Sentences with phrase «at alternative arrangements»

If the non-attendance continues then the Local Authority may begin statutory proceedings to force attendance at school or look at alternative arrangements.

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Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

Many factors are contributing to this: the ubiquity of smartphones and internet access, the increasingly global scope of business and, importantly, greater acceptance of flexible and / or alternative work arrangements (think: spending only three hours in the office during the day, then catching up from the neighbourhood coffee shop at night).

We live at a time when the taking of lifelong marriage vows is increasingly regarded as unnecessary, as a mere optional extra, while alternative forms of domestic arrangements are given official...

We live at a time when the taking of lifelong marriage vows is increasingly regarded as unnecessary, as a mere optional extra, while alternative forms of domestic arrangements are given official sanction, arrangements which enable couples to live together as «partners» under some mutilated or truncated «form» of traditional vows.

Either arrangement can be tough, at least through the first year, with serious tradeoffs involved.Think it through and talk to her about available alternatives.

Choose to stay in residence at the MMI campus during your program, or make alternative housing arrangements off - property as a commuter.

Heads and Governors could well make alternative arrangements to fulfil the Ofsted requirement that all schools will need to be able to demonstrate a vibrant cultural life, including music, at an inspection.

This can be particularly problematic in the early years sector, where parents often do not have alternative childcare arrangements and are keen to return their child to the setting at the earliest opportunity.

Determine if one will be available at the end of the lesson or make alternative arrangements for printing the completed posters.

This Cadillac ATS has actually passed a 40 pt evaluation qualifying it to be qualified for a prolonged service arrangement and Volvo Center can help you with competitive funding alternatives.

Bills started piling up very quickly and, at the time, Banks were not very receptive to the alternative payment arrangements that they offered later on in the recession.

«With the decline of the traditional extended family, in which relatives were available to take care of children at need, many parents in the United States have sought alternative arrangements.

To make alternative arrangements to see a pet at the Adoption Center or one currently in a foster home, contact our adoption counselor, Beth ([email protected]).

If we become unable to provide a significant proportion of the services that you have booked with us after you have departed, we will make alternative arrangements for you at no extra charge and, if appropriate in all the circumstances, will pay you reasonable compensation.

If we become unable to provide a significant proportion of the services that you have booked with us after you have departed, we will, if possible, make suitable alternative arrangements for you at no extra charge and, if appropriate in all the circumstances, will pay you reasonable compensation.

We also have an arrangement to use the rooftop pool at the hotel next door for any of our Guests who would like that alternative during this time.

Bratton seems to agree in his article, saying that in his experience, alternative fee arrangements run into difficulty when projects «blow up quickly or change direction unexpectedly, such that a quote at the beginning of a project based on a number of assumptions can become meaningless.»

To be successful at making a change from the billable hour to alternative fee arrangements, lawyers should be clear about the benefits to their clients and the consequences for failing to make the change.

Join us at our upcoming Evolve Law event in Minnesota where our expert panel and Darwin talk presenters explore Alternative Business Models and fee arrangements.

Other improvements include additional alternative fee arrangements, group portfolio pricing along with the addition of success / bonus fee values, an enhanced ability to search for specific matter plans, new margin percentage columns in the forecast screen and forecast locking to prevent multiple users from updating a plan at the same time.

The survey also contains a leaderboard of 22 law firms named by corporate counsel as best at developing and delivering alternative fee arrangements.

«Document automation software reduces the cost of producing court documents and letters, enabling greater price flexibility at a time when alternative billing arrangements are growing in popularity,» said Bass.

«At times, we have utilized alternative fee arrangements — sometimes at our own initiative, sometimes at a client's request — but I wouldn't say there's a significant increase in the types of matters that are services using a flat, block or alternative fee arrangement.&raquAt times, we have utilized alternative fee arrangements — sometimes at our own initiative, sometimes at a client's request — but I wouldn't say there's a significant increase in the types of matters that are services using a flat, block or alternative fee arrangement.&raquat our own initiative, sometimes at a client's request — but I wouldn't say there's a significant increase in the types of matters that are services using a flat, block or alternative fee arrangement.&raquat a client's request — but I wouldn't say there's a significant increase in the types of matters that are services using a flat, block or alternative fee arrangement.»

Gordon McCue, associate general counsel for strategy and coordination at Shell (pictured right), says his department has introduced an alternative fee arrangement programme that means Shell's panel firms must agree to do work on its terms.

Indeed, the Supreme Court recognises at Paragraph 79 that the UK's specific constitutional arrangement with regard to EU law arose at least in part because «there was no practical alternative to such an arrangement in a dualist system».

