Sentences with phrase «cost of legal work»

Like any litigation firm or in - house legal department, the Justice Department is hearing a lot of grumbling from its clients about the cost of legal work — in any given year the department bills about $ 250 - million in legal fees, which other federal departments and agencies must pay.

In - house lawyers typically find a discrepancy between the expected and actual cost of the legal work they outsource.

New York, NY --- September 7, 2017 --- Neota Logic, creators of a leading artificial intelligence (AI)- driven platform for the intelligent automation of expertise, documents, and business processes, today announced that Dublin - based McCann FitzGerald, one of Ireland's premier law firms, has entered into an agreement to design and market applications to help the firm's clients to reduce the time and cost of legal work.

McCann FitzGerald has entered into an agreement with Neota Logic to design and market apps to help McCann FitzGerald's clients reduce the time and cost of legal work.

Where productivity in other sectors improves, the cost of legal work certainly relatively increases.

And if labour costs actually rise generally with increased productivity, the absolute cost of legal work will increase as lawyer incomes rise with productivity in other sectors [13].

Paralegals reduce the costs of legal work by completing tasks — all under the supervision of an attorney — that would otherwise be done by a lawyer.

Not exact matches

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

A look at a budget filed with the court shows that in addition to the mundane cost of keeping the lights on at an office and paying healthcare costs, roughly half of this money will go to the ongoing legal costs of both the company's bankruptcy proceedings and its work on the Section 201 case.

Banks still face numerous headwinds, including high legal costs as regulators and investigators work through a backlog of industry activity and scrutinize everything from overseas hiring to potential manipulation of currency and interest - rate benchmarks.

The parenting plan should contemplate this possibility and work through issues like visitation, child support, legal custody decisions and costs of travel.

«The announcement of a Civil Justice Council working group to examine excessive legal costs in clinical negligence claims is a delayed but still welcome first step.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today the establishment of a Civil Justice Council working group to consider fixed legal costs in clinical negligence claims is a positive step in tackling runaway legal costs.

Gloria Allred, a lawyer who worked with Mariann Meier Wang on the case that cost the Assembly $ 103,000 (itemized as «legal services»), said in her own statement that a comprehensive probe of such incidents should always occur.

«But after giving this a great deal of thought, it has become increasingly clear that the most appropriate course of action is to let the City cover the costs for legal work tied to my government service, as it would for any of its employees in a similar situation,» he added.

The results show that legal marijuana sales come with a cost, said Bridget Freisthler, lead author of the study and professor of social work at The Ohio State University.

Zagato did not disclose the cost of the two concepts that it built for the centenary, though it's fair to note that similar one - offs based on road - legal cars created for auto shows or private customers have frequently eclipsed the $ 500,000 mark for the work alone.

Their efforts are on copyright infringement — something that's getting a lot of attention this week due to an embarrassing public display of plagiarism — and more specifically, on the prohibitive costs associated with taking legal action if an author's work is stolen.

But one person has been working to block the approval of those terms on the grounds that the publishers will not try to stand up for themselves (the publishers maintain there was no effort to bilk the public out of hundreds of millions of dollars, they quickly settled out of court to avoid what would end up costing them more in legal fees), meaning presumably someone must step in.

The major components of expense ratios are management fees, 12b - 1 distribution fees (if any) and other administrative costs, such as those for accounting, legal work and shareholder reporting.

You may be frustrated because of the limited numbers of lawyers working in this field (particularly free or low cost legal services), but there are some legal referral options to consider.

You will need to pay their legal fees and costs as part of their work on your behalf.

In the past year legal costs paid via CSAS, Inc1 have amounted to almost $ 100K including a $ 25K grant to OCT and partial support of one of the OCT lawyers (Dan Galpern), who works with me in preparation of testimony and briefs for the Oregon and other legal cases.

In the case of a large office, for example, the combination of green design techniques and clever technology can not only reduce energy consumption and environmental impact, but also reduce running costs, create a more pleasant working environment, improve employees» health and productivity, reduce legal liability, and boost property values and rental returns.

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.

