Sentences with phrase «by fee earners»

All LSAs are supervised by our fee earners on the relevant case / transaction.

Process mapping is well accepted outside of the legal sector but still greeted with scepticism by fee earners, who are often quick to point out why it won't work.

It is already the firm's biggest office by fee earners, with a headcount of 126, and Masters stresses that he wants to double this within three years, as well as trying to find a merger target over the same period.

Masters wants the firm's London office — its biggest by fee earner numbers, with a headcount of 126 — to double in size within three years.

This number is then multiplied by the fee earner's hourly rate to arrive at a dollar figure representing the value of the time saved.

Not exact matches

The AHCA sacrifices $ 900 billion in future revenues by eliminating all other Obamacare taxes, including special levies on high - earners and annual fees on insurers.

This cutback will accelerate the point at which the program moves into supposed «negative equity» — a calculation that ignores the option of restoring pension funding to the government's general budget, where it would be paid out of progressively levied income tax and hence borne mainly by the wealthy, not by lower - income wage earners as a «user fee.»

As a result, the Obama administration has proposed increasing «mandatory spending,» which designates money generated by selling federal assets or raising taxes (such as a proposed $ 10 fee per barrel of oil sold and increasing taxes on higher - income earners) to pay for specific programs.

Additionally, some firms may find that working closely with professional publishers helps them to achieve further aims, by ensuring that it is their fee - earners who write the most valued legal content.

We do not live in a Utopia of time recording and I have seen, for example, a conference with counsel recorded in different phases by different fee - earners.

Similarly, by allocating individuals to matters in an intelligent way, drawing on the offices across our platform, our Flexible Fee Earners and our Hubs, we are able to ensure the right people are doing the right work.

The website for the index provides region - by - region breakdowns of the data as well as listing of the top law firms in the region ranked by average pro bono hours per fee earner.

As the new J - Codes guidance explains: «If the advantages of the electronic production of bills are to be maximised, it is important that a fee - earner's time entries should form the basis not only of a solicitor's bill to the client but also of any bill to be presented for assessment by the courts... Otherwise, as at present, every entry in a bill for assessment is simply a manual repetition of something that has already been inputted electronically in the firm's time recording system.

The programme has already proved successful — the LinkedIn page has seen its number of followers increase by more than half during the past 12 months, attracting both fee earners and people with business services backgrounds, and new hires have been made via LinkedIn at the director, manager and executive level.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hiked pay for its newly qualified lawyers by 26 % as it also introduces flexible working for fee earners.

Bristol - based Burges Salmon sets out to provide its fee earners with quality work and responsibility while promoting a collegiate atmosphere, aided by the fact that it operates out of a single office.

Often whiplash injuries, which don't fully recover as predicted by a medical expert (often a GP who spends five minutes with the claimant), become really quite complex, way beyond the experience of a junior, unqualified fee earner.

And adding an intelligent layer saves fee - earner time by «including expertise in software» to replace the initial consultation, which Neota Logic CEO Richard Seabrook described in his presentation to the AI Summit as the «last mile» to wholesale AI adoption.

The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.

The consultation — the regional firm's fourth since November 2007 — will affect the firm's banking group, which is headed up by partner Deborah Kirtley, with two fee earners set to be laid off from the seven - member team.

Frequent feedback Despite the perennial dissatisfaction with salary and bonuses relative to expectations, the category fee earners deem the most important is feeling valued by their employer, scoring it 4.6 out of 5 — 0.8 points higher than their level of satisfaction.

The firm's Law in the Regions report, is based on interviews with members of top UK law firms, and analysis of factors such as number of fee earners, total office floor - space per city occupied by top 100 firms and rent per fee earner.

The fee for the sale is still being decided.The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.

The consultation - the regional firm's fourth since November 2007 - will affect the firm's banking group, which is headed up by partner Deborah Kirtley, with two fee earners set to be laid off from the seven - member team.

One area where fee earners were more satisfied this year was with the skills training and development being offered by their firms, ranking it 4 out of 5, up from 3.9 last year.

