Sentences with phrase «do alternative arrangements»

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If the proposed transaction or arrangement is one in which a director, officer or staff member, or their Related Parties have a «substantial financial interest» within the meaning of New York law, the Audit and Risk Committee must consider alternative transactions that do not give rise to a conflict of interest, to the extent available.

There are, however, alternative arrangements that do not rely on giving any individual the power to call an election.

The NASUWT the largest teachers» union has advised members that they should have nothing to do with alternative arrangements for testing in the light of some headteachers» plans to boycott the Key Stage 2 SATs.

It, however, does not cater for same - sex relationships, and for those that are looking for a gay sugar daddy, Seeking Arrangement would be a more effective alternative.

But in the case of private - school accountability, it doesn't have to be the Common Core — aligned tests that states will be using for their district and charter schools (some of which also need «alternative» accountability arrangements).

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

This can be particularly problematic in the early years sector, where parents often do not have alternative childcare arrangements and are keen to return their child to the setting at the earliest opportunity.

Alternative complex drive trains and electric motors that don't need the same kind of gearbox arrangement probably being the real nail in the coffin.

If you do change your mind you'll need to pay back any money borrowed and return (or make alternative payment arrangements) any linked goods, eg, a cooker purchased with a store's loan.

If you have legitimate concerns about either the vessel, the operator or the prevailing weather conditions do not board the boat, immediately seek a refund of your fare and make alternative arrangements for your trip.

Limited by income and living arrangements, they don't have the buying power of older groups, but they have the desire to see green alternatives.

Clients can be skeptical of alternative billing arrangements when they do not understand how those arrangements will benefit them.

Microsoft is aiming for 90 % of its external legal work to be carried out under alternative fee arrangements - but what do its law firms think?

, author Tim Bratton notes that despite all of the discussion about alternative fee arrangements, the focus of in - house counsel continues to be on billable hours as a standard for measuring «value,» even while all involved seem to concede that time does not actually equate to value.

They are doing cost / benefit and risk analyses, undertaking RFPs and are demanding more affordable legal services and alternative fee arrangements (e.g., flat or fixed fees, blended rates, phased fees, fees with a collar1, value fees, etc.).

Gordon McCue, associate general counsel for strategy and coordination at Shell (pictured right), says his department has introduced an alternative fee arrangement programme that means Shell's panel firms must agree to do work on its terms.

«We've been doing alternative fee arrangements for over 20 years,» says managing partner William (Bill) S. Chalmers.

«With increasing demands for predictable budgets in traditional hourly matters and the growth in fixed - fee and other alternative fee arrangements with clients, Parker Poe needed a solution that would help the firm manage these client needs more effectively and to do so profitably.»

First, there is the increased demand for Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs): clients don't like billable hours because they prefer to know in advance how much something will cost.

a. Those who are the subject of international parental disputes over custody or contact; b. Those who are the subject of international abduction (including in those states which are not able to join the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention); c. Those who are placed abroad in alternative care arrangements which do not come within the definition of adoption and are therefore outside the scope of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention; d. Those who are the subject of cross-border trafficking and other forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse; e. Those who are refugees or unaccompanied minors.

With the growing trend of fixed fee pricing, alternative fee arrangements, and other pre-arranged cost structures for legal work, it is more important than ever for a researcher to know several things that don't relate to the problem their research is attempting to answer:...

Another priority is developing a cost - and - margin analysis model that would allow the firm to do a better job of coming up with proposals for alternative fee arrangements.

To do so, a lawyer must first assess the case, determine the time that will likely be involved, apply the rate for the lawyer's time per hour and the rate for an associate lawyer time per hour (or determine whether an alternative fee arrangement is appropriate), charge for staff time, and estimate any other likely expenses.

(6) Does your firm have a plan to develop the necessary skills to implement alternative billing arrangements with specific clients?

(2) Do your partners possess the necessary skills to implement alternative billing arrangements?

