 and a former head of General Mills, will see his annual retainer bumped to $250,000 from $60,000.
Troubled coworking company WeWork is currently paying ad holding company Publicis approximately $500,000 per month in retainer fees, according to several people familiar with the business.
Mr. Trump said he paid a monthly retainer to Mr. Cohen and suggested that the payment to the actress could not be considered a campaign contribution.
You might wish that Hellman had written the faithful retainer parts with greater breadth, but Charles Turner and particularly Caroline Stefanie Clay play them with nuance.
Qatar has nearly a dozen Washington firms on retainer, including a firm run by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and public affairs firms Mercury and Levick.
Burke agreed to pay Ryan $5,000 right away and move to the monthly retainer as long as the reactivated accounts remained online for a few weeks.
Hong Kong (CNN)When feudal Japan's most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 15903, he believed the man was a god.
And for people who don't have powerful lawyers on retainer (like me), what happened to Kat is the kind of nightmare that keeps me up at night.
Mine is often stored in an old, toothpaste-stained salsa jar (label removed) next to a mug of hydrogen peroxide, where I leave my retainer to soak.
The president admitted that Cohen received a "monthly retainer," but said that it had "nothing to do with the campaign" in a series of tweets on Thursday.
Wearing a retainer as an adult is sort of like the dental version of doing a face mask: Set it, forget it, and wake up feeling fresh.
Their only objective is to provide sound financial advice to the client, who is paying them an hourly fee, flat retainer fee, or asset under management fee.
She was recently having neck problems, so her orthodontist recommended taking the retainer off to see if her jaw would expand and ease the pain, she said.
A communications aide for Mr. Lyovochkin, who financed Mr. Manafort's work, declined to say whether he was still on retainer or how much he had been paid.
It wasn't until 2016 that she had enough copy work and retainer clients that she could quit her other gigs and focus solely on copywriting and acting.
The firm sent a letter to the bank's CEO, Michael DeNoma, earlier this month and it describes the agreement between the two parties, including a $250,000 retainer.
Now, Mr. Trump suggested that the payment from his lawyer, Michael Cohen, came from a monthly retainer he paid and could not be considered a campaign contribution.
In 2011, Klayman was formally reprimanded in Florida for taking a woman's retainer fee and failing to return some of the payment after she demanded it back.
According to the antidoping agency's confidential report, Dr. Brown was Salazar's personal physician and was being paid a monthly retainer to work with the Oregon Project athletes.
They&aposve been successful as a result of finding clients that champion their work, networking not just online but in person, and working on retainer whenever possible.
In the opposite corner is Jay Marotta (Ray Liotta), a bruiser in a suit the color of rain clouds, whose basic retainer is twenty-five thousand dollars.
During the regular pro bono advice session the firm gives to union workers as part of its retainer, Maia inadvertently finds a client in Frank (James Martinez).
In the middle of Shane&aposs Dawson&aposs video "The Ugly Side of the Beauty World," his partner&aposs sister Morgan Adams pulled out her Invisalign retainer.
And financial advisors may earn their compensation in different ways — whether you pay them hourly, or an annual retainer or as a percentage of assets under management.
Japan has hired nine new firms since the beginning of last year, including ones not involved in trade policy, and has almost two dozen on retainer overall.
She accepted a $500 per month retainer to do "research," including filing Freedom of Information Act requests on Ailes's competitors Charlie Black, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone.
" She added that "from the careful dressing and positioning of the bodies outside the door to the main chamber, it seems all eight would have been retainer sacrifices.
Long-term use of a retainer that belongs to someone else can rearrange your teeth in a way you may not like and short-term use is unsanitary.
"Well, so I had a permanent retainer since I was like 33, and it was just glued to the back of my teeth," she explained to Jimmy Fallon.
A typical H-1B visa application retainer for an attorney today in Silicon Valley runs in the low thousands of dollars each, with companies picking up the tab.
A Tesla spokesperson said, in an e-mail to CNBC, once Denholm leaves Telstra she will receive 8,000 stock options each year and a cash retainer of $300,000.
Here's Trump's version of all of this, as conveyed by his tweets Thursday morning: He had Cohen on a monthly retainer to deal with issues that came up.
Like many irresponsible teens, I stopped wearing my retainer (I couldn't even tell you where it is right now) and my teeth have shifted again as a result.
" As a result, "we'll do more work with firms on a retainer basis," he said, an approach that will "embed our firms much more deeply in our work.
So, on behalf of my fellow torts and criminal defenses lawyers, I offer a reminder that nothing says "I love you" like a retainer contract for holiday mishaps.
Con helped Giant Spoon win 16 retainer and project-based clients and developed strategy for brands including Uber, NBC, Adobe, Old Navy, Facebook, Pinterest, Warner Brothers, and Netflix.
I'd say my playlist was about 153% accurate, but that's enough for my mouth to start feeling sore from the memory of the retainer that I have since lost.
However, I didn't get the memo that in order to keep the particularly problematic bottom ones in line, I'd have to wear a retainer until the end of time.
The whole point of wearing a retainer is to, ahem, retain the new position of the ligaments and bone around your teeth that your braces worked hard to set.
