Sentences with phrase «until more law firms»

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But more importantly, there's scant evidence that a billing revolution can stem the tide of law firm layoffs, at least not until the economy begins to rebound.

Until law schools expand their traditional teaching methods to include more skills - based and technical programs, which is slowly happening, law firms interested in promoting a culture of efficiency will need to consider less - traditional recruiting sources.

By way of introducing David, he qualified as a corporate lawyer in 1990 and in the late 90's turned to law firm management until 2004 when... [more]

There's some, I know Legal Zoom has some data that if I'm recalling it correctly says that law firms actually don't actually get more efficient until between 10 and 15 people and that there's sort of a jump in efficiency at two or three people and then they get less efficient until you get to 10 or 15 and then you can start taking advantage of some scale, which is interesting and you're sitting right in the middle of there where you can decide do you really want to move it forward and have a business or do you want to keep going and just serving clients without a bigger strategy in mind.

Not that I don't enjoy practicing law by any means, but that is, if you ask me, I'm much more interested in building successful businesses throughout the course of my life whatever those look like and right now happens to be a law firm working in family law and, like I said, I enjoy it, but at the end of the day, I'd love to not have the revenue generation rely on me so I can do more of that other, but until we see those scales tip, the majority of my work will still be on the client side and the billing side.

That is, until they see the bill for associates» weekend face time, at which point they may decide to retain a law firm that places more importance on how quickly work is completed, rather than where it is performed.

Law firms — rather than being perceived as entities that are bigger and more important than the sum of their parts — are viewed as disposable shells; mere life support systems upon which lawyers leech until retirement.

Even so, until that point in the keynote, nothing anyone said had elicited more than polite clapping from the room packed with several hundred law firm C - suite - ers.

Until law firms, law societies, and law schools step up their game and give equity training that is comparable to legal courses in law school, it is easy to see how equity and diversity training will remain no more than a bandwagon that law firms, schools, and students can easily abandon.

Until more people start using Twitter as a way to discuss their legal options, this form of advertising is unlikely to pay large dividends for law firms.

Her conclusion is that woman can adapt as much as possible to the demands of their career and their family but ultimately until law firms change, women — and increasingly men — will chose to leave for other more flexible options.

About twenty years ago, when I was a junior associate at a Boston law firm, a more senior lawyer told me about a lawyer he had known who had practiced law until the 1950s.

Until recently, not many law firms considered the billing process to be anything more than a support function.

Through each evolutionary stage, the lawyer can transport more and more information on ever - smaller and lighter items, until he gets to the point where he is essentially a walking law firm.

Up until now, law firms had not appeared to seriously take steps to automate legal processes... [more]

This was until law firms and corporates actually started to make use of legal AI systems, especially in the last two years and even more so last year.