Sentences with phrase «by high legal costs»

My approach is to take time in these first meetings, to listen carefully, and to provide solid recommendations that are both effective and potentially game - changing, along with cost effective approaches so that my clients are not affected by high legal costs.

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Citigroup cut Chief Executive Michael Corbat's pay by about 10 % in 2014, a year in which the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.

In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high - cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

James Murdoch denied the large out - of - court settlements to the PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor (# 700,000), and publicist Max Clifford (# 1m including legal costs), authorised by him in 2008, had not been pitched so high to buy their silence.

The council can only meet the legal requirement to balance its budget by raiding # 3milion from its reserves while carrying out a raft of mid-year spending cuts, including cutting personal budgets for adult care users by a fifth and targeting high - cost adult care packages for reductions (appendices 4 and 5, pages 12 - 13).

Whether or not the publishers» corporate counsel were earning their keep back in early 2010, there are certainly some serious legal costs now as all of the Defendants are being represented in federal court by some of the highest - billing law firms in the country.

The minimum liability coverage required by state law is very low compared to the high cost of a legal claim, especially against a business.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

They could be more competently and cost - efficiently provided at - cost by a highly specialized, high volume legal research support service.

People can not deal with their legal problems without the help of lawyers because, the law is now too voluminous, complex, often based upon technology that must be understood, and requiring one to cope with the large volumes of electronic records made possible by the great automating power of electronic records technology (being the very technology that has created the prohibitively high cost of electronic discovery proceedings).

Maximizing the re-use of finished work - product is a key principle of creating the high cost - efficiency of a centralized legal research support service like LAO LAW, accompanied by highly specialized legal materials used, and specialized principles of database management.

For example, legal research can be much more cost - efficiently done by highly specialized, high volume legal research support services.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

The cloud deployment type is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period; the cloud deployment type is also projected to witness the highest demand due to increased cost reduction as compared to on - premises solution deployment, as cloud E-Discovery solutions help customers to maintain a conservative legal department budget by slashing costs associated with data storage infrastructure maintenance.

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Lawyer Success How to Attract Your Ideal Client October 5 by Matthew Poole «Attorney Matthew Poole discusses how important it is to find solutions that offer a high level of customization in order to narrow your reach to the potential client that offer you the highest probability of retention regardless of the cost of your legal services.

Having high quality in - house legal support is a real added value to the business — not only from a cost perspective, but also by producing genuine workable legal solutions that are right for the business.

It is a problem caused by the obsolescence of the method of providing legal services, i.e., the costs of producing legal services are too high, due to a lack of innovation in the methods of doing the work necessary.

The reforms under LASPO recognised the cost effectiveness of mediation, by making legal aid available, although income and capital limits for eligibility mean many couples, particularly in areas where house prices are high, are not eligible.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

In essence, law firm networks can flourish by providing international legal services in a cost - efficient manner to small and medium sized enterprises through reduced overhead and simpler structures, while international law firms can provide a more integrated offering (including invoices covering multiple jurisdictions) but at a greater cost due to higher hourly rates and more overhead which is less significant in only the largest international transactions and «bet the company» international litigation.

Early Resolution — the brainchild of Sir Charles Gray, a retired high court judge, and Alastair Brett, a former legal manager of The Times — aims to help parties cut costs by dealing with key issues at an early stage.

By making legal services high quality, cost - effective and on - demand for every need.

is an innovative, new, national law firm that responds to the needs of the legal industry by providing high quality legal services at very cost - effective rates.

The legal profession is undergoing an era of profound change, influenced by technology, new business structures, globalization, and the high cost of justice.

I would bet you that the total cost of the higher costs of legal services brought about by cartelization plus the costs of dealing with giant firm financial defalcations would dwarf the total cost of the small firm misappropriations that happen in our non-ABS world.

Hynes reckons that the missing millions could have been swallowed by in the deal with the criminal Bar over the VHCCs (very high cost criminal cases) debacle — which, as long time legal aid observers would agree, would be fairly typical.

While fears still run high across the legal sector that AI will have an impact on jobs — and ACE will do a huge amount of work for BLP currently undertaken by paralegals and associates — according to Whalley it will not cost anyone at BLP a job.

Therium has identified a substantial market for litigation funding in Scandinavia, with demand being driven by the increasing number of legal disputes, especially in energy and construction, and the high and rising costs of legal claims.

He helps NewGalexy's clients improve efficiencies, minimise business and legal risks and reduce their legal costs by delivering high quality and cost effective legal services (which includes suggesting legal technologies suitable for the client's business — where required).

In the costs decisions arising from the certification of the class proceedings styled Sankar v. Bell Mobility, Brown v. Canada (Attorney General), Crisante v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Dugal v. Manulife Financial, and Rosen v. BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., Belobaba noted, in general, the amount of time spent by legal counsel was too high, the volume of material filed with the court was excessive, oral hearings were too long, and counsel over-litigated most issues.

LAO's first object, as declared by s. 4 (a) of the Act is, «to establish and administer a cost - effective and efficient system for providing high quality legal aid services to low - income individuals in Ontario.»

But the problem of unaffordable legal services is caused by the high cost of legal advice services, not by routine legal services such as simple real estate deals, divorces, and incorporations.