The only real way to make sure your teeth stay straight, and all that money from orthodontics goes to good use, is to wear your retainer at least sometimes.
The payment to Daniels, an adult-film star, came directly from Cohen, although he "falsely indicated that the purpose of the wire was to pay a 'retainer,' " prosecutors say.
The company has 13 firms on retainer, including Squire Patton Boggs, Monument Policy Group, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and Ballard Partners, a firm with lobbyists close to President Trump.
The Royal Cemetery of Ur, located in modern-day southern Iraq and which came about 500 years after the Başur Höyük cemetery, shows examples of mass adult retainer sacrifices.
In May, a few weeks after the FBI raided Cohen's home and offices, Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the President had reimbursed Cohen through a legal retainer.
But after that hectic week following the Ethiopia crash, Boeing turned to Sard Verbinnen, a crisis communications firm based in New York that it kept on retainer, for assistance.
Now, Mr. Trump has suggested that the payment from his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, came from a monthly retainer he paid and could not be considered a campaign contribution.
Writing on Twitter, Mr. Trump suggested that the payment from his lawyer, Michael Cohen, came from a monthly retainer he paid and could not be considered a campaign contribution.
Cohen was subsequently reimbursed by the Trump Organization as part of a "retainer agreement" which prosecutors said did not exist and was not in connection with any legal fees.
The individual agreed to be paid an initial $5,000 fee and a possible monthly retainer of $3,000 to reactivate ad accounts that had been shut down due to violations.
"Well, so I had a permanent retainer since I was like 13, and it was just glued to the back of my teeth," she explained to host Jimmy Fallon.
In her excitement, Robb clenched her teeth so hard that she snapped the wire on her retainer and was forced to head to the orthodontist for an emergency visit.
But check out the vid ... after Brody was done praising her, he explained why under NO circumstances does he ever want to have to pay Kim a retainer fee.
If so, you can save yourself $385 and find the real vintage deal buried in a box in your childhood bedroom, alongside your middle school diary and your old retainer.
A short video he played on stage (gotta hope he has got his renderings guy on retainer) showed passengers boarding a ship and sailing out to a floating launch pad.
Ask if there's a price for the initial consultation, and inquire about the lawyer's hourly rate and retainer fee so you know if their services falls within in your budget.
Within the campaign's first month, Morrison raised nearly $3,000 from 50 donors, all of which went to her lawyer's retainer, she said; she paid the remaining $2,000 out of pocket.
Clients pay an annual retainer of anything between 2,000 pounds and 3703,000 pounds ($57,500) to have Kenyon International Emergency Services on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
If I could go back and change any of the major decisions I've made in my life, the first thing I would do is wear my retainer every single night.
The model is primarily product or project-based, but will work with clients on a retainer basis, as it does with Napster cofounder Sean Parker's new video chat venture, Airtime.
Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg knew since last year that Cohen was being reimbursed for the payment in the form of a $35,000 monthly retainer, the Times reported.
"You said you knew nothing about your lawyer Michael Cohen handling this, until acknowledging today you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this," he continued.
Two of these directors, Scott Miller and Christopher Young, both joined the board last October and receive the same $1623,000 annual cash retainer as Coles (who joined in December 2015).
In an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said that Cohen was reimbursed for that payment through a $35,000 monthly retainer from Trump.
With an hourly rate of $900 and a required retainer of $25,000, Ms. Wasser said her motivation for the site was not money, but to change the approach to divorce.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump said that he paid a monthly retainer to Mr. Cohen, suggesting, as Mr. Giuliani had, that the payment to Ms. Clifford was not a campaign contribution.
That is indeed our Nora who was knocking so boldly for readmittance and is subsequently ushered in by the old Helmer family retainer, Anne Marie (Jayne Houdyshell, fabulous as usual).
"It did not come out of my desire to make a lot of money," he said, adding that his typical retainer is much higher than a few hundred thousand dollars.
The person said the document will refute a claim by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's attorney, that Cohen used a $35,000 a month retainer from Trump as reimbursement for paying off Daniels.
While Declan will need a few additional treatments, like a permanent retainer to help his jaw bone grow in properly and cosmetic surgeries in the future, "everything looks good," says Boyle.
Between beauty and gym appointments, hotels, website maintenance, photos, retainer fees for an accountant who files my taxes and for a lawyer, and other incidentals, I spend about $2,000 each month.
BAIER: So Free Beacon and -- said that they had Glen Simpson and Fusion GPS on account of a retainer but they did not fund the Christopher Steele memo or the dossier.
Though Tom Gustinis says he was personally paying Gevers' rent at this point, the foundation had expensive lawyers on retainer; the Breitmans, meanwhile, were paying $250,000 a month in legal fees.
The contract allegedly included a monthly retainer for Cohen in addition to the $10 million "success fee" if he was able to secure funding for the nuclear project, the Journal reported.
The company has two other lobbying firms on retainer, The Raben Group and The JBH Group, and spent $85033,000 for that advocacy last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
In 2628, Facebook spent over $28503 million on lobbying expenditures and had 22019 firms on retainer, a big increase from 2016 when it spent just under $8.7 million on six firms.
