Sentences with phrase «higher than any other firm»

Jackson Hole Sotheby's International Realty ranked fourth in the state for sales volume of commercial listings in 2015 — higher than any other firm in western Wyoming.

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According to a new report from research firm Forrester, companies can expect a much higher rate of engagement with customers on Instagram than on other popular social sites.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

This type of equity investor differs from angel investors and other equity investors as the firms are primarily interested in high - value opportunities (think millions of dollars rather than thousands or tens of thousands of dollars).

As a result, many mutual funds — which might be better performing but have higher expenses than other investment vehicles — would fall off of brokerage firms» platforms.

It's just that demand is too high, so firms decide they can increase profits by raising their prices above other firms» prices rather than continuing to produce enough output to meet demand at existing prices.

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

«In our research of high - growth sales and marketing organizations, we have found that buyers want predictive analytics applications to deliver fast access to their target accounts and transparency into the account insights that make an account more valuable than others,» said Craig Rosenberg, co-Founder and Chief Analyst at TOPO, a leading analyst firm for sales and marketing organizations.

Souza Cescon Barrieu & Flesch Advogados represented clients in 32 deals valued at $ 2.3 billion last year — a higher value than any other law firm in the region, according to Dealogic.

Their average APR is a bit higher than some of the other consolidation loan firms, but still lower than most credit cards.

Because these venture capital firms want higher return rates than other investments such as the stock market provide, they typically invest in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.

«Because the ecosystem has become more transparent you are always competing with other firms,» says Ross Fubini, a partner at Canaan, who adds startups are still likely to choose the best venture capital firm, rather than the highest valuation.

But some of the parents, survivors and others affected by the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were more interested in firm action to prevent future assaults than a presidential visit.

You could tell it had a higher cacao percentage than the others though, with its darker colour and firmer texture.

«Other firms that use volunteer online polling panels have failed to pick up more than three per cent support for Ukip in recent months, while the highest figure reported in a telephone or face - to - face poll is just two per cent.

As previously reported, start - up technology firms continue to set up shop all over Union Square, despite rents in the area remaining significantly higher than in other neighborhoods, such as the Financial District.

AVI BioPharma's chief executive, Chris Garabedian, says that the company's technology is safer than that tested by other drug firms, and thus can be used in higher doses that are more likely to be effective than other antisense drugs that have failed in the past.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

Again, the center passenger must make the sacrifices: The center position is higher than the other two, and the firm center armrest doubles as a backrest.

Granted, sometimes these are financial decisions, since a professional custom cover design starts at $ 299 (compare that to $ 900 and higher at other self publishing firms); but other times the decision doesn't seem to be based upon anything other than a skewed reality of what comprises good cover design.

Pinnacle looks for firms with strong balance sheets since small firms have fewer buffers in a downturn than large ones do, management teams that do an outstanding job of allocating capital including their own, and understandable businesses which tends to keep him out of tech, bio-tech and other high obsolescence industries.

With index - tracking exchange - traded funds charging fees that are far less than actively managed mutual funds, the higher - cost investment options that AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB), Hartford Financial (NYSE: HIG), and other active - management firms have within some 529 plans come under greater pressure from the state board established to oversee the plans.

First off... I love the idea, but ultimately the $ 30 xfer fund to withdraw is a deal breaker for me, I know why you do it, I use scottrade and they make it hard to cash out money too (not that hard), but its not just about the dollars and cents, it is the symbolism and structure, I just cant assume a brokerage firm has my best interest in mind with its highest fee set to move funds out, I would much rather pay a membership or set up fee, at least i get to feel like i get something for that other than access to my own money.

Having run the GIC desk of a small well - capitalized insurer, with lower ratings, less leverage, and a higher ROE than other larger competitors, I was / am biased against firms with bad credit profiles that get good ratings only because they are big.

But while plenty of other climate scientists hold firm to the idea that the full range of possible outcomes, including a disruptively dangerous warming of more than 4.5 degrees C. (8 degrees F.), remain in play, it's getting harder to see why the high - end projections are given much weight.

Some keywords will always have a ton of advertisers bidding on them, they'll always cost more than the other keywords getting you ad clicks, and they will always drive a higher percentage of unwanted cases to your firm.

