Sentences with phrase «alternative fee proposals»

Unlike the bill by the hour lawyers who even bid alternative fee proposals by using estimating the number of hours a matter would take and then padding the final number, plaintiffs lawyers value a case by thinking through such things what's the case worth vs. how long it will likely take to get a settlement or verdict and who is on the other side.

Both of these partners acknowledged that their alternative fee proposals are generated by guessing — generously — the number of hours a matter will require and multiplying that number by the hourly rates of the people who would spend those hours.

I believe the «wolf in sheep's clothing» is the dominant methodology used by big firms, indeed, most firms to calculate alternative fee proposals.

Not exact matches

Of course I wish that the proposal for a graduate tax put forward now by the hon. Gentleman's leader, which comes from a party that introduced tuition fees having previously said that it would not do so, would work and that it was an alternative that we could implement.

How do the wealth transfers from your proposal compare with an alternative of a emissions charge set at the level of your fee that finances a «general» tax reduction structured to maintain the current vertical equity structure in Alberta as much as possible?

Most controversial among these is the proposal that «lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals,» in other words, alternative business structures.

Another priority is developing a cost - and - margin analysis model that would allow the firm to do a better job of coming up with proposals for alternative fee arrangements.

(3) its recent handling of the «alternative business structures proposals» (ABS proposals) for the potential millions of dollars in legal fees to be earned by representing investors eager to own law firms.

By now, the attorney fees are mounting, and if alternative proposals must be made, that again goes through the attorneys again and raises costs even more.

The CFPB issued a proposal that would require a no - points, no - fees loan option («zero - zero alternative») to be offered to the consumer before upfront points or fees could be imposed.

The comment stated that such a chart would be preferable to the Bureau's 2012 Loan Originator Proposal, which would have required that, before a creditor or mortgage broker may impose upfront points and / or fees on a consumer, the creditor must make available to the consumer a comparable, alternative loan with no upfront discount points, origination points, or origination fees (zero - zero alternative).