Sentences with phrase «firms on a project basis»

A freelance attorney is an attorney who provides services to other attorneys and law firms on a project basis.

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The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transportation, infrastructure, and education, updating its analysis as the e-commerce giant continues to tease new information about the massive project called HQ2.

Instead of taking on the risk of hiring full - time workers, firms are turning to staffing companies like Manpower to fill their labor needs on a project - by - project basis.

Together, the two approached Brent Thompson Architects, a firm based in Los Angeles, to design an elaborate resort complex near Jidda, according to a description of the project on the group's website.

We matched those projects with the firms tapped to market them, and valued them based on the AG's accepted total sellout price, although in some cases amendments have since been filed.

WASHINGTON, Dec 17th, 2014 — Today Clutch, a Washington, DC - based research firm, published new results on Chicago - based firms who have proven their success through projects for domestic and international clients.

Attacq is a South Africa — based investment firm focused on real estate projects.

A new framework based on retailer Coles» Responsibly Sourced Seafood project has been launched by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) of Australia to help food firms secure sustainable produce.

Ben Cornwell is a partner and co-founder at Paperclip Ltd., the Los Angeles based boutique development firm focused on projects in film, television, and the digital space.

The folks at political consulting firm BuzzMaker have come up with a damn useful little tool: a simple calculator that projects online fundraising totals over time, based on variables like list size, response rate, unsubscribe rate, how many emails you send per month, etc..

Other experience includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.

Howe also worked as a lobbyist on behalf of COR Development, the Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm whose executives, Aiello and Gerardi, are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 for his help on a host of issues related their projects in Syracuse and Central New York.

A reader called to report two departures from the Brooklyn - based developer, Forest City Ratner, whose name has become synonymous with the Atlantic Yards project: Bruce Bender and Scott Cantone are striking out on their own to create a new political consulting firm.

The Torah on the Moon project, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, has been courting private firms to deliver a handwritten Jewish scroll, the Sefer Torah, to the lunar surface.

Edinburgh - based Pelamis Wave Power, Ltd., (PWP) has since September been working with asset management firm Babcock & Brown, energy provider Energias de Portugal, and Efacec (a Portugese maker of electromechanical devices) on the Agucadoura project.

Edinburgh - based Pelamis Wave Power, Ltd., (PWP) has since September been working with asset management firm Babcock & Brown, energy provider Energias de Portugal, and Efacec (a Portugese maker of electromechanical devices) on the Agucadoura project, which has three red Pelamis wave energy converts bobbing in the waves three miles (4.8 kilometers) off Portugal's coast.

In the meantime, Takebe and the rest of the team, led by Hideki Taniguchi, also a stem - cell biologist at Yokohama City University — who are collaborating on the project with researchers at Sekisui Medical, a biotechnology firm based in Tokyo — hope that his liver bud could be useful for toxicity testing in drug screening, for which bile ducts are not needed.

The education analyst's Chevy Chase, Md. - based consulting firm is working on a project that will describe to experts and nonexperts alike how to go about setting academic standards.

Likely based on Ford's new Mustang, the project has been developed in conjunction with tuning firm Galpin Auto Sports.

Based on the returns major investment firms like J.P. Morgan and Vanguard are projecting, however, those expectations would appear to be far too rosy.

The growth of software - based asset management firms that help individuals minimize fee expenses, such as FeeX, don't even bother projecting potential returns for actively managed funds, instead pointing out to consumers how much money they can save on fees by investing in low - cost index funds.

DeSmog recently uncovered information that two of the three Directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project are senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto based lobby firm that specializes in «energy, environment and ethics.»

Indeed, creative marketing campaigns that builds buzz may be incredibly effective in the current, less «cluttered» advertising environment, like the «Go Green, Take Fifteen» program launched by Boston - based law firm, Sherin and Lodgen, which, beginning in 2009, will reward developers building LEED projects with a 15 % discount on their legal fees.