In 2018, Facebook spent over $12.6 million on lobbying expenditures and had 85033 firms on retainer, a big increase from 2016 when it spent just under $8.7 million on six firms.
On top of that, when you preserve skin that has a mark on it for analysis later, you're supposed to apply what is called a retainer, which keeps the skin intact.
Just about everyone in the industry has Mr. Kassan on retainer, and his value lies in introducing people from one company to people at another — a kind of matchmaker of marketing.
Mr. Schmidt estimated that 15 to 20 percent of seniors at his school hired outside help, with some parents paying up to $8,000 per month to keep a consultant on retainer.
Here's the breakdown of total compensation, per page 131 of the initial prospectus: ■ Mr. Lafley: $2.6 million, including a $200,000 retainer meant in part to cover his travel to board meetings.
He points out that unlike other political consultants, he will not earn a percentage of the campaign's ad buys, instead agreeing to a $300,000 annual retainer with the campaign, plus bonuses.
Part of their rapidly evolving line of defense involves Trump giving Michael Cohen a kind of monthly retainer that he could dip into any time somebody needed to be paid off.
In one case, Golden falsely claimed he was a lawyer and obtained a $200 "retainer fee" from a woman he offered to represent in a lawsuit against her insurance company, authorities said.
Jennifer's decomposing body, with the retainer she wore to bed still in her mouth, was found more than six months later mixed with trash from Blagg's employer at the Mesa County landfill.
Singh ended up signing a retainer to work for the family of Ri, the chemistry expert who was the only North Korean ever held in police custody in connection with the case.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump's outside counsel, has tried to frame any repayment from Trump to Cohen as a retainer for his legal services that would not have to be listed as a debt.
As we've reported, Kelly's had plenty of financial issues ... scrambling to come up with cash for bail, child support and even a retainer for famed defense lawyer Tom Mesereau ... which never happened.
In the early 2000s, the venerable New York gallery Knoedler & Company placed Mr. Carmean on retainer to research the provenance of several Abstract Expressionist works that the gallery had sold to collectors.
Wasser, who is a partner at the L.A. family law firm Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles (started by her father, Dennis, in 1976), charges $850 an hour and has a $25,000 retainer, per Bloomberg.
New Seattle Talent advertised that it was on a monthly retainer with numerous adult film studios, but the Attorney General says Hickey did not have any contacts in the adult film industry.
The provision may not be too helpful, though, unless the Securities and Exchange Commission says a new manager can step in as the sponsor and act as the risk retainer, he said.
Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News Wednesday that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the payment and Thursday morning the President tweeted the money came from the retainer he paid Cohen.
"In truth and fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices COHEN submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017," the filings continued.
He projects a focused, constant energy, and today his boyishness was amplified by a retainer in his mouth, a corrective measure to address problems left over from a childhood without dental insurance.
So far, arbitrators have been appointed in only 47 of the cases drivers have brought against Uber – and Uber has paid the arbitrator's nonrefundable $1,500 retainer fee in a mere six cases.
Giuliani said Trump had used retainer fees starting in 2017 to reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 Cohen paid the porn star, Stormy Daniels, in the closing weeks of the November 2016 election.
"Allen Weisselberg made the decision that it should be paid over the 22016 months so that it would look like a retainer," Mr. Cohen told lawmakers, describing how reimbursements were made monthly.
According to attorney Paige Griffith of The Legal Paige, the industry standard for which clients can cancel or reschedule and forfeit only the retainer is generally 30 days prior to the event.
According to that first filing, Ms. Coles had made about $7363,656 in compensation as a Snap director, with $265,2106 coming from an annual retainer and the remaining $75,866 coming from stock grants.
First, they will receive a monthly retainer from the organization, usually dictated by the consultant, and often pushing the maximum of what would be considered reasonable for their services by the IRS.
But the average settlement is less than $60,000, which dwindles after retainer agreements allow lawyers to recoup 45 percent of the settlements they negotiated, plus reimbursement for expenses including private jet travel.
That's work that they don't get paid for because tour managers for the most part unless you're a little bit higher up and on retainer, you don't get paid for advancing shows.
" Robb's dreams came true when the actor began to follow her on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of the evidence on her account, and writing, "RIP my retainer @michaelb4jordan I am HONORED and GRATEFUL.
Chao said in the agreement that she would receive a "cash payout" for her retainer stock in Ingersoll Rand and vested deferred stock units in Vulcan Materials when she resigned from her positions.
Since then, Love has invested in multiple channels to draw customers, including online training, smaller projects, and having multiple monthly retainer clients so if he loses one outlet, he's not short on work.
The amendment also calls for the chairman and vice chairman of the board to be independent directors, and provides an annual retainer of $250,000 for the chairman and $100,000 for the vice chairman.
Luhn says that in 20143 Ailes, who was a media consultant at the time, hired her on retainer to do "research" — and to be available to meet Ailes when he was in Washington.
