Sentences with phrase «costs against the firm»

But now the firm will have to hand over a large chunk of that amount, around $ 100,000 after a new ruling awarded costs against the firm itself for its behaviour.

Not exact matches

, became interested in the issue after talking to the CEO of a small firm in his district, who told him that the firm's growth had been stunted by the costs of defending against patent lawsuits.

At present, banks are visibly keen to keep pace with blockchain's latest developments in a bid to improve their overall efficiency and minimise costs, as well as to push back against the growing threat from FinTech firms eager to capitalise on the technology.

However, if China pushes too hard on this front the U.S. could retaliate with similar measures against Chinese firms in the U.S. and / or encourage U.S. firms to migrate to lower - cost countries at a faster pace than is already occurring.

In June»98 a U.S. District Court in Maryland threw out the suit in summary judgment, ordering Antonious to pay Spalding's court costs and issuing a $ 30,000 sanction against Stroup's law firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, for failing to do an adequate prefiling investigation of Antonious's claims.

All borrowing by the county must be approved by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, and some board members have taken a firm stand against allowing the county to borrow for operating costs.

As John Smith's shadow chancellor — again as a disciplined chancellor in 1997 - 99 — he stood firm against high spending and believed it cost him the leadership when Smith dropped dead in 1994.

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

The county hired six outside law firms to defend against the suit, which cost more than $ 500,000.

The only objection raised against the hiring of this particular firm came from Democrat Shirley Lasker who claimed she had a firm more familiar with the Town of Clarkstown who could have conducted the review at a slightly lower cost.

«You're firing an interceptor that costs tens of millions of dollars against a billion - dollar satellite,» says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, space, and intelligence analysis firm.

Protesters from teaching unions and global justice NGOs lobbied against education firm Pearson, to question the company's record on investing in «low cost» private schools.

Sadly, if cost cutting is the motivation, this can often be a false economy, as non STF members do not offer the same levels of financial protection, for instance against a firm going bust.

The resulting low - cost power enables Chinese manufacturers to compete more effectively against American firms, swelling our trade deficit.

SINGAPORE (Reuters)- India's solar power costs could fall by more than 40 percent by 2015, allowing the industry to compete against domestic oil and gas firms without the help of state subsidies, the head of Lanco Solar told Reuters on Wednesday.

An Ontario Superior Court justice has found that the class action lawsuit brought against Deloitte LLP by lawyers who had reviewed documents for the firm constituted a success for the plaintiff class, and he has granted the representative plaintiff for the class a cost award.

As does the profession's reaction to a regime where a firm, once complained against, is prima facie liable to pay the OLC's administrative costs of dealing with that complaint, unless they can show that they first dealt with the complaint through their own procedures, and were, in effect, not guilty of the allegations made.

In recognition of this feedback, we designed and launched our PAID facility, which enables law firms to make an early claim for costs incurred on disbursements against their ALP ATE policy.

Certain new models work a cost arbitrage advantage against traditional firms for certain types of work, but they themselves will likely only be a temporary solution, to be replaced themselves by better models unless they also evolve.

And now for $ 25 a month, again, you have the same platform that the biggest law firms that you are either competing against or working with or using at really an incredibly reasonable cost.

Both approaches would likely mean greater costs for banks and payment services providers, intensifying the onus on these firms to demonstrate that their defence against APP is as robust as possible.

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.

When defending against a mass tort action, our firm focuses on developing legal approaches that produce optimal results for our clients, while minimizing the high costs and damages often associated with these difficult and complex claims.

«The appellant maintains that, by its nature, a tax on criminal defence legal fees will, at some level, be prohibitive or at the very least act as an impediment to or will interfere with the right to counsel since the additional cost of the tax to an accused will interfere with the financial resources available to mount a defence to the charges brought against him or her,» wrote Tax Court of Canada Justice Brent Paris, summing up the firm's case.

Scott Hay - Bartlem of Brisbane law firm Cooper Grace Ward says: «Applicants have long taken comfort from Singer v Berghouse (1994), in which the High Court ruled that costs orders will not be made against unsuccessful applicants but that everyone's costs will be paid from the estate — particularly if a cost order would have a detrimental effect on an applicant's financial position.»

Efficient and effective management involves overseeing such matters as the day - to - day activities of the accounting staff; advising on the firm's capital requirements, and annual budget and fee policies; assessing the results against the budget; developing fee policies for various practice areas; determining controls over billing performance including profitability; unbilled time and costs, receivables, delinquencies and write - offs.

A few weeks ago, I posted about some of the cost cutting measures that top U.S. law firms have implemented as a hedge against declining revenues.

Firms will have to weigh the costs of these new services against the risk of clients going to a firm that does have the capabilities.

Breslin and Breslin, PA, Donald A. Caminiti, Esq., was one of six law firms selected by the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey to act as special counsel to represent it in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry to recover Medicaid and other health related costs incurred by the state resulting from tobacco related illnesses.

As with any decision a law firm makes when investing its limited resources, the firm should compare the total cost associated with the system against the economic return that the system brings the firm.

Condor Alternative Legal Services is run as a separate service, has a dedicated chief executive and can deliver cost reductions of up to 50 per cent against traditional law firm pricing.»

Electron also alleged that, in light of the shoddy contract drafting, the two law firms caused the company damages that include lost royalties under the licensing pact and the costs of unsuccessfully litigating against Morgan Stanley.

As to retainers, a law department might agree to pay a fixed amount each month to a firm as a retainer, but at some time the two sides reconcile against actual fees and costs incurred by the firm.

Surely the real question is whether the proposed charges reasonably compensate the system owners for the true costs of increasing the capacity, rather than give them undue profit (they are in a regulated business so have pretty firm profit margins) or allow them to discriminate against their competition (from users of their own system).

Despite that, there are also recent decisions where courts do allow recovery of online legal research costs (by the winning party against the losing party or by a law firm against their client) where the research was necessary and the cost reasonable and the search done for that specific client on a specific issue.

The first Court of Appeal hearing dealt only with the question whether Ms. Danicek could appeal certain costs awards against her in her actions against the firm and the Li's.

The Court of Appeal earlier this year in Sibthorpe and Morris v London Borough of Southwark [2011] EWCA Civ 25, [2011] 2 All ER 240 concluded that solicitors were acting lawfully when they elected not to insure with a third party against the risk of adverse costs, choosing instead to indemnify out of the firm purse.

Unlike law firms, which operate as revenue - raising profit centers, corporate legal departments are cost centers, spending corporate dollars to defend lawsuits filed against the company, negotiate business transactions and perform a wide range of legal services on behalf of the parent corporation and its business entities.

After that, Embroker takes care of benchmarking your policies against similar firms and cross-referencing your costs with firms of comparable size, policy limits, claims history, and risk tolerance.

It is interesting to note that under the new code we do not need to inform the client about matters which were a specific requirement under the old rules: - The client will be responsible for paying the firm's bill in full regardless of any order for costs made against an opponent.

This coverage pays the cost of defending your firm or any other insured against lawsuits covered by the policy.

If in case an auto company has taken cover against product recalls, the insurance firm would pay all the associated costs to recall.

The cost incurred in preparing and executing an in - house hiring process (from advertisement / recruitment campaigns to screening the candidates) can be weighed against the benefits of using an executive search firm.