Sentences with phrase «cost legal projects»

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CIMIC Group has launched legal action in the United States against Chevron over cost blowouts on jetty and marine structures it built at the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island.

«Without that information,» Mays warns, «it's very difficult to audit — and to control — the cost of any particular legal project.»

The MyMicroInvest platform has been adapted on the legal and technical level to fulfil the European legal conditions in force, so investment projects can be launched outside of Belgium at an affordable cost.

«It's utterly unprecedented in the United States,» said Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C. «We're not aware of any state that has adopted a tax credit remotely resembling this one, which will have the taxpayer pick up the tab for the cost of the minimum wage increase for a certain category of worker.»

Diller said he was giving up on the project last month following years of legal fighting and roughly $ 40 million of pre-construction costs.

The annual wish list for the region from the Buffalo Niagara Partnership is out and it's heavy on legal and regulatory changes rather than high - cost economic development projects.

Provide technical assistance to support the development of organizational capacity in collaborating project teams to allow for scaling (e.g., development of a business plan, legal assistance with intellectual property issues and incorporation as a non-profit or for - profit entity, as indicated) and help resolving issues such as costing, packaging of programs to fit system needs, and identification of sustainable public or private sources of funding.

Thus, there is no controlling legal authority expressly stating whether costs related to the Common Core Technology Project would constitute the construction, replacement or furnishing and equipping of school facilities for purposes of Proposition 39... the District should remain aware that there is no controlling legal authority expressly stating what constitutes the «equipping of school facilities» for purposes of Proposition 39.

Previously, legal contractor costs were part of project management costs but from 2014 onwards they were «capitalised and included in capital spending».

Additional fees will be charged after the credit instrument is executed, including additional amounts required to fully cover TIFIA's financial and legal advisory services costs in connection with the evaluation and negotiation of terms of TIFIA credit assistance for the project.

Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public - private partnership, or any other legal entity.

Founded in 2011 as a partnership between artist Tania Bruguera and the Queens Museum, with support from Creative Time, the project, inspired by Bruguera's notion of arte util, and the Queens Museum's interest in addressing the pressing needs and unique potential of Corona's immigrant residents, offers comprehensive educational programming, health, and legal services at no cost.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released an updated version of its Energy Poverty video, elaborating on the terrible human cost of «climate» policies (with no actual projected impact on climate), noting political and legal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSBLegal Institute (E&E Legal) released an updated version of its Energy Poverty video, elaborating on the terrible human cost of «climate» policies (with no actual projected impact on climate), noting political and legal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSBLegal) released an updated version of its Energy Poverty video, elaborating on the terrible human cost of «climate» policies (with no actual projected impact on climate), noting political and legal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSBlegal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSB-...]

The so - called «balance of system,» or «soft costs,» that account for the large bulk of overall residential solar PV system project costs are declining as government authorities and industry participants work to reduce the finance, legal and administrative «red tape» associated with installation of residential solar PV systems.

The service, which requires a registration for which there is no cost, links to documents published by the African Legal Information Institute and other collections, including suggestions for research projects and the ability to support communities of practice (workgroups).

-- Steven B. Levy Author, Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks, and Maintain Sanity

In order to control costs, Gowling senior associate Alexandra Poynter project managed the procurement process, with any senior legal involvement being agreed ahead of time to provide more clarity on price.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice pointed to five pilot projects, announced last year, at a cost of $ 6 million over three years, as part of the province's legal aid efforts.

Over the past eight years, he has designed and implemented a variety of innovative processes that have reduced overall project risks, improved quality outcomes, and reduced the costs associated with document reviews and corporate legal projects.

• Create 15 new staffed civil legal aid attorneys; • Increase the capacity of pro bono programs across the state; • Invest in research and training for legal aid and pro bono attorneys; and, • Provide Northwest Justice Project attorneys with long overdue cost of living and salary adjustments.

Texas General Counsel Forum: Legal Project Management: Driving Efficiency, Lower Cost, and Predictability through Planning

The cloud deployment type is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period; the cloud deployment type is also projected to witness the highest demand due to increased cost reduction as compared to on - premises solution deployment, as cloud E-Discovery solutions help customers to maintain a conservative legal department budget by slashing costs associated with data storage infrastructure maintenance.

