Sentences with phrase «growing numbers of firms»

Hill Dickinson and Kennedys have become the latest top 50 law firms to confirm plans to convert to an alternative business structure (ABS), as growing numbers of firms gear up for the «Tesco Law» revolution.

CC's move comes as growing numbers of firms introduce AI systems, with DLA Piper signing a deal with Kira in June — its first use of AI technology.

Indeed, in the years following the end of the tech boom, SEP (No. 93 on the PROFIT 500, with $ 11.4 million in revenue) had ridden a wave of expansion as a growing number of firms moved to search advertising and other forms of digital brand promotion.

A growing number of firms expect US growth to be strong, citing the new US administration's plans for expansionary policies and a related improvement in confidence.

Economic pressures to reduce legal costs is the primary force behind a growing number of firms moving away from the billable - hours model to new alternative billing models such as fixed, flat, blended or capped fees.

For law firms, the bottom has dropped out of the EDD market, even as a rapidly growing number of firms offer an ever - wider range of EDD services.

The growing number of firms setting targets for female representation within the partnership and at management level shows this at least is a concern at the forefront of their strategies, even though they face a decidedly uphill battle given the work - life balance issues that are now part and parcel of the job.

A growing number of firms want to ensure that these associates have mentors and are initiating programs specifically for them.

Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance is joining a growing number of firms implementing technology - specific content into firm - wide training to better equip lawyers with technological knowledge.

Bermans represents a growing number of firms who want to embrace technology, not simply to replace an existing system but, to find new ways of working and servicing clients»

With a growing number of firms moving towards this niche - subject, audience - focused approach, you might now be wondering whether it's even possible for a law firm website to compete for top search engine rankings?

His is among a growing number of firms, technical and otherwise, that have sought protection.

Not exact matches

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

Last week, Dan Primack over at Fortune commented on the growing number of journalists heading to VC firms.

While the firm grew through word - of - mouth recommendations, MacDonald says, the number of jurisdictions with noise restrictions for energy - production companies has jumped.

This is just a sampling of the growing number of payments companies that include credit card processors, global payment processing firms, online payments providers, digital payment companies and cryptocurrency payment businesses.

Now, with billions in new revenues flowing out of these deposits, a growing number of oil - and - gas - field services firms have emerged with solutions to the problem of how to remediate the huge volumes of heavily polluted water that comes out of the ground.

One year after it launched Etsy Hacker Grants, the number of female engineers at the firm grew from four to 20.

While Gartner doesn't include sales of Apple iPads or Google's low - cost Chromebook laptops in its PC shipment numbers — reasoning that they don't generally compete for the same users as the mainstream PC — the firm does say that Chromebooks are growing like crazy.

That was shortly before Valeant began to unravel, originally due to a growing chorus of politicians pointing out that the firm had significantly hiked the price of a number of drugs it had acquired.

The number of servers sold worldwide grew just a scooch in the first quarter, while total server revenue dipped, according to new numbers from market research firm Gartner.

«We're seeing a growing number of instances where contractor personnel are being bribed to steal» data from their clients, warns Jay Heiser, a research vice president with Gartner, the IT research and consulting firm, who recently wrote a report on data security.

Not all are MBAs; to keep costs down and numbers up, the firm has over the years employed a growing number of recent college graduates, which it styles» associate consultants.»

Even fans of unbridled capitalism have begun to question whether the post-2008 plague of stubbornly low economic growth may have something to do with the way GDP accounts, or fails to account, for a growing number of Internet firms like Facebook and Google who offer their services largely for free.

We're seeing a growing number of what I call supra - national firms that want to do business everywhere in the world but don't want to have responsibility anywhere.

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

PEP's interest in ACG underscores the growing demand for Australia and New Zealand - based adult education firms as growing numbers of migrants into the two nations seek to brush up on their English before embarking on university degrees.

Dell has joined a growing number of foreign tech firms looking to extend their presence in the Chinese market through local cloud services.

The number of US exporting entities with fewer than 50 employees, in particular, has grown more rapidly than firms with 50 to 500 employees.

By the same token, he says, private equity firms face stiff competition from strategic buyers and a growing number of other financing options, including pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs).

Today, the number of companies permitting initial purchases has grown to over 400 firms.

The fastest growing industry sector is educational services, which has seen a 67 % increase in the number of women - owned firms since 2007 versus an overall 21 % increase.

The number of women - owned firms continues to grow at a rate exceeding the national average, yet women - owned firms only employ 6 percent of the nation's workforce and contribute just under 4 percent of business revenues — roughly the same share they contributed in 1997.

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

A growing number of law firms working with startups are beginning to accept their payment in cryptocurrencies, according to a new report by the trade - focused outlet Law.com.

Lorraine Fox, a principal with the San Francisco - based wealth management firm Aspiriant, says the firm is starting to hear from a small but growing number of people wanting to lock in their cryptocurrency gains.

Mr. Cohen has helped to start and grow a number of investment management firms.

As noted in the recent 2016 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report — and in our previous blogpost — women - owned firms are continuing to grow in number and economic clout at rates well above the national average.

But facing a growing number of investigations and lawsuits, it spent millions on public relations experts, lobbyists and top - tier law firms.

Indeed, while the share of number of firms from 1997 to 2017 grew from 26 % to 39 %, the share for employment only grew from 7 % to 8 % and for revenues, the share declined slightly from 4.4 % to 4.2 %.

Chicory still sees use in a number of countries where food is not grown or served under a firm regulatory framework.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

A growing number of children now attend charter schools operated by regional or national firms with non-local «brand names» (e.g. KIPP, National Heritage, Achievement First) and a growing number of pupils now absorb at least part of the curriculum from online providers at the state or national (and, in time, planetary) level.

Business leaders in the United States say they can't find enough educated or qualified workers due in part to the growing numbers of college students leaving school before earning their degrees, according to new research from Civic Enterprises, a D.C. public policy firm.

While there are no firm statistics on how many schools use blended learning, education researchers say more than 4 million elementary through high school students participated in some kind of learning online in 2010, a number that has continued to grow since.

Reggiani said he sees a strong distinction between the firm's four - wheel - drive models and the growing number of rear - wheel - drive variants.

Or take it from YouTube, where our growing number of videos, channel views, and total views outnumber all other high - quality, full - service book publishing and marketing firms.

FICO has reached deals with a growing number of lenders to show their customers whichever of the FICO scores the firms use in lending decisions, at no charge.

This leads them to ask why investors continue to hold shell shares and why the number of shell firms growing: