The article describes innovations likely required to allow a transition of Big Law into the new structures increasingly being
demanded by corporate clients: 1) new forms of client interactions, 2) commodity - based disaggregation, 3) new incentive structures, and 4) standardized quality metrics.
With fewer articling students and associates, firms are becoming top - heavy and the pyramid model is no longer working financially or for work - flow structures as
demanded by corporate clients, who often do not want to pay for multiple lawyers on a file and certainly do not want to pay to train associates.
Not exact matches
I'm in a specialty practice — I get to work on transactions, I actually really like the
corporate teams I work with (you might be with just some not - nice people; or maybe just not used to the crazy high level of perfection
demanded by law firm
clients), and I don't have to stay until midnight every night.
The opportunity, Touati said, would come from meeting the
corporate buyers» renewable energy
demand by matching them with independent power producers who wanted sell the output of their wind and solar projects, and with utilities looking to hold on to the
corporate clients that are their biggest power customers.
The
corporate partner recalls all - night negotiations fuelled
by beer and wine — at the
client's
demand...
The International eDiscovery Services Provider says expansion is fueled
by continued growth and existing
Corporate and AMLAW 200
client demand.
Diversity efforts are being driven both
by firms» own good intentions and increasingly,
by corporate clients»
demands that the law firms representing them demonstrate a commitment to diversity, including gender diversity.
Trump's surprise win has meant boom times for Cambridge, which is now in hot
demand by political campaigns and
corporate clients across the globe.
Although the firm works on proofs - of - concept with
corporates around the globe, Piscini remarked that the move wasn't driven
by client demand, but rather
by a desire for the firm to play a role in shaping how these technologies might be used
by businesses.
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corporate officer; broker is not required to deposit a refundable commission in an escrow account unless contractually
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