Sentences with phrase «firms run that way»

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This goes beyond creating a different way to conduct business — it's a new ideology for people to follow, says Art Mesher, a Waterloo, Ont., tech investor who ran Descartes Systems, a logistics technology firm, for a decade.

If anything, the trend runs the other way, with precedent - setting firms like LinkedIn and Netflix now offering unlimited vacation to staff.

And they're especially successful when founders lead the way: Studies show that founder - run firms tend to outperform others by a considerable margin over the long term.

If it's «their way or the highway,» run to another firm.

Passengers these days have several options to pay their way to a shorter security line, including government - run TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, and private biometric security firm Clear.

Most large Silicon Valley firms run venture capital arms as a way of keeping in touch with emerging tech companies.

Indeed, for the trucking firms shipping between parts makers and assembly plants, this kind of operation requires military - style precision, which drastically alters the way such firms run their loading and dispatch operations.

But after a post-university sales job, Verkindt gradually worked her way homeward, first setting up and running a factory in the Dominican Republic to supply her parents» firm, then heading up sales and marketing, and eventually taking over as CEO.

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

Ownership of Marengo Pastoral is split three ways between Warwick Negus, a director at ASX - listed investment firm Washington H. Soul Pattinson and his wife Louise, David Cobcroft, managing director at Sydney - based Alukea Commodities, and the superannuation fund of Robert and Samuel Mayer, who run F. Mayer Imports, a major food supplier.

Listen to the Today Programme (54m) discuss figures from the FSB's «Voice of Small Business» survey panel which show that a quarter of small firms are unaware that there will be a major change to the way they run their payroll, known as Real Time Information, in six months time.

The only way to catch these companies was for independent testing firms to run tests on their own dime to find out which companies are honest and which are fraudulent.

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So «buzz» is really code for a two - way conversation conducted between a handful of awards handicappers eager to anoint or dismiss potential contenders, and a handful of studio publicists and independent firms who are listening for the dog - whistle frequency that tells them that somebody thinks their movie might be in the running.

Well - run firms and nonprofits use these kinds of tools, in various ways, depending on their culture and workforce.

Subjecting authors to foolish, unwise, or short - sighted talk show hosts is no way to promote books... and it's no way to run a book promotion firm, either.

«It's going to be emotional and conflicting at times and the only way you can deal with that is to step up and open the subject,» said Robert Kerr, founder of Kerr Financial Group, a firm he runs with his daughter Krista.

After 20 years running a successful publishing firm, Greg delights in finding innovative ways to make the world a better place and currently serves on the board of the Petfinder Foundation.

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Pamela Joyner, a former money manager and founding partner of Avid Partners LLC, a strategic marketing consulting firm, approached the remodel of her 1909 San Francisco home the same way she ran projects at work.

When I ran my law firm in South Florida, I was pulled in a hundred ways at once.

I'll leave it to the consumer electronics bloggers to dig into all the other ways smart technology and automation can help save your firm money, but the lesson here — and with this entire post, really — is that solo attorneys should keep their eyes and minds open when it comes to running their own law firms.

Covering the core fundamentals of Clio, including matter management, time keeping, billing, and more, this webinar is a great way to make sure you and your firm hit the ground running.

And, if you are talking to someone that claims to know something about how to start a law firm and they don't start with getting clients, run the other way.

When she started life as a paralegal she had a bird's eye view into the way law firms were run.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

In light of the competitive pressures and the changing legal environment, library leaders are now evaluating ways in which they can take a more proactive approach to running the library like a business and aligning their services with the firm's overall strategic plans.

To me, the bigger concern is that given law firms are businesses, and many are very large businesses, is there sufficient business knowledge to make sure the business is being run in the best possible way, if management are all lawyers?

With contributions from David Bitton, Barbara Leach, Ernest Svenson, Dan Lear, and Aastha Madaan, this section outlines the most efficient and effective ways to get your firm up and running.

«We are not changing the way we are running the firm but, with the level of activity, it makes sense to have an office there.»

But it's easy to think of ways that it could be put to good use — the one thing that comes to mind is a firm running (or renting) a satellite hotelling space in the suburbs for lawyers who could use it to avoid the commute downtown a couple of times a week.

The business of running a law firm is different, and that's the new component for me, but having had that few years of practice and working in different sizes of firms, I've seen a little bit about how a firm is run, but not in any way, shape, or form that could have really, really prepared me to be a solo practitioner.

A Boise personal injury attorney and accident lawyer at Parke Gordon Law Firm has a track record of success in recovering compensation for car crash clients who are injured when another driver is not following the rules of the road, such as drivers who run stop signs, run red lights, are not paying attention, rear - end our clients, drive while drunk, or fail to yield the right of way.

Cloud technology has come a long way in recent years, and it has many advantages for small firms who don't want to run their own servers.

Morris says he believes when new and junior lawyers see what the technology is capable of, and that it is possible to operate in an ethical and professional way using it, and also how «incredibly inexpensive» it is compared to running a more traditional law firm, «we'll see a lot more people doing it this way.»

Mrs Alonso, who runs the law firm jointly with Carlos Meoro, explained to the Mr and Mrs Maby that there was no reason to give up and that there was a way to recover their investment by taking proceedings against the bank where their investment had been transferred.

As long as the system requires so much time to be spent on the stages, experts, etc., then there is no possible way that a Walmart - owned firm could make money without charging more than enough to cover the costs of that protracted system and make a profit — a profit that would have to cover not only all the expenses of running the law department and paying the lawyers in it, but also producing a return on investment to the shareholders of Walmart for their foray into legal services.

If baseball teams recruited potential draftees the way law firms assess law students, they wouldn't look much beyond the player's batting average, home run and run - batted - in totals for hitters, and wins, losses and earned - run average for pitchers.

But like most things, there is a right way and wrong way when it comes to running a home - based law firm.

So the authors move on to addressing the issues of governance — how will the changed market affect the way firms are run, and how easy will it be for them to adapt?

A lack of knowledge about the technologies that are available means law firms are missing out on more efficient ways of running their practices.

Maybe somebody can work it, but it doesn't seem like a good way to run a firm to me.

[40] Graduate positions in large and mid-tier firms are extremely competitive, and consequently individual law students have little choice but to accept the way in which law firms are run and charge their clients if they wish to remain employed.

But for every firm that has risen, it seems as though at least one or two are running in place or have lost their way.

What we were seeking to do in setting up Halebury was to create a whole new way of running a law firm.

If you take the regulations away, the basic personalities are the same, and the way the firms are run is the same: generally badly.

And firms of different sizes are going to run up against different issues, and will need to use technology in different ways; legal tech needs to be able to scale in order to meet the needs of clients of any size, from large to boutique.

I had left private practice and gone to work for a company in - house BskyB, a media company and I was an in - house lawyer and that exposed me to the world of business in a much more immediate way and I could just see so many ways that law firms could be run efficiently if there were other people other than lawyers kind of, as part of the decision making process and you pool enough skills.

«It's a pretty clear message that many of us are dissatisfied with the way the firm is being run,» says one London - based corporate partner, who spoke on the basis of anonymity and acknowledged abstaining from the vote.

Like it not, law firms must change the way they operate if they want to remain viable and competitive in the long run.