Sentences with phrase «because legal billing»

Because legal bills can be out of this world by the time a matter like this settles.

Because legal bills can be out of this world by the time a matter like this settles.

Not exact matches

The bill defines blockchain technology and smart contracts and then states that transactions based on these self - executing contracts could not be «denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability» because of the smart contract term.

«Michael never represented me in any matter, I never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer, I never received an invoice from Michael, I never paid legal fees to Michael,» Hannity said, before adding, «We definitely had attorney client privilege because I asked him for that but, you know, he never sent me a bill or an invoice or did I actually officially retain him.»

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 «born alive» bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been «fully in support» of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.»

In the 1990s, Gloria Steinem said that feminists should put up with a little bit of womanizing from Bill Clinton because he would keep abortion legal.

The proposed change was included in the Welfare Reform Bill — the most significant policy change proposed by the last Government in relation to fatherhood because it touched on the legal foundations.

Also, the district likely will incur more legal bills because a neighbor, Roger Stone, has filed an appeal to the permit, citing environmental concerns.

She also said that Cryns and her husband, who have seven children, are in danger of losing their Richmond home because of legal bills.

Speaking (and at one point singing) on Fred Dicker's Talk 1300 radio show this morning, former Assemblyman Bill Parment predicted that high - volume hydraulic fracturing will be delayed for at least a year because of legal challenges.

Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher court if you don't like the decision of a lower court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down by a Federal court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control laws are unconstitutional.

He says he feels this bill matters because 68 percent of his district is composed of legal immigrants who are currently not eligible to vote.

Kaehny noted than many are dissuaded from bringing FOIL lawsuits, even when they are confident they were wrongfully denied, because they fear being stuck with the legal bill.

But doing so, Caputo said, puts him under great financial pressure, given the mounting legal bills he faces because of the probe.

The New York Insurance Association, a trade group that represents property and casualty insurance industry, opposed Cahill's bill because it would «needlessly increase mandatory minimum limits of liability and fails to preserve the legal distinction between using a vehicle for personal uses and for ride - sharing services, which will result in greatly increased costs for all New York auto insurance consumers.»

But because his Ford Lincoln functions both as a means of transportation and as an office, he now has a delinquent client (Laurence Mason) chauffeuring him around L.A. as a way of paying off a legal bill.

Many of the original plaintiffs have backed out of the lawsuit because of legal bills that have added up over the history of the case.

This seems incorrect, although I lack expertise on this, as it's more of a legal issue, I don't think you can be denied electricity because of a roommate's lack of payment — if you weren't on the bill.

When I filled out the form my lawyer's legal assistant called because she thought I'd made a mistake — my electric bill couldn't possibly be as low as I wrote.

Environmental groups also say the bill could set off a boom in the construction of new coal plants because of provisions that would restrict legal efforts to block such projects.

«But it is unusual that after seven years all legal efforts are so narrowly focused, especially since Avila told lawmakers when he testified for the bill in 2002 that he expected other attorneys would take on cases because of favorable incentives written into the measure.»

«Progress so far,» Goodman writes, «indicates that the current application of legal AI could well be part of an evolution that will be a game changer for legal services, not because it will change the basic premise of what lawyers do — or replace them all — but because it will create shifts in the value chain, and therefore change the legal business model in terms of legal services procurement, billing — and margins.»

Supreme Court Dec. 29, 2016)-- 4 - 3 decision, majority opinion by Justice Cuellar and dissent by Justice Werdegar; discussed in our Dec. 29, 2016 post: Attorney - client privilege does not categorically shield from California Public Records Act disclosure billing invoices sent by clients in concluded, non-active cases because legal consultation was not the purpose of the invoices; however, the privilege did protect billing invoice entries in active, pending cases.

Sowinski: Virtually any insurance company or other corporate legal department would benefit from the use of a third - party bill review organization simply because of the expertise and benefits they provide, including improving the guidelines, and freeing up the internal organization to focus on matter management.

Because it is designed for lawyers, Tabs3 accommodates most legal billing styles.

