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«A net 49 per cent of lawyers at law firms and corporations surveyed indicated they are likely to increase hiring in the third quarter of 2011.

Not exact matches

Under current rules, which remain in effect until 2011, starting CPP at the earliest age of 60 entails a 30 - per - cent reduction in monthly payments but «you would have to live well past 75 in order to receive more from the plan than by waiting until the normal retirement age of 65,» writes tax and estate lawyer Christine Van Cauwenberghe in her book, Wealth Planning Strategies for Canadians 2010.

You're also more likely to receive a bonus working in - house than at a smaller law firm: 62 per cent paid bonuses to lawyers in 2011, with 53 per cent basing it on a percentage of salary.

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.

I think women in our class accounted for 40 per cent so it was a decent percentage but from my graduating class, in terms of transaction lawyers, there is essentially myself and one other classmate still practising who happens to be at Dentons as well.»

Polls have at various times established that not just a quarter, but up to 40 per cent of US lawyers want to leave their profession; and whereas British lawyers are only just waking up to the fact they are miserable and want to die, their American counterparts have been alert to it since 1989, which saw the publication of Deborah Arron's Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers are Getting Out of the Legal Proflawyers want to leave their profession; and whereas British lawyers are only just waking up to the fact they are miserable and want to die, their American counterparts have been alert to it since 1989, which saw the publication of Deborah Arron's Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers are Getting Out of the Legal Proflawyers are only just waking up to the fact they are miserable and want to die, their American counterparts have been alert to it since 1989, which saw the publication of Deborah Arron's Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers are Getting Out of the Legal ProfLawyers are Getting Out of the Legal Profession.

Lawyers for Day pointed out that if the 407 is entitled to rely on the limitation period of 15 years set forth in the Transponder Lease Agreement and not commence a claim for 15 years, Day would be liable to pay the 407 ETR $ 289,444.45 on a principal balance of $ 9,808, given the interest would be accumulating at the compounded rate of 26.82 per cent.

«I did a count a while back and you're probably looking at over 70 per cent of countries — and we're talking some of these banana republics included — have national legislation that applies to lawyers,» Meunier says.

The use of alternative fees such as non-hourly based billing is also up, but still only represents 10 per cent of fees collected, according to the Law Firms in Transition Survey, which received responses from law firm leaders at 238 U.S. law firms with 50 or more lawyers.

And while only 7.7 per cent outsource legal work, 20 per cent of firms with at least 250 lawyers said they outsourced legal work.

According to the report, 43 per cent of lawyers surveyed at law firms and corporations indicated they are likely to increase hiring in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

In order to ensure that recipients of legal aid had a meaningful choice of counsel and that senior members of the bar participated in the plan, the Joint Committee recommended that lawyers» fees be paid at a reduced but reasonable rate — approximately 75 per cent of their usual fees.

In 27 per cent of family law cases the opposing side had no lawyer at all and another 21 per cent had no lawyer for part of the case.

And 75 per cent said lawyer - authored articles and speeches influence their hiring decisions, according to those surveyed as part of the 2015 Canadian Legal Digital Interaction Survey, conducted at the end of 2014 by fSquared Marketing in Vancouver.

About 52 per cent of Ontario's lawyers work in solo or small firms, so the absence of a plan would likely mean there isn't necessarily much, if anything at all, in place in the event of the lawyer's demise.

Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.

If you do not receive compensation, regardless of the amount of time that our motor vehicle lawyers have spent on your claim, you will not owe us a single cent for our services at any time, ever.

Essentially, under the contingency fee method of payment you do not have to pay the car accident lawyers at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. a single cent until you receive compensation from your claim.

At age 40, women lawyers earn 75 per cent of the average income and 85 per cent of the median income of men the same age

The LPAC has reported that stress, anxiety, and burnout are the most prevalent issues affecting the legal profession with only 37 per cent of lawyers surveyed believing they had enough time to exercise and 45 per cent believing they lacked enough quality time at home with family.

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.

The biggest claims risk occurs not with substantive law (12 per cent), but rather within lawyer / client communication and relationship issues at 35 per cent of all claims, followed by time and deadline management (17 per cent), inadequate investigation / discovery of fact (16 per cent), clerical (six per cent), and confidentiality (five per cent).

A recent study by McKinsey & Company estimates that 23 per cent of lawyer time is automatable, while similar research by the highly respected AI expert Dana Remus at the University of North Carolina School of Law concludes that just 13 per cent of lawyer time can be performed by computers.

«My lawyer asked me to send him all of banking records, invoices and e-mails which I did on a DVD and the first thing my lawyer did was print the documents and billed me 25 cents a page and the time of his paralegal at $ 125.00 per hour.»