Sentences with phrase «high legal costs»

Shares fell 0.8 percent Thursday after the company announced that second - quarter profit tumbled 49 percent on higher legal costs.
Ask most people what it is like to go through a divorce and chances are you will hear a litany of horror stories about high legal costs, unfair results in court and lawyers who don't care enough about their own clients to return phone calls.
Research by Thomson Reuters found widespread expectation of higher legal costs, regulatory fines and compensation claims.
Banks still face numerous headwinds, including high legal costs as regulators and investigators work through a backlog of industry activity and scrutinize everything from overseas hiring to potential manipulation of currency and interest - rate benchmarks.
This is part of the reason that litigated cases tend to go back to court repeatedly over many years and incur very high legal costs, while negotiated agreements are either followed or changes are made by «out of court» methods such as mediation and collaborative family law.
We wouldn't — to steal a line from Richard Susskind — herald «the end of lawyers» just yet, but between high legal costs and inefficient practices, individuals are less and less inclined to use our services.
My approach is to take time in these first meetings, to listen carefully, and to provide solid recommendations that are both effective and potentially game - changing, along with cost effective approaches so that my clients are not affected by high legal costs.
Justice Robert Benjamin says «the consequences of obscenely high legal costs are destructive of the emotional, social and financial wellbeing of the parties and their children.
Cut in compensation of about 10 % came in a year when the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.
Citigroup cut Chief Executive Michael Corbat's pay by about 10 % in 2014, a year in which the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.
After the client appealed the fees to an assessment officer, a source provided the client's affidavit in the matter to Thornton, who then used it to write columns about the high legal costs in family law cases.
The longer that cases continue, generally, the higher the legal costs involved.
Clients who settle on the courtroom steps of course have already incurred high legal costs, and in interviews not infrequently told me that they felt they had been pulled along by their lawyer until being «suddenly» pressured to capitulate at the last minute.
At Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. you get quality legal representation without the high legal costs.
A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation paper, Controlling Costs in Defamation Proceedings, published last week, proposes a raft of measures designed to tackle the high legal costs incurred in defamation and other publication - related proceedings.
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