Sentences with phrase «conversation about fees»

So keep in mind, you need to control the conversation about fees, whether it's the initial fee, the consultation fee, or your retainer fee.

It's not a conversation about fees at all, it's about how is the relationship going and quality of the work and setting me and my team up to be successful with a standard set of documentation so I don't have to call them for very basic things that I have immediate access to it.

Although I represent clients pro bono, an early conversation about fees is also essential.

Three years ago, Allianz would not have reported any conversations with advisors about guaranteed income, but those days are gone, ceding to conversations about fee - based products, Wellmann said.

Three years ago, Allianz would not have reported any conversations with advisors about guaranteed income, but those days are gone, ceding to conversations about fee - based products, Wellmann said.

Not exact matches

When a customer tweeted the company asking for clarification about a fee policy, JetBlue not only immediately responded, but also had a local representative study this man's social media photo, then walk through the airport until he could be found for a follow - up conversation.

In a conversation hosted by Money magazine, Robbins and Bogle talked about investing, 401 (k) s, and how fees can erode your returns.

«What resulted was overly broad legislation that would prevent the county from reimbursing any municipality in the county for any fees that are on their tax warrants, and so the response from not just myself, but the mayors of Cohoes and Watervliet and Supervisor Paula Mahan was that this legislation changing a decades - old way of making municipalities whole for their tax levies was really thrown in to complete and utter confusion and disarray, with legislative leaders saying that the legislation or the resolution meant something different than the letter of the resolution, and all of it really could have been addressed if the leadership of the county legislature had simply reached out, sent us a letter, picked up the phone to have a conversation about their concerns with respect to the trash fee.»

As soon as we started the test drive, the sales person (Who of course joined me on the test drive to sell me) very quickly jumped into a conversation about their certified pre-owned program, and that there was a $ 2000 «Certification» fee they added.

I've had an initial conversation with them, and discussed options, and they haven't mentioned anything about up - front fees or processing fees, but would still like to know if anyone knows anything about them.

If the only conversations you have with the debt relief company are about paying more fees for their services, it is time to end that business relationship.

«Have a brief conversation about goals, values, and what kind of lifestyle you want,» says Karin Mizgala, chief executive officer of Money Coaches Canada, a national network of fee - only financial experts based in Vancouver.

Not only does this leave you with just one easy payment to make each month, but it lets us enter into conversations with your creditors about ways to lower your interest rates and finance charges, and to stop late fees and over-limit fees.

When I called in to American Express to cancel, I did have a conversation with the rep about the possibility of reducing the fee or extra Membership Rewards points.

All I got out of the conversation is yes that service will be rolled out in February (that we all already know), but at the point in time there is no information about what the fees will be when the service comes out.

Panel presentations will include a conversation with museum directors and Daniel Weiss, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the issue of museum admission fees.

Sales conversations, requests for free advice and discussions about your attorney fees are all guaranteed to come up in the course of running a solo firm.

He laments the continued conversation among in - house and outside counsel about alternative fees, claiming that

And if there is a clear conversation in advance about what the assumptions and expectations are, what the scope of work based upon those assumptions entails, what work might fall outside of the original scope and what circumstances might create that work, there should be no issue when the «unforeseen» actually does arise and no problem securing an additional fee.

This can help corroborate the fees you charged a client and refresh your recollection years later about the length of a conversation.

«One of the things I am passionate about — an area that is really weak in legal practice — is the ability to do fixed - fee billing,» Hasan says during a recent conversation.

(Almost every conversation I have with a non-lawyer who consults me for a recommendation, gets eventually to the worry that they'll be charged for the time it takes to ask about fees and get an answer.)

Most of our members pay over $ 700 a year for bar licensing fees, and so I do think that it would be really nice if we could have a levelheaded national conversation in the legal community about moving not just to the UBE, but to a 50 state solution.

(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.

«Lawyers will do anything to avoid talking about fees,» said Brown, noting that pricing conversations are difficult for both inside and outside counsel.

Meanwhile, Stephen Parry from the legal team at The Co-operative Group says that fixed and capped fees work well for transactional work but when it's for something non-transactional and hourly fees are used, it is difficult to have a pragmatic conversation with a law firm about how much a matter is going to cost.

A frank frontend conversation about the possible economic impact of a viable fee shifting claim may help knock some settlement sense into the warring parties before fee shifting becomes a driving force that subsumes the merits of a dispute.

Had a conversation with someone recently about court fee schedules and the person I was conversing with said that a judge / court could set whatever fee they reasonably determine for an offense.

Calling alternative fees «ludicrous,» Luftspring said nowadays clients are more concerned about how much value they can get from legal services so it's important that lawyers have that conversation with clients at the outset.

Over the past week, there's been heightened tension around the conversation about bitcoin fees and confirmation times.

First are the phone conversations with clients, where they ask about my services, I explain how the resume writing process works and we discuss fees.

In all of the conversations I've seen to date about the double - ending, specifically where the listing Realtor also represents the buyer as a client, I've not ever seen anyone speak to the nastiest, most insidious side to it which is the reduction of listing fees.

As this requires the Co-op Broker to explain the «unusual and very precise» dollar amount of the counter-offer, the subsequent response - in - writing from the Buyer, most - often reflects the «new & full» conversation that the Buyer has had w its representative about how fees affect both the Seller's net and the Buyer's «gross».

Now you have the option of entering into a conversation with that investor about an assignment fee, partnership, hard money loan, or some other type of arrangement.