Sentences with phrase «increasing legal trend»

With an ever increasing legal trend toward joint custody or mutual custody, fathers need to know what it takes to make joint custody a good solution for them, their kids and their kids» mom.

With an ever increasing legal trend toward joint custody or mutual custody, fathers need to know what it takes to make joint custody a good solution for them, their kids and their kids» mom.

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Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Unfortunately, the small number of erotic authors and publishers who pushed the line too far have resulted in a general trend toward increased crackdowns against legal erotic fiction at some retailers.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

The concurrent trends of increasing legal education cost, decreasing legal employment, and strong debt insulation are setting the law school market up for a crash.

These trends are increasing validated by the growing number of non-traditional legal providers including the big four accounting firms and boutique entries into the market.

Improved safety trends, leveled - off consumer search interest and increased legal advertising are all working against them.

We believe these trends will continue to transform the legal community and drive the next wave of increased efficiency and innovation.»

Not strictly a singular technology trend, but a by - product of the developments of technology and increasing adoption within the industry has enabled more non-traditional legal service providers to succeed where traditional firms are losing ground.

This may include further broadening the talent pool by considering skills from beyond the legal sector — a trend that is increasing as firms realise there's much to be gained from embracing wider industry expertise.

Moving forward I see a number of trends that are going to shape the future of legal and regulatory systems: The first is the increasing power and influence of marketplace communities like Uber, AirBnB, or even Amazon's third - party marketplace.

The trend is backed up by a survey of 150 Canadian lawyers conducted recently by Robert Half Legal where one third, or 37 per cent of respondents indicated they'd observed an increase in lawsuits due to pictures or information contained in social media, or on mobile devices.

While there is still plenty of focus on improving back - end operational efficiencies, front - end service delivery and co-creating solutions in firms and legal departments is an increasing trend.

The firm's managing partner, Lotfi El Ajeri, who deals with litigation, arbitration and mediation, said that his firm «is convinced that the intensification of the trend towards increased globalisation will create a need for high - quality legal services and it is essential to provide these locally, across the African continent and globally, applying the same international standards».

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

However, an increased familiarity with the practice of law may account for this trend: as students progress in their law school career, they may become more aware of the sacrifices that will be required in order to succeed in a legal career.

These trends have moved our Totum team ever closer to the US market, not only through our work with US firms operating in London, but also through our increasing presence in the US itself — helped via our close partnership with Jennifer Scalzi, the founding CEO of Calibrate Legal.

According to a legal industry survey released this year, 56.1 percent of law firm leaders said their firms are using contract lawyers with 67.8 percent expecting an increase in contract lawyers to be a permanent trend.

* In the first quarter 2013, the 50 top - grossing U.S. law firms boosted their partner rates by as much as 5.7 %, billing an average between $ 879 - 882 per hour, according to Valeo Partners, increases continuing an upward trend in attorney hourly rates from 2012 — when legal fees in general rose 4.8 % and associate billing rates rose by 7.4 % according to a TyMetrix Legal Analytics / CEB report surveying data from more than 17,000 law flegal fees in general rose 4.8 % and associate billing rates rose by 7.4 % according to a TyMetrix Legal Analytics / CEB report surveying data from more than 17,000 law fLegal Analytics / CEB report surveying data from more than 17,000 law firms.

Certain trends in legal services like unbundling actually run counter to large firm mergers that increase the breadth and complexity of services offered.

A significant legal trend in recent years has been a dramatic increase in the number of companies attempting to bring more of the e-discovery process in house.

«The Recognition & Awards Coordinator is responsible for improving the standardization of submissions that communicate the Firm's capabilities with the objective of increasing the rankings, visibility, and recognition earned for the Firm and its lawyers; tracking, organizing, and maintaining a global calendar of deadlines related to submissions for legal directories and awards, as well as coordinating interviews and drafting biography updates; ensuring editorial integrity and quality in lawyer directory submissions — consistent with best practices — to optimize rankings; and analyzing results, performance, year - on - year trends, and communicating the results for internal and external audiences as applicable.»

The Coordinator is responsible for improving the standardization of submissions that communicate the Firm's capabilities with the objective of increasing the rankings, visibility, and recognition earned for the Firm and its lawyers; tracking, organizing, and maintaining a global calendar of deadlines related to submissions for legal directories and awards, as well as coordinating interviews and drafting biography updates; ensuring editorial integrity and quality in lawyer directory submissions — consistent with best practices — to optimize rankings and; analyzing results, performance, year - on - year trends, and communicating the results for internal and external audiences as applicable.

That trend parallels increased attention and investment in the legal technology sector by the large corporate players in the industry (e.g., Lexis's new legal tech accelerator, Thompson Reuters Labs's new (partially) legal tech - focused focused incubator) and law firms» own internal efforts to develop and incorporate new technologies into their practices and menu of client services (e.g., Davis Wright Tremaine's DWT De Novo initiative, Bryan Cave's TechX department).

There has been an on - going trend to bring more and more legal work inside the company in a commitment to ever - increasing efficiency.

This trend shows no sign of declining: over one quarter of all respondents expect an increase in the number of legal disputes in the next year.

The legal trend of the past quarter century has two distinguishing characteristics: first, increasing state interventionism in the family justified under public interest; second, legal harmonization of all forms of personal relationships.

The Thomson Reuters 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market shows this trend will continue as we see a market characterized by flat to sluggish growth, a continued decline in productivity, modest rate increases and the continued downward pressure on realization.

There is an increasing trend towards mobility in the legal profession.

In that sense, several trends converge to paint a picture of greater buyer control over the supply chain: the growing role of procurement in legal buy, the material shift of work away from firms to in - house, new approaches to disaggregation across traditional and alternative service providers, and increasing in - house oversight of budgeting, reporting, billing, and matter management.

The trend to keep only electronic documentation, the increasing number of legal regulations or the rising customer requirements cause that the scope of risk and the number of hazards related to the management of a law office are still rising.

The trends include: Number 1: Controversy over Whether Employers Using Credit Reports for Employment Screening is Discriminatory Increases Number 2: Questions about Criminal Records of Job Applicants Become More Difficult for Employers to Ask Number 3: Employers Discover Fast and Cheap Online Background Checks Using Criminal Databases Not Always Accurate or Legal Number 4: Background Checks of Temporary Workers Cause for Concern for Employers as Hiring Increases Number 5: International Background Screening More Necessary Due to Mobility of Workers in Global Economy Number 6: Using Social Network Sites Such as Facebook to Screen Job Candidates Increases Legal Risk for Employers Number 7: More Workplace Violence Prevention Education Helps Protect Employers and Employees Number 8: Increased Privacy Concerns Over Offshoring of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Number 9: E-Verify and I - 9 Audits Help Government Find Employers with Illegal Workers Number 10: New Accreditation Standards Help Employers Select Background Screening Firms