At the InsideCounsel SuperConference, Ted Olson, former Solicitor General and partner at Gibson Dunn, asked a panel of General Counsel from Ford, Procter & Gamble, and Allstate Insurance what they look for in their outside lawyers (other than lower fees and alternative fee arrangementsAt the InsideCounsel SuperConference, Ted Olson, former Solicitor General and partner at Gibson Dunn, asked a panel of General Counsel from Ford, Procter & Gamble, and Allstate Insurance what they look for in their outside lawyers (other than lower fees and alternative fee arrangementsat Gibson Dunn, asked a panel of General Counsel from Ford, Procter & Gamble, and Allstate Insurance what they look for in their outside lawyers (other than lower fees and alternative fee arrangements).

While all panelists agreed that profitability is most important, each gave different ideas of how to respond to requests for alternative fee arrangements, from fixed fees and discounted hourly rates, to finding opportunities for the firm and their client to «split the difference» when certain milestones are achieved at greater - than - expected margins.

«At a time when general counsel are looking for alternative billing arrangements, the playing field has been leveled, so smaller firms can make pitches to big clients that would have fallen on deaf ears before,» DuPont General Counsel Thomas L. Sager told Cotts.

John Larkin, partner and head of the insurance group at Irish firm William Fry, cites cultural similarities and favourable tax arrangements as additional benefits that Ireland can provide in order to entice companies to consider alternative jurisdictions to access the EU's single market.

Alternative fees and discount arrangements with law firms were at the top of the list, in addition to strategies small legal departments have employed to take more work in - house as a cost - saving measure.

It's a natural reaction for lawyers and law firms to resist it because they would like to retain the hourly billing at a non-budgeted amount, but there are lawyers and firms that actually come to the table and offer the alternative fee arrangement — it could be a cap on certain things, or a volume discount.

• INHOUSE: Are you looking at alternative fee arrangements or is this still early days for that kind of approach?

ACC has published a 2010 «Value - Based Fee Primer,» available for reading at http://www.acc.com/valuechallenge/index.cfm, that has some interesting fee rate statistics and alternative arrangements for retaining outside counsel other than traditional «by the hour» retentions.

In the latest BTI Consulting Group report, «BTI State of Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs),» LTL ATTORNEYS LLP (LTL) was named by corporate counsel as one of only 22 firms of the 650 law firms serving the Fortune 1000 as best at developing and delivering AFAs.

2012 March «Alternative Fee Arrangements on the Rise at Law Firms» by Lisa van der Pool (Boston Business Journal) >> READ ARTICLE

ALM Legal Intelligence reports that as clients request alternative fee arrangements, law firms find, at a 2:1 ratio, that these new billing structures are less profitable.

Due to its expertise in Attorney Hourly Rate and Alternative Fee Arrangement (AFA) or Alternative Billing Arrangements Pricing for individual Attorneys at over 1,200 Law Firms including the Top 200 by Annual Revenue Size, Magic Circle and other large regional, middle - market, small and boutique Firms, Valeo has been used as a primary source and cited for articles in the major law and business publications.

Panelists at the ABA's 2016 Techshow on Law Firm Economics presented ways that law firms can approach alternative fee arrangements, Lean Law, budgeting, collecting, and accounting to stay ahead and meet client demands.

You might have read a recent article about the 12 alternative fee arrangements we use at A2L.

Legal departments also need to look at different billing models, such as alternative fee arrangements, how they manage internal versus external spend, the way they manage relationships with their law firms and how they're using technology to drive better outcomes.

Well - suited for individuals in complex family, financial, and business circumstances, alternative dispute resolution approaches, such as family mediation and family arbitration, offer you the benefits of greater privacy, a less formal process, more control over your outcomes, improved communication, reduced negative impacts on children, more timely settlement, reduced costs, and greater opportunity to preserve your family relationships and arrive at mutually agreeable arrangements.

* The hype may exceed the reality on alternative - fee arrangements — but not at pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, which takes an aggressive and innovative approach to AFAs.

Our clients have named us one of only 22 firms in the United States as «best at alternative fee arrangements» and a «leading recommended firm» in the Manufacturing industry, in the top 5 % of law firms in that sector.

Today it's not at all unusual for procurement professionals on the client side and pricing specialists at law firms to work together on determining rate levels and fair alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) for outside counsel work.

A key to staying within a budget, therefore (or, for that matter, to making any alternative fee arrangement work successfully) is for the client and outside counsel to establish at the outset a clear understanding that outside counsel will be able to manage key decisions about staffing and tactics to discharge the engagement successfully.

Overall, the percentage of matters that have billings under some sort of alternative fee arrangement (AFA) has remained fairly stable at approximately 9 % of matters and 7 % of billings (See Key Metric # 3).

Even if a law firm works primarily with corporate and business clients or in - house counsel and GC of companies, these clients are also increasingly looking at their law firms to use technology to make legal services more cost - effective and to find ways to unbundle legal services with alternative fee arrangements.

As well as combining alternative fees with «rigorous project management at every step,» Silversides says York has chosen similar, fairly routine file matters, and are running each file on a different fee arrangement, to see which arrangement might be best for those types of files.

«To make these alternative fee arrangements successful, there has to be a willingness to look at new ideas such as legal project management and legal process improvement,» said De Marco.