Sentences with phrase «competing firms who»

Not exact matches

«It will be hard for a club owned by 150,000 members to either keep this ownership model, or if it keeps it, to continue competing at the very top level,» says Victor Font, CEO of Delta Partners, a global telecom advisory and investment firm, who is considered one possible successor to Bartomeu in 2021.

And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

Despite the burgeoning demand for software engineers who know how to work in that specialized environment, Leung observes that most of the firms Appnovation competes with tend to be smaller, local operations, and content to remain that way.

The former chief executive of human resources software firm Zenefits, Parker Conrad, on Tuesday made public a new startup that will compete with his old company, marking a comeback by the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who left Zenefits under a cloud.

David Barton, of the San Antonio - based Gardner Law Firm, who represented Rothe, said the decision will force minority - owned businesses to compete on an equal playing field.

A Deutsche Bank veteran who started as an apprentice, Sewing is accelerating a push to refocus the lender on its European home market and reverse a two - decade effort to compete head - to - head with the large Wall Street firms that dominate volatile securities trading.»

«Because the ecosystem has become more transparent you are always competing with other firms,» says Ross Fubini, a partner at Canaan, who adds startups are still likely to choose the best venture capital firm, rather than the highest valuation.

The charges include allegations that Kruger, Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland and previously convicted Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio — who died in prison in January — received bribes and other largesse to help two competing health - care companies buy hospitals, and direct state funds to those firms.

Jessica Chastain gives a magnificent and thoroughly believable performance as a ruthless woman who will do anything to win in the amoral world she works in and the political «rats» whom the competing lobbying firms work to win over.

«People smell the money and there are lots of people rushing out with unsophisticated formulas,» said Mr. Sanders, who works as a senior researcher at software firm SAS Institute Inc., which competes with VARC for contracts.

Like Jewish lawyers, who had to strike out on their own to achieve equality in the profession, I believe that women and minority lawyers will have to do the same, setting up their own firms and growing them into powerhouses that compete with BigLaw.

While Ms. Black believes that lawyers who use Groupon may cheapen their law firms in the public eye, Ms. Elefant doesn't see how lawyers can compete against restaurants and hotels on Groupon for repeat business.

Local legal professionals are not only competing against other area firms, but also against Philadelphia firms who want to expand into this market.

You could be competing with high profile firms or working with clients who demand the world while expecting to pay for an atlas.

On the other hand, who knows whether some of the reviews are fake or even non-clients attempting to hurt a competing law firm.

Is the firm composed of individual lawyers who are in reality competing with each other, or is it composed of lawyers acting as a team each trying to maximize firm profitability and trying to provide the best service possible to the client?

We compete with other firms who provide top - tier legal counsel to scaling tech companies; not with the unrealistic price expectations of people who, through inexperience or delusion, want Teslas at Kia prices.

It can be especially tough if you're trying to build a practice while competing with the firms who spend millions -LSB-...]

It's not our intent to «compete» with law firms, but lawyers who ignore the ability of technology or the internet to transform how work gets done today and in the future do so at their own longterm peril.

Law firms all over the continent are going to find it increasingly hard to compete with other employers who can offer lawyers interesting work at a good salary.

Competition among firms is fiercer than ever and firms who traditionally only needed to concern themselves with rivals of a similar size, status and locality are now competing with firms from across the business and across the world, big and small, old and new.

Instead, her focus is lawyers who start small boutique or corporate practices that directly compete with large firms.

We pair our summer associates with mentors consisting of one partner and at least one associate, who provide guidance on seeking out and completing substantive work assignments, balancing workload demands, dealing with competing projects, integration into the firm's culture, and setting and achieving career goals.

However, like all suppliers who now compete with law firms, they will get the most out of their own tools.

Certainly, any tech tool that enables a plaintiffs lawyer to better compete with the large firms who are often on the other side should be valuable.

The competing need was the law firm who wanted the most comprehensive set of data and the corporate client who wanted reasonable costs associated with the process.

The largest law firms in Canada and the U.S. spend a lot of time, money and effort to compete for the «top law students,» which they define narrowly as those who got the best marks at the top - rated schools.

For those lawyers, schooled under Cohen v. Lord Day & Lord, 75 N.Y. 2d 95 (1989), the prohibition appears absolute: lawyers may not enter into agreements with their law partners that require those who leave the firm to forfeit earned compensation or other benefits if they compete with the firm.

The silver circle firms are also suffering — they can not compete with the mid-tier nationals who commoditise work and churn it through low - overhead regional offices.

Services like these are crucial to firms and lawyers who want to compete with big practices, but lack their resources or expertise.

The SJC had previously struck down an earlier version of the agreement that withheld the credits only from ex-partners who competed with the firm.

That is the new market in which legal firms find themselves; you are no longer competing only with the Magic Circle firms to attract the crème de la crème, you're up against Tesco, the Government Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every other potential discipline into which they might throw themselves.

Against this back drop we believe some of the newer international firms will struggle to develop the capabilities needed to compete effectively across multiple jurisdictions and have limited success in attracting clients who have true international requirements.

For clients who recognize their leverage, better deals can be negotiated, firms are encouraged to compete for their business, written agreements with terms fair to the client are common, and bills are examined more closely.

Yet more insight: of the few B2C law firms that are our clients, who have taken on articling students, these students are learning how tough it is to compete in 2016.

So given that there's the same or similar number of people claiming for an injury each year (albeit the number who are doing it online, indeed more and more from mobile devices, is still increasing), and given that competitors in the PI space online have continually increasing investment to meet competing higher media prices (eg Google Adwords is becoming more expensive for personal injury keywords — in the States some keywords eg «car crash attorney» ones are over $ 500 per click without any guarantee of making that a converted enquiry), and given more entrants into the market each year, pressures for many PI firms at the moment are understandably intense.

StreetCity Realty's latest addition is a branch in Sarnia, Ont., lead by Donna Mathewson, who was formerly with a competing national firm.

Service providers who refuse to take on some of the client's exposure, such as investment risk or liability for environmental remediation, will fall behind competing firms that do agree to share some of that burden for their clients.