The law part is not that hard (that was the fun part for me), but
the business side of law is a bear.
A key attraction for Patrick was
the business side of the law.
CuroStudio's focus will be on products and services that increase access to justice, but that also extends to products that improve
the business side of law practice.
Sole practitioners and firm partners juggle
the business side of law almost as much as the practice itself.
First, because you don't know much about your state specific laws on issues, you know little about
the the business side of the law (for instance how much of a retainer should you get for X tort / crime), you run a huge risk of making sure you stay solvent and don't commit malpractice.
Solid laterals, who are sometimes naïve to
the business side of a law practice, at least recognize that they have something to lose and appreciate what they need from a potential new firm to be successful.
Practice Management Focus on the Delivery of Legal Services: Executive Committees and Managing Partners in mid-size law firms will devote more of their time performing the strategic planning function and managing the substantive and
business sides of their law firms in an effort to provide high quality, timely and cost - effective service to clients.
JB: Do you think
the business side of law will be more appealing in the U.K. (than in the U.S.) now that ABS are allowed and more interesting and complex law firm models can be attempted?
While having legal know - how and a marketing strategy are fundamental components of any practice, satisfied clients are the key to
the business side of law.
Law firm administrators manage
the business side of law practice.
Our goal at PRI is to assist Florida attorneys with running
business side of their law practices.
There's also a portion of the market where they're quite happy to have pricing, or a legal project management professional, or someone else on
the business side of the law firm attend a pitch meeting with a client.
Not exact matches
Staying on the right
side of the
law will keep you focused on the
business instead
of on the people threatening to sue you.
«Almost everybody in the labour
law business — whether they are on the union or management
side of things — views this recent run
of events as highly unusual.
For example, my favorite class is
business law, and I've learned so much about the legal
side of my
business.
Trump on his
businesses / conflict q's: «The
law's totally on my
side, the president can't have a conflict
of interest.»
A social - media election silence
law would have the karmic
side benefit
of driving Facebook users back to these news organizations, who have lost untold
business thanks to the social - media platform.
The
law was on their
side, and they won, with the spoils being stakes
of about 10 per cent in the
business.
«However, it is misguided and simply wrong to hurt a local
businesses in protest
of a
law that was enacted on the other
side of the country.
To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East
Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin
Law, president
of the Long Island Association, the region's largest
business group.
That means greater disclosure
of business and
law clients from legislators»
side jobs, a ban on the personal use
of campaign funds, greater safeguards for per diem reimbursement, pension forfeiture for lawmakers convicted
of public corruption and greater disclosure by independent expenditure campaign accounts.
The other
side [
of the Zoning
Law] has to do with tourism, agriculture, small
businesses, the CLI [Commercial / Light Industrial zone, restricted to Steve's Lane].»
De Blasio plans to include in the
law certain projects that were previously exempt, such as the Hudson Yards plan underway on the West
Side of Manhattan, as well as manufacturing companies and
businesses that participate in the city's FRESH program for grocery stores, according to a fact sheet released after his speech.
The
law was passed in the wake
of the 2009 trial
of ex-Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, in which federal prosecutors charged the Brunswick Republican with using his position to enrich himself through a
business he operated on the
side.
But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics
laws in the wake
of a series
of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal
business he was practicing on the
side.
The
law school and
business school are on different campuses on opposite
sides of town so it was a lot
of running around!
A Most Violent Year Director: JC Chandor Running time: 125 minutes Rating: R Moody crime drama starring Oscar Isaac as a
business owner trying to keep on the right
side of law, despite mounting pressure all around him.
Writer / director Nick Love (The
Business, The Football Factory, Outlaw) has made his living from showing the criminal's
side of things, so much so that even on The Sweeney, his first movie told from the vantage point
of the
law, the good guys still act like the bad guys.
They appear to reside in some sort
of 21st - century Bedford Falls where it must be against the
law to not smother your house or place
of business with garish seasonal decorations as Santa Clauses gather en masse on the sidewalks like some North Pole edition
of «West
Side Story.»
