Sentences with phrase «global demand for legal services»

Immediately following the Great Recession, a number of commentators believed that the global demand for legal services was flat, if not contracting, because they mistakenly focused solely on the output of BigLaw to derive the extent of the market.

As the legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa noted in a recent report «the global demand for legal services... has contracted.

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He wrote that he'd «like to caution the legal industry about possibly having a knee - jerk reaction to the latest business development trend du jour, perhaps in response to the serious and ongoing challenges of a global market that has produced flat or lower demand for legal services in recent years.»

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The trend reflects a leveling off of demand for legal services and global uncertainty in core markets, especially Europe, even though 2015 was a record year for U.S. mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Roebuck added, «The firm's global Banking & Finance practice and, in particular, its strong presence across the Asia Pacific region make it an excellent platform to service the growing demand from global and regional clients for legal advice on complex cross border banking and finance transactions in South East Asia and India.»

Demand for legal work is expected to be robust as individuals, businesses, and all levels of government require legal services in the U.S. and internationally as global economies expand.

It also perhaps indicates that client demand for machine learning systems that can provide efficiencies in terms of time and accuracy are not just being demanded by the largest global companies based in the UK capital, but now across the country, which remains the world's second largest legal market after the giant US market for legal services.

As the global demand for lower cost and efficient legal services grows, we will see new innovations in the delivery of these services.

Libby Jackson, who was promoted in HSF's recent partnership round, and is global head of alternative legal services, said in a statement that «demand is continuing to grow and it is important that we keep investing in innovative solutions for our clients, to ensure they are receiving the most cost - effective service possible».

One thing that is definitely growing in the global legal market is legal process outsourcing — having commodity work or lower value work done by not necessarily law firms but services based in India or the Philippines where that work is predicated upon repetitive need for that type of work and we don't find we have the demand for that in Canada with respect to our business.

Any lawyer running a legal matter is a legal project manager, however a greater need to take a stronger project management approach has come initially from the global client market demand for fixed priced legal services, and the need to find further efficiencies in planning and delivering legal matters.

The global client market demand for fixed priced legal services is changing the way legal pricing models are structured.

In the announcement ADGM acknowledges the global demand for digital currencies, stating that «virtual currencies, although not legal tender, are gaining interests globally as a medium of exchange for goods and services.»

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