• Oil and gas is a capital - intensive industry; it requires a large
amount of legal work to raise capital via private placements, prospectus or otherwise and then use those funds for further exploration and development opportunities.
Think of
the amount of legal work required to run this — leasing, employment, litigation, and general corporate work — the list is endless.
Flat fees are fees that a client pays up front to a law firm to handle a certain
amount of legal work on their behalf.
In New York, Robins has found, «The court expects the lawyers to do the same
amount of legal work whether the case involves a $ 5,000 consumer credit card debt or a $ 1,000,000 Chapter 11 [business bankruptcy] turnover action.»
This result is a testament to the fact that law firms were carrying out mind - boggling
amounts of legal work inefficiently, haphazardly, and wastefully.
Not exact matches
«In the first place we propose to shorten the
legal duration
of Parliament from seven years to five years, which will probably
amount in practice to an actual legislative
working term
of four years.
The
amount includes fees for all
legal work, including the ultimately unsuccessful defense
of the 2015 airport laws against litigation brought by a coalition
of aviation groups.
It is also important to note that, if we assume that David Miliband is not breeching the # 175,000
legal limit on campaign materials, printing, postage etc, he is spending huge
amounts of money paying people to
work for him.
He knows his fields could thrive with much smaller
amounts of water — he's seen them do so in dry years — but the property owners he
works for have the
legal right to take a large supply, and he applies the water generously.
Even with the V - 6, which leaves the engine compartment so empty that one mechanic said he could stand in it to
work, Camaro RS has adequate performance for getting to the
legal speed in a safe
amount of time and cruises easily once it reaches higher speeds.
While Rowling herself has disparaged fan fiction and has taken
legal action against titles that use her characters, Rowling herself could write and publish what would essentially
amount to fan fiction
of her own
work.
LegalShield
works with more than 1.6 million members, guiding and assisting them through challenging
legal situations while saving them significant
amounts of money.
In the past year
legal costs paid via CSAS, Inc1 have
amounted to almost $ 100K including a $ 25K grant to OCT and partial support
of one
of the OCT lawyers (Dan Galpern), who
works with me in preparation
of testimony and briefs for the Oregon and other
legal cases.
From having a vast
amount of experience in Native American Law, to
working as a military officer and lawyer on cases at Guantanamo Bay, Robert offers many insights into his
work as a
legal expert in Oklahoma.
Negrea is a third - year student at the University
of Manitoba Robson Hall law school, who has devoted a significant
amount of time
working at the University Law Centre with
Legal Aid Manitoba to provide legal assistance to those who can not afford private representa
Legal Aid Manitoba to provide
legal assistance to those who can not afford private representa
legal assistance to those who can not afford private representation.
In contrast, most law firms price
work, bill clients, compensate lawyers and reward partners based on the
amount of time and effort required to produce and deliver
legal services.
The end result is that few clients will tolerate lawyers who bill time for doing
work that does not require a law degree, and the
amount of «bespoke»
legal work performed by lawyers will shrink as far as possible.
Because Ravn's technology can quickly go through large
amounts of data, it opens the door for different
legal work that previously wasn't possible.
At the same time he was attempting to integrate skills training through moot courts, however, Stearns also noted what was to be a common problem with moot courts and competent
legal writing instruction in general: the
amount of work it took on the part
of the professor.
If the debtor does not pay the
amount of a Small Claims Court judgment and does not
work out a payment plan, a creditor must wait 30 days from the date
of the judgment before using other
legal means to collect.
By and large, successful
legal professionals
working in government are comfortable taking direction, able to accept authority (sometimes without question), deferential when warranted and possess a fair
amount of professional confidence.
Furthermore, as
legal services commoditise still further, the
amount of partner - level
work has continued to reduce.
Our spinal attorneys
work on a contingency fee basis, which means that you are protected financially at all times, as we believe that
legal support is the right
of any person regardless
of the
amount of money they have to spend on
legal protection.
General counsel at more than a dozen energy companies say they have significantly expanded their in - house
legal departments while simultaneously increasing the
amount of work awarded to outside counsel.
John Barnett, head
of Tax at Burges Salmon, says: «Sarah comes to the firm with a huge
amount of experience and expertise in the area
of tax, having
worked in
legal, accountancy and consultancy practices as well as in academia.
On page 5
of the contract, Simpson estimates that the
work, which will take place over a six - month period, will involve 564 hours
of partner time, 1,692 hours
of associate time and 376 hours for
of counsel
work, for a total
of 1,632 lawyer hours that, spread over the $ 300,000 budget,
amounts to an average lawyer rate
of $ 113.98 an hour (there are also 1,128 hours allocated for
legal assistants, which I didn't include in my calculation).
