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Alter Ego Liability	Doctrine that attaches liability to corporate shareholders in cases of commingling of assets and failure to observe corporate formalities.
Alter Ego	Corporation used by an individual to conduct personal business. It's illegal. In alter ego scenario, individuals will be held liable to the corporation. See also piercing the corporate veil.
Amend	To correct an error, modify, update or alter any legal document.
Ban	Acronym for Bond Anticpation Note
Backlog	Unfilled orders for goods or services. Orders for goods or services that the company has not yet delivered or rendered to its customers.
Back-testing	In general, the process of comparing predictions from a forecasting model to observable data. A model may be run using historical inputs after which the mode's forecast is compared to the actual outcomes observed for the forecasted period. In practice, either final model outputs or intermediate calculations may be backtested. Backtesting is often inexact because of the impact of extraneous events on the observable data.
Credit Disability Insurance	A type of insurance, also known as accident and health insurance, that makes payments on the loan if you become ill or injured and cannot work.
Credit File	A credit file is the collection of an individual's credit history, identifying information, and other records maintained by a credit reporting company. "Credit file" is sometimes used interchangeably with credit report, but technically a credit file is the source from which a credit report is generated.
Credit Life Insurance	A type of life insurance that helps repay a loan if you should die before the loan is fully repaid. This is optional coverage.
Disease Management	An effort to improve patient outcomes and lower costs by organizing managed care initiative around patients with a particular disease or condition.
Disenroll	Ending your health care coverage with a health plan.
Disenrollment	Terminating coverage with a health plan or insurance.
Eo	Elected Office - the national Office or intergovernmental organization of or acting for the Contracting State elected by the applicant under Chapter II of the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Epo	Abbreviation for European Patent Office
Eu	Abbreviation for European Union
Franchise Tax	A tax levied in consideration for the privilege of either incorporating or qualifying to do business in a certain state. A franchise tax may be based upon income, assets, outstanding shares, or a combination.
Franchise	A right granted by the government to a person or corporation, such as a taxi permit, bus route, an airline's use of a public airport, business license or corporate existence.
Franchising	commercial agreements that allow one business to deal in a product or service controlled by another. For example, most car manufacturers give franchises to sell their cars to local garages, who then operate using the manufacturer's brand.
Government	The act or process of governing, especially the decision-making and implementation of public policy in a political unit. The authority, leadership, or agent responsible for promoting and protecting human rights.
Government Responsibility	The obligations that a government must fulfill. Human Rights are an integral part of these obligations. Human rights are not gifts given at the pleasure of governments, nor should governments withhold them or apply them to some people but not to others. Governments must be held accountable for promoting and protecting the human rights of all persons.
General Fund Of The Treasury	Funds held by the Treasury of the United States, other than revenue collected for a specific trust fund (such as SMI) and maintained in a separate account for that purpose. The majority of this fund is derived from individual and business income taxes.
Hazardous Air Pollutants	Air pollutants which are not covered by ambient air quality standards but which, as defined in the Clean Air Act, may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death. Such pollutants include asbestos, beryllium, mercury, benzene, coke oven emissions, radionuclides, and vinyl chloride.
Hazardous Chemical	EPA's designation for any hazardous material that requires a Material Safety Data Sheet. Such substances are capable of producing adverse physical effects (fire, explosion, etc.) or adverse health effects (cancer, dermatitis, etc.)
Hazardous Substance	1. Any material that poses a threat to human health and- /or the environment. Typical hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive. 2. Any substancedesignated by EPA to be reported if a designated quantity of the substance is spilled in the waters of the United States or if otherwise released into the environment.
Inalienable	refers to rights that belong to every person and cannot be taken from a person under any circumstances.
Inalienable Rights	he natural rights of all men defined by John Locke as life, liberty, and property that can only be taken away by God. Government is created to protect these rights.
In Camera	“In chambers.” The hearing of a case or part of a case in private (without spectators).
Jurisdiction	The power of the court to rule on issues related to the parties, their children and their property.
Juvenile Court Petition	A legal document requesting that the court take action regarding the child’s status as a result of the CPS response; usually a petition requesting the child be declared a dependent and placed in an out-of-home setting.