Not only is branded traffic a sizeable category, it also converts into law firm contacts at a 60 % higher rate than any other traffic type.

In addition, once a firm has more than a few lawyers, it may also provide other core services such as a library, mail room, photocopying center and high - speed Internet services.

Bios are hit at least ten times more and often higher than that, than any other part of the firm's web site.

Baker McKenzie has a bigger operation in Thailand than any other firm full stop, and has worked on such massive projects in the Asia - Pacific region as the US$ 14 billion project financing of Taiwan's high - speed rail system.

For each of the three series, the rate of increase in revenue is higher for larger firms than for smaller...» I performed one other test.

Law firm bill rates rise but... «Significant growth rate increases are noticeable» according to the complete ELM Trends report but the increases are «higher in eastern cities and states than other parts of the country.»

Just as «super lawyers» should get more cases than other firms, websites with higher site authority will rank higher for similarly relevant content than those with less authority.

Bloom said a downturn in re-mortgage activity meant the firm had received less work from Northern Rock than usual but stressed that other work for the high street bank remained strong.

With only a dozens of professional trial lawyers, TianTong has represented more appeal and retrial cases before the Supreme People's Court than any other law firms in China, and has been keeping one of the highest winning rates among all Chinese law firms before the Supreme People's Court for many years.

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TianTong is willing to try more complex business cases in this area than any other PRC firms, especially before the Supreme Court and high courts in different provinces.

Are you trying to be in the top 10 % your class so you can get a high salary job in a prestigious firm trading moments of your life for the grunt - work handed down by someone who doesn't appreciate anything other than your billing totals, or are you using the time to learn how to provide enough value in your own area of interest that you won't ever have to depend on a boss's whims?

UPDATE (July 5, 2013): CanadaVisa.com, the website of Canadian immigration firm Campbell Cohen, receives more web traffic than any other law firm website (based on its high Alexa Traffic Rank).

Law firms rely on advertising to grow their businesses; however, law firms, with good reason, are held to much higher ethical standards in their communications than other commercial enterprises.

Litigation partner Steve Baughman was named Vice President of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Bar Association on March 22, following an election held at the organization's second annual conference in Washington, D.C. Formed through the collaboration and financial support of more than 45 law firms, including Paul, Weiss, the PTAB Bar Association serves as a forum for communications between the PTAB and other stakeholders, and aims to preserve and promote the highest professional and ethical standards among lawyers and stakeholders who appear before the PTAB.

It's also worth noting that Burges Salmon has among the lowest commute times, with a higher proportion of its junior lawyers walking to work than any other major UK law firm.

Most firms that place a premium on revenue from partners» personal production find that partners tend to hold their client relationships too close to their vests; they frequently hoard client work rather than spread it around to other partners — because the former wants to receive full credit; partners perform work that could be performed by associates because the former wants to receive full credit; partners do billable work when their higher and better use for the law firm is to generate additional business from existing and potential clients; and lawyers may perform work outside of their principle areas of expertise that others in the firm could perform more effectively and efficiently.

Today's economic challenges are compelling in - house attorneys to significantly reduce their own costs, while fees paid to outside law firms have tended to increase at rates higher than employee salaries, energy costs, and other business expenses.

At many firms in Philadelphia and around the country, the path to increased profitability has been through recruiting high - performing partners and associates from other firms, rather than nurturing homegrown talent, the traditional approach.

As a result, we take on fewer clients than most other firms — in order to provide the highest levels of service.

Other firms, especially some of the litigation boutiques requiring rights of appearances before different courts, realized that it's far more inexpensive to hire multiple articling students to sit in scheduling or motions court than it is to employ associates who have higher expectations for compensation.

The flip side is that the benefits to the firm can be broader than simply revenue — improved cash flow, client referenceability, employee retention (if the work is prestigious or interesting), replicability (the ability to reproduce the output for other clients at lower cost / higher margin) are all benefits that have value and can be quantified.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

While it is true that lawyers have duties to their clients as fiduciaries, and that such concerns may impact the assertion of privilege for communications which relate to the representation of a current client, the threshold of establishing privilege in the first place should be no higher for law firms than for other firms.