Not exact matches
According to Recorded Future, most Dark Web illicit services have implemented
alternative payment
systems besides Bitcoin, as a way to counter recent price fluctuations, high transaction
fees, and the ever - increasing transaction time.
These
alternative certification
systems are likely to provide
alternative means for many individuals to demonstrate and be valued for their skills without a need to attend academic courses, to pay expensive tuition
fees, to purchase new textbooks, and to pay for exam / certification costs.
Schools in their first year of operation and Wake County Public School
System alternative schools are exempt from this
fee.
Issue: The Surface Transportation
System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) program's purpose is to provide grants to States to demonstrate user - based
alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user
fee structure to maintain the long - term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.
In the make - or - take pricing model, exchanges (and some
alternative trading
systems) charge an access
fee for executing marketable orders that fill against (take) standing orders and provides a liquidity rebate for executed standing orders that make markets.
Finally, and perhaps most important, research shows that these
fees push consumers out of the banking
system, either voluntarily or involuntarily, leaving them to use expensive check - cashers and other
alternative financial services.
In some cases, you will find that different legal cloud - computing
systems have partnerships and therefore work together well as part of a seamless
system, and because it is a
fee - based service, you can expect that there will be more flexible and helpful customer - service
alternatives available.
One university project called RECAP has as its goal the objective of building a free
alternative to the PACER
system (PACER charges a per page
fee for access).
Implementing
alternative pricing arrangements isn't easy — it takes time and effort on the part of the firm to understand the needs of the client, to develop a
fee structure that makes sense for the firm and the client, and to adequately explain that
system to the client based upon the client's needs.
I asked their take on a conversation I had recently with a client where the client complained that the
alternative fees being offered to him were higher than he expected to pay under the hourly
system if the case had gone to trial.
According to Allstate managing counsel Bruce Goldberg, the
system allows the insurance giant to work out
alternative fee arrangements with these 13 firms (about half of them are smaller regional firms in the northwest, Ohio, West Virginia, and New Jersey).
Some firms have made real commitments to flat -
fee and
alternative billing
systems.
The issue highlighted the key areas for increasing firm profits, including increased marketing, avoiding trouble clients, utilizing
alternative fee arrangements, getting your clients to cover your client - related expenses, and investing in new
systems, methods and technology.
For example, Member States take varied positions on the availability of third party litigation funding and
alternative fee arrangements (such as contingency
fees); and some have opt - in
systems, opt - out regimes, or both.
We expect that the Government will now consult on an
alternative system, most likely with
fees at a lower level, or with a reciprocal requirement for employers to also pay
fees to level the playing field.
«Facing the
Alternative: How Does a Flat
Fee System Really Work?»
Our clients in large law firms consistently tell us that they prefer
alternative fee arrangements, because they only have to have one budget conversation with their corporate client, as opposed to the old way of an easy one up front and a hard one after trial, and because it is a «set it and forget it»
system that allows the lawyers to focus on getting the work done.
In a performance - based
system, those measures and definitions will need to change, especially if the firm is also increasing its use of
alternative methods of setting
fees.
The law firm KM toolkit has expanded to include enterprise search, experience location, expert
systems, and other collaborative tools — while the remit for some KM practitioners today also includes support for
alternative fee arrangements, process improvement......
Instead of waiting until you think your website is 100 % perfect or your plan for
alternative fees is guaranteed to make you more money than your current hourly
system, get your project to 70 %, take action and start getting feedback.
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.
As a simple betting platform, you may decide that the use of blockchain technology makes Augur a reasonable
alternative to sports betting sites, given that it runs in a transparently fair manner with much lower
fees than current online betting
systems.
This suit was evidently a de-facto action made by the Competition Bureau as a result of one member's complaint who saw an opportunity to exploit a
system paid for and maintained by all members and who solicited this change under the premise of offering the consumer a free to a drastically reduced
fee listing
alternative.