Juvenile Court Restraining Order	Restraining order issued by a judge in Juvenile Court that protects one of the parties in the case.
Kitchen Sink Bonds	(1) An informal name for some re-REMICs created when tranches of existing CMO REMICs are combined and used to collateralize new securities. A re-REMIC that combines highly volatile tranches is called a kitchen sink bond. Kitchen sink bonds are very high-risk securities; (2) An old term from CDOs.
Knot Points'	The points on a yield curve for which there are observable prices for traded instruments. Rates for all maturity points between the knot points are "filled in" using any one of a variety of techniques for yield curve smoothing.
Kurtosis	Fat Tail is the Informal descriptive term used to describe the portions of a probability distribution that have a larger than normal number of values that are far from the mean. The formal name is kurtosis.
Lease Purchase	The purchase of real property, the consummation of which is preceded by a lease, usually long-term. Typically done for tax or financing purposes.
Leasing	A means of obtaining the physical and partial economic use of a property for a specified period without obtaining an ownership interest.
Leasing Agent	Real estate salespeople who specialize in leasing rental properties. Skilled at telephone techniques, on-site customer qualifying and closing.
Minimum Compensation Rate	Lowest weekly workers’ compensation benefit rate provided for by the Workers’ Compensation Act. The minimum rate may vary from employee to employee, depending on the date of an employee’s injury (and in turn the law which applies to that injury) and the type of benefit for which an employee is eligible.
Minimum Premium	The smallest premium charged by WCF to issue coverage for an annual period.
Misclassification	An action by an employer to intentionally attempt to reduce required workers' compensation insurance premiums by misclassifying employees as "independent contractors", and/or misclassifying the work that of a business to a classification that is less hazardous.
Next-day Settlement	The agreement of a buyer and seller to exchange the security and the payment on the first business day after the trade date.
Niat	An acronym for Net Income After Taxes
Nibt	An acronym for Net Income Before taxes
Occipital Hematoma	A hematoma at the back of the head near the occipital lobe. May be either subdural or epidural.
Occipital Lobe	The part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head. The part of the brain that converts nerve impulses from the eyes into images.
Oculomotor Muscles	The muscles that move the eye.
Product Mark	These are special kinds of trademarks. House mark identifies the company that makes or sells the product or may identify a line of products. Product mark refers to a particular product under that company name or product line.
Proof Of Claim	A claim form required to be filed with the court in the estate of a bankrupt (or similar proceedings), if a creditor is to receive payment (or its pro-rata share) of a debt owed.. Property - Anything which is the subject of ownership whether real or personal, tangible or intangible.
Piti: Principal, Interest, Taxes, And Insurance	the four elements of a monthly mortgage payment; payments of principal and interest go directly towards repaying the loan while the portion that covers taxes and insurance (homeowner's and mortgage, if applicable) goes into an escrow account to cover the fees when they are due.
Quick Ratio	A measure of a company's liquidity. The formula for calculating the quick ratio is: Cash + cash equivalents + marketable securities + accounts receivable+ notes receivable Divided By Current liabilities.
Qualified Opinion	An opinion of an independent auditor in which the auditor states the company did not follow GAAP, and/or did not allow the auditor to perform an audit necessary to offer an Unqualified Opinion letter.
Qualify Spread	The difference in yield between a risk-free obligation, an obligation of the U. S. Treasury, and another obligation of similar maturity that has credit risk. This difference is expressed in basis points. The most common quality spread is the Treasury-Eurodollar spread (TED spread). Quality spreads are expressions of credit risk as yield differentials
Rolling Year	Under FMLA regulations, a rolling year is defined as a 12-month period measured backward from the date an employee first uses leave.
Rotational Training	A training method where employees are rotated among a variety of different jobs, departments or company functions for a certain period of time.
Rural Sourcing	An outsourcing method that is based on transferring jobs away from higher cost urban areas to lower cost rural areas.
Subprime Lenders	Lenders who specialize in B, C, or D catagory paper.
Subrogation	The substitution of one creditor for another, with the substituted person succeeding to the legal rights and claims of the original claimant. Subrogation is used by title insurers to acquire from the injured party rights to sue in order to recover any claims they have paid.
Subscribe	1) to give, pay, or pledge (a sum of money) as a contribution, investment, etc. 2) to append one's signature or mark to (a document), as in approval or attestation of its contents.
Tricare For Life (tfl)	Expanded medical coverage available to Medicare-eligible uniformed services retirees age 65 or older, their eligible family members and survivors, and certain former spouses.
