Sentences with phrase «business than any other firm»

However, by the fourth quarter 1999, it was probably doing more business than any other firm.

Not exact matches

But it should be remembered that the underlying businesses owned by PE firms are not less volatile than other real - world companies.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

However, if that same person was a partner in an unincorporated firm to which she had contributed 10 percent of the company's capital, she might be eligible to receive more than 10 percent of the business's profits if such an agreement had been made with the other partners.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Rather than develop the platform for its own proprietary advantage, NFX is opening it to other firms with the idea that venture capital is itself a network effects business.

Because these venture capital firms want higher return rates than other investments such as the stock market provide, they typically invest in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.

«Nassau's new system is very beneficial to the public because it provides more disclosures about the firms we do business with than any other county in the state,» Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) said in a statement.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

What also makes WeChat appealing for international brands — other than its reach to Chinese consumers, who made up 32 percent of the luxury goods market in 2017, according to consultancy firm Bain — is that it makes it easier for these companies to do business in the country, bypassing stringent licence requirements if business is only carried out on the platform.

It is why in law firms the «rainmakers» are considered more valuable than any other attorney in the firm; it is the rainmakers who bring in the business by selling themselves and the firm.

Pinnacle looks for firms with strong balance sheets since small firms have fewer buffers in a downturn than large ones do, management teams that do an outstanding job of allocating capital including their own, and understandable businesses which tends to keep him out of tech, bio-tech and other high obsolescence industries.

The specialty steel business would have a different multiple than its other business when compared to similar specialty steel firms.

With a steady revenue stream — backed by more than 136.5 million subscribers to its wireless and other services — the firm produces abundant free cash flow (the cash profits generated after making the capital expenditures necessary to maintain the business).

«Should law firms ever be in businesses other than practicing law?

We see this mentality frequently displayed in law firm partners who prefer to record 1,800, 1,900 or more billable hours each year, in order to earn fees now, rather than devote some of that time to business development, client relations, and the professional development of others in the firm — all of which have been demonstrated to produce much greater financial returns long - term.

Rather than taking on any transactional legal matter like he did in the early days, Jason became «The Food Law Firm» and focused his services only on farmers, food manufacturers, and other food related businesses.

Their firm is more of a partnership and an extension of our business than other law firms I have experienced.»

Like other small businesses, small law firms are often more flexible, more efficient, and adapt to change at a faster pace than their big counterparts.

Law firms are having to wait over three months on average to be paid for their services - more than twice as long as most other businesses - new research has shown.

The factors to be rewarded and the amount of the incentive provides an incentive for partners to devote their personal time and effort to perform those activities to enhance firm profitability by marketing the firm, encouraging current and potential clients to utilize the expertise of other attorneys, benefitting from leveraging the work of partners (other than the partner who is generating the client business) associates and paralegals.

The adversarial nature of the legal system makes law firms a different type of industry than other businesses.

Family Law can affect more than just the family, so our team works closely with other practice groups in the firm, such as the Tax Law and Business Law groups, to ensure that our solutions take all relevant matters into consideration.

TianTong is willing to try more complex business cases in this area than any other PRC firms, especially before the Supreme Court and high courts in different provinces.

In smaller Canadian firms, there are many other business models other than the traditional, equity - holding partnership.

They work with businesses other than law firms.

Law firms are having to wait over three months on average to be paid for their services — more than twice as long as most other businesses — new research has shown.

However, firms are a bit different than many other businesses in the sense that — at least from what firms tell us — they find it more difficult to measure their current processes, the amount of resources required to perform certain activities, and the speed with which they get things done.

Law firms rely on advertising to grow their businesses; however, law firms, with good reason, are held to much higher ethical standards in their communications than other commercial enterprises.

A more direct obstacle to internal referrals could be the prevailing culture at Chinese law firms, where there is typically little centralized management and partners compete with each other for business more than they co-operate.

In other words, rather than falling into the DIY trap, any free time that is left over would be much better spent networking in the community or working on business develop for the firm.

Law Firm Business Development helps lawyers and law firms analyze which practice areas are more profitable than others and develop strategic plans to create new practice areas.

Our firm's founding attorney, Dana Watts, is a board - certified civil trial lawyer by The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education and has more than 30 years of experience protecting the rights and interests of individuals and small - to mid-sized businesses in contract disputes and other complex civil litigation matters.

Accounting for a law firm is much more involved than accounting for other businesses.

Business development is finding creative ways to work with other companies other than law firms, trust officers, financial advisors, senior housing, other professional associations and trade organizations.

Both provide business class email services where you, the law firm, can have email using your firms own domain name, rather than a GMail, Hotmail, AOL or some other generic consumer email platform.

First, law firms are not inherently different than other businesses that provide professional services and, second, law firms should, therefore, operate as corporations with a traditional corporate capital structure.

I had left private practice and gone to work for a company in - house BskyB, a media company and I was an in - house lawyer and that exposed me to the world of business in a much more immediate way and I could just see so many ways that law firms could be run efficiently if there were other people other than lawyers kind of, as part of the decision making process and you pool enough skills.

Most firms that place a premium on revenue from partners» personal production find that partners tend to hold their client relationships too close to their vests; they frequently hoard client work rather than spread it around to other partners — because the former wants to receive full credit; partners perform work that could be performed by associates because the former wants to receive full credit; partners do billable work when their higher and better use for the law firm is to generate additional business from existing and potential clients; and lawyers may perform work outside of their principle areas of expertise that others in the firm could perform more effectively and efficiently.

Today's economic challenges are compelling in - house attorneys to significantly reduce their own costs, while fees paid to outside law firms have tended to increase at rates higher than employee salaries, energy costs, and other business expenses.

The firm's Middle East practice is now better placed than ever to assist overseas companies doing business in Saudi Arabia, and Martin will be working closely with the firm's resident Middle East and other partners to implement our strategy both regionally and globally.»

We try more complex business cases than any other U.S. firm (The Lawyer 2017).

The firm's global investment management practice intersects with our securities enforcement and white collar practices in a client portfolio that includes more than 780 venture capital, private equity; hedge and mutual funds; banks and trust companies; insurance companies; pension consultants; accounting firms; trade associations; transfer agents; and other businesses in the investment management sector.

That practical consideration does not change the fact that it is hard to characterize the actions of the lawyers at litigation finance firms whose business model includes active investing rather than passive investing in a claim as anything other than the practice of law.

Weil won six awards at the sixth - annual Euromoney Legal Media Group's Americas Women in Business Law Awards on June 8, earning more recognitions than any other law firm.

(1) In conducting an investigation under this Act, an investigator may, (a) on reasonable notice, enter and inspect the business premises of the individual or firm under investigation, other than any part of the premises used as a dwelling, during regular business hours or at another time agreed to by the individual or firm;