Legal costs can have a big impact on the overall budget and financial models for projects across any sector, which is why we are seeing more and more businesses swaying towards having in - house expertise with the relevant external support when needed.

In such cases, the impact of legal costs, time spent on defending a claim and consequential losses on the project become paramount considerations.

The Public Law Project (PLP), has threatened to bring a legal challenge to the proposed reforms to judicial review costs.

Firms should discourage associates from writing full - length law - review articles because the marginal cost of these projects — the associates» limited time — far outweighs any benefit to an associate's legal - writing skills.

Indeed, compared to how much these projects benefit associates» legal - writing skills, the cost of offering these incentives is close to nil.

Are legal rebels those who, as the ABA project suggests, innovate with technology to bring down costs and better serve clients, even if it means the elimination of traditional jobs?

Further, the fixed fee arrangement assures involvement of input by the client in projecting the cost of legal fees for services to be rendered and in determining what will be the strategic performance choices and when they will be carried out.

Last month, as part of a five - year SSHRC funded research project exploring the costs of justice, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice released the first data from its national legal problems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada&ralegal problems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada&raLegal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada».

Partly due to the adverse economic situation, the legal industry has gone through an overhaul we might qualify as structural which has, among other aspects, placed price as the number one consideration when purchasing, followed by better forecast of cost and scope of the project and better management efficiency.

The project began in 2014 and saw the legal department overhaul its in - house legal team by bringing in new technology and setting up several offshore teams to reduce cost and boost efficiency.

To gain experience, consider approaching companies in your target industry with an offer to do routine project or contract legal work at a lower cost than the rates charged by their regular law firms.

Stratton points out that insurance defense litigation firms have been operating under layered cost controls since the late 1980s (unlike corporate attorneys) and that they've been using detailed litigation plans for at least a decade before the new (fashionable) legal project management structures rolled out by corporate law departments.

We use artificial intelligence, predictive coding, document automation, collaboration, workflow, project management and reporting tools to configure technology solutions that enable legal tasks or processes to be carried out more efficiently and accurately, delivering cost savings and mitigating risk.

We exist to enable and facilitate the profitable use of popular Alternative Fee Arrangements («AFAs») now demanded by corporate legal departments by using traditional project management skills to more accurately estimate, track and monitor the scope of work and costs in legal matters.

Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of legal services as agents to North American lawyers at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are document review or analysis, large drafting projects or legal research or client bulletins that do not require specific «local» knowledge).

There is a lot of buzz about greening the library, time management, workflow, digitization, budgeting, cost recovery, legal project management, and ebooks.

Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justice.

This is not entirely surprising given that, based on criteria such as cost - effectiveness, efficiency, impartiality and independence, the World Justice Project ranked the civil legal system of the Netherlands the highest of all civil justice systems in the world.

Further, the fixed - fee arrangement assures involvement of input by the client in projecting the cost of legal fees for services to be rendered and in determining what will be the strategic performance choices and when they will be carried out.

is also uniquely positioned to complete projects retained by corporate legal departments because of outside counsel cost but remaining incomplete because, although important, there isn't the time or manpower in - house to complete them at this time.

The Louis M. Brown Award recognizes programs and projects that employ innovative means to enable affordable access to legal services for those of moderate income, who do not qualify for legal aid yet lack the discretionary funds to pay the traditional costs of legal services.

Unlike other industries whose project management fundamentals are more mature and formal, perceptions as to the current state of a legal matter are too often determined by actual cost (AC)-- i.e., how much money has been spent to date — against the matter budget (more formally referred to as budget at completion (BAC)-RRB-.

Libraries participating in the project share costs, resources, and expertise to preserve important Web - published, legal materials within a shared digital archive.

In a nutshell, project managers distill legal matters down to a process that can be managed more efficiently, with greater quality and at a lower cost.

By actively planning, pricing and managing matters with our pricing and legal project management teams we increase cost - effectiveness and efficiency, whilst developing and maintaining long - lasting client relationships.

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legal project management capability — this helps lawyers deliver those improvements in a structured and disciplined way to keep costs down;

Whilst you will appoint your legal counsel on their knowledge of the law, what is also key is the ability to run your cases efficiently, keep costs under control, and manage inherent risk in what is often a complex project - all skills of a good project manager.