Sentences with phrase «business lawyers expect»

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doesn't expect Michael Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, to «flip» as the government investigates Cohen's business dealings.

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.»

A partnership to operate a business (like lawyers, as opposed to an investment partnership) probably distributes the allocated amounts, at least approximately, rather than holding them in the partnership; I expect this is your year - end draw (technically a draw can be any allowed amount, not necessarily the allocated amount).

It's a truism that the best marketing a lawyer can do is to serve a client successfully and well; lawyers who accomplish that feat can and do expect new business to flow in through the client's recommendations.

However, with the economy in a deep recession and the legal profession reeling from layoffs and structural changes to the law firm business model, is it realistic for lawyers to expect -LSB-...]

The topic, as perhaps expected, was web 2.0 tools for lawyers, with a slant toward business development.

As yours truly blogged last week, law firms may want to follow the lead of other marketers and more fully embrace email newsletters and alerts as a low cost, targeted and measurable method for reinforcing expertise with existing clients (who expect to continue hearing from their lawyers about breaking legal trends relevant to their businesses).

After all, many, even most, businesses expect their staff to wear suits, look businesslike, and generally conform to non-functional stereotypes, not because there is any demonstrable link between clothes and the skills of a banker, lawyer, or consultant (or judge), but because «customers expect it».

However, with the economy in a deep recession and the legal profession reeling from layoffs and structural changes to the law firm business model, is it realistic for lawyers to expect employer assistance in navigating the seemingly competing demands of their personal and professional lives?

If you are considering divorce and there are significant assets to be taken into account, such as property, a business, a pension, an expected inheritance, a large salary or simply money in the bank, you should speak to a family lawyer who specialises in matrimonial finances immediately.

The majority of Chadbourne lawyers will join NRF's US business, while London partners are expected to join the Norton Rose Fulbright LLP within the Swiss verein, which comprises the legacy Norton Rose business.

Our lawyers are experts in their field — you'd expect that - but they are also business - minded and aim to provide practical, helpful advice.

But would expect a transaction attorney to refer a meaningful amount of repeat business to divorce lawyers?

No business person can be expected to know the latest case law, but Corporate Lawyers will always be reviewing the latest cases to improve the service they offer clients.

Today, Nuance Communications — maker of the Dragon speech recognition software — is launching Nuance Power PDF Advanced, a full - featured professional PDF program, with all the features businesses — including lawyers — would expect in such a program.

Today's lawyers are expected to be leaders, innovators, and strategists, and are also expected to be managers, systems analysts, and business advisors.

[132] Lawyers» time is clearly the most important resource in a law firm; in addition to file work, lawyers are expected to engage in teaching and mentoring activities (formal or informal), firm administration, business development and client management (which may include community service), service to the profession, pro bono work and continuing professional develLawyers» time is clearly the most important resource in a law firm; in addition to file work, lawyers are expected to engage in teaching and mentoring activities (formal or informal), firm administration, business development and client management (which may include community service), service to the profession, pro bono work and continuing professional devellawyers are expected to engage in teaching and mentoring activities (formal or informal), firm administration, business development and client management (which may include community service), service to the profession, pro bono work and continuing professional development.

One would not, however, expect this day to be any more or less busy for the folks at a different kind of legal matching service, LegalMatch.com, given that their business is the decidedly unromantic pairing of lawyers with clients.

You're dealing with CEOs, presidents, CFOs, and upper level management and they expect a certain level of business professionalism from the lawyers they work with.

Legal Week's quarterly business confidence survey, which canvasses senior lawyers on their outlook for the year ahead, found that nearly three - quarters (74 %) of partners expect revenues at their own firm to grow over the next 12 months, with more than four in five (83 %) expecting revenues across the top 50 as a whole to increase.

That's exactly what one lawyer called another in Alexander Interactive v. Adorama Inc., a case involving a simple business dispute, and not, as one would expect given the level of vitriol, a roiling matrimonial case.

Previously, I was expected to do it all — deliver the budget, run a team, deliver the business development initiatives required to keep my team going, and sit on a large number of partnership committees that would arguably have been better run by area specialists (such as marketing) than lawyers.

Recently a further challenge has hit the traditional business model — the old model in which partners were expected to build increasingly large teams of trained lawyers working below partner level and to leverage work down to them, at high charge out rates.

