Sentences with phrase «about doing business with lawyers»

All the companies I spoke with — like any company that is serious about doing business with lawyers — take the same sort of precautions your bank would use, which are sufficient for most lawyers» needs.

Not exact matches

Obviously, I had no interest in speaking with American firms about American law for a Canadian publication, but I was always interested in U.S. firms that were doing something interesting on the practice management or business - model side, because these are universal issues for lawyers.

Dershowitz also says that if a criminal defense lawyer ever becomes comfortable with his work, he should get out of the business, and shares his nightmares about getting a client acquitted only to have him «do it again.»

Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.

Adriana Linares: Mac at Work, which I carry it around when I do Macs in a law office presentation and I say this wasn't specifically written for lawyers but it was written for a lawyer and it has great advice in it about how to just run a business with a Mac and I think it's a great book.

To be really safe about doing business in Brazil, international corporations need to have a local manager or consultant that is very experienced and able to deal with tax authorities, lawyers and risk management.

(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.

In fact, the cover story of the April issue of the ABA Journal is all about Artificial Intelligence, and that article proclaims that Artificial Intelligence is changing the way lawyers think, the way they do business, and the way they interact with clients.

Susskind seems to be concerned about what will happen to the lawyers of 2010 and onwards, who are poised to enter and adopt a professional model that's fundamentally misaligned with how the rest of the world does business.

«We start to train our lawyers from the minute they come in the door about nurturing their relationships with their clients, understanding their clients» business, being more entrepreneurial, understanding they may have to do heavy lifting on files in circumstances in which other firms may have an extraordinary number of people working on the same file,» she says.

Plenty of private practice lawyers talk a good game about being commercial (and to be fair, some of them do have an excellent grasp of their clients» businesses), but there are plenty who glaze over when faced with a discussion of what's really important to their clients.

One of the things I like about being an IT lawyer is that I get to see interesting new technology and businesses, and with any luck do their legal work.

Prof. Conduct 123 (2001)(subject to the operational structure and content described in the opinion, a lawyer may affiliate with an online legal services website); Nebraska Op. 07 - 05 (lawyer may participate in internet lawyer directory which identifies itself as a directory, disclaims being a referral service and only lists basic information about lawyers without recommending specific lawyers and charges a reasonable, flat annual advertising fee); New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising Op. 36 (2006)(lawyer may pay flat fee to internet marketing company for exclusive website listing for particular county in specific practice area if listing includes prominent, unmistakable disclaimer stating the listings are paid advertisements and not endorsements or authorized referrals); North Carolina Op. 2004 - 1 (lawyer may participate in for - profit online service that is a hybrid referral service - legal directory, provided there is no fee - sharing with the service and communications are truthful); Oregon Op. 2007 - 180 (2007)(lawyer may pay nationwide internet referral service for listing if listing is not false or misleading and does not imply that the lawyer can represent clients outside jurisdictions of the lawyer's license, fee is not based on number of referrals, retained clients or revenue generated by listing and the service does not exercise discretion in matching clients with lawyers); Rhode Island 2005 - 01 (permitting website that enables lawyers to post information about their services and respond to anonymous requests for legal services in exchange for flat annual membership fee if website exercises no discretion over which requests lawyers may access); South Carolina 01 - 03 (lawyer may pay internet advertising service fee determined by the number of «hits» that the service produces for the lawyer provided that the service does not steer business to any particular lawyer and the payments are not based on whether user ultimately becomes a client); Texas Op. 573 (2006)(lawyer may participate in for - profit internet service that matches potential clients and lawyers if selection process is fully automated and performed by computers without the exercise of human discretion); Virginia Advertising Op.