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Are You a HENRY?

HENRY is a High Earner Not Rich Yet worker. See this article. http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/magazines/fortune/tully_henrys.fortune/index.htm

HENRY's earn between $250,000 to $500,000. This of course can be total household income. Most HENRYs are professionals with graduate education, high salary company positions, or self-employed.

This article puts a face on HENRYs however it may come off to some as being elitist or snobby, when you earn 250-500k a year but say you don't have. Well, the more money you have and earn, the more you spend; its the American Way.

Barbara Bonar, the Kentucky Bar Association President Facing Ethics Probe

The president of the KBA, Barbara Bonar is facing an ethics probe and this case is receiving national and local press attention.

We know, yes, you are presumed innocent until found otherwise but at what point should an officer of the court who is leading a state bar association resign? Do you stay and fight the good fight until the bitter end and remain in office despite it all or do you step down and place the integrity of the Association, its members, and the public above all?

If you were the State Bar president and being investigated and your case was receiving national and local press attention would you remain the Bar President? What's better for the President as an individual may not be the best and most rational course for the Association and its members.

See these links:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/NEWS01/810120454

Make sure you read the comments at the end of the first article.

http://abajournal.com/news/ky_bar_president_faces_ethics_probe_linked_to_fee_dispute_in_priest_case/

See also this post, by a Kentucky attorney commenting that Bonar should stay in office (she was President Elect).

http://www.kentuckylawblog.com/2008/03/ethics-kentucky.html

Perspectives: A Magazine for and about Women Lawyers

ABA Commission on Women in the Profession is sponsoring this quarterly magazine.

I enjoyed the article on dual degrees. I regret not completing my MSN while in

law school. I was completely burned out and needed to start working as a was

being labeled a "professional student" by family and friends. The years when I

initially started my firm would have also been a nice time to attend graduate

school for a Masters in Nursing since my practice was slower.

http://www.abanet.org/women/perspectives/enews/summer08/enews_summer08_feminism.html

See http://www.abanet.org/women/perspectives/enews/summer08/enews_summer08_feminism.html

ABA Releases A Study on Legal Malpractice Claims

See

http://www.abanet.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=469.

The Study can be purchased for $80.00 at

http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=4140044.

I am superstitious, I will admit. I still do a number of the things when I see a black cat (bad luck) and I never walk underneath a ladder (bad luck), or place my purse on the floor (you will lose your money or have financial issues).

I am knocking on wood now in my office but I have never been sued for legal malpractice or nursing malpractice or had a complaint filed against me as an attorney or a nurse.

I had a client this summer threaten to report me to the Bar because I termed her and she was very upset. Being an administrative law attorney, I have to take steps to w/d consistent with the rules/code/canons (I practice law in 3 states), however I don't have to apply to the court before I cease representation of a client. I always follow a process before terming a client and 99% of the time it is because I am not being paid as agreed pursuant to the legal services agreement.

Actually now, I have two Nursing Board cases that have been resolved very favorably for the clients (Advisory Letters; no discipline proposed against the license) and both nurses have not paid their accounts in several months. I won't get the money and I know it. That's fine.

I won't sue for fees because as a nurse I could not imagine suing another nurse even in a business transaction. That's just me.

But guess what if you were investigated once by a Nursing Board, chances are at some point in the near future you will have another legal, regulatory, professional practice, criminal, employment, workplace, or licensure issue. I am unavailable until the initial account has been paid in full and I have my legal assistant provide the nurse with the local bar association attorney referral number.