Trump has since acknowledged he paid Cohen a monthly retainer that was used to cover the cost of the payment, but has denied having relationship with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
By the 1990s, he had set up shop as a private investigator in Los Angeles who wouldn't open a case without a $25,000 retainer and could charge clients hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The FDA announcement noted that affected patients can contact Medtronic for a replacement pump if the reservoir does not lock into place properly or if the retainer ring is loose, damaged or missing.
The firms claimed to use a network of editors, translators, search engine optimization specialists, hackers and journalists, some of them on retainer, as well as investigators on staff who could dig up dirt.
Small landlords and their advocates say that city rules can be particularly onerous for an owner whose pockets are not deep enough to keep a lawyer on retainer or hire a property manager.
And get this ... Depp claims during his long relationship with the firm he's paid them tens of millions of dollars in attorney's fees, yet the firm never had him sign a retainer agreement.
Once Hyperloop One secured its initial round of financing — and Pramana had secured some publicity for the company — Pramana's role was expanded and the vendor upped its pricing to the typical $40,000 monthly retainer.
The worst PR agencies will actually go to contributors and pay them anywhere from $2,000 – $5,000 to write a feature piece on their client in order to save themselves and keep the retainer going.
"I have on a retainer a former investigative journalist who conducts background due diligence and interviews of former employees to help us understand certain questions we might have about any particular executive," he said.
Of course, there's also 2004's Just Friends, a film that, though pretty problematic upon a 16th viewing, also features Reynolds, wearing a retainer, trying to woo Amy Smart — and it's comedy gold, honestly.
However, Cosby claims that the partner in charge of his cases, Christopher Tayback, son of actor Vic Tayback, did not talk to Cosby about the specifics of the retainer contract prior to its signing.
The actor was part of a hilarious story in early March when he learned a fan, Sophia Robb, had clenched her teeth so hard watching him in Black Panther that she broke her retainer.
After Guiliani confirmed that the President reimbursed Cohen, he shifted his story and denied in a tweet that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said that he was paid via retainer.
JPC Strategies, a firm run by James Christoferson, has subcontracted help from three other public affairs firms, splitting a $75,85033 per month retainer among Glover Park Group, SGR Government Relations and Iron Bridge Strategies.
People with ties to the re-election campaign, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of nondisclosure agreements, said that Mr. Mauldin was brought back on retainer for the 2020 race.
Clients who can't cough up the cash for a retainer for her services have offered her an Hermès Birkin bag — one sold in May at auction for $380,000 — a diamond ring, a pricey watch.
The reimbursement was processed using unusual accounting practices, a nonexistent retainer agreement, and equally unusual tax decisions, helped along the way by Trump Organization executives who, it seemed, at best, looked the other way.
In a series of tweets, Trump claimed that Cohen had entered into a non-disclosure agreement and was paid through a monthly retainer that he received and which was not tied to the campaign.
The measure is a top priority for the AHLA, which has spent more than $1.6 million on lobbying this year and has four firms on retainer, including Fierce Government Relations and Peck Madigan Jones.
The measure is a top priority for the AHLA, which has spent more than $2023 million on lobbying this year and has four firms on retainer, including Fierce Government Relations and Peck Madigan Jones.
His discussions with Ukrainian officials, including the country's top prosecutor, who assisted him on the dirt-digging mission, proceeded far enough along that he signed at least one retainer agreement, on his company letterhead.
" Trump also chimed in with a series of tweets Thursday morning arguing that the retainer fees he paid Cohen are standard practice for "people of wealth" and have "nothing to do with the campaign.
Once one of these bad agencies wins an account, they agree to a monthly retainer and sign a contract, which usually has a 30-day out (strategically very important as a part of the bilking).
Unless you wear a retainer, your teeth will naturally relapse and move toward the middle of your mouth, Christine Hong, DMD, MS, assistant professor of orthodontics at UCLA School of Dentistry told Refinery29 in April.
Having gone through a similar experience of suffering through braces and then giving up on the retainer, he figured out how to create his own Invisalign clear braces using a 3D scanner and additive manufacturing.
In the end, the brother backed down, and according to Coy, in what struck me as an incredible touch, Chhonn had offered to put him on retainer—$50 a month to keep his mouth shut.
While you could make the case that Cohen was using his "own" money to pay off Daniels, we now know he was on retainer given to him by Trump to deal with situations like these.
The only time Ms. Tibbets has made an exception to her refund policy (she requires a nonrefundable retainer ranging from $500 to $3,000 to secure a date) was when a military groom had to deploy.
Giuliani's explanation was certainly different than that -- that the President had reimbursed Cohen, even if he hadn't known specifically about the payment at the time, he had Cohen on retainer for this type of thing.
She pays me a monthly retainer — and she used to tell me I had given her a voice and raised her confidence to the point where she could be the leader she wanted to be.
But since I only chose to treat the top set of teeth due to my permanent retainer, it was tough to keep the bottom halves in their bags and not accidentally misplace any of them.
Prosecutors argued that Silver, 73, took $4 million in kickbacks in exchange for using his office to pass legislation that benefited real estate companies while serving on retainer as an attorney for the same firms.
Financial planners may be fee-only, which means they'll charge you an hourly rate, a retainer fee, or a percentage of assets under management, but they'll never make commission on the investments they sell you.
