Sentences with phrase «changing market for legal services»

Amid a rapidly changing market for legal services, Blacklines & Billables takes a critical look at the cutting edge of legal technology and innovation, as well as law - firm associate success and development.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Teachout's campaign paid $ 70,000 to Signia Marketing for robocalls, $ 40,000 to the Progressive Campaign Change Committee for voter ID information, as well as $ 9,105 to Kantor Davidoff for legal services.

If you want real insight into how the market for legal services has changed over the past six years, you owe it to yourself to revisit this post.

Enrico Schaefer at The Greatest American Lawyer suggests the shrinking BigLaw sector may not be a bad thing at a macro level since it will provide an opportunity for foundational change in the market for legal services as new legal service models (e.g., alternative billing) start competing with the traditional approaches (e.g., billable hour), and clients start to have real choices.

You see, in the last six years, the market for legal services has undergone fundamental — and probably irreversible — changes.

As time has passed, things have changed and, for better and worse, continue so to do, so that some of the solutions and research products and services coming onto the market are more likely to have been conceived in university computer departments rather than in legal practice or faculties of law.

If you have an opinion whether the market for legal services is changing, or not, you can find plenty of ammunition from recent studies, surveys, and headlines.

The LETR was undertaken by the UK Centre for Legal Education, examining the provision of legal education in the context of the current economic, technological, market and funding changes shaping the legal services maLegal Education, examining the provision of legal education in the context of the current economic, technological, market and funding changes shaping the legal services malegal education in the context of the current economic, technological, market and funding changes shaping the legal services malegal services market.

The issue for the review is how to redraw legal training in a way that caters for the radically changing legal services market.

He helps law firms and legal organizations understand why the legal services environment is undergoing radical change and how to build sustainable and competitive legal enterprises that can dominate the new market for legal services.

But change is high: consumers are demanding more efficient, transparent and affordable legal services, and lawyers are looking for cutting - edge ways to compete in an oversaturated market.

Since it's now a «buyer's market» for business legal services, outside law firms that fail to embrace LPM as a means to achieve and implement profitable AFAs run the serious risk of becoming irrelevant and obsolete in the changing legal marketplace.

He writes a weekly column for Law.com called «The Law Firm Disrupted,» covering changes in the legal services market.

For some time, the market has been experiencing the perfect storm: a combination of sluggish trading conditions in a difficult economic climate, alongside significant regulatory change, including the Legal Services Act, which allows new players with deep pockets to enter the sector.

Unbundled legal services are, for many attorneys — especially solo practitioners, the way forward in the changing legal market.

At our full - service marketing agency for legal professionals, we make it a point to stay on top of Search Engine Optimization trends to avoid letting your ranking slip through the cracks when Google changes their search standards or releases algorithm updates.

For a discussion of the control the legal profession in general, and the ABA in particular, has with respect to the regulation of legal services in the US, see Gillian Hadfield, «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets,» Daedalus 143 (2014) 3, 10 legal profession in general, and the ABA in particular, has with respect to the regulation of legal services in the US, see Gillian Hadfield, «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets,» Daedalus 143 (2014) 3, 10 legal services in the US, see Gillian Hadfield, «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets,» Daedalus 143 (2014) 3, 10 Legal Markets,» Daedalus 143 (2014) 3, 10 - 11.

Given the profound changes roiling the market for corporate legal services, it can be tough to tell just what makes today's in - house law department tick.

He will discuss the mind - set required for long - term planning, the main drivers of change in the legal market, the path from bespoke professional service, how to understand current and future trends in technology, the potential (and the history) of artificial intelligence, the jobs that lawyers will undertake in the future, and he will conclude by introducing six new models for the delivery of legal solutions.

These changes in the market for legal services is prompting law schools to revisit their curriculums with an eye to incorporating principles of legal systems design.»

It's about developing new services for existing clients, discovering nascent markets for tomorrow's firm to enter, and identifying new technologies that will change the way legal services are created and delivered.

