Some red - flag answers: «Because Lawyer C thinks he deserves this award» or «
Because Competing Firm D just got a similar award.»
As The Washington Post writer Charles Lane observed at the time: «It's one thing to lose your job
because a competing firm built a superior mouse trap; it's quite another, justice-wise, to lose it because a competitor talked the government into taking its side.»
Not exact matches
Of course, the race to be the web's top source of referral traffic has been and is both closely watched and hotly contested,
because every measurement
firm (
Compete is just one of many) has its own data and methodology.
Private equity funds are basically «corporates on steroids»
because they can't simply
compete and perform the same way any other corporate would
because corporates have a lower cost of capital and are able to accept lower returns than a PE
firm.
The government has said the expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will help smaller
firms compete with larger counterparts
because there won't be as big a gap when it comes to pension benefits, said Kelly.
«
Because the ecosystem has become more transparent you are always
competing with other
firms,» says Ross Fubini, a partner at Canaan, who adds startups are still likely to choose the best venture capital
firm, rather than the highest valuation.
I chose Infinity over
competing self - publishers
because it ranked highest overall in the book, Top Self - Publishing
Firms by Stacie Vander Pol.
What that implies is that it makes sense to pay attention to valuation,
because firms in bad shape often clean up their act and get better, and
firms in exceptionally good shape find their excess earnings
competed away by other
firms.
«GDP goes up
because the fee and dividend provides a boost to consumer spending, reducing demand for fossil fuels does not have a significant impact on American employment and reduces energy imports from abroad, and the border adjustment means American
firms are on a level playing field when it comes to
competing on the world market.»
As a result, railroading
firms would
compete with each other vigorously over price for long - distance hauling
because their networks provided different routes to move goods efficiently between major population centers.
Because at that point the prospect is yours to lose and
competing firms could be ready to pounce.
This is especially the case for smaller
firms, since they disproportionately serve individuals and small businesses hit hardest by the recession, and
because price is a factor upon which large
firms simply can not
compete, for structural and cultural reasons.
I think that when you have an owner and an ownership structure I think law
firm partnerships lack ownership influence
because a lot of partners certainly in larger partnerships, there is a both sort of say three, four, five partners when you have larger partnerships I think it's hard to feel if anybody owns the business
because everybody's in the business sort of their income and sharing profits and
competing with each other for those profits.
Regulators need to review a system which imposes regulation to the point where people can't afford a solicitor, and
firms are closing
because they can't
compete with PLFs which are subject to the same regulatory «burden» as your local newsagent.
I think that the technology, honestly, the technology that has the most potential for disruption and by that, I mean, honestly disruption, it will mean companies go out of business, like law
firms go out of business
because they can not
compete.
In the suburbs, the competition is still heavy,
because you are
competing against nearby
firms as well as
firms from Downtown KC.
Although our
firm has twenty lawyers, we
compete with
firms that are much larger
because we have the talent and the experience to handle sophisticated legal matters.
A small
firm can
compete head - to - head with larger
firms because of the Internet.
It will be difficult to
compete without AI tools, not just
because other law
firms are investing in them, but also
because clients are doing so and
because it will reduce risks and costs while freeing up the lawyers to focus on higher value aspects of serving clients.
As the
firm expands, some trainees commented on the «
competing interests of different practice areas» which has resulted in some «unclear branding and external identity»
because «commercial and corporate are gunning for top - tier rankings».
Large law
firms initially had the advantage when
competing for cases involving the need to collect, analyze, process, review and produce large amounts of electronic data,
because they had the resources to build and continuously update internal systems and hire the talent needed to run those systems.
Overseas law
firms come to us
because they know that we have no ambitions to
compete in their domestic markets.
I have found that Summation gives me the ability and confidence to stand my ground against opposing counsel demands
because I know that my processing engine (FTK, under Summation's hood) is world - class, my database is sound, and Summation generates detailed audit logs I can use to demonstrate exactly how data was handled by users... This is crucial
because it allows smaller law
firms such as mine to
compete vigorously with government and larger law
firms that have deeper e-discovery support and resources.
San Diego - based broker ARG Abbott Realty Group made a similar announcement in January and, earlier this month, Austin, Texas - based brokerage the GoodLife Team stopped syndicating its listings to Trulia and canceled its advertising on the site
because the
firm objected to ads for
competing agents appearing next to their premium listings.