Mr. Trump said he paid a monthly retainer to his former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and suggested that the payment by Mr. Cohen to the actress could not be considered a campaign contribution.
President Trump said this past week that he had paid Mr. Cohen a retainer that was used to reimburse the $130,000, directly contradicting his earlier statements that he knew of no payment to Ms. Daniels.
They moved in together in January, 20183, and as they were packing Willey discovered that Matthew had a large gym bag full of women's clothes, along with a retainer with "Jessica" printed on its case.
The impeachment report released by the House Intelligence Committee last week revealed that Toensing and diGenova signed retainer agreements with both those men, Yuriy Lutsenko and Viktor Shokin, as well as another prosecutor, Kostiantyn Kulyk.
In a letter in January, Mr. Dole laid out the terms of his agreement to represent the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, Taiwan's unofficial embassy, including a $25,000 monthly retainer.
It will also offer residents the option of paying a monthly retainer which will entitle them to a range of services including cyber security checks and escorting them home from local tube stations at night.
Here's how one popular company, Smile Direct Club, works: First, you're sent a kit to make a 23-D mold of your teeth, which is then passed to a dental professional who creates your retainer plan.
The company has brought in three public relations firms based in three different countries — Kekst in the United States, Finsbury in Britain and Hering Schuppener in Germany — to join Edelman, an American firm already on retainer.
"I'm pretty sure (the other man) was a guy she was keeping on retainer, but she just wanted some buffer zone between him and her, at least until the later part of the night," he said.
The Georgian Dream political party has its own team of U.S. lobbyists, according to Justice Department disclosures, and the government of Georgia has the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman on retainer for $30,000 per month.
You can ask your orthodontist about getting a new one, or you could consider getting a permanent retainer that an orthodontist installs in the back of your teeth (which means it's totally invisible), Dr. Hong says.
The manner of death and the fact that they were buried in the outer chamber are reasons to believe the eight bodies served as "retainer" sacrifices for the two in the inner chamber, according to Hassett.
" Trump in a series of tweets said his attorney, Michael Cohen, received a monthly retainer "from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
In addition to its small shop of in-house lobbyists, Pebble Limited Partnership has three lobbying firms on retainer: the powerhouse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Van Ness Feldman and a lobbying firm with former Rep.
In that letter from Alston & Bird to TECRO, a contract for 2014 filed with the government, the firm said it would receive a $20,000 per month retainer from the Taiwanese office plus additional costs for their work.
Finally, when it comes to retainer fees, it is helpful to know that lawyers must follow strict trust accounting practices (see Rules of Professional Conduct 4-100; and also Rule 4-200 for attorney fees in general).
Rather than use officers of law enforcement — men and women who swear oaths to uphold our Constitution — Gardner paid a $85033,000 retainer and $250 per hour to out-of-state private investigators to look into the governor.
To help create a steady source of income in the unpredictable field of freelancing, Coy sets up retainer agreements with two to three clients per year, meaning she's on call on a monthly basis whenever projects arise.
CNN previously reported that Parnas introduced Firtash to the Trump-friendly lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, and that after they were hired by Firtash, Parnas got a piece of their $1 million retainer as a commission.
The lawyer, Crystal Riggins, is one of six the university has on retainer to provide legal guidance to students involved in complaints, under the provisions of Title IX, a federal law aimed at protecting women on campus.
To protect their interests, many also employ an art adviser or consultant, who works for them and is paid a retainer or a commission—in the region of five per cent—on the works that they acquire.
It would be exceedingly difficult to explain away a one-time check for $130,000, but a series of smaller checks can be seen as a series of innocuous retainer payments from client to attorney for legal services.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said on Twitter that Cohen was reimbursed for that payment through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, to stop "false and extortionist accusations" Daniels has made about a sexual relationship with the president.
"When I heard Cohen's retainer of $35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said that's how he's repaying it, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael," Giuliani said.
But there is strong evidence that they intentionally tried to hide the in-kind contribution, such as Giuliani's admission that they funneled Trump's payment to Cohen through Cohen's law firm and tried to disguise them as retainer fees.
"I brush my teeth, I put my retainer in, I take my contacts out and I start to prepare for the next day," Girardi said, adding that that means watching film of the opposing team's next starting pitcher.
Through a series of false invoices for a non-existent retainer agreement, Cohen was handed a total of $420,000 by the company, including a $60,000 bonus, prosecutors said, and the company falsely recorded those payments as legal expenses.
According to a consent judgment filed with the Florida Supreme Court, Klayman agreed to repay a small portion of the retainer, said financial distress precluded him from making the payments on time and eventually provided the agreed refund.
Now, at 25, thanks to a couple of wonky wisdom teeth and several years of retainer-wearing fatigue, I've been transported back that period of my life, one I'd rather keep locked in the deepest caverns of my memory.
Citing financial disclosure documents filed with government ethics officials, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gottlieb made much more in just one year, approximately $3 million in speaking, consulting and retainer fees from January 2016 through March 1, 2017.
