Sentences with phrase «survey of corporate law»

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In the wake of Cobbetts» recent rescue takeover by DWF and Dewey & LeBoeuf's implosion last year, the latest Big Question survey found 95 % of respondents acknowledging the possibility that more large corporate law firms would fail in the near term, including 32 % who believed another collapse in the next two years was «likely» and a further 42 % describing such an event as «very likely».

The vast majority of partners believe law firms need to do more to make corporate networking activities more inclusive for both men and women, with 97 % of female respondents to a Legal Week survey saying work events are still too focused on traditionally male interests.

Chief legal officers and corporate law department leaders appeared more eager than their law firm counterparts to divulge compensation data this year, with 117 of them participating in the survey.

Indicative, too, of the somewhat mercurial state of the profession, the survey shows only 45 per cent of law firm respondents plan to increase their associates» salaries in 2013, whereas 77 per cent of corporate legal departments say they will bump up their lawyers» earnings.

For law firms wondering whether digital marketing initiatives can help them reach prospective corporate clients, a 2007 Ipsos MediaCT survey found that senior corporate executives are heavy consumers of digital media.

Sheri Qualters reports in The National Law Journal on a new Association of Corporate Counsel survey that finds 85 percent of chief legal officers find their careers to be rewarding.

The survey also contains a leaderboard of 22 law firms named by corporate counsel as best at developing and delivering alternative fee arrangements.

The firm is recognized as a «Go - To Law Firm for Fortune 500 Companies» according to Corporate Counsel magazine, a «Best Law Firm» according to U.S. News, a «Best at Client Focus» firm according to Fortune 1000 companies surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group, one of the top intellectual property firms according to Fortune 100 companies surveyed by IP Law & Business, and is listed on the Law360 Intellectual Property 100 List.

The majority of in - house lawyers have reservations about Deutsche Bank's plan to stop paying panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers, but believe the move is likely to start a trend, according to a new Legal Week survey of corporate counsel.

Other interesting results from the survey indicated that 27 % of corporate law departments have also reduced their in - house lawyer staff so far in 2009, and another 9 % consider it «likely» or «possible» that they will do so in the remainder of the year.

An informal survey of 15 large to mid-size law firm websites found Corporate Responsibility under the following sections:

In the wake of last week's Presidents Club scandal, we surveyed more than 250 partners to find out their views on the issues around male - focused corporate events and whether they think law firms should be doing more to make networking activities more inclusive.

The survey of more than 2,500 U.S. lawyers in both corporate and private practice found that 88 percent of law firm partners and 86 -LSB-...]

The study's findings, based on a survey of 50 partners at 25 top firms and 50 corporate clients, are summarized in this press release, posted yesterday at Law Fuel.

These include returning telephone calls; allowing clients to design their invoices; written service plans for major clients; client surveys; making it easier to contact attorneys by e-mail, home phone numbers on business cards, 24 - hour night service telephone answering, etc.; client status reports; the notion of «guaranteed» service or reductions in the bill; law firms adding value to their clients and educating corporate and business executives through newsletters, seminars, direct mail and websites, etc..

That is the phrase used by the editors of The American Lawyer to describe the state of corporate law practice in the magazine's Corporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pcorporate law practice in the magazine's Corporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pCorporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pcorporate practices.

[5:31] In August of 2012, FTI issued the results of a survey in which 24 leading corporate and law firm counsel executives were interviewed about the prospects for predictive coding.

For example, minorities comprised approximately 21 percent of all lawyers who left firms in 2009, despite only representing 13 percent of the overall law firm attorney population, as reported by a Minority Corporate Council Association survey.

First, the survey results showed that by practice area, the adoption rates of cloud services are as follows: corporate at 37.3 percent, commercial at 37.2 percent, real estate at 36 percent, and family law at 35.7 percent, intellectual property at 33 percent, litigation at 28.5 percent, labor / employment 25.9 percent, and general practice (civil) at 22.7 percent.

Released Thursday during a panel discussion in New York City on the future of the law firm business model, the LexisNexis - commissioned survey (executive summary) found that 71 percent of corporate counsel say that law firms are not doing enough to respond to the current financial pressures on their business model.

But a newly released survey finds that the corporate clients of those law firms are seeing little or no actual change in how law firms deliver services.

A survey of private - practice lawyers, corporate counsel and law students found widely divergent views on the state of the legal industry and the future of the law firm business model.

The PwC Law Firm Survey 2015 commented that «internal audit remains an area of underinvestment, particularly when benchmarked against corporate businesses of equivalent size, complexity and geographic reach».

In the Canadian Lawyer Corporate Counsel Survey, published in the November / December 2008 issue, 92 per cent of the corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 1Corporate Counsel Survey, published in the November / December 2008 issue, 92 per cent of the corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 12 mSurvey, published in the November / December 2008 issue, 92 per cent of the corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 1corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 12 msurvey in the previous 12 months.

Despite LexisNexis Martindale - Hubbell's surveys indicating that it's still the preferred legal directory of the masses, the vast, vast majority of professionals (both in law firms and corporate counsel) I speak with believe the Martindale - Hubbell legal directory is no longer of much value.