Just over a quarter
of finance directors said they were also very concerned about clients consolidating their
legal panels — thus reducing the
amount of potential
work available and driving down fees for those firms that are retained.
No matter what your practice area or kind
of legal employer, you can learn a significant
amount by serving the needs
of others through pro bono
work.
Lawyers say they don't want to offer fixed fees because they figure that the client, having bought what is essentially an unlimited
amount of legal services, will then deluge the lawyer with phone calls, emails, and tasks
of varying complexity, burying the lawyer in
work for which he or she will never be compensated.
While fears still run high across the
legal sector that AI will have an impact on jobs — and ACE will do a huge
amount of work for BLP currently undertaken by paralegals and associates — according to Whalley it will not cost anyone at BLP a job.
The costs would be a small portion
of the actual
legal fees based on the
amount of work completed in the lawsuit.
Though this wasn't, strictly speaking, my principal area
of legal interest, I did learn an immense
amount about client care, dealing with vulnerable people and
working under pressure.
When representing you in a personal injury case, our team will
work diligently to ensure that you recover the maximum
amount of damages possible and assume all
legal burdens so that you can focus on your recovery.
And even if they manage to secure
legal services, their problems do not end — they have to contend with arcane and complex court procedures, they receive poor customer service from their lawyer, they question if the
work could have been done more efficiently and, as a result, more cheaply, they don't understand the information they are given, they are not able to judge the quality
of the services they receive, they receive bills they do not understand, for
amounts they never anticipated.
When injuries require medical attention and prevent you from
working and earning wages, a personal injury claim can be a viable and powerful
legal tool to secure the full
amount of compensation you require.
One
of the recommendations in the report to improve the availability
of legal assistance to the poor was to encourage performance
of pro bono services, including the establishment
of a guideline setting an
amount of pro bono
work that is appropriate and enactment
of legislation to enable government attorneys to do pro bono
work Progress was made in expanding the availability
of assistance in the 1970s, but serious inadequacies continued to exist as recognized by the Supreme Court
of Florida in The Florida Bar v Furman:
After many years
working with in - house
legal teams, I am still amazed and concerned to see lawyers at all levels
of an organisation having large
amounts of their time, wasted by a whole series
of barriers, constraints and issues.
He says his books rank among his proudest accomplishments, not only because they require a tremendous
amount of work, but because they help people both in and outside
of the
legal field.
By reducing the
amount of time they spend on lower value activities your
legal team can spend more time on higher value
work.
How he leverages the use
of his paralegals to reduce the
amount of time it takes to complete his documents and other
legal work
Volunteers from the Commission
worked with staff from the State Bar
of Wisconsin and representatives from numerous other organizations to develop a proposal that would have provided a small
amount of state funding to meet the
legal needs
of abuse victims.
Lawyers can conduct
work on the move with easy access to firms» data and
legal research platforms from any location and cloud storage increasing access to data in
amounts far beyond the capacity
of a given storage device.»
Robots have taken many
of the assembly - line jobs previously occupied by humans, and now it looks like computers may be able to take over what
amounts to
legal assembly - line
work: document review.
Because real estate agents
work with large
amounts of money, complex transactions, and a multitude
of contracts and
legal documents, it has become a highly regulated industry.
This aversion toward the
legal profession may be due to an increasing
amount of attorneys
working towards self - interest instead
of public interest.
Priori offers a number
of articles on
legal process management that address issues like how to allocate
legal work between differently priced
legal service providers, how to invest
legal resources in proportion to the
amount at stake, and how to ensure that your attorney time is spent productively.
We understand that it can be daunting when you're faced with
legal issues that you've never dealt with before - and on top
of that have aggressive adjusters trying to force you back to
work and settle for a tiny
amount that won't cover you down the road if the effects
of your injuries are not truly understood and how this will play out in the long term.
Reducing the
amount of time spent on
legal research and converting that time to higher - value billable
work creates the opportunity for a net increase in revenue.
The starting point for the Court's assessment
of a «fair fee» remains the parties» agreement, but the dollar
amount ultimately charged must not be so disproportionate to the
work done as to impugn the integrity
of the
legal profession.
The reason I pitch for finding ways to get more
of our rules and
legal processes developed by non-government entities — both for - profit companies and non-profit community organizations — is to harness what markets offer: a distributed and decentralized mechanism for processing massive
amounts of information and identifying when, where, and how doing things differently might
work to produce value.