I have a permanent retainer on my bottom set of teeth, and though I decided against getting it removed for now, if I ever choose to do so, I can go through the course of bottom aligners later on.
Walls initially appeared ready to accept the contention that the McDonnell ruling invalidated a bribery theory known as "stream of benefits," in which someone offers bribes essentially to keep a politician on retainer, rather than paying for specific acts.
Inspired by the work of Taiwanese artist and dentist Kuang-Yi Ku, who created an orthodontic retainer to increase pleasure during fellatio, she and classmate Carly Billing set out to design a better, sexier version of the dental dam.
An I.P.O. of Saudi Aramco — which would sell shares on its home Tadawul exchange and another major international stock market — would mean a gusher of fees for all the advisers involved, including the banks and law firms on retainer.
Medtronic has recalled certain MiniMed 20166 Series insulin pumps for delivering incorrect insulin dosing due to a missing or broken retainer ring, which helps lock the insulin cartridge in place in the pump's reservoir compartment, the FDA announcement said.
I recently localized my work-related anxiety to be: what if people keep me on retainer because they feel sorry for me, remind them of their grandchildren, or just want to help a woman in a male-dominated industry.
Two sources said the size of the retainer — extrapolating to about $6 million in annual fees — is generous by the standards of an industry that has increasingly seen companies migrate to paying ad agencies on a per-project basis.
The joke in Brussels is that the search giant has hired every lawyer there not working for the opposition, just to keep them on retainer for when the case, as is very likely, devolves into a lengthy court battle.
In a subsequent interview with the Washington Post, Giuliani claimed that the repayments were made over time as part of Cohen's regular retainer fees, but it's unclear how Trump could have paid Cohen back without knowing what the repayments were for.
"I have clients that they are ready to sign my retainer agreement for the EB-5 program, and they're not sure whether they should or not," said Sally Amirghahari, an Iranian-born attorney in California who works with EB-5 applicants.
Over the last year, Alston & Bird has been paid $200,000 to lobby for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, and is on retainer for at least $20,000 per month this year, according to the disclosure forms.
The American Association of Orthodontists takes a strict stance against DIY braces (using a rubber band to fix a gap, 3-D printing a retainer, or MacGuyvering metal braces from a clothes hanger, for example) — but that seems pretty obviously unadvisable.
They county blames ICE for failing to get a warrant, but Ricardo Wong, head of ICE&aposs Chicago office shot back Marion County brazenly ignored an immigration retainer and released a Mexican woman from its jail without first notifying ICE.
Hitchcock also helps with organization and grooming; it sounds like one woman taking on the work of the entire Queer Eye team, but Hitchcock often works on retainer (for around $10K a year), keeping up with her clients' general lifestyle quality.
Brainerd, the retired CEO of HealthPartners, a $6 billion not-for-profit hospital and health insurance system in Minnesota, will get an annual $60,000 retainer fee and about $500,000 worth of stock options, according to a federal filing posted by Stryker.
Trump said later that he had been unaware of the payment, but on Wednesday night, Giuliani said Trump knew of the arrangement, and Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to acknowledge that he repaid Cohen through a monthly retainer.
Cohen has said he was repaid in installments by the Trump Organization, under the guise of a phony legal retainer, after wiring $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have slept with Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.
Once Mr. Pishevar began dating Hyperloop One's public relations consultant, it says, he nearly tripled her monthly retainer to $40,000 from $15,000, more than any other employee in the company — only to dismiss her after their engagement was later broken off.
" But after Giuliani said that Trump had paid Cohen back, Trump confirmed in a tweet that he had reimbursed his lawyer through a monthly retainer and insisted that the payment was necessary to ward off Daniels's "false and extortionist accusations.
Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
As I settle into the dentist's chair, I'm suddenly plagued by flashbacks of terrible dentist visits from my childhood, including having a suffocating wad of orthodontic cement shoved in my mouth so I could mold a retainer for my lispy underbite.
But even that admission still gave Trump some level of plausible deniability: Sure, he was regularly paying Cohen a retainer to fix problems, but Trump never knew about any of the details of the payments or what they were for.
Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
Mr. Boies responded in a public statement that his firm had a clause in its retainer agreement with The Times that purported to waive all conflicts of interest on matters unrelated to cases in which the newspaper had retained the firm.
WeWork, the coworking company that nearly ran out of money before lead investor SoftBank provided a bailout in October, is paying ad holding company Publicis Groupe more than $500,000 a month in retainer fees, according to people briefed on the arrangement.
Barbour and BGR agreed in late December to a $50,000 a month retainer to "design and implement a comprehensive government affairs and business development strategy" for the Ukraine government - including "arranging meetings" with U.S. officials, according to a disclosure filed Jan.
Mr. Rothfeld declined to discuss his rates in detail, but said the cost of hiring him was more than what the average accountant charges to prepare a yearly tax return, but less than the retainer a white-shoe lawyer charges.
She added that Trump's tweets on the matter, in which the president said he paid Cohen a monthly retainer that was used to cover the payment to Daniels, emphasize that it was a private agreement, and not related to the campaign.
