Sentences with phrase «cost litigation work»

The bank is looking to outsource some of its higher - volume, lower - cost litigation work after slashing 25 lawyers from its litigation team in April.

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State taxpayers ultimately had to pay millions more to cover the costs of the work disruption that resulted from the litigation.

Mahoney denied working with Dixie on the lawsuit, pointing out that the litigation exposes county taxpayers to potential costs from a verdict, plus ongoing legal costs.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Vests that identify service dogs should only be used for professional working dogs and upon purchase, the customer agrees to assume all liability including litigation and any associated costs that may occur as a result of misrepresentation or misuse of these patches.

Vests that identify service dogs should only be used for professional working dogs and upon purchase, the customer agrees to assume all liability including litigation and any associated costs that may occur as a result of misrepresentation or misuse of these vests.

Between 2007 and 2014, Civitas points out, TEF also gave $ 4,476,000 to the Southern Environmental Law Center, a litigation factory that uses questionable climate and ecological claims to drive lawsuits against energy and other development projects, raising energy costs, killing jobs, and hammering the budgets, health and well - being of poor, minority, and working class families.

The Americans have made quite a mess of their legal system -LRB-(1) far too many lawyers per capita, (2) far too much useless and immeasurably costly and roiling litigation, and (3) allowing the «dysfunctional» and «invidious» title insurance industry to rip away, through grossly unfair business practices, most of the conveyancing work from the real estate bar to the great cost of the public and great harm to the title system), but on the issue of rejecting ABS, they have got it right.

Other factual aspects that often help this exercise work more effectively include aspects such as an existing relationship between the parties and / or a desire to develop or continue a relationship; a situation in which an apology could realistically help a party come to terms with a harm; a situation in which one or both parties wish to limit publicity; and a situation where one or both parties are concerned about litigation costs.113

Our team has worked with US federal, state and local government agencies to defend against governmental enforcement actions and citizen suits, response cost litigation, indemnification claims, toxic tort class actions, imminent and substantial endangerment litigation, and criminal environmental claims.

Chances are there's third - party funding the litigation costs in a matter you're currently working on.

At Barry Regar APLC, we work on a contingency - fee basis, meaning we front the litigation costs and you will only be held responsible for attorney fees if we win you compensation.

Whether they are seeking an insurance hedge for their personal costs liability, a funding package for their lawyers fees and / or disbursements, a solution to a potential or existing security for costs issue, or to sell the potential litigation and make an immediate financial return for creditors, insolvency practitioners can take comfort that by engaging TheJudge to source their litigation funding and insurance requirements, they are working with a broker whose duty is aligned to their own i.e. to secure the best possible terms available.

Supply dedicated legal teams to insource recurring litigation or transactional work for greater efficiency and reduced costs.

We appreciate that litigation can be expensive and highly disruptive and we work tirelessly to manage the legal costs for our clients.

Costs will be proportionate if they bear a reasonable relationship to the sums in issue in the proceedings; the value of any non-monetary relief in issue; complexity of the litigation; additional work generated by the conduct of the paying party; and any wider factors involved in the proceedings, such as reputation (we suggest, inevitably relevant in defamation and may be relevant in some professional negligence litigation).

Two decades ago companies in the demonstrative - evidence and litigation support industry pioneered the use of technology to improve litigators» work product and reduce the cost of telling a compelling story to a jury.

Specialist claimant firm Leigh Day & Co has billed # 105m in fees for its work on the class action brought against oil company Trafigura, in one of the highest - ever costs claims for a single litigation case.

Let the legal fraternity of the world know that Rainmaker Co. is in the process of making world class litigation support service providers of high quality work at comparatively low cost with guarentee of Inernationally required Ethical and security standards.

We look forward to working together to develop BLM's ability to forecast the outcome, cost and length of litigation, and to understand what drives these factors.»

«Fit the Bill: Managing the Cost of Litigation While Maintaining Work Quality» Boston, MA, February 24, 2010, Speaker

Our paramount goal in any litigation matter — large or small — is to work in partnership with our client to attain the best possible outcome at an acceptable cost.

«Outsourcing can reduce client costs and enable small firms to provide labor intensive services such as large, discovery intense litigation, even though the firms might not maintain sufficient ongoing staff to handle the work, according to a new ethics opinion issued today.»

The innovation process - or more precisely, the ideation process - often begins with a specific question, problem or hypothesis: «We can reduce cost single - plaintiff litigation matters by rethinking our client onboarding and service delivery processes», or «we are being priced out on patent prosecution work in the US due to boutiques and alternative providers».