With more than 130 products for sale across the group and 208 potential territories to offer services in, finding the answer to that question was previously time consuming because it meant consulting with legal, tax, regulatory, billing and product departments.

I understand that you may have children, a job, bills, and many other responsibilities and because of these, you are unable to devote 100 % of your time to this legal issue.

And it's not just because the hourly bill is being challenged or that RFP's, procurement officers, and auditors of legal invoices are proliferating.

Clio «s Legal Trends Report aggregates data from paid Clio subscribers in 2015, which is a base of approximately 40,000 Clio users.1 Because people use Clio for timekeeping and billing and Clio keeps track of data like firm location and practice areas, Clio can compile that data and come to some large - scale conclusions about solo and small firms.

Legal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanLegal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanlegal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demand it.

Aside from the fact that attorneys make enough money to pay their bills, they also make good clients because many lawyers are attracted to legal work in the first place in order to provide «justice for all.»

For the most part, however, because enforcing debts against state governments is so difficult, transactions are structured as much as possible to prevent the need to enforce debts in that way through (1) legal limitations on governmental liability, (2) legislative budget rules requiring interest on debt and currently due principal payments to be made first, (3) third - party bonding of state and local governmental construction projects, (4) the creation of publicly owned corporations whose debts can only be collected out of the corporation's assets and revenues, and (5) avoidance of trade credit obligations by paying bills in cash.

It represents an injustice, rather than justice that an injured father who lost 12 months of wages because of his injury will only get 9 months wages back, or that an injured person will only get part of her medical bills paid for because she had to pay for part of her own legal bill out of her compensation.

Recurring billing is a very novel concept in the legal industry, but one that we find intriguing because it unlocks massive growth potential.

Just because the degree of regulation of an industry correlates with higher legal spend per billion of revenue does not mean that regulation is the CAUSE of those legal expenses (nor do bulging legal bills cause regulations!).

It's not the all - nighter that's soul crushing; it's the all - nighter spent tracking down documents instead of learning the case or crafting winning legal arguments — followed by pushback from clients on why you billed that time or, worse, criticism because you didn't perfectly polish the deposition prep outline (which you would have loved to have time to do).

In my capacity as Marketing Manager I see that many lawyers in small to medium firms fear down time, not just because of billing targets but because it opens them up to having to do things outside their comfort zone and may force them to drop the persona or legal ego as I call it.

* A new bill would exempt law firms from laws against abusive debt collection practices because some people don't think the legal profession is objectionable enough and maybe a policy carveout allowing them to send Rocko out to crack client heads might just do the trick.

Having to prepare for multiple standby dates or waiting for trial to start because a judge has emergencies to handle adds to clients» legal bills without increasing the effectiveness of my advocacy.

Lawyers who don't want to bill by the hour, but still want to work in the legal industry and make decent pay, now have more options other than working in - house because of the explosion in legal tech startups.

At QualitySolicitors Bradbury, Roberts & Raby we're clear and straightforward about what we charge because we know how much people dislike surprises on their legal bill.

Because all of these activities are recorded against a particular matter, and for each staff member, Smokeball protects against the inaccuracies of manual activity tracking and ties your legal billing software and case management software into one, complete system.

I have seen a lot of ineffective ways to split a bill because split billing isn't very common in the legal field.

As Bill Webber, a fisherman whose livelihood was damaged by the Valdez spill, told the Anchorage Daily News after Kleinfeld's ruling, Exxon is «just bullying their way through the legal system just because they can.»

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It then struck me that the real reason lawyers bill by the hour is because they don't know how else to charge for legal services.

This follows because of the highly unusual set of legal circumstances that the Bill will bequeath.

Rappaport knew he had to step in because the ever - escalating legal bills would soon be greater than any damages award or settlement he could obtain.

Beyond simply skimming the bills, we bring additional insight and depth to our bill examination because of our litigation and legal management experience:

«Contrary to the prime minister's assertion on CFRB last week that he ordered re-payment because Senate expense rules were, in his words «beyond the shadow of a doubt broken»; he had my legal bills paid fully,» Duffy said as senators listened in stunned silence.