Sentences with phrase «cheaper than another lawyer»

One lawyer, who had been practicing for nearly a decade, was 50 percent cheaper than another lawyer with the same experience.

But every client — even a client who hired you because you were cheaper than another lawyer — wants top - notch legal work.

Laura, one of the things that I've been trying to figure out is how a legal technician can afford to be cheaper than a lawyer, because we hear that a lot, that legal technicians will help close the access to justice gap.

Indeed, issuing Form 14 Notices (which, pursuant to s. 85 (4) of the Condominium Act, must be given at least 10 days before registering a certificate of lien) is a purely administrative task best handled by management, who can do the work more quickly and cheaper than lawyers.

Not exact matches

Eighty percent of those polled say it's more important to have access to the cheaper legal advice that A.I. might offer than to preserve the jobs of lawyers.

County lawyers anticipated that rejecting this year's bids might spur a complaint from Suit - Kote, but they calculated that any legal challenge from Suit - Kote would be much cheaper to defend than a full - blown lawsuit, Mahoney said.

But while de Blasio and Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks said investing in civil legal services was paying off big in terms monetary (it's cheaper to pay a lawyer than to house a family in a shelter) and human (in keeping families from homelessness), he wasn't ready to extend it to everyone appearing in housing court.

«Rather than pursue a design that would minimize the risks, the city went with a cheaper design,» said Commodore's lawyer George Pallas.

Though copyrights are not free, they are much cheaper than hiring a lawyer and paying court fees.

It is better to use an experienced lawyer who works quickly but may be more expensive than a cheaper lawyer who takes too long and does not maximise your prospects of winning.

And it will certainly be cheaper than spending an additional $ 46.3 billion per year on legal aid not to mention more realistic than expecting (let alone requiring) the 1.2 million lawyers of the US to increase their average number of pro bono hours to 900 per year.

The services offered by these types of sites are usually significantly cheaper than comparable services offered by lawyers, and in some cases are free.

Typically, hiring a contract attorney to review a contract will always be cheaper than hiring a lawyer to draft a contract.

Set up in the UAE last year, The Bench is able to offer cheaper rates to clients because it is free from high overheads such as offices, meaning clients pay roughly half the price for senior lawyers than they would at a big law firm.

Is a Legal - Aid - style support office cheaper because its people are paid less than junior lawyers and paralegals working for firms?

Law reform can take time and effort, but it's still cheaper than paying for private lawyers to fight forever about the same obscure statutes.

(iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers;

In the law I remember at the start of my career working with lawyers who had the luxury of extensive shelves, the curiosity to acquire books and the possibility posed by cheaper prices than today... [more]

You are wrong if you think that Walmart law for personal injury or any litigation is going to be cheaper than going to any one of the large number of independent small firm litigation lawyers.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

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The bottom line is that it is cheaper for a company to hire a collection agency than it is to hire lawyers to sue debtors.

By practicing law «better, faster and cheaper» clients can grow comfortable with legal matter price certainty and lawyers can enjoy greater profitability through efficiency, rather than waste.

Some lawyers will offer cheaper rates than others.

If a party refuses to honor their contract, the typical next step is to have a lawyer to write the party a sternly worded «demand letter» on law firm letterhead that makes the party realize he, she, or it has a legal obligation and it will be cheaper to pay than to fight.

Not only is low tuition for law school a taxpayer - funded subsidy to well - off students or soon - to - be-well-off lawyers, it's a B.C. taxpayer subsidy to rich or soon - to - be-rich Ontario lawyers who can come to B.C. for law degrees that are 30 - to 60 - per - cent cheaper than one from Ontario.

Many (probably most) trade mark lawyers think that ought to be the rule... So the public would be surprised to know (and perhaps somewhat resentful of the fact) that the law of the EEA is such that if genuine goods are available outside Europe, much cheaper than they are here, traders can not buy them and import them for sale here, unless the trade mark owner has consented.

Fold articling and bar admission courses into law school curricula + add a 4th year to law school for specialization: (1) because the great shortage of jobs compels more new lawyers to become sole practitioners earlier than they should have to, given the present law school course content and purpose; and, (2) because of the need to specialize earlier so as to increase the efficacy of their qualifications earlier; (3) articling jobs are now scarce, and increasing shortages of clients is causing law firms to more frequently and thoroughly use articling law students as a source of cheap labour.

«To us as researchers, this is not surprising; in - house lawyers grapple daily with many more things where innovations, other than technology, would make a big difference to getting work done in a better, faster and cheaper way,» he added.

The cynical argument that law firms will continue to recruit cheap labour in the form of trainees, rather than more expensive trained and experienced lawyers, doesn't really hold water for a sector driven by quality demands.

The basic premise of a secondment being that if a client has enough of the right type of work (generally consistent in terms of volume, skill and experience required), but not enough to make permanent recruitment an option, then taking a single lawyer on secondment will be cheaper than paying for that resource on an hourly rate basis.

This technology may reduce the chance of mistake from 0.0000001 % to 0.00000001 %, but unless it's cheaper / easier than just having your secretary stamp it, I don't envision too many lawyers racing to adopt it.

Divorce mediation is cheaper, faster and better than hiring lawyers to litigate your divorce.

Obviously, doing your divorce yourself is cheaper than using a lawyer.

Microsoft, General Motors, Zillow, lawyers, title insurers, mortgage brokers and others are already making inroads in their efforts to convince the public that they can handle the whole real estate transaction cheaper and better than we can.