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  2. Relative deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Relative deprivation is the lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or that are ...

  3. Social exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Another way of articulating the definition of social exclusion is as follows: Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which ...

  4. Lockstep compensation - Wikipedia

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    Lockstep compensation or seniority-based compensation is a system of remuneration in which employees' salaries are based purely on their seniority within the organization. For example, in the legal profession, where this system is most commonly found, all law school graduates hired by a law firm who graduated in the same year receive the same base pay regardless of background, experience, or ...

  5. Social deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Social deprivation is the reduction or prevention of culturally normal interaction between an individual and the rest of society. This social deprivation is included in a broad network of correlated factors that contribute to social exclusion; these factors include mental illness, poverty, poor education, and low socioeconomic status, norms and values.

  6. Law firm - Wikipedia

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    Law firms are typically organized around partners, who are joint owners and business directors of the legal operation; associates, who are employees of the firm with the prospect of becoming partners; and a variety of staff employees, providing paralegal, clerical, and other support services. An associate may have to wait as long as 11 years ...

  7. Deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Deprivation (child development), inadequate meeting of child's needs required for an adequate child development; Deprivation of rights under color of law, a federal criminal offense under U.S. law; Deprivation, the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity by an ecclesiastical court

  8. Law practice management - Wikipedia

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    Human resource management (managing personnel) is an important aspect of law practice management, and many books and other resources offer advice to firms on this topic. [21] Law firms often employ a number of non-legal personnel or support staff; according to one figure, the average attorney to non-attorney ratio is 1 to 1.3. [22]

  9. Anti-deprivation rule - Wikipedia

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    The anti-deprivation rule (also known as fraud upon the bankruptcy law) is a principle applied by the courts in common law jurisdictions (other than the United States) [a] in which, according to Mellish LJ in Re Jeavons, ex parte Mackay, [1] "a person cannot make it a part of his contract that, in the event of bankruptcy, he is then to get some additional advantage which prevents the property ...