Sentences with phrase «fewer staff lawyers»

Taken to its logical extreme, these challenges present a huge threat to the whole of the leverage model employed by the larger law firms because fewer staff lawyers are needed and the opportunity to make profit via people leverage becomes more limited.

Not exact matches

In a surprise all - hands meeting at the Inspire Theater a few weeks ago, Hsieh, whose $ 350 million in funding and vision turned 60 acres of Downtown Las Vegas into a growing tech city, told his staff he was stepping down and handing the reins over to his lawyer, Millie Chou.

Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.

I know small firms that are staffed with just a few paralegals who are kept fully busy with legal work and have no time left over to help a lawyer with day to day tasks.

But the beginning of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan (which became Legal Aid Ontario by way of the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998, s. 3 (1)-RRB-, on March 29, 1967, meant many more accused persons had lawyers, which resulted in: (1) many more trials and a lot fewer guilty pleas; and as a result, (2) drastically over-crowded jails containing inmates awaiting trial; and, (3) shortages of staff in the Toronto Crown Attorney's Office.

With respect to the practice of law generally, the ability to work from anywhere efficiently using fewer staff is creating a new generation of geographically mobile lawyers.

When you consider outsourcing, some are suggesting firms will move to the «starfish» model, with few permanent lawyers and staff, but a range of outsourced suppliers, independent contractors and temporary employees who come and go as the work demands.

According to Rusanow, firms are hiring fewer non-equity partners and senior counsel, and instead are focusing on contract lawyers and non-partnership staff associates.

Third, a few large law firms have already demonstrated that lawyers and staff need not work in the same location.

While she was at it, Judge Laporte managed to pepper her technical speech with a few literary allusions, including a formula from a Salman Rushdie story that lawyers should never let their litigation support staffs use on them, «P2C2E»: Process too complicated to explain.

Aaron Street: Well and my sense that is in a few minutes we'll hear a number of good tips from Betsy and Kelly on exactly how to be a good manager of lawyers and law firm staff.

While the name has changed a few times over the years, Hart Legal has been in business since 1992 when it first opened its office in Victoria, British Columbia on upper Fort Street with two lawyers and one support staff member on the second floor of an old character home that had been converted into office space.

While the name has changed a few times over the years, HART Legal has been in business since 1992 when it first opened its office in Victoria, British Columbia on upper Fort Street with two lawyers and one support staff member on the second floor of an old character home that had been converted into office space.

Many (male) lawyers feel that aggression is an important part of their practice, and I've met a few senior lawyers who (and whose clients and staff) would benefit from an anger - management course.

If you mean that some young lawyers want ABS because they have been duped into thinking it is a magic elixir, they will be in for a shock when they discover that their jobs have been taken over by minions who, while less educated than lawyers and doing a lousy job, will nevertheless charge the public more to cover the increased risk that their megacorp employer is incurring by having so few qualified and hands - on lawyers on staff.

We encourage lawyers and their staff to be extra careful in the next few weeks.

A few firms have coaches on staff but most firms hire outside coaches to work with particular lawyers on an as - needed basis.

Some firms have done this by finding mutually beneficial alliances that staff are passionate about — Lawyers without Borders, Habitat for Humanity, local children's hospitals, are just a few.

I've witnessed the same scenario in corporate environments concerning e-discovery that Winkler describes in the first few paragraphs such as «information security staff traditionally look at their role in the e-discoery process as ensuring the integrity of the data...» and «many people are intimidated by their organization's lawyers — they just want to follow orders and gather the data.»

The paper notes that private - practice lawyers will increasingly be entrepreneurs and some will continue with solo practices, although with much more specialized niches, while firms will be smaller with fewer permanent lawyers and staff occupying less square footage, and offices will be reserved only for the most influential partners.