Sentences with phrase «lawyers as profit centers»

Nearly two years ago, I posted that bar rules allowing firms to mark up the cost of U.S. - based contract lawyers without disclosure gave firms incentive to treat contract lawyers as profit centers, and discouraged them from offshoring document review, because in that situation firms would be required to disclose their markup to clients.

Firms will transition from using junior lawyers as profit centers and instead begin to outsource, offshore or automate many tasks previously performed by associates.

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Albert Jenner, in his final public appearance, told a gathering of Chicago lawyers: «We need to reorient our thinking away from the legal marketplace and law firms as profit centers and revenue producers, and law as a business.»

As consumers gravitate towards sites like Avvo, lawyers will no longer have any reason to pay money to list themselves on the state bar Web site, thus killing off a profit center for the bar.