Sentences with phrase «increased legal budget»

In terms of the overall effectiveness of AFAs, study participants named cost containment, increased legal budget predictability and greater efficiency, as the three major benefits of deploying AFAs for this type of legal work.

But the few companies which do allocate additional funds for digital transformation in their legal departments are aim - ing to increase their legal budget by quite significant 18.9 %.

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The growth is attributed to health care premium increases, merit adjustments for eligible positions, legal fees for union negotiations and various professional services that the park district will commission as it evaluates the Five Seasons property, according to the budget documents.

Mr. Golisano recently announced that he was moving his legal residence to Florida out of anger about the budget deal crafted in April by Democratic leaders in Albany, which included an increase in taxes on high earners.

At today's public protection budget hearing, a fairly stark Republican - Democrat debate formed over whether, facing a 2 percent cap, additional court funding should go to judicial raises or an increase in civil legal services, which helps the poor get legal representation in court.

A legal challenge to the cap was first made in 2013, when the New York State United Teachers union held the limit on local property tax increases constricts both local education spending and unlawfully requires a 60 percent majority to approve a budget that increases the levy over the cap.

He noted that Lippman put $ 55 million in this year's judiciary budget to help support legal services while judicial officials have taken steps to increase pro bono work by lawyers.

In the meantime, Lippman is pushing for an increased budget of $ 100 million for his civil legal services aid initiative, up from $ 85 million in the current budget.

School districts statewide proposed an average tax levy increase of 2.14 percent, with 662 district budgeting within the legal limit for increasing the amount collected in taxes.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

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The reality of compliance training for most organizations goes something like this: Legal responsibilities and regulatory requirements continue to increase, budgets shrink, and seat time pressures rise — not quite the formula for a winning training solution.

Tuck said he believes the state «absolutely» has to increase funding for schools and will fight hard to direct revenue from the legal cannabis industry into the education budget.

Meanwhile, although «Superintendent of Schools,» Paul Vallas, has failed to fulfill the legal requirement of getting the local Board of Education to review and adopt a school budget in a timely fashion, Vallas recently provided the Bridgeport Board of Education with a $ 231.8 million school budget that included a $ 4.2 million increase in ECS funding from the state and a $ 3.2 million increase from the City of Bridgeport.

By extending school districts» obligation to pay for private school placements until all appeals are exhausted, the decision creates an incentive for parents to prolong litigation rather than to work collaboratively with school districts to resolve disputes without delay; the increased liability for private tuition and legal fees from needlessly prolonged litigation imposes an untenable burden on the already - strained budgets of local school districts and diverts resources away from providing educational services to all children.

For comparison, the Cape May County Animal Shelter in Cape May Court House, serving the number of animals the CCSPCA receives just from Vineland, has a basic operating budget of about $ 750,000, which does not include additional costs such as building maintenance and legal fees.Public demands and shelter standards are increasing the level of animal care.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) increased the proportion of funding it spends on legal fees by 31 % between 2009 and 2012, despite the agency's overall budget being cut by more than a fifth in that time.

To deliver legal services to corporations more effectively, legal expense budgets and results against the budgets are being watched with increasing care.

Factors such as increased regulatory scrutiny, data breaches, and flat legal budgets underlie the expectation that the adoption of ELM technologies will increase from 20 percent to 50 percent by 2020.

According to the 2016 Real Rate Report, issued by CEB consulting company and Wolters Kluwer NV's ELM Solutions, which helps in - house legal departments manage budgets, hourly rates in the United States increased 5.4 percent in 2015 compared with 2014, boosted by an average 7.5 percent increase at firms with more than 1,000 lawyers.

For the Fiscal Year 2014, we successfully secured a continuation of levels seen in the King County's FY 2013 budget, which included a sizable increase in investment to legal aid programs serving King County's most vulnerable people.

Legal aid funding from the King County budget increased from $ 302,000 to $ 513,991.

As part of the 2014 provincial budget, the Ontario Liberals promised to increase the eligibility threshold for legal aid services by six per cent each year over three years.