According to research by Deloitte, results from the six years to the end of March 2014 show fees per fee earner growth of 18 % among the top 10 firms, whereas firms ranked 26 - 50 reported growth of only 1 %.

LPM is usually either support team - led or fee earner - led, with most firms interviewed by Jomati having opted for the former, which typically requires a substantial investment in personnel over a short period of time.

By contrast, other firms have shown a greater willingness to allow their lawyers to take day - to - day charge of their LPM initiatives — partly because the firms» technology infrastructure enables its fee earners to run every aspect of the project, from initial scoping to conclusion, largely unaided.»

The new Dublin practice will focus on financial services and technology, and will be run by three partners, bringing its total number of fee earners in the island of Ireland to 12 partners and more than 50 lawyers.

Linklaters has not separated the pay gap data between fee earners and support staff; however, the firm's report notes that average pay for women across the firm is significantly impacted by the high number of female employees in its lowest earning group.

But how do they cope with the oddities, which by nature of their being unusual are less likely to be enshrined in fee earners» memories.

They are doing work previously done by solicitors — and they are becoming autonomous, case - handling, client - facing fee - earners, not support staff.

The vast majority of fee earners surveyed by YLAL said that as a maximum a supervisor should supervise no more than two trainees.

One element of the dialogue between Lord Dyson and the Committee that may be missed by practitioners is the rejection of the recommendation for the creation of a fifth grade of fee earner for paralegals out of the current bottom rate for trainees and paralegals.

This argument was somewhat undone, however, by an internal email from the fee earner involved, Mr Harris.

A report released today (19 March) by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) argues that the legal profession is over-resourced in the face of a «permanent structural change in market forces in the UK» and has the «opportunity» to remove 5 % of the fee earner base.

Imagine what that does to the psyche of a fee earner who has been trained their entire career to define themselves by that magic number.

The PEP totem is planted in the ground of daily billing targets, illuminated by the light of screensavers which warn fee - earners not to leave the office until they have recorded «enough» hours.

«By the time I left it had around 1,500 fee earners, so it's quite a big legal business.

RPC will now be able to use Aderant's Found Time application, enabling fee earners to reconstruct their day by recording time spent on e-mails, documents, telephone calls, and more.

Ever since the introduction of time - based billing, Oldlaw firms of all shapes and sizes have been drilling into their «fee earners» (an awful expression, only exceeded by the derogatory term «non-fee earners») the importance of accurately recording all billable time because that is what is primarily measured and rewarded.

The clear differences in working practices between traditional law firms and alternative legal providers are starting to disappear, a study out today (5 February) by Jomati Consultants has found, with a notable upsurge in the adoption of legal project management (LPM) and process improvement techniques, despite continuing fee earner resistance.

The Netlaw Media website is visited by a large audience of legal professionals from senior management and fee - earners to heads of legal support and technology.

Senior Partner: Howard Freeman Partners: 12 Assistants: 5 Consultants: 1 Other fee - earners: 7 Trainees: 3 THE FIRM Freemans Solicitors was established in 1995 by Howard Freeman, and he remains the senior partner.

A study of UK law firms by property organisation CBRE found a clear differential between open plan and cellular: 310 sq ft occupied per fee earner in open - plan offices compared to 550 sq ft per fee earner in a cellular model.

Recently I got an e-mail from a partner in a substantial firm, in which he was justifying not outsourcing a function on the basis that it was currently carried out by fee - earners, who have — according to him — «no cost».

Every year Legal Week Intelligence sets out to identify the law firms that have the most satisfied fee earners by publishing the results of our annual Employee Satisfaction Survey — a comprehensive, profession - wide survey of fee earners.

The guideline rates for summary assessment of civil and family costs have been uprated for inflation by 1.7 % for work done after 31 March 2010 so, for example, band A London 1 fee earners will now...

Consequently, most unfair dismissal claims are now brought as part of discrimination claims, particularly for high earners who are not deterred by fees.

An understanding of the concept of opportunity cost is fundamental to good profitability (Tip nine)-- what this means in practice is to understand that almost any activity, eg marketing, debt collecting, which can be outsourced or moved away from fee - earners will improve your profits if replaced by time sold.