True Negatives	These are eligibles who have not received any services through the managed care plan, as evidenced by the absence of a medical record and any encounter data. True negatives signify potential access problems, and should be investigated by the managed care plan.
Trust Fund	Separate accounts in the U.S. Treasury, mandated by Congress, whose assets may be used only for a specified purpose. For the SMI trust fund, monies not withdrawn for current benefit payments and administrative expenses are invested in interest-bearing federal securities, as required by law; the interest earned is also deposited in the trust fund.
Utilization Review	A systematic program of reviewing and managing patient care in pursuit of cost-effective use of hospital services including patient days, diagnostic tests, medications and surgical procedures. JCAHO, Medicare and other external bodies require hospital utilization management programs. Some third-party payers have external utilization review organizations to review services.
Utah Health Information Network	A public-private coalition for reducing health care administrative costs through the standardization and electronic exchange of health care data.
Ucc-1	The UCC Financing Statement is filed with the Secretary of State or the County Clerk's office. It is used by a factor to perfect a lien on a clients' accounts receivable.
Voluntary Service Program	An organized project that a religious or nonprofit charitable organization does to provide help to the poor or needy or to further a religious or charitable cause. Participants may be eligible for B visas.
Vocational Rehabilitation (vr)	Vocational rehabilitation generally includes a melting pot of services that are offered to injured employees to help them return to work following a work injury. VR may involve transferable skills assessments, educational courses, job search assistance, and many other vocational aids. Vocational rehabilitation is sometimes also referred to as "occupational rehabilitation."
Voluntary Agreement	Workers’ Compensation Commission Form WCC-1 serving as an agreement between an employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier or a self-insured employer and an employee with a compensable work-related injury or occupational disease specifying the type and amount of workers’ compensation benefit to be paid to the employee.
Warden	The official in charge of the operation of a prison, the chief administrator of a prison, or the prison superintendent.
Warehousing	An imprisonment strategy that is based on the desire to prevent recurrent crime and that has abandoned all hope of rehabilitation.
Warrant	In criminal proceedings, a writ issued by a judicial officer directing a law enforcement officer to perform a specified act and affording the officer protection from damages if he or she performs it.
X12/prb	The X12 Procedures Review Board.
X12j	A subcommittee of X12 that reviews X12 work products for compliance with the X12 design rules.
X12n/sptg4	The HIPAA Liaison Special Task Group of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group's responsibilities have been assumed by X12N/TG3/WG3.
Youthful Offender	A person, adjudicated in criminal court, who may be above the statutory age limit for juvniles but is below a specified upper age limit, for whom special correctional commitments and special record-sealing procedures are made available by statute.
Yield Capitalization	A capitalization method used to convert future benefits to present value by discounting each future benefit at an appropriate yield rate or by developing an overall rate that reflects the investment's income pattern, value change, and yield rate.
Yield Curve	A graph showing the relationship at a selected point in time between the available maturities of a security or similar securities with essentially identical credit risk and the yields that can be earned for each available maturity. A graphical depiction of the term structure of interest rates at any given point in time. Yield curves may be constructed for different instruments such asTreasury securities, AAA-rated municipal bonds, A-rated corporate bonds, etc. Even within the field of Treasury securities, yield curves are constructed from many different types of Treasury rates. When a yield curve is constructed by calculating the coupon rates necessary for the Treasury obligations of various maturities to be priced at par, it is called a par yield curve. When a yield curve is constructed using currently prevailing rates for instruments available for cash delivery, it is called the spot curve. When a yield curve is constructed using currently prevailing rates for instruments to be delivered at future dates, it is called the forward yield curve. When a yield curve is calculated using currently prevailing rates for interestbearing Treasuriy securities, it may be referred to as a coupon curve. When a yield curve is calculated using currently prevailing yields for zero coupon instruments, it is called the zero coupon curve.
Zero-based Bonus	A plan design feature that establishes a preassigned class, ratio, or ranking for a specified class of employees who will receive zero bonus awards.
Zero Coupon Bonds	A single-payment bond that grows to its face value over a prescribed time period at a specific interest rate. All compound interest is tax-deferred until the bond is cashed.
Zero-lot Lines	Houses built without space between them and with little or no yard.