We work collaboratively with our clients during the litigation process and are committed to resolving the issues as quickly and cost - efficiently as possible.

This approach, though often thought to be preferable for family type conflicts, works just as well in commercial disputes, where the costs and delay of prolonged litigation could be as detrimental and devastating as an adverse judicial outcome.

some types of legal work, including certain types of litigation and other matters, are difficult to forecast costs and do not fit well into these types of arrangements.

Sadly, there is a notion out there among the ignorant or the mischievous that small firm solicitor work is expendable (especially if it helps deflect attention away from doing something effective about the time and cost of litigation).

The media are partly to blame because, whenever they rant on about the high cost of lawyers, the only examples they ever give are the court / litigation based examples (barrister work).

Please stop lumping low - cost, cost - effective small firm solicitor work in with the horrendously costly services of other areas of practice such as litigation.

With the annual cost of fraud in the UK reportedly as high as # 193bn a year, the two - year pilot scheme will see the City of London Police work with the firm to identify, seize and recover assets from criminals, with civil asset recovery litigation running alongside parallel criminal investigations.

While accepting that some proposals from his work may reduce the cost of litigation the core contentious issue is not how much parties pay for access to justice but who pays.

I also have experience working with industry experts to evaluate the cost benefits of pursuing a negotiated settlement or litigation.

Spending countless hours working with clients to fill out rudimentary forms that do not require legal advice can be a significant cost to civil litigation firms.

From the perspective of big corporates, we are tending to see that while they are able to meet the costs of disputes in many cases, the key reasons they turn to third party funding is the risk sharing with the funder and accounting benefits, such as not having to lock working capital into a lengthy litigation.»

Because «whistleblower» lawyers work on a contingency basis, Bentham IMF's program «is not funding the cost of litigation but is primarily aimed at providing whistleblowers with cash while they wait for their claim to wind through court.»

Jerry works toward the elimination of needless costs and expenses associated with the litigation process while attempting to obtain the best possible result for his clients.

As part of her extensive multinational practice, Giovanna also handles transfer pricing matters for Fortune 50 companies and foreign - owned clients, working closely with economic experts in tax planning to establish cost sharing and related party licensing arrangements; assess multijurisdictional transfer pricing exposure; comply with FIN 48 and return documentation requirements; and develop audit, litigation, advance pricing agreement and authority strategies.

«You can work together to lay a discovery plan out, suitable to the litigation, based on the issues, the costs involved.

He was President of the Law Society and chaired the Civil Justice Councel working parties which developed the Code of Conduct for third party litigation funders and the implementation of contingency fees recommended by Lord Justice Jackson's report on civil litigation costs.

The predicate statute relied by in Baker Botts, 11 U.S.C. § 330 (a)(1), did not abrogate the American Rule (each party bears its own fees / costs in the absent of a contract or statute to the contrary) given that the language «services rendered» could not be read to cover fee - defense litigation work, as opposed to standard Chapter 11 estate work.

While litigation is never cost - free, we consciously work to find economic solutions that work for your situation.

We will work with your management team to explore all available options and develop a litigation strategy and budget that cost - effectively serves your company and its long - term goals.

I have sat on various sub-groups and working parties within the Association of Costs Lawyers, such as «The Introduction of new form Bills of Costs» and «The proposed expansion of Fixed Recoverable Costs in Civil Litigation».

-- Direct legal spending, indirect «frictional» costs associated with legal work (delayed sales, extra steps for compliance), and litigation damages, penalties or business disruption.

With the added advantage of having the largest litigation group in Manitoba, we are also able to work collaboratively with our clients to ensure they receive innovative, cost effective representation.

«Litigation teams — both in - house and outside counsel — can now put these software tools to work in a way that provides them with earlier insights into their cases, resulting in better litigation strategy at reduced costs to their clienLitigation teams — both in - house and outside counsel — can now put these software tools to work in a way that provides them with earlier insights into their cases, resulting in better litigation strategy at reduced costs to their clienlitigation strategy at reduced costs to their clients.»

The dissent further warned that the decision will «gum up the works of class litigation» by increasing the costs and complexity of class action litigation and compelling courts and class counsel «to take on a more active role in protecting class members» opt - out rights.»

Given the above, the primary aim of the new J - Codes is to enable the courts in England and Wales — including Judges and Costs» Judges — to summarise and analyse time worked and costs incurred by lawyers during a litigation Costs» Judges — to summarise and analyse time worked and costs incurred by lawyers during a litigation costs incurred by lawyers during a litigation case.