Sentences with phrase «higher legal bill»

It hurts other litigants: for example, when only one party to a matter is represented by counsel, the result is typically a higher legal bill for that party.

One reason, says Eisinger, is that court rulings have taken away tactics that prosecutors had used to pressure defendants, such as restricting attorney - client privilege and preventing their companies from bankrolling sky - high legal bills.

When it comes to retirement, whatever money an older divorcing couple has needs to be divided — after high legal bills.

Ultimately, Rose says in the quest for certainty, employers may actually achieve uncertainty — as well as higher legal bills and larger payouts to employees.

Ironically, in the quest for certainty, employers may achieve uncertainty (and larger payouts to employees and higher legal bills after court battles).

Although clients complain about high legal bills, the law firm that makes a large capital investment in efficiency has a very difficult time capturing a reasonable portion of the value created.

Not exact matches

A legal challenge to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's designation as the candidate of the Working Families Party was tossed on Thursday by the state's highest court.

Take the psychoactive substances bill, in which May outlawed drugs which did not exist, by banning something she could not define, despite plenty of evidence from other countries that this would exacerbate the legal highs problems.

New treatments for depression and experiments which might help explain human consciousness will be put at risk if the bill banning legal highs is passed, researchers have warned.

Speaking (and at one point singing) on Fred Dicker's Talk 1300 radio show this morning, former Assemblyman Bill Parment predicted that high - volume hydraulic fracturing will be delayed for at least a year because of legal challenges.

Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher court if you don't like the decision of a lower court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down by a Federal court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control laws are unconstitutional.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

Eighty high school students from all across the state gathered in Albany on Tuesday to lobby in support of the Young Voter Act, a bill that would lower the legal voting age to 17 for state and local elections.

«But please note that if after seven days the constitutional procedure is not complied with, we shall have no choice but to initiate legal proceedings to enforce the decision of the federal high court and set aside the 2018 appropriation bill.

At 12:30 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hosts a press conference to make an announcement about legal representation for tenants in housing court following a roundtable discussion on the topic, High Bridge Library, 78 West 168th St., the Bronx.

One of the highest numbers registered in the poll came when voters were asked who should pay the mayor's legal bills for state and federal investigations of his administration.

Mayor Bill de Blasio makes an announcement regarding legal representation for tenants in housing court at the High Bridge Library in the Bronx, New York.

«Finally, to ensure that the preparation of the Appropriation Bill is based on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, passed by the National Assembly, signed into law by the President and implemented by the Executive arm of government Section 51 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act has specifically clothed every citizen with the necessary locus standi or legal capacity to enforce the provisions of the law by obtaining prerogative orders or other remedies at the Federal High Court, without having to show any special particular interest.»

Bersin, Colvin tells us, the son of «Russian immigrants» (better described as Eastern European Jews) in Brooklyn, had «benefited from a rigorous public school education» (though there is no mention of his attending one of New York City's examination high schools); gone on to Harvard, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar, in the same class as Bill Clinton), and Yale Law School; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.

Whether or not the publishers» corporate counsel were earning their keep back in early 2010, there are certainly some serious legal costs now as all of the Defendants are being represented in federal court by some of the highest - billing law firms in the country.

Trump filed a legal malpractice suit against New York's Morrison Cohen last year in Westchester County Supreme Court, claiming the firm treated him like a «cash cow» and performed unnecessary work to generate higher bills.

The highest rate increase, 11 percent, was at firms with more than 1,000 lawyers, and M&A work posted the highest hourly rate increase of 18 percent, according to the report, which included 113,651 hours billed in 2015 to in - house legal departments by 914 lawyers at 103 firms.

If Post-Series A, your company's legal bills still seem completely unmanageable, that's often a good indication that the law firm you hired is too big for what you're building (non-unicorn-track using a high - infrastructure unicorn law firm); assuming your expectations on what the bill should be simply aren't unhinged.

Where lawyers who do not want their jobs to depend upon on billing a high number of hours would not need to bill a high number of hours: Under a corporate structure, there would be no «leveraged pyramid» for partner compensation, fixed prices would be determined by professionals skilled in the pricing of legal services, and the lawyers» jobs would depend upon their productivity.

Current legal trends reveal that sophisticated in - house counsel increasingly choose small high - quality law firms over bigger firms with excessive overhead and inflated billing rates.

The ranking — a joint project between The American Lawyer and Legal Week — found total revenues at the world's 100 highest - billing law firms inched up 1.7 % from the previous year, from $ 78.53 bn to $ 79.92 bn.

With efficiencies gained from an integrated technology solution, including a practice management platform, legal research platform, legal calendar software, legal billing software and an automated drafting tool, general practitioners achieve a 12 % higher client satisfaction.

From a client's perspective, I think the legal bills are higher than ever.

(See my post «How the Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)

It begins: «The Law Society does not set fees for legal services and can not reduce a lawyer's or paralegal's bill that you think is too high.»

For example, there is a webpage within the Law Society of Upper Canada's website entitled, «Your Legal Bill — Too High?»

If you're not ready to spend on an in - house hire but are also leery of high outside counsel bills, Priori Legal offers a way of engaging top outside counsel at exceptional rates.

Then it says, «The Law Society does not set fees for legal services and can not reduce a lawyer's or paralegal's bill that you think is too high.»

But to do that effectively, one needs a lawyer, which might result in two additional legal bills being too high.

The non-lawyer average resident looks at the Law Society of Upper Canada's webpage in its website, that has the heading, «Your Legal Bill — Too High?»

Some former Olswang partners are facing higher than expected tax bills for 2015 - 16, Legal Week has learned.

Despite the fact that women perform at a high level in terms of high client billings and other important aspects of legal practice, they were not receiving rewards similar to those offered to similarly achieving men in terms of partnership in a firm.

These are not just higher bills for refurbishment, re-letting and legal costs, but a reduction in capital value off a higher yield, significant accounting losses and in many cases real damage to portfolio performance.

The proliferation of e-billing systems, complex billing guidelines, sophisticated business rules, and third - party legal auditors, means that firms have to be technically proficient in order to create an accurate, compliant, and high - quality invoicing process.

Just because the degree of regulation of an industry correlates with higher legal spend per billion of revenue does not mean that regulation is the CAUSE of those legal expenses (nor do bulging legal bills cause regulations!).

However, we join with the Workers Action Centre and Parkdale Community Legal Services in calling for amendments to Bill 148 to ensure it can close the gaps and raise the floor of minimum standards for the highest possible number of workers in Ontario.

Although your clients might not be willing to pay higher fees right now, you can use legal billing software to better manage your receivables, effectively increasing revenue without actually raising rates.

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Bill has received the highest professional rating for general ethical standards and legal ability from Martindale Hubbell, and has been regularly recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions — Defendants and as an Indiana Super Lawyer.

While all FLEX clients benefit from high quality, cost effective rates and predictable legal bills, those that are Fenwick clients also have the advantage of FLEX services being well integrated with the work Fenwick is handling.

Criticism of the high costs of legal bills has not gone away in recent years, despite the drop in lawyers» salaries and the saturation of the legal market with too many attorneys.

It might come as a surprise to most people that it's legal and accepted by our courts to increase the hourly rate without advising you, or to round up hours to a higher amount, or add on a «premium» for a lawyer's success in court to a client's bill.

He said the bill will give these attorneys a legal avenue to handle threats and tell families that action will be taken if emotions run too high.

With his vast experience serving startup clients, Ralph knew there were times clients would benefit from a high quality, less expensive option for day - to - day legal needs with predictable billing.

It can lead to injuries or death, high medical bills, and unforeseen expenses, and leave you with many unanswered legal questions.