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Leonard M. Shulman

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Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP

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Commercial Law

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Leonard M. Shulman is the Managing Partner of the firm and primarily carries out his practice in the Irvine office. Mr. Shulman concentrates his practice in Commercial Law and Bankruptcy and has handled all aspects of litigation, creditors’ rights, mergers and acquisitions, trustee, creditor’s committee and the representation of debtor’s in the insolvency context. Based on the recommendation of other attorneys in the Orange County legal community, the legal publication Martindale-Hubbell has aw

John A. Darrow

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Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C.

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Mr. Darrow concentrates his practice in health care and corporate law. He has counseled health care entities on fraud, abuse and Stark law compliance, pharmaceutical rebate, distribution and service agreements, legislative and regulatory compliance and licensing, payor/provider contracting, and joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures. He provides guidance to clients on corporate formation, organization and start-up, private offerings, venture capital and other financing, joint ventures, m

David F. Abbott

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Mayer Brown LLP

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David Abbott is a highly respected tax litigator and transactional lawyer. He advises clients across a broad range of critical issues, with a particular focus on key areas of corporate concern involving tax litigation. David’s dispute resolution practice emphasizes tax litigation and controversy, as well as bankruptcy disputes. He has experience with tax audits and appeals, and represents clients before the Tax Court and the US Court of Federal Claims. David’s current and past cases involve c

Michael D. Adams

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Michael D. Adams, a member of the intellectual property practice in Mayer Brown's Chicago office, focuses on securing, protecting, leveraging, and enforcing intellectual property assets, in both traditional uses as well as Internet and other online IP applications. He represents clients in a wide range of IP matters, including trademark litigation and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings; national and international advertising campaigns; international brand management including trademar

Carlos Yidonoy

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Carlos Yidonoy earned his Juris Doctor at California Western School of Law, San Diego. While earning his degree, Carlos was a Distinguished Advocate for the Legal Skills II Appellate Competition. Prior to law school, Carlos earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science with an emphasis in Law and Society from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2004. Prior to joining Pettit Kohn, Carlos' experience focused on a wide array of business litigation matters, wage and hour claim

A July 2004 report of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Guardianships: Collaboration Needed to Protect Incapacitated Elderly People, highlighted a grave lack of hard data on guardianship of vulnerable adults. The report found that only one-third or fewer of the responding courts surveyed tracked the number of active guardianships for incapacitated adults, and concluded that the dearth of statistical data limits oversight and efforts to improve the guardianship system.
National Center on Elder Abuse

The appointment of a guardian occurs when a judge decides the ward lacks capacity to make decisions. While it is a critical protection for at-risk, frequently elderly individuals, guardianship of adults is also a drastic intervention. With the stroke of the judge’s pen, an individual loses fundamental rights and a surrogate is charged with making intimate personal choices about health care, living arrangements, finances, and property.
National Center on Elder Abuse

Each state has an adult guardianship law. State laws differ markedly in terminology, procedures, definition, and determination of incapacity, powers and duties of guardians, and court oversight. During the past 20 years, most states have revised their guardianship laws or enacted comprehensive new provisions (Wood, Directions, 2006). Important changes were made, yet implementation of the new laws appears uneven.
National Center on Elder Abuse

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