Sentences with phrase «costs in a legal environment»

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One «experiment» would be to communicate to all clients that there is going to be a phased move to a paperless office because it; meets legal requirements, documents are more secure and accessible in the cloud, it saves significant costs, and is better for the environment.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

But in a world which does not place a cost on environmental degradation, but sees the environment as a free resource, it is not surprising that a market - led energy policy lets industry dump sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other pollutants indiscriminately into the atmosphere unless prevented by legal regulation.

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.

If you disagree that all nations have a duty to reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions without regard to cost to it, do you also deny the applicability of the well - established international legal norm that almost all nations have agreed to in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development called the «polluter pays» principle which holds that polluters should pay for consequences of their pollution?

Changes in the legal environment in Japan that would encourage litigation could result in much higher liability costs.

In responding to a crisis, we understand that businesses have to balance sometimes competing, but important, interests, such as an employer's obligation to maintain a safe work environment, employee privacy concerns, anti-retaliation obligations, sensitivity to employee disabilities, cost concerns and other legal rights that come into play.

Topics ranged from lawyers» ethical obligations in a digital environment to questions of cost; methodologies for search - and - retrieval; and issues relating to legal holds and other preservation methods.

«[I would like to thank] Lee Tran & Liang for outstanding, tenacious and cost effective work, which is very rare in the current legal environment where outside counsel bills are out of sight... I would love to work with tenacious litigators like you again.»

As the technology matures and the legal community is able to leverage advancements in visualisation and connect multiple users within the same environment to communicate, discuss and collaborate interactive crime - scenes, we expect that uptake will be higher for the cases with which it is a warranted and cost - effective solution.

Further, our current non-ABS environment isn't stopping accounting firms, legal publishers, technology providers, low cost alternatives like Wal - Mart and so on from moving in and taking over work that lawyers have traditionally provided.

The continued development of CanLII into a comprehensive source for primary legal information has created an environment where, over time, the incremental cost of primary legal information in Canada will deviate toward zero.

In this environment, effective firms and legal departments will move to use mobile technology to create productivity gains for their lawyers, deliver better client service, act on new business opportunities, acquire needed information in critical moments and save on cost — and they'll do it because each of these actions leverages mobile technology to create maximum business value for legal researcIn this environment, effective firms and legal departments will move to use mobile technology to create productivity gains for their lawyers, deliver better client service, act on new business opportunities, acquire needed information in critical moments and save on cost — and they'll do it because each of these actions leverages mobile technology to create maximum business value for legal researcin critical moments and save on cost — and they'll do it because each of these actions leverages mobile technology to create maximum business value for legal research.

In today's legal environment, arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques are increasingly attractive ways to resolve disputes in a timely, cost - effective manneIn today's legal environment, arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques are increasingly attractive ways to resolve disputes in a timely, cost - effective mannein a timely, cost - effective manner.

This evolution has changed the in - house legal landscape with increasing demands on lawyers to manage legal issues in an ever - increasing regulatory environment while at the same time trying to retain control of costs.

In more complex fields such as biotechnology, software or electronic hardware, costs are likely to be higher due to more complicated subject matter and a more difficult legal environment.

An entire sub-specialty in legal operations management has emerged in this environment and ELM systems have become a key tool in the effort to keep costs down.

These factors include supplier's performance over the current contract term, the strength of the relationship with the supplier, the alignment of the current outsourcing model with customer's strategies and objectives, any change in customer's operating model, strategy or requirement since the initial contract was executed, whether the customer expects that its operating model, strategy or requirement may change during the renewal term, the capability of supplier to support customer future growth, supplier's innovation and flexibility, the cost of transition, the ability of customer to manage the transition, the level of risk during transition given other initiatives, the availability of other service providers, changes in appetite for risk, changes in the outsourcing industry, changes in the legal and regulatory environment.