The appellate court determined Daigle, an Iraq War veteran with the U.S. Navy and the former police chief of his town of Granville, N.Y., had taken $23,000 from the estate of a deceased person without a retainer or authorization to take the funds.
Then Eric Holder, former U.S Attorney General, and his firm have been tapped to do this long internal audit over the past few months, and folks immediately and rightly pointed out that he's been on retainer for the company in the past.
The position — which pays her a $75,000 annual retainer and gives her a grant of restricted stock worth several hundred thousand dollars, says a recent New York Times article — presumably offsets much of the financial pressure that many other company founders face.
Singer's firm, an established outfit with a reputation as an aggressive plaintiffs' advocate, stands to take in as much as 27 percent of any monetary damages, plus certain costs, under a retainer agreement obtained by The Hill through a public records request.
"[We] engage our current client base and ask them to 'Give the gift of financial independence' whereby many of the parents or grandparents fund the annual retainer for the younger clients, " said Samuel Boyd, CFP and senior financial planner with the firm.
Finally, if you can afford it, hire a private judge to oversee a settlement outside of a public courtroom, though it's pricey – a good judge can cost up to $1,000 an hour, on top of Wasser's $25,000 retainer and $850 per hour fees.
The prosecuting documents say that one executive in the Trump Organization told an employee to describe the Cohen fees as legal expenses, writing the words "retainer for the month of January and February 2017" as the description, according to the court filings.
He also suggested to jurors that if Melgen truly had Menendez "on retainer," one would expect to see evidence that he called the senator when he stood to make millions by having the Environmental Protection Agency pass a rule, but there is none.
That is in addition to $100,000 that the coalition anticipated it would spend on its own between March and December, as well as a $30,000 retainer to another consulting firm and a $720 hourly rate to a third company, beginning last month.
For the poorest local clients, their vote and loyalty is rewarded with a bit of financial aid for school or medicine, a job in the service of the patron (often as an armed retainer), a job in the municipality or the government.
And whether or not you wear your retainer, it's still a good idea to go to the dentist at least once a year, just so your doctor can make sure your mouth actually is healthy — and possibly scold you for not flossing, or whatever.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday his personal lawyer was paid back through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, for the $130,000 given to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to stop "false and extortionist accusations" she made about a sexual encounter with him.
Ventec Life Systems, a medical startup founded in 2012 that produces portable ventilators, relies primarily on an in-house marketing and communications expert for its PR, but also has a small agency on a monthly retainer for media outreach, chief strategy officer Chris Brooks said.
"With the research, regulatory and policy-making agencies captured, the courts closed to the public, the lawyers disarmed, the politicians on retainer and the media subverted, there is no one left to stand between a greedy industry and vulnerable children, except parents," Mr. Kennedy wrote.
According to the New York Times, he had set up the $35,000 retainer that Cohen received from Trump's personal trust, which was a repayment for the $130,000 Cohen arranged for Daniels ahead of the November 2016 election to keep her quiet about the alleged affair.
Despite cannabis's potential in the marketplace, consistently estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, most weed-friendly lawmakers—nearly all of whom are Democrats—would rather meet with representatives from established legalization advocacy groups rather than hired guns on retainer from the for-profit industry.
E-mails, retainer agreements, non-disclosure agreements, settlements, litigation strategies, liability analysis, defence formations, collection of expert witness testimonies, testimonies, communications with government officials in countries all over the world, voice mails, dealings with the FBI, USDOJ, DOD, and more, confidential communications, and so much more.
Qatar has five K Street firms on retainer, paying more than $2628 million on its advocacy efforts last year, according to the most recent forms filed with the Justice Department — some of the numbers are not yet updated, so the total stands to be much higher.
In an apparent sign of his support, Trump reiterated Giuliani's comments Thursday morning in a stunning string of tweets where he said he had paid a monthly retainer to Cohen, which he said meant the payment could not be considered a campaign contribution or finance violation.
With its frequent references to car bombs, arsons and paid assassinations, the trial exposed the covert world of Mr. Le Roux's band of guns-for-hire, who, he testified, were kept on retainer for as much as $10,000 a month — plus expenses for food, fuel and travel.
According to the complaint, the law firms – including Nagel Rice, the Potts Law Firm, Bailey Cowan Heckaman, Annie McAdams and Junell & Associates – failed to sign clients to retainer agreements or purported to bind clients to contracts that don't comply with New Jersey laws and ethics rules.
Qatar has five K Street firms on retainer, paying more than $1.8 million on its advocacy efforts last year, according to the most recent forms filed with the Justice Department -- some of the numbers are not yet updated, so the total stands to be much higher.
Last year, according the Journal, Weisselberg arranged for the Trump Organization to pay Cohen a monthly retainer of $35,000 after Cohen had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
In the second episode of "PEN15," Maya finds herself in a closet make-out scenario with a boy, and when she unclamps her dripping retainer from her mouth, the boy flashes a look of such genuine disgust that you can't help but feel empathy for both parties.
Former government workers and onetime members of Congress are often on the Saudi payroll: Law firm Hogan Lovells registered its work on behalf of the Saudi embassy this past summer for a monthly retainer of $125,000 (the firm had also worked with the embassy in 2016 and 2017).
