Sentences with phrase «becoming alternative business structures»

It was interesting to read in the legal press that the outsourcing giant Carillion «could become an alternative business structure» as part of plans to increase its legal services profile.

The AA has applied to become an alternative business structure (ABS) as the motoring giant weighs up whether to expand its legal offering to cover services such as property and employment advice.

Saga has applied to become an alternative business structure as the company moves to broaden the range of legal services it offers in partnership with Parabis Group.

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Not one to mince words, he summed up his industry outlook by saying, «Retail guys are going to go out of business and ecommerce will become the place everyone buys... Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there's a viable alternative.

As to law firms becoming investment properties, and other such «alternative business structures,» that brings the conflict of interest between the profit duty and the fiduciary duty — between serving yourself and serving your client.

There are signs that this concept of a total change in culture and working patterns is becoming more popular, with the Law Society survey reporting that 475 alternative business structures (ABSs) were in operation: 116 more than a year earlier making up 5 % of all firms.

Weightmans has become just the third UK top 50 firm to secure an alternative business structure (ABS) licence.

The retailer, together with two high street firms (John Welch & Stammers and Lawbridge Solicitors Ltd), became the first Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) licensed alternative business structure (ABS).

Gateley has become only the second firm in the UK top 50 to secure an alternative business structure (ABS) licence, allowing the firm to appoint non-solicitors to its membership from 1 January 2014.

The BSB is not yet proposing to authorise Alternative Business Structures (ABSs)-- entities with non-lawyer owners and managers — but will in 2015 apply separately to the Legal Services Board to become a licensing authority of ABSs.

This might sound spooky or even scary to many Canadian lawyers but could become a reality in England and Wales with the launch of Alternative Business Structures (ABS) under the UK Legal Services Act.

In Canada, the discussion about legal innovation has lately become bogged down in the debate over alternative business structures (ABS).

You say that allowing for alternative business structures would lead to «anti-competitive consolidations, loss of very hard - won independence of the legal profession as lawyers become the puppets of outside profit seekers, an irreversible compromising of legal ethics, and so on».

With alternative business structures adding to the competitiveness of the marketplace, this is becoming increasingly important for all practitioners.

The Stobart Group became a remarkable example of an alternative business structure a granted licence to provide legal services.

Hill Dickinson and Kennedys have become the latest top 50 law firms to confirm plans to convert to an alternative business structure (ABS), as growing numbers of firms gear up for the «Tesco Law» revolution.

The BSB is not authorising Alternative Business Structures (ABSs)-- entities with non-lawyer owners and managers — but will soon apply separately to the Legal Services Board to become a licensing authority of ABSs.

GLENDALE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LegalZoom announced today that it has been approved to begin operations as an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) starting January 7, 2015, pursuant to changes in UK law firm regulations allowing companies to become licensed as providers of reserved legal activities.

Our goal is to become a leading global alternative asset manager, and so we structured it as this stand - alone real assets business so that we could take advantage of the full breadth of our expertise.