Sentences with phrase «actual legal work»

Between scheduling appointments, tracking time, billing for your services, and performing actual legal work, you have a lot on your plate.

This results in maximizing time doing actual legal work and tasks that involve deliberation, exercising judgment and a high intellectual capacity — jobs AI just can't do.

Some corporations, particularly those with small in - house staffs, perform little actual legal work in - house, preferring to delegate substantive legal tasks to an approved list of local counsel.

This one - man - show, however, is not usually very efficient and often drains attorneys of time that could be better spent making money doing actual legal work.

The complaint said Skelos, an attorney, has been paid over $ 2.6 million since 1994 by a law firm for which he did not appear to perform actual legal work, but instead was paid to refer clients and meet with them about legislative matters.

November 10, 2015 Lawyers from Weitz & Luxenberg testified that Silver didn't perform any actual legal work since he joined the firm in 2002.

Not many are $ 79.5 K. I can see a 15 - 20 % allowance for outside earnings but attorneys like Flanagan should not get between $ 150 - 250K when they do no actual legal work on behalf of clients — and especially when the law firm he works for has a lobbying division that attempts to influence decision that come before him.

«The idea of a no show job paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for no work is a farce,» Stebbins said of the ex-speaker, who did no actual legal work.»

Federal prosecutors successfully argued in a November trial that Silver did no actual legal work for the firm outside of attracting mesothelioma patients from a physician who received legislative favors from the powerful Manhattan Democrat.

«Speaker Silver never did any actual legal work.»

Last week, firm co-founder Perry Weitz said Silver made the money solely by delivering clients, and not by getting his «fingers dirty» with actual legal work.

Cohen's attorneys were trying to establish that he was doing actual legal work to justify their claim that the seized documents were protected by attorney - client privilege.

Plus, that sort of processing power should be able to make serious inroads on actual legal work (estate planning lawyers, your days are numbered) by online legal services, which may be increasingly free.

When it comes to actual legal work, lawyers can innovate like crazy.

On the whole, in a traditional law firm, the lawyers do a number of different things, ranging from marketing and lead generation through the actual legal work, and potentially even other activities.

There are lots of other useful apps for legal work, especially if we start talking about apps in which one might do actual legal work, like Goodreader or Google Docs.

Organized logically, the book starts with deciding what kinds of clients you want, to finding those clients, to choosing clients and establishing fee agreements, to doing the actual legal work.

The platform to win the race will be the one that strips out most of the actual legal work (research, drafting, etc.) and replaces it with technology, while empowering human lawyers to focus on advising, guiding, and counseling their clients.

Attorneys and paralegals do most of the actual legal work, billing by the hour or for a flat fee.

Technology platforms in new law models are built to facilitate workflow, communication and in some instances to do the actual legal work.

While it may seem unfair that you could be rated based on your use (or lack thereof) of a website, as opposed to your actual legal work, such is reality.

The caution notes that by early 2013, two lawyers (one was Jeremy's wife, Sandra Zisckind) had joined the firm to do the actual legal work.

You learn from the instructors and the others in the workshop using a mixture of case studies based on actual legal work, small group exercises and short lectures.

To ensure high quality and a fair profit at this lower price point, much of the actual legal work is done by specialized non-partner attorneys (research attorney, early case evaluation attorney, discovery attorney, brief writer attorney).»

This means that attorneys may lose an opportunity for additional billable hours attributable to support staff when hiring outsourced workers since they can not charge hourly paralegal fees to clients, but virtual workers and legal process outsourcers can still help attorneys save money by giving attorneys more time to add billable hours for actual legal work and reduce overhead costs and employment expenses.

I wonder whether the actual legal work at larger firms tends to be more complex and difficult, such that the larger population of young lawyers who lack the mental chops go to work for the firms that pay less for less mentally demanding work.

The mechanism is the «summer associate» program — an extended, summer - long trial employment period after the second year of law school, which blends some actual legal work with lots of parties and social events, including the infamous «summer lunch» (long, expensive, sometimes boozy lunches paid for by the firm, which happen several times a week).