When it comes to intellectual property, for instance, the firm revealed that the typical IP portfolio for a client ranged between 50 to 400 foreign and domestic filings, and that nearly one - third of its patent work was done through alternative fee arrangements.

The tribunal found that the claimant suffered a detriment as a result of the requirement to undertake civil partnership ceremonies, having particular regard to the fact that LB Islington could make alternative arrangements to accommodate staff who did not wish to undertake ceremonies on the grounds of their religion and still provide a «first class service».

Congratulations to Jim Hassett on the release of his lastest book, Legal Project Management, Pricing, and Alternative Fee Arrangements: What Firms Are Doing.

If however, you do not take up a new policy and or make any alternative arrangements your professional indemnity cover will cease and any claims brought against you for work undertaken in the past will be uninsured.

As a one example, we have begun a kind of massive download of PACER information and there are insights in PACER that will allow law firms to do all kinds of stuff, from pricing fee agreements, and alternative legal fee arrangements, to predicting when their clients are going to have problems before they do, to treat things as a matter of kind of risk mitigation instead of litigation after the fact.

Alternative fee arrangements and drivers like the commoditization of legal services, online practitioners, and evolving client expectations are a perfect storm that is likely to erode the financial wellbeing of firms that don't proactively seek ways to improve their business operations.

As a solo attorney, you have the freedom and flexibility that larger firms do not in offering alternative fee arrangements that will encourage clients to take a chance on you while giving you the opportunity to show off you can deliver results better than the name firms.

LexSage is able to offer alternative fee arrangements because international trade law and sales tax law is what we do, day in and day out.

In this situation, alternative fee arrangements do not help much.

Our clients in large law firms consistently tell us that they prefer alternative fee arrangements, because they only have to have one budget conversation with their corporate client, as opposed to the old way of an easy one up front and a hard one after trial, and because it is a «set it and forget it» system that allows the lawyers to focus on getting the work done.

And for firms like ours, our clients, and their clients (the major corporations), alternative fee arrangements do something much more important than creating financial controls.

One question that I have been asked and ask frequently myself: does not the phrase «alternative fee arrangement» suggest that these are not mainstream yet?

Even where a library might switch to lower - priced alternatives, this arrangement leaves it without savings to do so.

work can be better tracked so that the law firm has a sense of how long it takes to complete certain pieces of work so they can better estimate the cost to do the work — especially useful if clients are asking for alternative fee arrangements

Do ask your client to consider an alternative fee arrangement with the graphics firm (i.e. contingencies, success fees)

KAREN MACKAY: It's interesting because I do hear it from both sides — from general counsel and from managing partners, who are trying to cope with all of this — and in so many firms, because general counsel, the client, has grown up in an hourly rate environment, in many cases, they'll come back with an alternative fee arrangement, it's just a lower hourly rate or a lower hourly rate by volume.

The alternative fee arrangements don't work if there's no trust in the relationship, so that's why there must be completely full transparency between the law firm and the client, and there has to be constant communication.

As Peter Gutelius, an assistant general counsel with RBC, says in the current issue of Canadian Lawyer InHouse: «It depends what title you want to put on it — alternative arrangements or value billing — we have done it and believe it can be applied to any legal retainer.»

(The company did waive travel change fees for trips booked through American Express during recent hurricanes, but it did not cover hotel charges or alternative air arrangements.)

They can not afford alternative child care arrangements, professional counselors, summer camps, boarding schools and holidays away from their children; the central planks of the child welfare system for the well - to - do.

They can not afford alternative child care arrangements, professional counsellors, summer camps, boarding schools and holidays away from their children; the central planks, of the child welfare system for the well - to - do.

If a Connecticut family court does not order joint custody, it may order alternative custody arrangements, such as awarding sole physical custody to one parent with appropriate visitation for the child with the non-custodial parent.

In your motion, you'll need to cite specific facts about why you do not consent to the proposed child - care arrangement, as well as include the relief you are seeking, such as an alternative child - care arrangement or a modification of your current order to include child care.