A client pays a contingent fees to a lawyer only if the lawyer handles a case successfully. Lawyers and clients use this arrangement only in cases where money is being claimedâmost often in cases involving personal injury or workers' compensation. client pays a contingent fees to a lawyer only if the lawyer handles a case successfully. Lawyers and clients use this arrangement only in cases where money is being claimedâmost often in cases involving personal injury or workers' compensation.
Pirkei Avot is unique in that it is the only tractate of the Mishnah dealing solely with ethical and moral principles; there is little or no halacha found in Pirkei Avot.lthough Avot does not have an accompanying Gemara, one of the minor tractates of the Talmud, Avot deRabbi Nathan (The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan), is an expansion of the Mishnaic tractate containing numerous additional ethical teachings and legends.
By MJL Staff | August 5, 2008. Reprinted with permission from Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Yad Vashem). Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination and concentration camp, located in the Polish town of Oswiecim, 37 miles west of Cracow. One sixth of all Jews murdered by the Nazis were gassed at Auschwitz. In April 1940 SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the establishment of a new concentration camp in Oswiecim, a town located within the portion of Poland that was annexed to Germany at the beginning of World War II.