Firms begin review of business services and secretarial teams, with lawyers expected to avoid cuts

Anybody can sign up for a free account, but, as a lawyer, you are typically expected to sign up for a professional version of «OneDrive for Business.»

No single person could be expected to follow all the bodies of regulation out there, yet businesses seem to think that is what lawyers do is study «all» the laws.

In an update on CASL from Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP, lawyers for the firm said: «While the bulletins bring clarity to what the CRTC expects businesses to do, the CRTC's interpretation of CASL will leave most organizations with no choice but to adopt expensive and disruptive changes to the processes they use now in respect of their use of electronic communications and their installation of computer programs on a consumer's device.»

Expect your profits to drop until you figure out how to manage your staff effectively and efficiently (something many lawyers never do figure out), bring in more business, and do more billable lawyering.

With all the recent focus on ethics as they pertain to business development, practice management, and technology, one might expect that we would see a lot more in terms of lawyers, as well as, professional organizations and associations, helping other lawyers understand how to effectively and ethically use these technologies.

A lawyer sitting on a corporate board will be expected to consider non-legal issues and to comment on business directions and decisions.

Another rhetorical aspect here is the nature of the audience: photographers and media managers might not be lawyers, but they are repeat players in the business of using photographs and thus could be expected to know and care about technical copyright issues on an ongoing basis.

Solo practitioners and small law firms should seek out guidance from a Certified Public Accountant or tax lawyer when filing their taxes; however, it helps to have a general idea what the IRS expects from your small business.

And there's good reason to expect law firms to continue to operate without their equivalent: Lawyers don't perceive this discipline as valuable - they're all artisans - and the business professionals who might understand its value and have the actual skills to implement it are second class citizens, an inferior caste: «Non-lawyers.»

Likewise, law firms and clients expect lawyers to develop business, use technology, engage in project management, collaborate, and communicate effectively.

More specifically, for lawyers, an increase is expected in the usage of professional or business social media.

Here are examples of slip and fall deposition questions that you can expect to be asked by the defense lawyer who is representing the owner of the business or property where you slipped and fell.

In today's business climate, clients do not expect to work with lawyers who keep a 9 - 5 schedule, but they also do not care where you are.

However, I find most students and lawyers (quite reasonably) have enough of a challenge with legal research that I do not expect them to master research in different literature (e.g., business, medical, economics).

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Advisers expect referrals from accountants and lawyers will become a bigger source of new business over the next 12...

In addition to the Manchester centre, which is expected to open in the summer, the new model will also see the firm's Lawyers On Demand (LOD) business developed to include virtual transaction teams, the use of third parties to cut costs for clients and the expansion of its internal legal process improvement team to analyse and improve processes and workflows for clients.

Translation: in - house lawyers enjoy a «home field advantage» over their law firm counterparts, and they are expected to function not simply as lawyers but also as business partners with legal expertise.

You have extensive experience as a lawyer working in Japan — how do you expect the Japanese legal market will respond to lexvoco's flexible / secondment business model?

As professional service providers, lawyers are expected to possess a holistic understanding of business needs, including greater efficiency and productivity while managing the investment of time and resources.

The client is subjected to the law firm's business model — which is based on what insiders call «leverage»: Inexperienced employee lawyers» (associates») total hourly billings are expected to exceed their total salary and benefits — typically 3X — with the excess going to the law firm's owners (partners).

Fort Worth Family Law Attorney, Bob Leonard, has the experience, expertise, knowledge and business acumen you expect in a top - flight family lawyer.

Similarly, a British survey by Legal Business of lawyers in large US and UK firms found that some firms are losing up to 30 % of their lawyers each year, and that fewer than 20 % of junior lawyers expect to be in their current jobs in five years.

But on the other hand these lawyers, what they were saying — at least what they said to me when I was reporting this article was, one thing to keep in mind about Cuba and it just kind of goes back to Aliette's point earlier is, Cuba always does things the Cuban way, and American businesses can't just expect to go in there and just basically take over the place.

Business services professionals can be a powerful guiding force where lawyers are increasingly expected to balance technical expertise with commercial capability.

They gave examples of using data as benchmarks and risk management tools, discussed their dual roles as corporate defenders and business partners, and emphasized that they expect lawyers to provide business solutions, not legal tomes.