Sentences with phrase «charged by large firm»

Their low overhead, efficient use of personnel resources, and technology platform permit them to provide highly effective legal services at price levels that are substantially below the prices charged by their large firm competitors.

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Unfortunately, the credit industry is filled with misinformation, with many fly - by - night firms charging large fees and delivering limited or low results.

Some consolidation firms have preyed on consumers by charging large upfront fees without actually providing any real help.

As such, many law firms can structure billing arrangements that achieve larger marketing goals by playing with or deviating from straight hourly rate charges.

In addition, as this article mentions, New Law models offer great value for money for its clients: without the overhead required by larger firms, we can charge less for the same high quality work.

For example, while smaller firm billing rates rose by 5 percent to $ 352, that's a bargain compared to the $ 1,000 / hour rates that some large firms charge.

Because the firms rely on experienced lawyers and slash overhead by eliminating large offices and administrative infrastructure, lawyers can charge substantially less for the same services provided by a large firm.

Of greater interest is the arguably questionable decision by the law society to pursue the charges as long as it did and the question of whether the case indicates the problems law societies have in relation to the direct regulation of lawyers at large law firms.

An in - house counsel for one of the largest corporations in America once told me that, no matter what the hourly fees were at the various firms used by her company, in the end, most of the firms tended to charge similar amounts.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

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Charge and discharge tests, which means testing the batteries both while the device is charging and while the battery is draining, were a large part of the post-analyses conducted by Samsung and by the third - party firms it paid to examine its defective phones.

Our clients» fees are the same or lower than those charged by the larger property management firms because we have cut out the layers of middle and outsourced management.