This is all very interesting... i think there should be greater pressure by the legal bloggers in general for these 2 companies to do more to improve their product, espically considering the extremely high cost of them.

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The legal media and blogosphere are filled with criticism of law firms and the legal profession by in - house counsel (and others) for their lack of business acumen, high costs, continued use of the billable hour, unsustainable business models, poor communication skills, and so on.

Research by Thomson Reuters found widespread expectation of higher legal costs, regulatory fines and compensation claims.

By providing high - value, cost - effective legal services to organisations involved in research and development projects, asset operation and maintenance, and decommissioning, we enable our clients to focus on driving their activities forward.

As described in the article, current law firm values such as comprehensiveness and quality - by - proxy (e.g. reputation, pedigree) are not central to the delivery of high - value legal services as measured by quality and cost.

Many of these smaller legal teams work for large and high - brand recognition companies, proving again what the demographics of law departments have shown for years: that many of the largest companies have small legal teams because they live by the values of a more carefully - sourced service management philosophy for cost centers in the company.

The announcement by the Minister for Justice that he intends to transfer the operation of the criminal legal aid system to the Legal Aid Board might seem like it makes sense, but is likely to result in delays and possibly higher clegal aid system to the Legal Aid Board might seem like it makes sense, but is likely to result in delays and possibly higher cLegal Aid Board might seem like it makes sense, but is likely to result in delays and possibly higher costs.

Our courts are already struggling with the costs and burdens associated with an increasing number of self - represented litigants who have been driven to stand alone in court by the crushing burden of high legal fees and expensive court proceedings.

At a time when we are constantly reminded that access to justice is hindered by costly procedures and long delays, and that we should find ways to streamline the legal process, it seems incongruous to actually draft dispositions that allow for longer delays and higher costs at one party's behest.

He has been instrumental in evolving it to «second generation» of value add and cost control by re-evaluating the work done by in - house counsel using technology, metrics, data mining and other approaches to reduce «commodity - type» legal work, thus freeing lawyers to focus on work of higher value.

The minimum liability coverage required by state law is very low compared to the high cost of a legal claim, especially against a business.

Even lawsuits that are thrown out of court or are won by your company are expensive, due to the high cost of securing legal defense.

Avoid paying high medical or legal costs out of pocket by purchasing PWC liability insurance.

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The Chasm Group, LLC and Chasm Institute, LLC (San Bruno, CA) 1997 — 2008 Business Operations Manager • Managed all daily operational tasks for leading multi-million dollar high - tech market strategy consultancy, while providing executive administration to C - level executives and venture capital partners • Developed and managed the firm's annual budget, proposing and implementing expense cuts, producing monthly reports and financial statements, and coordinating with CPA firm for accurate and timely filings • Oversaw all client relationship management efforts while cultivating new business efforts from concept to implementation, providing high - quality service in sales efforts while utilizing new lead tracking system • Negotiated and managed all contracts, stock grants, and financing arrangements, working closely with outside counsel to draft legal documents and resolve LLC - and proprietary - related issues • Led three office space build - outs and two office relocations, managing all aspects of each process under aggressive timeline and budget expectations • Reduced firm telecom expenses by 22 % by streamlining IT objectives, including migration to VOIP phone system, software / hardware purchases, domain renewals, and outsourced technical support • Directed all phases of staff recruitment while creating and implementing all HR policies and programs, including comprehensive employee benefits plans • Supervised multiple administrative staff members, conducted performance appraisals and wage / salary surveys in comparison to incentive program guidelines, and maintained HR files in accordance with legal mandates • Produced all out - going client invoices in an accurate and timely fashion to increase, cash flow and reduce aging receivables, providing consistent attention to overhead costs and vendor arrangements • Administered all company insurance policies, including E&O, general liability, bonds, partner life and disability, conducting annual benefits reviews and employee / company insurance audits • Obtained necessary certificates for consulting contracts while processing federal, state, and local business reporting requirements to maintain licenses and incorporation status • Directed all marketing efforts and oversaw logistical aspects of national educational workshop series, utilizing sponsorship arrangements to offset production costs • Transformed «brochure» website into a dynamic tool to better illustrate company opportunities through relevant case studies, as well as maintaining all other promotional media, including press kits and video Association of California School Administrators (Burlingame, CA) 1993 — 1997 Issues and Planning Committee Coordinator • Executed all phases of event planning and implementation for a membership - driven organization including 23 state committees, 5 task forces, 6 strategic planning conferences, and a conference of 1,500 attendees • Focused on facility evaluations, bid requests, site visits, contract negotiations, and all pre - and post-conference planning processes • Produced statistical and financial reports, including budget projections and cost monitoring for developmental training efforts • Oversaw all participant - level responsibilities, including inquiries, eligibility, registration, correspondence, and billing statements • Managed all legal professional standards calls for Northern California regions, including the processing of attorney authorizations, the preparation of legal assistance letters, and liens on cause of action • Served as second point of contact for computer inquiries and troubleshooting efforts as well as provided back - up executive administrative support for Executive Director, Committee Chairs, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction • Held responsibility for software installation and hardware configuration while performing weekly AS / 400 backup and report generation