Sentences with phrase «smaller legal budgets»

-- Smaller legal budgets and low - risk mentality: Businesses simply don't have the financial appetite to fight legal battles.

Not exact matches

The LA keeps back a small proportion of a school's budget to pay for legal and administrative services.

No matter what stage your legal practice is in, no matter what budget you're working with, no matter how big or small your goals are, there's always something you can to do move your law firm closer to the future you want.

Many small and medium - size companies also don't have budgets to routinely obtain legal advice on the many CASL - related questions that commonly arise, which, when obtained, are often necessarily qualified (sometimes heavily) based on many ambiguities of the law.

The first small steps towards a more consumer - oriented branding approach in the Canadian legal market might already have been taken when we recently saw three prominent Ontario personal injury firms team up on a joint marketing initiative under the banner of the «Personal Injury Alliance» in order to pool some of their respective marketing budgets into a collective effort with high cost / high production value commercials in order to obtain more bang for their buck as it were.

(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.

What It Means: Even though many small business owners do not have large legal budgets, these findings suggest that when they are dealing with legal problems, they prioritize a lawyer's skills and experience over cost - savings.

«Overall, the legal profession has been innovative in its use of technology, but I think what has driven that use are the smaller firms having to make do with smaller budgets and fewer resources.

The survey shows respondents in the small to mid-size law firm range report the biggest increases to their legal tech budgets in 2016, including:

The full - service legal marketing and PR agency was recognized as one of the top boutique marketing and PR agencies in the country as part of the first Ace Awards, which honor «individuals, agencies and teams that overcame obstacles, did what clients and competitors thought couldn't be done, got unheard - of results with small budgets, and other similar wonders.»

The announcement that it will be cutting back its legal budget shows that it's not just small companies that are focusing on savings.

Large companies are reducing their legal budgets, and small businesses are resorting to alternative legal services for this very reason.

The schemes may save a small proportion of the legal aid budget, but at what cost to access to justice?»

The rising cost of legal fees and lack of a legal budget for many smaller companies often makes pursuing a claim impossible; especially against a larger company with more resources.

● Clarify the vision, purpose, and mission for your law practice ● Define and develop your legal niche to match your greatest strengths and motivate you to be the best in that field ● Project a likeable personality and acquire traits that will attract potential clients, who will eagerly seek you out to solve their legal problems ● Network and market your practice to generate a stream of clients ● Efficiently manage a solo law practice or small firm with limited resources and optimum results ● Evaluate law practice technology and marketing companies to find those which add value to your business (within your budget) ● Create systems and procedures for all office operations and client relations ● Create a peer group or gain a mentor to encourage and guide you as you build your practice

I talk to people at small firms and they say, «Oh, we don't have a budget for legal technology.

A small company on a tight budget is going to want to have the best legal representation available to them no differently than a fortune 500 hundred company that spends millions of dollars annually on legal fees.

«My company, Capstone Photography, was sued for the infringement of three vague and overly broad patents relating to how event photos are posted online for searching, viewing and purchase... Our small business, without even a single line item in our budget for legal defense, spent $ 100,000 to defend against the suit.»