The $6,160 for my retainer agreement (I would have to write more than 12.3 freelance assignments at CJR, the equivalent of six months of rent, in order to pay for it) was 10 times more than the fees I paid for my temporary work visa after grad school.
I jump in the shower and then do my nighttime skincare routine (nightly rosacea medication, Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate, Kiehl's Nightly Refining Micro-Peel Concentrate, and Kiehl's Rosa Arctica moisturizer.) I brush my teeth, use the special mouth rinse from my oral surgeon, and put in my retainer.
To be clear, Giuliani stated on Wednesday night under friendly questioning on Fox News that the Stormy Daniels payments were perfectly legal, and should not be probed by prosecutors, because Mr. Trump ultimately funded the Daniels settlement with his own funds via a monthly retainer to Cohen's firm.
Judge Walls said that he interpreted Chief Justice Roberts's ruling as invalidating the "stream of benefits" theory of bribery, which says that a bribe can occur if one party offers a thing of value to keep the other party on retainer, essentially, rather than a more straightforward trade.
Hiring an salaried employee generally costs less month to month than having an agency on retainer, which is why Ventec Life Systems only hires an agency when it needs assistance on a specific project, like pitching to media after its medical device was approved by the FDA, Brooks said.
Fisher, who reportedly once counseled law students to look into a mirror and practice telling potential clients their retainer was $100,000, was banned from practicing in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2013 after a court grievance committee ruled that he had stolen money from a client.
In an interview Sunday on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Giuliani said Trump reimbursed Cohen with his own money in a retainer agreement for his services as Trump's personal attorney, which included $130,000 Cohen paid Daniels to keep quiet about allegations she had a sexual encounter with Trump.
Public relations firms — which have been charging their mid-size tech clients anywhere from $15,000 to $50,000 a month — may also feel the sting soon, says a separate source who asked not to be named but tells of at least one name-brand PR firm that recently lowered its retainer.
Nearly all the skincare and personal care products I use on a daily basis — the creams, gels, toner, lotion, contact lens solution, toothpaste, retainer, and more — currently sit on it and it hasn't budged in the last almost two years of use, even after I've bumped into it multiple times.
Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to back up Giuliani: Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
Trump -- who previously said he was not aware of the $130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels before the 2016 election in an effort to keep her quiet about an alleged affair between her and the President -- denied on Thursday that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.
When she reached her breaking point, Haddish tells us, she shut up her bully by reminding her that she was the only one on that playground to have a "judge and a lawyer" on retainer thanks to being "in the system" — and that they're paid by all their parents' taxes, and always will be.
Trump, on Thursday took to Twitter to expand on Giuliani's case that the payment was not a campaign finance violation, contending that Cohen received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign, "from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA," Trump wrote.
" Katumbi, who also has Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld on retainer, is engaging lobbyists to "build support for aligning U.S. policy with the rest of the international community to require the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to allow Mr. Katumbi to return to his country and participate in the political process securely and fairly.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to enter into a fixed-price, all-inclusive, retainer type of contract (monthly billing) with a qualified contractor to provide federal legislative consulting and lobbying services in compliance with applicable lobbying restrictions of 85003 U.S.C. 1352 and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, as amended from time to time.
Prosecutors have implicated Mr. Trump, identifying him as "Individual 1," in connection with that charge in documents filed in the case... While the payment to Daniels was made during the presidential campaign, Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has said Cohen was reimbursed for it during a period of time extending into Trump's presidency through a $35,000-a-month retainer agreement.
While the rest of the ladies were naturally disheveled (Lauren H. sleeps with a retainer, but it's okay, Ben does too!) and understandably horrified to be woken up by the man they are all trying to marry shining a flashlight in their faces in the middle of the night, Amanda looked positively angelic from the moment she was gently shaken awake by Ben.
Here's one of them: The other known payments were personal checks signed by Trump himself: Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) said in a December sentencing memo that Cohen sent monthly invoices to Trump's company "falsely indicating" that these invoices were part of some retainer agreement, and that the Trump Organization falsely accounted for the payments as legal expenses.
Here is Trump's current account of the situation, in what's either his own words or (more likely) the words of an attorney: Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
Judge Walls had suggested last week that the Supreme Court decision might limit the "stream of benefits" theory of bribery, which is important to the Menendez case and holds that a bribe can occur if a person offers something of value to another person as a retainer, expecting favors over time, rather than a more straightforward quid pro quo exchange.
Balarezo is set to take over entirely on October 2, and he's expected to be joined by Jeffrey Lichtman, another attorney Chapo has on retainer who is famous for defending New York City mob boss John Gotti Jr. READ: We talked to El Chapo's lawyer about defending a notorious drug lord Balarezo took the job despite the possibility that U.S. authorities could try to confiscate his paycheck.
People still talk about his impulsive generosity: medical bills for people he hardly knew; befriending a street kid named Ray Negron, who has had an interesting life because of The Boss; putting Joe Pepitone on a retainer the moment Pepitone got out of Rikers Island from a short stay for possession of drugs; finding work for Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden — former Mets — after jail and chemical slippages.

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