Our respondents also struck an optimistic tone when it comes to hiring plans, with 42 per cent planning to increase their lawyer count by the end of 2016, up from 24 per cent at the same time last year, while just over six per
cent of firms predict a downsizing.
Not exact matches
The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance
of opinion between
firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those
predicting less dropped to 17 per
cent from 29 per
cent in the summer and 35 per
cent at the start
of the year.
Shares in engineering
firm Monadelphous Group fell sharply today after it posted a 27 per
cent slide in profit on the back
of lower activity in the resources and energy sectors and
predicted contracting margins would remain under pressure.
For senior lawyers with more than 10 years
of experience, the 2015 Robert Half salary guide released last week
predicts salaries at mid-sized law
firms will go up by 4.8 per
cent, putting them in a range
of $ 159,000 to $ 222,750.
For large law
firms, the
predicted increase is 3.3 per
cent with smaller mid-sized
firms also seeing a generous 4.9 - per -
cent boost and small
firms giving raises
of about 3.2 per
cent.
Ninety - five per
cent of managing partners at the UK's leading law
firms predict major consolidation at the top end
of the legal sector over the next two years, a survey
of more than 100
of the UK's top 200 law
firms shows.
In a recent webinar hosted by Stamford, Ct. - based technology market research
firm Gartner Inc., research director Ed Anderson
predicted that, within the next two years, 57 per
cent of organizations across North America will consider moving applications to a cloud computing model.
A survey by the advisory
firm EY
predicts that Canadian adoption rates
of financial services developed by financial technology
firms could triple to 24.1 from 8.2 per
cent in the space
of a year, across all age groups and income levels.