All messages might be common expressions such as the following ones: stone cold, tough cookie, monkey
business, bad egg, work your fingers to the bone, money to burn, miss the boat, down in the dumps, lay down the
law, quick buck, throw your weight around, on the same wavelength, space cadet, wrong
side of the tracks, easy as pie, out like a light, back stabber, hush - hush, down - to - earth, or play hooky.
Sam Basso decided the focus
of the
business would be working with companion dogs and their owners, and on the
side, Sam Basso would speak out for responsible dog ownership and reasonable dog
laws.
Mark handled the
business side of things and spent as much time writing grants as he did working at his
law practice.
Maes» latest proclamation on environment (upending a century
of water
law) is likely to terrify neighboring state governors,
business executives, and real estate developers so that conservation seems a
side issue.
According to Austrian case -
law, when an undertaking not party to a cartel takes advantage
of the effect
of umbrella pricing, there is no adequate causal link between the cartel and the loss potentially suffered by a buyer, since it consists
of an indirect loss: a
side effect
of an independent decision that a person not party to a cartel has taken on the basis
of his own
business considerations.
A
law blogger's tone, to my way
of thinking, should fall slightly on the formal
side of the fulcrum: it should be «
business casual.»
If you run a company and aren't the sort who's planning on large scale embezzlement or international graft, check out our Small
Business Center or our
Business Compliance Center for information on how to keep your growing company on the right
side of the
law.
Not every reporter's inquiry involves
law - related issues — increasingly, especially in the legal press, stories involve the
business side of practice.
As a small
business owner, I can relate personally to the challenges attorneys face trying to practice
law and grow their clientele at the same time, and I am passionate about helping them with the growth
side of the equation, so they can focus on doing what they do best.
Marketing your
law firm on social media means showing the human, authentic
side of your
business.
What if the target audience
of that
side hustle knows the venture is headed by a lawyer — say the
side business is called «Barrister's Bed and Breakfast,» or its website mentions the owner also practices
law?
Being able to serve as General Counsel for HCG Asset and Property Management, LLC has afforded me the opportunity to continue practicing
law while participating in the operational
side of the real estate
business.
So if you're practicing labor
law in St. Louis, want to incorporate a
business in Branson, or just need to do some legal research from the right
side of Kansas City, FindLaw has you covered — and it's all free and mobile - friendly.
I gained confidence about my ability to do whatever they assumed I could, learned about the
business side of the practice
of law, and learned a lot about people and leadership.
At Virtual Paralegal Services, we enable solo and small
law firms to focus on providing legal services while we manage the accounting
side of your
business.
On the transactional
side, we serve as consultants to
law and accounting firms to provide tax counsel regarding matters as varied as, for example,
business succession plan structures, corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and tax - efficient structuring
of property settlement agreements upon divorce.
Whether engaged by a small
business that requires $ 500k
of litigation finance, a large corporate enterprise seeking a $ 60m portfolio finance arrangement, or a
law firm looking to expand their contingency fee work using tools that can guarantee a minimum realization rate on fees, we sit on your
side of the negotiation table.
She is a lawyer who fell in love with marketing and the
business side of owning and running a
law firm.
Not that I don't enjoy practicing
law by any means, but that is, if you ask me, I'm much more interested in building successful
businesses throughout the course
of my life whatever those look like and right now happens to be a
law firm working in family
law and, like I said, I enjoy it, but at the end
of the day, I'd love to not have the revenue generation rely on me so I can do more
of that other, but until we see those scales tip, the majority
of my work will still be on the client
side and the billing
side.
As this article from the Baltimore Sun (9/11/07) reports, increasingly,
law firms are hiring MBAs to help manage the
business side of Biglaw practice.
When it comes to weighing benefits and risk, we attorneys tend to err on the
side of caution and perhaps find it easier to turn a blind eye to the needs
of our clients and the public for greater access to justice over the potential discomfort it causes us a
business owners to implement changes in the way we operate our
law practice.