CSAS, Inc. provides an overhead - free mechanism to support our work (including travel, computers, copiers), with, by far, the greatest expense being the legal costs we cover for Our Children's Trust lawyers, specifically for Dan Galpern, who is working with me in preparation of testimony and briefs for the case (Juliana et al v. United States) against the Federal government and several other cases.

Legal departments are showing themselves to be cost effective, but they are still sending out a good portion of work to external providers, according to a survey from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium.

With profit margins continuously getting smaller, working without knowing the true cost (and the relative price) of the legal services provided means risking the closure of a law firm.

Maximizing the re-use of finished work - product is a key principle of creating the high cost - efficiency of a centralized legal research support service like LAO LAW, accompanied by highly specialized legal materials used, and specialized principles of database management.

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.

Necessary principles of database management would include: (1) database capture of all finished work - product to maximize its re-use so as to maximize cost - efficiency; (2) indexing all finished legal opinions and memoranda of law for quick and accurate access and review for selection, electronically; and, (3) purging the database of all texts superseded by the creation of new legal opinions and memoranda.

Andrew Langdon QC, Bar Chairman, said Jackson LJ's review «indicates that he has listened carefully to the views of the legal profession and accepted proposals from the Bar Council and others that multi-track cases are so varied in character that they do not lend themselves to any rigid costs matrix, and that cost management is working better than had been supposed.

The firm is committed to providing quality legal work in a cost - effective manner with a high degree of responsiveness and dedication.

While the gold standard of volunteering is full representation for the less fortunate, many attorneys also offer free legal advice, work with local charities drafting contracts or represent clients at a reduced cost.

To ensure the cost - effective delivery of legal services, a lawyer in private practice needs to: (1) operate in a skilled and efficient manner; (2) keep accurate records of time and costs; (3) maintain communication with the client as the matter progresses; (4) inform the client is there is a need for change in the arrangements concerning the scope of the work or fees and expenses; (5) bill clients monthly or quarterly, or as arranged, but promptly in accordance with the arrangement; and (6) maintain an internal rate schedule justifiable to the consumer, and review it at least annually.

Just a few of their efforts and costs are: having attorneys and legal staff spend billable time on the non-billable hiring process; your salary and benefits; payment to a legal recruiter (if you're using a headhunter); and the costs of training you (again, this takes considerable time away from your bosses» billable work).

In «Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets,» [4] Hadfield explains how much of legal work is economic actiLegal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets,» [4] Hadfield explains how much of legal work is economic actiLegal Markets,» [4] Hadfield explains how much of legal work is economic actilegal work is economic activity.

This would put competitive pressure on other lawyers and firms, which would presumably cause an overall change in how legal work was assigned within firms, favoring the behavior of assigning work to the lowest cost / lowest rate timekeepers qualified to provide the service.

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thLegal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal services in the US.

Laser focused on efficiency, reliability, accuracy and cost control, we work and partner with legal teams and our clients on a range of issues.

The firm has also invested in improving its internal efficiencies through process mapping, leveraging technology to standardize processes and to speed up and reduce the cost of routine legal work.

In other words, Legal Operations can help clients decide what to pay their lawyers (and what work typically costs) and who to hire based on a mountain of data, instead of reputation and word of mouth.

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Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

Lord Low argued that there is, in fact, adequate funding available to provide early legal advice, suggesting that funds could be raised from the lottery, the government through the lottery and that the Department for Work and Pensions should be made to contribute to the running costs of advice centres.

Aside from his legal work, Nick has been a member of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee and as Assessor to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Fixed Costs.

Throughout the entire process, our legal team is committed to working with our clients to develop defense strategies that best serve their goals and objectives while limiting costs and the potential exposure associated with these types of claims.

Our team of legal assistants and support support specialists can efficiently handle the volume of routine work you face, but in a more cost effective way, allowing your firm to grow more quickly and profitably.

This benefits both our company and law firm clients: a company can achieve significant savings by using legal spend to insource a Latitude attorney instead of using a law firm for in - house work; a law firm can gain an attorney without long - term fixed cost and still earn a significant margin by billing the Latitude attorney out at normal market rates.