The survey, organized in association with the Association of Corporate Counsel Europe, involved more than 3,300 individual nominations from corporate counsel and law firm Corporate Counsel Europe, involved more than 3,300 individual nominations from corporate counsel and law firm corporate counsel and law firm partners.

«General counsel are hiring corporate counsel, patent attorneys and contract managers to take on more work in - house and reduce their spending on outside law firms,» said Charles Volkert, executive director of Robert Half Legal in an announcement on the survey results.

Brooks Kushman is: a Go - To Law Firm ® selected by the top 500 companies, according to Corporate Counsel magazine; on the Law360 Intellectual Property 100 List; a «Best at Client Focus» firm, according to large and Fortune 1000 companies surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group; and one of the top IP firms selected by the Fortune 100, according to IP Law & Business.

The Association of Corporate Counsel reports that almost half of law departments surveyed now have legal operations staff, more than twice the number reported last year.

Late last year, CLOC, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, released the results of its first annual State of the Industry Survey, looking at such metrics as legal spend; legal department and legal ops headcounts; commonly used e-billing vendors, contract management systems and alternative service providers; and law firm evaluation priorities.

Brooks Kushman is a Go - To Law Firm ® selected by the top 500 companies, according to Corporate Counsel magazine; a «Best at Client Focus» firm, according to large and Fortune 1000 companies surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group; and one of the top IP firms selected by the Fortune 250, according to IP Law & Business.

One «not surprising finding» of the survey, comments Monica Bay at The Common Scold, is that «the growing diversity among law firm attorneys seems to correlate positively with the increasing demands from corporate clients that their outside counsel include minority attorneys.»

This fits with results of the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation report: the State of Cybersecurity Report (2016), which found that not only were company and law department budgets growing in this area but 59 per cent of the CLOs surveyed expected their law department's role in cybersecurity to increase.

Elevate is the most - used law company according to the 2017 State of the Industry Survey published by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the past two years in a row, including No. 53 in 2016.

The firm's results in the Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey 2017 - 18 suggest a happy ship, where the training experience seems to be very much in Hammonds» mould of steady and trusted big corporate law firm.

«The Legal Cheek Awards follows the enormous success of our inaugural trainee and junior lawyer survey of 56 leading UK corporate law firms, which saw over 1,500 millennial lawyers rate their firms on everything from quality of training to partner approachability to perks.

Administered by a third party, the IADC online survey includes responses from 346 corporate attorneys currently working in the legal department of a company / corporation and 333 attorneys employed at a law firm or private law practice.

Lawyers in corporate legal departments and attorneys at law firms both say the amount of outsourced legal work has increased over the past year, but they disagree by how much, according to the International Association of Defense Counsel's (IADC) second annual Inside / Outside Counsel Relationship Survey.

Mr. Zimmerman is recognized as one of Asia's leading business lawyers in the categories of Chinese Law, Dispute Resolution and General Corporate Law in theAsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (published by Euromoney Publications).

A number of years ago, Chambers ran an annual «Who Acts For Corporate Britain» survey, showing which law firms acted for which companies.

A new survey of chief legal officers blatantly exposes that corporate clients are interested only in discounts, low priced fees and cost reductions above and beyond anything else in their relationships with private law firms.

There were 186 responses for the 2014 survey, 15.6 % of the 1,189 corporate law departments who were invited to participate.

The law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP surveyed almost 400 in - house attorneys to identify and predict trends in litigation for 2013 — the great majority of those surveyed attorneys were either corporate general counsel or in charge of litigation.

A survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel reveals an interesting disconnect between top in - house lawyers and outside law firms on the significance of social media and anti-bribery laws.

[/ a] In fact, 46.8 per cent of respondents to the annual Canadian Lawyer Corporate Counsel Survey said the billable hour is still the main arrangement they have with their primary law firm, followed by a combination of billable hours and flat fees at 31 per cent.

According to a survey of corporate counsel at large U.S. corporations reported by Law.com, nearly 70 % of law departments expect their annual operating budget to be flat or decrease in 2017.

Just one - third «of corporate counsel recommend their primary law firm to a peer» which is down roughly seven percentage points from the same survey a year earlier.

Elevate is the most - used law company according to the 2017 State of the Industry Survey published by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and has been ranked as a top global legal services provider by Chambers & Partners for the past three years in a row.

He was the co-founder of Corporate Legal Times (now known as Inside Counsel) and is currently the publisher of the Annual Law Department Operations Survey.

In the last several years, pretty much every survey out there — including CLOC's own 2018 State of Corporate Law Departments survey (with Thomson Reuters and Acritas)-- has shown a pretty dramatic increase in law department hiring, salaries, and size of department relative to the size of the company for the last several yeaLaw Departments survey (with Thomson Reuters and Acritas)-- has shown a pretty dramatic increase in law department hiring, salaries, and size of department relative to the size of the company for the last several yealaw department hiring, salaries, and size of department relative to the size of the company for the last several years.