The purpose of this post is to explain how to prepare a functional requirements specification for a law firm Web site (often delivered to vendors as a Request for Proposal, or RFP) that can be used to solicit bids from vendors, to compare bids on an apples - to - apples basis, and to fix the scope of the Web site development project.

Totum regularly works with with US based firm Calibrate Legal on global research and recruitment projects.

Billable hours — Firms agree with their client to a rate per lawyer hour and then bill at the end or during a project based on that rate and the actual number of hours worked.

Here's a new case study from Handshake Software on the way Chicago - based law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein used Handshake products and services in a SharePoint portal and intranet project.

We work with small, mid-size and large Law Firms, as well as Global 1000 corporate legal departments, on both project - based work and extended - term retained leadership assignments.

LawToolBox is an all - in - one court rules provider, custom deadline template provider, and deadline management system that offers solutions for law firms and legal departments to automatically calculate deadlines for matters or projects based on the rules of civil procedure for state and federal courts in all 50 states.

At some firms, experienced lawyers are paid by the hour on a project - by - project basis, which enables firms to offer high - quality service at lower costs.

The 3 Ps presume law firms will continue to operate mostly on a project based (if not a billable - hour) business model.

The new office is likely to focus on Dickinsons» clients in the transport, projects, real estate and construction sectors, though the 73 - partner firm is not initially expected to base lawyers in London full - time.

Heenan Paris, a Paris based law firm with a niche project development practice focused on Africa, will open an office in Washington DC to capitalize on its burgeoning growth.

A startup needing a lawyer to assist it in a specific acquisition or other event might want to retain the unbundled services on a project basis, rather than retaining the traditional firm on the billable hour model for full - representation.

A number of law firms have been adopting excellent strategies based on legal project management, lean and agile methods to reconceive the delivery of legal services.

describe in detail Keith's vision for legal project management throughout the firm, which will be based on experience from the pilot project;

Making its debut this week is the Now Counsel Network, a service that matches solo and small - firm attorneys with experienced freelance lawyers who can provide help on a temporary or project basis.

The bank selected the six firms based on four key criteria: the use of legal project managers, collaboration with other law firms or other services providers, sophistication around pricing arrangements, and thought leadership.

Herbert Smith Freehills walked away with the TMT award for its work advising on the launch of a Middle East - based 24 - hour news channel; a role which was particularly significant as the firm was «parachuted» into the project when it was behind schedule and the initial launch had been suspended.

The initiative is based on San Francisco's No Glass Ceiling project, «which aims to prod local law firms to make work environments more family - friendly and promote more women up the ranks.»

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Even if your firm's new technology project is on the larger end of the spectrum, such as transitioning a few attorneys into a new cloud - based software application, reputable software vendors have documentation explaining how to import data from another program and support staff who provide training.

The firm also provides law firms and companies with highly specialized legal professionals on project, interim and temporary - to - permanent hire basis.

The firm's system, called «Seyfarth Lean,» is based on a Lean Six Sigma model of process improvement and project management.

Base IT operations practices vary by law firm, but every law firm IT function should include a focus on applications, infrastructure and computing, client support, technology risk management, IT business management, IT project / program management, and other elective administrative areas.

But Flaherty's conclusion that he doesn't choose between law firms merely based on the results of his audits «unless performance on the audit is the only item that separates two firms vying for a project,» is the key.

The rise of the gig economy and more fluid working practices might also encourage law firms to adopt better technology systems, if, for instance, they bring in experts for specific projects on a one - off basis instead of employing them full time.

And if you don't like the idea of hourly billing, consider what Bombardier has been trying — a weekly billing model based on «X thousands» of dollars a week for the period of a project and it's the job of the firm to staff it to make sure it makes money.

That connotes a lawyer who is an independent business person, a solo lawyer who's an independent business person who works on, again, a temporary or project basis, doing generally more substantive work and that's generally for solos and small law firms.

Based on early customer feedback, Cael LPM offers a real improvement in law firms» abilities to adopt legal project management.»