Sentences with phrase «as your firm adopts»

Traders on the floor of a stock exchange, waving slips of paper in the air and yelling like lunatics, were already being phased out in the 1980s, as firms adopted more efficient electronic trading platforms.

The future of robot lawyers is now one step closer as firms adopt the ROSS platform.

There appears to be a clear shift as firms adopt more commercially - oriented approaches to running their businesses, including looking at much more innovative ways to deliver legal services with the right pricing models for clients.

As your firm adopts more and more cloud based solutions, it also runs the risk of incurring use tax obligations on those expenditures.

Not exact matches

As a result, many advisory firms are considering how they can adopt some of these offerings to protect their assets.

Malcolm Hamilton, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, thinks there is room for the PRPP as long as the fees are low and the plans offer enough advantages over group RRSPs for employers to adopt them (e.g. much of the administrative burden transferred to the government).

«If I'm an investment firm, do I see [peer - to - peer finance] as an opportunity, and adopt it, because it's... more efficient?

The faster oil services firms and oil exploration companies adopt digitalization, the more data they generate with every well they drill and every digital map of oil resources they create — but that data is now the subject of hot debate as the oil industry tries to figure out who owns that data.

Applying pressure on firms was an effective strategy, as the ones that do have policies adopted them sometime between the end of last year and spring 2015.

The Audit Committee has met with the internal auditors and independent registered public accounting firm, separately and together, with and without management present, to discuss IBM's financial reporting process and internal accounting controls in addition to other matters required to be discussed by the statement on Auditing Standards No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), as may be modified or supplemented.

«As Bitcoin grows, its incentive for you to adopt it gets even greater,» said Steven McKie, founding partner at the crypto firm Amentum.

Instead, the report states, firms have adopted titles for their financial professionals that identify those individuals as advisors:

Requiring firms to adopt a particular technology or technique adds costs just as carbon pricing does.

It is because of their utter realism as they spoke within the conditions of a social and political community — or to adopt a current term, a responsible society — that next to the teachings of Jesus we find in them our firmest basis of social ethics.

In view of the disconcerting developments in the past few months, we the undersigned academics and political analysts, appeal to the European Union and the US, as well as foreign institutions of which they are members, to strengthen their commitment to the European future of BiH, to adopt a firm approach toward spoilers of the reform process and to jointly use their leverage potential in a coordinated manner.

In the letter we «appeal to the European Union and the US, as well as foreign institutions of which they are members, to strengthen their commitment to the European future of BiH, to adopt a firm approach toward spoilers of the reform process and to jointly use their leverage potential in a coordinated manner».

One idea that played a part in Liberal debates in the 1960s — though it was never formally adopted as party policy — was to use labour's profit share to invest in firms» assets so that, over time, workers would build up their own share in firms» wealth.

The city recently adopted a new policy for the DCP whereby OLR actively encourages minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises (MWBEs), as well as the firms that partner with them, to partake in the hiring process.

According to the study, firms often cite savings as a reason why they charge separately for add - ons, rather than adopting all - inclusive pricing, in which add - ons are included for free.

Environmentalists who have challenged the world's large Internet technology firms, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, to work harder to adopt clean power sources for their sprawling data centers praised Google's announcement as a hallmark for converting a long - standing environmental problem into an innovative solution.

Excellent support cast keep both the tension and the humour happily relentless - Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville (Mrs and Mr Brown), Madeleine Harris (Judy Brown) and Samuel Joslin (Jonathan Brown) all returning as Paddington's adopted family, along with their firm - but - fair problem solving housekeeper Mrs Bird (Julie Walters).

The Liverpool - based firm has seen the benefits of using new developments as part of its approach to learning and training provision, so it was among the first in the independent training sector to adopt new quality assurance technology from online specialists Mesma.

As the target markets of these brokerage firms are clients from all over the world, these brokers usually adopt the trading platforms that have the widest appeal.

