Sentences with phrase «alternative billing systems»

Jeffrey Carr, former GC at FMC Technologies (and one of the innovators in alternative billing systems for lawyers),

It's another big week in the blogosphere for proponents of the alternative billing systems known as «value billing.»

Some firms have made real commitments to flat - fee and alternative billing systems.

An alternative billing system can not succeed unless there is built in flexibility to deal with unanticipated or extraordinary events.

Making the changes necessary to successfully implement an alternative billing system as a replacement for an hourly rate billing system will involve and likely will require significant changes in other systems including your evaluation, compensation, training and the practice / work management systems.

So that's why I didn't quite understand value billing guru Ron Baker's post about Shepherd's alternative billing system.

Making the changes necessary to successfully implement an alternative billing system as a replacement for an hourly rate billing system will involve and likely require significant changes in other systems including your evaluation, compensation, training and the practice / work management systems.

Not exact matches

«As the government continues to kick the can on the revised health bill, the healthcare system has no choice but to look to new cost - effective alternatives to provide greater access to care.

It's being billed as the first mainstream service allowing consumers to buy and sell bitcoin, the virtual currency used as an alternative to traditional money systems.

FICO, the company that created one of the most widely used credit - scoring systems in the U.S., recently announced it was starting a pilot program to increase the number of consumers who could be assigned a credit score based on alternative data, such as utility and phone bills.

An alternative bill would not have exacted such a promise and would have proceeded through a voucher system.

The new bill would eliminate this and require the State Education Department to establish an alternative assessment system.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

I asked the D.A.s for many, many months to come up with an alternative bill because it was clear to me that we have to do what we need to do to restore trust in the criminal justice system,» he said.

Voters will be asked if they want to «adopt the «alternative vote» system instead of the current «first past the post» system» for electing MPs in plans are outlined in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituenciessystem instead of the current «first past the post» system» for electing MPs in plans are outlined in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituenciessystem» for electing MPs in plans are outlined in the Parliamentary Voting System and ConstituenciesSystem and Constituencies Bill.

«What the bill is seeking to do is address a rapidly increasing alternative quasi-legal systems which undermine the fundamental principal — one law for all,» she told Radio 4's Today programme.

Instead, reformers are meant to be cheered that at least Labour's next manifesto will now include not only the detailed Lords reform plan contained in that draft bill but also a pledge for a referendum on the alternative vote system of election for the Commons.

«It's in the cars and is billed as a safe alternative to manual interactions with your car, but the voice systems simply don't work well enough.»

The amended version of AB 934 allows local districts and teachers unions to negotiate an alternative dismissal system, eliminating the bill's previous language whereby an ineffective teacher could be dismissed with due process after two negative evaluations and a robust professional development program.

In earlier testimony to the Education Committee, Dr. Bill Jones, Principal of Manatee School for the Arts in Bradenton, Fla., said, «The main reason why we're asking for alternative and additional authorizers really goes to the question of quality of education, both for the students and the quality of the charter school system, itself.

Overdrive has launched this new system in order to offer a compelling alternative to Hoopla, who pioneered pay - per - use or what Overdrive is billing as Cost - per - Circ.

Some of the services I provide include: Individual Coaching Assessments and Surveys Procedure and Systems Analysis and Creation Business Planning and Business Development I also do workshops and presentations for law firms, bar associations and other lawyer's groups on topics including: time management, legal marketing basics, law firm operations, billing practices and billing alternatives, targeting your ideal clients, and other practice management and business development issues.

Indeed, as we said years ago in the post chronomentrophobia, «from the perspective of the overworked associate or partner, there is nothing wrong with the billable hour fee system that is not very likely to be carried over to any alternative billing arrangements, so long as the firm expects the shift to be made without reducing its income or profits, and the lawyer expects the same income.

The Minister reiterated his intention to publish a comprehensive Mediation and Conciliation Bill in the near future and which will provide for a better operation of alternative dispute mechanisms in our legal system.

The proposed reforms to the civil justice system in Scotland, through the Courts Reform Bill, include the increased use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes including mediation, and for a range of issues, not just family cases.

3.3 New clause: 4A Special Guardianship Support and Information Services The aim of these amendments is to ensure that improved support for adopters in this Bill, in the form of personal budgets and better information about support is extended to special guardians who, like adopters, are providing a permanent home for the child as an alternative to them being in the care system.

FICO, the company that created one of the most widely used credit - scoring systems in the U.S., recently announced it was starting a pilot program to increase the number of consumers who could be assigned a credit score based on alternative data, such as utility and phone bills.