Sentences with phrase «large firms now»

Most large firms now have litigation support programs that have an IT person and a lawyer that manages all the documents.

This does not bode well for large firms now that the wearable revolution is already upon us.

A few large firms now have twice as many, or even three times as many, partners as associates.

Enough large firms now have low cost service centers that we can no longer view them as outliers.

Or do large firms now need special protection from market forces?

Most large firms now have these plans in place, but many smaller firms do not.

«In terms of liquidity, not only do our largest firms now have the right kind and amount of liquidity calibrated to their funding needs and to their likely run risk in stressed conditions, but they also are required to know where it is at all times and to ensure it is positioned or readily accessible where it is most likely to be needed in resolution.»

Many of the larger firms now offer a month's leave with pay for their male lawyers to assist their wives or partners after a birth or an adoption.

It showed that 41 percent of the 200 largest firms now have blogs, a 110 percent increase from LexBlog's first survey two years ago.

Not exact matches

Prem Watsa, known as Canada's Warren Buffett, is now the company's fifth - largest shareholder through Fairfax Financial Holdings, the $ 9 - billion insurance and investment firm that he founded in Toronto.

The Colorado - based firm is now the world's largest money transfer company.

The largest of those forums was canadavisa.com, which is run by Campbell Cohen, now Moravej's partner firm.

The four largest U.S. firms by market capitalization are now all tech firms: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon.

She now employs more than a dozen workers and writes for large global firms including Amazon and Oracle.

Today the operation now known simply as Gensler is the largest architecture firm in the world, and it's best known for designing interiors — everything from the original Apple Stores to headquarters for Facebook and Airbnb.

The company moved into the large facility in 2012, helping transform San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood into a tech hub that now houses other promising tech firms such as Uber and Square, as well as a variety of smaller startups.

He argues that firms like the one he co-founded — PIMCO — as well as other large asset managers like BlackRock, now present the systemic risk that Dodd - Frank sought to transfer away from banks.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

He co-founded gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) and now is a partner in Kleiner Perkins, the world's largest venture capital firm, where he currently heads up the company's US$ 250 - million sFund, focused on social applications and services.

Of course, the company attracts a lot of talented individuals to the region so that there is now a large pool from which rival firms can poach.

While completing a doctorate degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, «A large Philadelphia law firm approached me with a request to translate thousands of pages in an international litigation case,» says Stejskal, now 48.

Smith was right to trust his hunch: The company, enjoying a five - year streak of 50 % annual growth, is now the second largest appraisal management firm in North America.

Stock picker Steve Mandel's Lone Pine Capital had the largest gain of any hedge fund firm in 2017, at $ 5 billion, and is now ranked fourth overall.

Now ransomware is affecting larger companies with more sophisticated security operations,» Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer with cyber security firm Veracode, said.

«The volume of opportunities we see is dramatically larger in Toronto and Vancouver than in Ottawa,» says Rob Chaplinsky, a University of Waterloo grad and now co-managing director of VC firm Bridgescale Partners in the real Silicon Valley.

All 24 hourly employees now have their own «paid - time - off (PTO) banks» — an innovation suggested by Liebegott's partner, Jerry Feijoo, who had seen the idea work well for his former employer, a large engineering firm.

DBL Investors, a $ 225 million impact investment firm in San Francisco, had all of those factors going for its investment in SolarCity, now the largest solar installer in the country, worth nearly $ 6 billion two years after its initial public offering.

Right now, much of its revenue goes to paying licensing costs to the record labels and music publishing firms, leaving it with large and growing losses.

In response to the shift in valuation from tangible assets to intangible ones, Conley says, larger firms are now trying to change the «rules of the game» through amicus briefs.

Singapore is now growing faster than Switzerland and is set to become the largest cross-border financial center in the world by 2028, the firm forecasts.

Christopher now oversees marketplace operations and business development teams for BDC Advisory in the region, transforming it into one of the largest and fastest growing management consulting firms in Greater Vancouver.

As one of the largest technology firms in the world, how to maintain sustained growth is now the biggest problem Apple is facing, and the formation of a sound app eco-chain has become a top priority.

Now a consultant to venture capital firms, Bloom expects large companies to shift away from investing directly in R&D, focusing instead on acquiring startups and spinning off experimental projects that will be less constrained by bureaucracy and Wall Street demands.

They will tell you that the costs of being public now outweigh the benefits for all but the largest firms.

Arminio Fraga, who worked under Lemann in the 1980s, later served as central bank chief, and now runs one of the country's largest asset - management firms, is one of a generation of Brazilian entrepreneurs who look up to Lemann.

While we believe payrolls and average hourly earnings are both likely to miss consensus estimates, we think the employment report may be somewhat less important than usual for the monetary policy outlook, because 1) recent data have been firm so we have some room for a miss, 2) the August seasonal issue is now well known so even a somewhat larger miss may not significantly alter the staff view, and 3) there are several months between now and December to make up for any weakness in tomorrow's report.

Indeed, China leads the world in fintech and digital disruption in general; it has some of the largest fintech firms and, as Citi said, it is now «past the tipping point.»

Vanguard, now the third - largest ETF firm based on assets, was a pioneer of low - cost index mutual funds in the 1970s.

[5] However some larger firms have now adopted Roth 401 (k) plans, and this is expected to spur their adoption by other firms including smaller ones.

«U.S. multinational firms are the global grandmasters of tax avoidance schemes that deplete not just U.S. tax collection but the tax collection of most every large economy in the world,» said Edward D. Kleinbard, a former corporate tax adviser to such companies who is now a law professor at the University of Southern California.

International law firm Foley & Lardner says Chinese companies are now the largest source of CFIUS requests for review, having surpassed UK companies several years ago.

Now, as one of the world's largest venture capital firms, we have more than $ 20 billion in committed capital across 16 funds, including a $ 3.3 billion fund that closed in 2017.

We now have a good opportunity to know, since we see suggestions daily in our propaganda sheets and even more in the expensive advertisements that so many large commercial firms are using for the building of morale, now that they have nothing to sell to the average reader.

He now runs a large law firm in Washington while also teaching at two different law schools in California.

And interestingly, the Communist Party committees that still exist within all large Chinese business firms are now strongly involved in corporate culture promotion.

In filings with the American federal communications commission, the search firm has published the first pictures of the redesigned device, which now features a foldable arm holding a much larger screen.

And although much of that money has now been paid back — and my administration has proposed a fee to be paid by large financial firms to recover the rest — the American people should never have been put in that position in the first place.

While Chinese and Russian companies are now worried about the security of their existing contracts, European oil firms expect to benefit with new business and a larger share of the Libyan oil market.

Federal «Corporate Welfare» Database Now Online Study: Large Corporations Dominate Federal Subsidy Awards; Banks, Foreign - Owned Energy Firms and Federal Contractors Among the Biggest Recipients

Host Grant Reeher talks with Tom Buckel, a former county legislator and partner in a large Syracuse law firm who now works as an Attorney for Legal Services of Central New York, and Deborah O'Shea, the pro bono coordinator for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County.