«Like other so - called socially responsible funds, it weeds out tobacco and weapons firms, but in addition, it favors businesses that take positive steps such as adopting environmentally friendly practices,» Janet wrote.

In paintings such as Knight Series # 5 (Q3 - 76 - # 6), 1976, and Knight Series # 3, 1975, compositions adopt a familiar grid system with construction lines and structural points that provide a delicate but firm framework layered with formulaic vertical strokes in rows filling out each square.

In this instance, the building's original structure adopts a Neoclassicist design and was originally intended as the Chinese headquarters for a bank founded in British - ruled Hong Kong in the late 19th - century by a British architecture firm.

In paintings such as Knight Series # 5 (Q3 - 76 - # 6), 1976, and Knight Series # 3, 1975, compositions adopt a familiar grid system with construction lines and structural points that provide a delicate but firm framework embellished with formulaic vertical strokes in rows filling out each square.

Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act commits new construction and major renovation of U.S. federal buildings to follow the 2030 Challenge targets for the reduction of fossil fuel consumption — the same targets adopted by 70 % of the top 20 architecture, engineering, and planning firms in the U.S., as well as the AIA, ASHRAE, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, many state and local governments, and numerous other professional organizations.

As Jim Middlemiss notes in his column on a recent study from the International Legal Technology Association: legal business when compared to other — maybe all — industries «has been slow to adopt technology that re-engineers fundamental work processes or helps firms analyze data to enhance operations and provide value - added services.

As for law firms, this is one case where their complacency in adopting new technology plays to their advantage.

While many corporations are adopting a range of alternate work arrangements as both a retention tool and to have more engaged and productive employees, law firms are very slow to adopt similar arrangements.

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The members» firms do not necessarily have a process to formally adopt or agree to the language as a firm position.

As more and more law firms adopt social media, the more expensive it will become.

Commenting on his new position, Martin said: «The scale of the role of managing partner for a firm of our size and ambition is ever - growing, so by adopting a team approach we will maintain a constant focus on great client service delivery, effective communications, active community engagement, as well as incisive business governance.

Despite this correlation, law firms in the United States generally have shown little interest in adopting formal knowledge management initiatives as part of their overall management strategies.

By adopting new and innovative solutions today, such as client intake software, you will be getting ahead of the curve and setting your law firm up for long term success, while your old - school, change - resistant competitors fall by the wayside.

Therefore, traditional law firms — with rare exceptions — may be the last business model in legal services to not have adopted sales operations as essential components of their operations.

As firms continue to adopt a more open - minded attitude to the many flexible options on offer, we are confident that challenges like these can be relatively easily overcome.

This is significant as it would appear to be the first non-UK, European firm that has adopted the use of an AI cognitive system.

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That law firm can survive whether they're big or boutique or mid-sized and full service — so long as they adopt new thinking, reimagine the way legal services are delivered and truly bring all the «change» rhetoric to reality.

In the final post in this series about key performance indicators (KPIs) for small law firms, we again look outside the legal field to adopt net promoter score (NPS) as a client experience KPI.

It is already being demonstrated that law firms can and are able to adopt, adapt and improve such innovations as greater internet presence and internal efficiencies.

«Technology will be adopted first by those freest to change — new and small firms,» said Jason Morris, the self - styled «lead legendary counsel» at Round Table Law in Alberta, which he describes as a «virtual, paperless, fixed - fee solo practice.»

The dispute over delays to a project was unusual as the claim was brought by the developer, which meant the firm had to adopt a different strategy (typically such claims would be initiated by the contractor).

Law firms risk getting left behind as their competitors adopt new business structures, billing models and client services, and client expectations are broadening drastically.

It will be structured as a Swiss verein, with SASPI adopting the Fieldfisher brand name and the two firms maintaining separate profit pools.

A legal marketing firm even suggested that lawyers use Tinder to advertise their law firms, though no lawyer appeara to have adopted the idea as of yet.

This contrasts sharply with the use of legal software in private practice where a majority of firms utilise legal applications and where advanced tools such as artificial intelligence are already being adopted.