Sentences with phrase «firms competing for business»

«First, if you're a Boston area solo or small firm competing for business with biglaw, the chart can help you set your rates.

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The order «hinders the ability of American companies to attract talented employees, increases costs imposed on business, makes it more difficult for American firms to compete in the international marketplace, and gives global enterprises a new, significant incentive to build operations — and hire new employees — outside the United States,» according to the brief.

That's why you should consider a covenant not to compete, in which an employee joining your firm agrees not to work for a competing business for a specified period of time.

For example, giant tech firms often struggle to keep up with the ingenious pace of new tech startups — some find a solution in acquiring the agile business, rather than trying to compete directly.

If you've got a product that has a considerable audience, is scalable and has potential for big profits, put together a presentation and try to pitch your business model to a VC firm, as you'll likely need their money to compete in a hot market.

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

Rene offers one other piece of salient advice for companies trying to win business abroad when they're competing with local firms: don't coast.

A libertarian, nonprofit law firm, it has consistently and successfully represented small - business owners and entrepreneurs — by, for example, taking on licensing laws that hinder businesses from competing in established markets.

Right now, non-banks are most active in the low margin parts of the trading business, with Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman estimating that these firms only compete for ~ 15 % of the fee pool.

If you're one of many companies competing for a firm's business, start by asking: Why did you invite us here?

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

They can afford to spend big bucks on improving their products and price those products that compete with N or any other smaller firm at below cost for as long as it takes to put smaller firms out of business.

From mentoring to technical education, our goal is to ensure that diverse suppliers can compete for our business as well as business from other Fortune 500 firms.»

He talked about the need for better broadband access and transport links to ensure rural firms could compete on a level playing field with urban businesses.

«Women - owned businesses are systemically shortchanged when it comes to competing for government contracts,» Gillibrand told reporters at Data Conversation Laboratory, a Queens - based, woman - owned firm, flanked by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing), state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Flushing), Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D - Fresh Meadows) and City Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens).

Private firms competing with one another for the business of public education are an important source of market influence on education.

Practitioners competing for business among themselves and against other professional advisers may require high profile and tangible evidence of their firms» capabilities if they are to win and sustain competitive advantage.

One day, law firms will compete with the Big Four for work, and the next day they will work alongside them solving clients» business problems.

While Ms. Black believes that lawyers who use Groupon may cheapen their law firms in the public eye, Ms. Elefant doesn't see how lawyers can compete against restaurants and hotels on Groupon for repeat business.

As technology enables more lawyers to practice effectively on their own or in smaller groups, many will opt out of larger firms altogether and compete for business as solos or small practices.

This is especially the case for smaller firms, since they disproportionately serve individuals and small businesses hit hardest by the recession, and because price is a factor upon which large firms simply can not compete, for structural and cultural reasons.

The result is traditional law firms, accounting firms, legal startups and myriad other businesses are competing for clients.

However, with the economy in a deep recession and the legal profession reeling from layoffs and structural changes to the law firm business model, is it realistic for lawyers to expect employer assistance in navigating the seemingly competing demands of their personal and professional lives?

I think that when you have an owner and an ownership structure I think law firm partnerships lack ownership influence because a lot of partners certainly in larger partnerships, there is a both sort of say three, four, five partners when you have larger partnerships I think it's hard to feel if anybody owns the business because everybody's in the business sort of their income and sharing profits and competing with each other for those profits.

«It also represents an important win for businesses at the smaller end of the scale, and helps to preserve the web as a place where small firms can compete with bigger firms on a more even basis.»

Heenan Blaikie was now competing with the other major law firms for the same business, but they weren't doing this by approaching the sector with new ideas.

During our orientations, I always remind the students that law firms are businesses and that we compete not only in the courtroom, but for clients as well.

I think that the technology, honestly, the technology that has the most potential for disruption and by that, I mean, honestly disruption, it will mean companies go out of business, like law firms go out of business because they can not compete.

The recently released FT report on US Innovative Lawyers 2012 points to two ways large law firms can compete for business.

A more direct obstacle to internal referrals could be the prevailing culture at Chinese law firms, where there is typically little centralized management and partners compete with each other for business more than they co-operate.

By Valerie Fontaine — Law firms compete for a limited number of top lateral partner candidates with significant portable books of business and look to legal search consultants help them identify and hire the best.

Business development for attorneys can be extremely challenging, especially for small and mid-size firms that want to compete in a...

The excess program may be small by commercial standards, with no ambitions to compete for larger firms» business, but it provides two powerful benefits to Ontario lawyers.

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Even if you don't see opportunities for your firm to generate business directly from social media, you still need to be active if you want to compete in Google.

As a result, the legal landscape has never been more intense and law firms have never had to compete so hard for business.

US firms like Perkins Coie have had blockchain practices for years and they're competing for the business of Canadian blockchain startups.

In this instance, executive search firms will be competing with others to provide you with the right candidate and thus win your business and secure their fee, they will not work exclusively for you and it will be your responsibility to filter, interview and evaluate the list of clients that are forwarded to you.

The National Multi Housing Council / National Apartment Association lobbying group dismisses the bans affecting AMLI and other multifamily property owners as «improper exercises of power and misguided attempts by the FCC to manufacture competition through regulation instead of forcing the telecom firms to compete for new business.»

The Toronto - based company also attained Gold Standard status for excellence in business performance for the third straight year, while competing against some of the nation's top firms in all business sectors.

Before joining Colliers International, Dylan was president of Global Client Services for a competing real estate services firm where he oversaw 15 separate business units that included 4,000 employees and revenues of nearly $ 300 million.

Investors in loans on commercial real estate — insurance companies, pension funds and Wall Street firms — continued competing for business in January, squeezing spreads between interest rates on commercial mortgages...