We align fee structures and pricing with client legal budgets to better manage and increase certainty over total expenditure.

And data continued to increase, and corporate legal departments were finding that their litigation budgets were again falling short.

The total budget for civil legal aid services for the next two years, including the maintenance increase, is approximately $ 23 million.

The EJC worked with our supporters and the six King County legal aid providers that receive County funding to successfully maintain funding levels from the previous budget, including a vendor adjustment increase.

The cloud deployment type is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period; the cloud deployment type is also projected to witness the highest demand due to increased cost reduction as compared to on - premises solution deployment, as cloud E-Discovery solutions help customers to maintain a conservative legal department budget by slashing costs associated with data storage infrastructure maintenance.

The focus on decreasing the operational budget of legal departments and global increase in litigations is driving the market across all regions.

In a budget year when legislators struggled with issues such as education, mental health, and transportation, to receive a $ 4.8 million increase for legal aid (roughly a 20 % increase in funding) is a gratifying result.

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We met with nearly 90 members of the Legislature to advocate for increased funding for legal aid; • Op - eds from well - respected Washingtonians ran in the Tacoma News Tribune, The Chronicle, The Olympian, and The Spokesman Review; • The House's budget included a $ 7.6 million increase for legal aid, and for the first time ever, House democrats specifically identified civil legal aid as a priority in their external communications and interviews with the media; • Our statewide coalition and network of support greatly expanded.

The increase — which represents a $ 32 - million commitment by the province — is the second in just five months under Premier Kathleen Wynne, whose 2014 budget committed to boosting eligibility thresholds for legal aid by nearly 20 per cent.

Track says LEAF has been fighting for increased funding to legal aid since at least 2002, when the province began slashing its legal services budget — ultimately providing aid to only victims of violent crime and litigants earning less than $ 25,000 per year.

About half of the 281 law firms that participated in a 2014 survey by International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) and InsideLegal said they had increased their technology spending budgets that year, six percent more than the year before.

Under Blanchard, the firm was first to introduce legal project management to identify inefficiencies, make budgets more predictable, and increase value.

In - house legal groups are working harder to control their budgets — in particular through increased use of technology.

This year, the Equal Justice Coalition's legislative funding campaign called on state lawmakers to support a $ 5 million increase in the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC) line item in the Fiscal Year 2018 state budget.

Among other things, the 25 - page report, entitled «An Agenda for Justice,» recommends an $ 18 - million increase to the budget of the Legal Services Society over the next election cycle to bring per - capita legal aid spending in B.C. in line with the Canadian aveLegal Services Society over the next election cycle to bring per - capita legal aid spending in B.C. in line with the Canadian avelegal aid spending in B.C. in line with the Canadian average.

But as one respondent pointed out, whether governments increase or decrease budgets for legal aid, there will always be areas of the law never covered leaving a hole in access to justice but also offering opportunities for practitioners to get involved in their communities in new and different ways.

The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia branch has hit out at the provincial government for its failure to increase financial support for the province's legal aid system in yesterday's budget.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Recently Alberta's minister of justice and solicitor general, Jonathan Denis, said the province would look at an increase in funding for legal aid for next year if the federal government wouldn't fund a bump to the budget.

Including the civil legal service funds, the proposed Judiciar budget totals $ 2.18 billion, an increase of $ 42.7 million or 2 percent.

Developing and implementing a legal project management tool for a client's in - house counsel to provide increased budget predictability and transparency, including when the client works with firms other than Thompson Hine.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenLegal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

A new study conducted by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) in conjunction with InsideLegal suggests a majority of law firms, 53 %, report an increase to their technology budgets in 2016.

The survey shows respondents in the small to mid-size law firm range report the biggest increases to their legal tech budgets in 2016, including:

January 30, 2015 — «Attorneys from private law firms and advocates of civil legal aid organizations in Massachusetts gathered at the State House Thursday, calling for a $ 10 million funding increase in next year's state's budget for civil legal aid.

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