Sentences with phrase «internal headcount»

Even though a majority of most legal budget is still spent on outsourced services, most departments surveyed have shown an increase in internal headcount and / or the plan to add more team members and more budget again this year — often paired with the growth of their client organizations.

So the big question marks that remain are: will a market correction / decline in at least the growth of internal headcount or budgets in legal departments mean a corresponding decline in the ops sectors of larger law departments?

Internal headcount does not exhibit the same flexibility.

And there are limits to what can be achieved, long term, by merely replacing expensive external headcount with moderately less expensive internal headcount.

Through a well - managed work plan and efficient staffing, taking on a new portfolio of work for a client, allowing the client to decrease its internal headcount and reduce expected overall spend.

Law departments are redirecting spend towards internal headcount, technology, and alternative service providers.

Not exact matches

Because you're being compared to the substantial internal costs and additional headcount (which will likely be a multiple of what you've spent or hired) which any acquirer would have to incur in order to replicate your product or service, even if they are already essentially in your space or business.

And yet, Inside Sales Team president and general manager Marijke Kemble has successfully grown both sales and support team headcount since taking over their internal business operations last June.

Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

Most discussions between law departments and their internal clients usually revolve around lowering costs and headcount.

(vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend;

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Internal budgetary constraints, a planned business transformation, a freeze on headcount hiring or a lack of suitable applicants are always challenging.

Using female talent to address the IT Skills Shortage As part of an internal IT delivery transformation project our client was seeking to increase the headcount in their internal tech hub, bringing development back in house and moving away from their off - shore model.