A Fixer??

JK: I'm not the guy you kill. I'm not the guy you strongarm, blackball, or fight. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold control of delicate info the club wanted out of circulation for 105 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me or get your nose bloodied taking me on?

Michael Clayton is what's described as "a fixer". This means that he fixes problems for the firms clients. While, in a sense, all of the firms attorney's fix problems, Clayton specializes in more sensitive issues, ones that sometimes skirt the boundaries of legality or morality. As he explains towards the end he does things like suppress embarrassing photos, convinces the police not to press charges, cleans up drunk or high clients etc etc. He knows all the firms dirty laundry but he isn't a partner (as Karen Crowder notes) and does not practice law in any traditional sense.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Watt good is an attendance committee ....and is not personally liable for any act or omission arising out of duties as a member of.....ynot?

§ 25.092. MINIMUM ATTENDANCE FOR CLASS CREDIT. (a)
Except as provided by this section, a student may not be given
credit for a class unless the student is in attendance for at least
90 percent of the days the class is offered.
(b) The board of trustees of each school district shall
appoint one or more attendance committees to hear petitions for
class credit by students who are in attendance fewer than the number
of days required under Subsection (a). Classroom teachers shall
comprise a majority of the membership of the committee. A committee
may give class credit to a student because of extenuating
circumstances. Each board of trustees shall establish guidelines
to determine what constitutes extenuating circumstances and shall
adopt policies establishing alternative ways for students to make
up work or regain credit lost because of absences. The alternative
ways must include at least one option that does not require a
student to pay a fee authorized under Section 11.158(a)(15). A
certified public school employee may not be assigned additional
instructional duties as a result of this section outside of the
regular workday unless the employee is compensated for the duties
at a reasonable rate of pay.
(c) A member of an attendance committee is not personally
liable for any act or omission arising out of duties as a member of
an attendance committee.

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