Consider: (1) the separation from the pack by a few of The AmLaw 200; (2) a recent report by ALM Intelligence revealing that law firms now account for only 25 % market share; (3) changed customer expectations — «faster, better, cheaper» and «more with less»; (4) new competitors — notably the BigFour, in - house departments, and legal service providers; (5) the sustainability of the partnership model for economic, cultural, structural, and succession reasons; and (6) the emergence of legal operations — CLOC and its ACC counterpart — and the distinction between legal practice and delivery.

Andrew Chamberlain, Partner and Head of Employment at DWF, comments «The UK legal market is undergoing significant change and we've seen considerable appetite from clients for new approaches to deliver services.

The other huge force that is changing and reshaping the global market for legal services is globality.

The legal market has changed, as globalization, automation and pure common sense drive the demand for more reasonable prices for legal services.

1 > Introduction 2 > The Legal Services Industry Today 3 > Porter's Five Forces and Maister Maxed Out 4 > Clients of the Future 5 > The 2025 Kaleidoscope Scenario 6 > Diagnosing Your Firm's Readiness for Change 7 > Designing the Business Model 8 > Brand, Marketing, and Business Development 9 > Pricing and Fee Arrangements 10 > Sourcing and Outsourcing 11 > Legal Project Management and Process Improvement 12 > Technology, Knowledge Management, and Analytics 13 > Partners, Innovation, and Change 14 > Outlook

Over the next two years, we'll lead the sort of dialogue you've described, bringing together all the major stakeholders in the profession — from clients and practitioners to managing partners and regulators and teachers — to examine the future market for legal services and to develop tools and resources to help lawyers adapt to change.

Changing how we practise can open that latent market for legal services.

At a time when the market for legal services is changing rapidly, however, a recruitment approach which assumes that work types and practices will remain static seems, at best, somewhat optimistic.

But the pace of change in the legal services market combined with the continuing pressure on fees means that doing nothing will not, even over the short term, be a strategy for success.

The CLOC survey confirms that: (1) it is changing; (2) legal buyers — especially the largest ones — are signaling that «it's safe to use service providers, even for more complex work»; (3) that means that a tipping point has been reached where sourcing to «alternative providers» becomes the norm — not an «alternative» (necessitating new nomenclature for service providers); and (4) traditional law firm market share, already showing signs of softening, is projected to erode further.

In 2008, forces that had been bubbling below the surface, long suppressed by the 25 - year bull market for legal services, emerged to accelerate fundamental change akin to those that follow deregulation, most notably, out - of - category competition, such as law firms are seeing from legal - tech startups, «offshoring,» and other consultancies, and a decline in pricing power.

Her recent publications include Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2016); «How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation and the Quality of Lawyering» (with Deborah Rhode)(Hastings Law Journal 2016); «The Microfoundations of the Rule of Law» (with Barry Weingast)(Annual Review of Political Science 2015); «Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens» (with Federica Carugati and Barry Weingast)(Journal of Legal Analysis 2015); «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets» (Daedalus 2014).

These calls have only grown louder as the market for legal services has experienced both cyclical and structural changes.

The global client market demand for fixed priced legal services is changing the way legal pricing models are structured.

This second offering deals with the first practical opportunity for changing businesses under LSA 2007, namely legal disciplinary practices (LDPs); the third will look at the ultimate in opening up of the legal services market, alternative business structures (ABSs).

But, there is no reason to think that the market for clothing could or should change as the market for legal services has changed or that innovation is affected by current regulation of tailors.

Law firms and legal organizations consult me to better understand why the legal services environment is undergoing radical change, and they retain me to advise their lawyers how to build sustainable and competitive legal enterprises that can dominate the new market for legal services.

Under these circumstances, it would seem that more firms would be actively embracing the need to change their basic operating models — to design and implement new approaches to staffing and legal work processes, to explore new opportunities for collaboration with other service providers, and to adopt and market innovative strategies for the pricing of their services.

«If a business is not reinventing itself to adapt to changing market conditions then it is likely it will go into decline or be taken over by those that are better adapted to the new environment.This statement is no less true for law firms than for any other business,» Says the Law Society of England and Wales Future of Legal Services report 2016.

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«The changes we see in the market for financial services are the result of a combination of factors, including technological innovations, the erosion of legal barriers, and an increasingly mobile society,» says Julie Williams, OCC first senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel.