Sentences with phrase «lawyers getting more business»

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«Wealthy Chinese want to make a statement about their social status and what they wear, but they're getting a little more subtle,» Hansi Men, an investment immigration lawyer at Streit & Su law firm, told Business Insider.

Using the argument of neutrality is too dismissive to the more pertinent fact at hand — likely about $ 300k was deployed to control $ 1.6 m, to be used in any way shape or form when it is all said and done... retiring abroad, funding their kids college, starting their tube meat meat truck business after they get tired of the lawyering rat race, etc etc..

One popular refrain is that more students going to law school don't want to be lawyers — even if this is so, the majority of them still do, and the profession, if there is one, needs to take its cues from current business realities to ensure that those who need it can get the new level of baseline knowledge and skills they need in the 21st century.

In general, the theme of the Reebok Rules is that in - house lawyers should act more like businesspeople: They should famliarize themself with the workings of the corporation, hone business judgment, get out and wander the halls and meet people.

More importantly, I advised what a lawyer should say in an effort to get business.

Get it off to a good start with these tips for young lawyers on developing relationships, building business and more.

More and more, institutional legal clients who work with outside lawyers on a regular basis are creating and instituting billing guideline agreements that any lawyer or law firm will have to follow if they want to get repeat business or simply get their bills paid on tMore and more, institutional legal clients who work with outside lawyers on a regular basis are creating and instituting billing guideline agreements that any lawyer or law firm will have to follow if they want to get repeat business or simply get their bills paid on tmore, institutional legal clients who work with outside lawyers on a regular basis are creating and instituting billing guideline agreements that any lawyer or law firm will have to follow if they want to get repeat business or simply get their bills paid on time.

The fact that some professionals, such as lawyers and Quebec's notaries, aren't covered by federal anti-laundering rules undermines Canada internationally and risks Canada getting a reputation that could subject business transactions conducted in Canada to more checks, says Meunier.

Additionally, while a retail office might seem positively Dickensian if you are middle - aged lawyer currently occupying Class A office space downtown, it might well be much more attractive to a more junior lawyer anxious to get a foot in the door somewhere within the profession, or someone looking for part - time contract work outside of standard law firm business hours.

By getting to know media contacts (general, business and legal), they are more likely to call you when they need a lawyer's perspective; and there is no better way to be seen as an expert than by being quoted in a credible publication or interviewed on TV...»

A disturbing number of the hours I billed as an attorney came about because my firm got involved in a case where a lawyer with a creative theory of business - competition - through - litigation initiated a suit that ultimately cost his or her client more money in the long run.

He has a thesis in his new book about how kind of buyers or clients are taking control of the dynamics of the industry and as part of that, I think he and you advocate for lawyers and small law firms, thinking more like businesses and thinking about clients as buyers and things like that, that we'll get into in the episode, but one of the topics that I think is interesting to talk about then is something we've brought up a few times in the past about kind of identifying your ideal client or crafting personas of your ideal clients that you can have a story of who you're looking for and how to find them.

According to Professor Martin Davidson of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, this approach presents at least three shortcomings: (1) It lacks a strategic focus and, as a result, diversity is often approached as simply an extra activity that has no impact on an organization's business; (2) It focuses on immediate results and fails to take the long view; (3) Finally, it can be reactive (e.g., we lost a lot of diverse lawyers, so let's geBusiness, this approach presents at least three shortcomings: (1) It lacks a strategic focus and, as a result, diversity is often approached as simply an extra activity that has no impact on an organization's business; (2) It focuses on immediate results and fails to take the long view; (3) Finally, it can be reactive (e.g., we lost a lot of diverse lawyers, so let's gebusiness; (2) It focuses on immediate results and fails to take the long view; (3) Finally, it can be reactive (e.g., we lost a lot of diverse lawyers, so let's get more).

And if you can get more lawyers as clients, you'll be interfacing with similar businesses which speak the same language and see you as a fellow service provider.

Does it always take a shitty month or how can we get more lawyers, what do you think it's going to take to get more lawyers to take that step and finally start focusing on business development or even some professional development when it starts feeling like not lawyering professional development, how do we convince more lawyers to do that?

Sam Glover: And initially I was critical of you for not explaining it well and then you came up with a really good explanation the last time we had you on the podcast and I totally get it, but now your business model is changing so now your customer base is more sort of the legal industry organizations like bar associations instead of individual lawyers.

(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.

When a lawyer sits down to talk to me about his practice and how to get more clients, the discussion always includes a social media plan with the end goal being to leverage his / her online presence to build more relationships with referral sources and potential clients that then convert into new business.

One of Rocket Matter's primary goals has always been to help lawyers better run their firms from a business perspective, and the ability to get more information out of the reporting features, along with the project management capabilities they come with, will be hugely beneficial.

I know that lawyers think, «Well, I can be more efficient while I bill by the hour», but, A, you don't have any incentive to because fewer hours means less money, but also I think when you commit to a fixed fee it rewires your brain to look for other ways to get to the same outcome, and it really does change the way you run your business and serve your clients.

I mean, professional, sure, I even tend to think a good production quality of the photos, absolutely, good lighting, sure but I think some of the candid photos, some of just the around the office photos, some of the more effective ones, if you got clients who are willing to do it that show you interacting with clients, showing some emotion even because clients are dealing with some really emotional life issues when dealing with a lawyer and so letting some of that show through in the imagery and the pictures and the videos that you use is extremely powerful and Google My Business is definitely a place to be doing that.

Sure, O'Keefe is correct that some lawyers report getting business from blogging, but far more will tell you otherwise.

The Korean government may well see deregulation as the best means of getting the business community to create more lawyer jobs.

For even more tips and advice, check out the video recordings of two of our past webinars: LinkedIn for Lawyers: Let's Get Down to Business Development and How to Make LinkedIn Work for Your Practice.

As a long - time practitioner of law marketing, I've seen an unending series of workshops, training sessions, seminars and conferences to encourage lawyers to get more business.

«We believe lawyers need an easier way to get the day - to - day business of running their firm out of the way so they can put more of the focus on their clients,» said David Bitton, co-founder and CEO of PracticePanther.

With this new edition, solo and small firm lawyers can get the benefits of the business / legal - oriented Professional edition of Dragon for just a little more than the cost of the consumer - oriented Premium Edition.

It seems that when little, common place things start to get a bit more difficult — things like: getting a divorce, managing a business, resolving civil disputes, or defending criminal cases — small towns take a hit; a lack of lawyers isn't the death - blow, but it is a symptom of a potentially terminal disease.

So let's roll right into understanding what each of those parts is to help the listeners just get a taste for what goes into making a successful law firm business that can lead them to be a more happy lawyer.

Some lawyers are more focused on getting the business.

Only thing I can say is that feed back from our clients indicates that in - house - lawyers are expected to participate more at board level in the strategy of the business, rather than getting bogged down in day - to - day legal work.

As well as getting the wider business to «think more like lawyers,» Mark also stresses the importance for lawyers to «think like business people» as well.

This is alleged to be more friendly to business, which otherwise gets confused — though other members of the public, even lawyers, may find this practice convenient.