Sentences with phrase «as firms struggle»

Barry bemoaned the recent trend of laying off lawyers and reining in costs as firms struggle to deal with dips in transaction work.

Backlogs of work also continued to rise in both sectors as firms struggled to cope with the influx of new business, in some instances linked to shortages of materials and suitable staff.

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One sector that lagged behind was startups, as people become increasingly worried about valuations and stability at a number of firms as they either delay going public or struggle in the public market, such as Snap Inc. and Blue Apron Holdings Inc..

Uday Hegde, CEO of USEReady, a firm that helps businesses leverage big data and BI technologies, shares why business leaders struggle to implement BI,» The problem is driving adoption in a large organization, as the data needs to be something each stakeholder can make use of.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

Several key commodities traders left Goldman Sachs Group Inc earlier this year, sources said, as the Wall Street firm seeks to turn around its struggling commodities unit.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

Brookfield Property's efforts to buy GGP have come as mall owners across the United States are struggling as a result of many retailers losing out to e-commerce firms such as Amazon.com.

Headhunters, especially those at the most elite firms — Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Egon Zehnder, and Korn Ferry — may seem as mystical (and unapproachable) as they are often powerful.

The emergence of further interest in Vocus brightens buyout prospects for a firm which has seen its share price slide in the wake of a May profit warning as it struggles to make the most of acquisitions bought in a three - year $ 2.4 billion shopping spree.

Books: Human Resources in the Family Business: Maximizing the Power of Your People This book will help HR managers and founders / owners develop a formal process within the company and also provide insights from family firms on how to manage sensitive topics ranging from family member compensation; family member appraisal, etc., and serves as a guide to HR managers struggling to get a «seat at the table» in family firms.

We'll explore how social media firms such as Facebook and Snapchat are trying to turn their text messaging services into money transfer services, and why they're struggling to take off.

LBOs were never intended as warm & fuzzy processes for resuscitating struggling companies, and are really not targeted at reasonably healthy firms, who generally qualify for more advantageous financing.

As more firms try to occupy its niche, CALD will struggle to differentiate its product, and it should have real trouble competing with a firm like ORCL on price.

Having struggled with high operating costs, as previously reported by CoinDesk, a successful ICO would likely secure the struggling firm's future.

Bloomberg's Steven Arons: «Deutsche Bank AG is abandoning its ambitions to be a top global securities firm as it embarks on possibly the most sweeping overhaul yet of its struggling investment bank.

As they surveyed the mass of struggling mankind, firm on the pinnacle they had achieved, they complimented themselves as having triumphed because they deserved tAs they surveyed the mass of struggling mankind, firm on the pinnacle they had achieved, they complimented themselves as having triumphed because they deserved tas having triumphed because they deserved to.

Stage five, adolescence, is the period of the identity crisis when a youth struggles to gain a firm sense of who he is as a person, separate from his parents.

By the time we reached the car my limbs were trembling and my fingers were bone white as I struggled to keep a firm grasp on their writhing little bodies.

It is needed now more than ever as I see more and more parents struggle to be firm and consistent with their children.

But a better understanding of public commercial assets — defined as government property that generates profit, such as state - owned firms, real estate, and forests — could help yield significant amounts of wealth for economies struggling to get back on track.

The comptroller and auditor general told MPs that firms as large as Serco and G4S struggle to control the way bonuses incentivise certain behaviours because of their size.

«Throughout the recession, we all heard the struggles small firms faced as many had to shut up shop because they were being paid late, and couldn't access finance from the banks, leaving their cash - flow in a volatile position.

Picken said most of the examples and stories in the study come from his personal experience as a CEO or senior manager in entrepreneurial firms, or as a consultant helping CEOs as they struggled through the process of transition.

CNN MONEY.COM — June 18 — Yahoo!, the No. 2 search firm that has struggled in its battle with Google, said Monday that Terry Semel was out as CEO, to be succeeded by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one irreparably shattered, one holding firm despite intense pressure, it imagines life as a steady succession of denials, duty waging a futile struggle against desire.

Tablet market in India declined by over 32 percent to 0.78 million units in January - March this year as it continued to struggle to attract buyers, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters)- The global junk bond default rate rose to 1.79 percent in July from 1.44 percent in June as U.S. financial and real estate firms struggled to keep up with debt payments, Standard & Poor's said on Thursday.

As you can surmise, they are businesses struggling to such an extent that investors forget completely about the firm's net asset value and are willing to sell them for an irrationally low price.

A 2007 Boston Globe article reported that «Credit card companies woo struggling mortgage - holders,» and that «as sub-prime borrowers began to default on their mortgages in rapidly growing numbers this year, credit card issuers increased their efforts to sign up such customers with tarnished financial histories, according to a market research firm.»

Greg Doan, the family patriarch and founder of this dad - and - five - sons - firm, took the Court's message as a call to action, saying, «There are many families in our local communities that struggle just to make ends meet.

«The e-sports market has been closed in Japan and as a consequence Japanese companies have struggled to compete,» said Pelham Smithers, owner of an eponymous London - based firm that researches Asian tech companies.»

Last year the firm went through well - documented financial difficulties as it struggled to pay staff in full and seemingly stay afloat.

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A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

As one of only a handful of black firms in the country, they have long struggled to get work.

Like many firms, we have found ourselves trying to give bits and pieces of advice where we can to other agencies struggling to deal with these clients but, as with those in detention, these are rarely straightforward cases and piecemeal pro bono advice is neither an appropriate or viable way to assist.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Hogan Lovells have narrowly failed to meet partnership gender diversity targets set for this year, as the UK's top firms continue to struggle to increase female representation among their senior ranks.

As clients demand more value from their outside counsel relationships and institute SLAs, firms struggle to quantify how they are better serving clients than their competition.

And, in fact, we're struggling to count on one hand the number of times we've received press releases highlighting the plainly obvious fact that senior positions within the information - related part of a firm are as important as those of practitioners

Long story short, after passing the Bar Exam I struggled to find a position as an associate at a firm practicing entertainment law.

«While much as been written about law firms» struggles to reach gender parity and equity among their ranks, there has been scant recognition of the general disparity in legaltech,» writes Sonday, who was herself recognized among the 2017 Women of Legal Tech by the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center.

I think following the models of those firms where I see my colleagues going out and setting up law firms that look very much like law firms from 15 years ago, it is a struggle, as opposed to looking forward and looking for new opportunities in this shifting landscape.

She reports that partners at London offices of three U.S. firms — King & Spalding, O'Melveny & Myers and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman — are losing substantial amounts as they struggle to establish a London foothold.

Many modern lawyers struggle to maintain the forward facing element of managing their firm, as well as running an efficient business.

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We've used different project management software to do it, e-mail, and even not just our writers but our actual staff team we have an office but many of them work from home or work remotely at least part of the time by choice and it's something we allow and encourage, but it isn't always the perfect solution for making sure that teams of people are on the same page and coordinated, and that's of course completely setting aside the fact that there are plenty of business owners who care about Face time and making sure people are working hard and we've actually, we trust the people we work with so that's not even on our radar, though it definitely would be on some small law firms radars as an additional struggle with remote workers.

Even opponents to using profit per equity partner (PEP) as a measure of law firm success would struggle to contend that a firm posting a 19 % year - on - year fall in profit was in anything other than a challenging position.

She also believes smaller firms such as hers can offer a strong value proposition to clients struggling to find affordable legal services in Toronto's downtown core.

Details emerge of discussions between struggling US firm Sedgwick and UK insurance leader Clydes as talks stall following partner exits