Sentences with phrase «law at reduced fees»

Participating lawyers offer a wide range of legal services covering almost all areas of law at reduced fees.

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The changes in the law are also aimed at reducing some of the regulatory burdens on the city's cab drivers, like lower fees and allowing cab drivers to pick up multiple parties if their customers consent.

The law society's Advertising and Fee Arrangements Issues working group had been looking at a possible cap on contingency fees, but it decided against it because of concerns it might deny some victims benefits and reduce claims in some cases.

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That said, family lawyers are increasingly looking at ways to manage and reduce costs for family clients, including fixed fees for procedural steps instead of hourly rates and directing clients to methods of resolving disputes outside of the overburdened court process such as mediation, collaborative law and arbitration.»

(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.

To attract and retain these great attorneys — and do so through a model that greatly reduced client fees — we built the firm on a model that permits these attorneys to work from a position that support their life balance and from locations not possible in traditional practice settings and, at the same time, strips away overhead and fixed salaries that underpin a very large part of a traditional law firm's fee structure.

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.

To be candid, if the real and potential benefits of providing legal advice include speed of service and reduced cost respectively, to achieve a positive outcome, which has ultimately come about via the use of sophisticated IT / AI at some point during the legal service / problem continuum, and as a legal buyer my main concern is the right result, quality, value for money and / or price (which remains the issue in many instances), and I know lawyers and law firms can now do the work quicker, smarter and more accurately using AI and cognitive computing technology, can I therefore expect my legal fees to be reduced?

By August 2010, the Federal Reserve has to decide how to implement two of the trickiest parts of the new law: its requirements that penalty fees be «reasonable and proportional,» and that card issuers who have raised customers» rates since Jan. 1, 2009, reevaluate those rates to see if they should be reduced, and to do so at least every six months.