Sentences with phrase «lawyers than the industry»

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Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

A lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in both private practice and industry, Victoria has advised clients in many industries including technology, manufacturing, broadcasting and communications.

Some antismoking legislators have expressed concern that the industry's future profits may be in jeopardy, thus imperiling the settlement's requirement that the companies pay anti-tobacco lawyers and state governments more than $ 500 billion over the next twenty years.

«If there's going to be more than one casino in the metropolitan area, then we should not deprive the upstate communities,» Bonacic said in a panel discussion at the Saratoga Institute on Racing & Gaming Law that attracted about 100 lawyers, lobbyists and others tied to the racing and gambling industry.

In their defense against the cities suing over sea level rise damages, the oil industry lawyers essentially argued that the blame lies not on the producers, but rather the consumers of fossil fuels, and that any economic issues should be addressed through policy rather than in the court system.

Rather than care for suffering workers, the coal industry has hired lawyers and doctors to deny Black Lung disease, rather than protecting its workforce and paying for the treatment they need.

The study also highlights that the legal industry is embracing technology as a way of improving its efficiency — more than 80 % of firms are using electronic communications more than they used to, and two - thirds of lawyers now use a personal digital assistant (PDA) device, such as a BlackBerry, at work.

Who better than aviation attorneys to be lawyers to the drone industry?»

Look no further than the US which, with no laws to protect lawyers, allowed the predatory and voracious title insurance industry (essentially ABS firms) to decimate the real estate bar, reducing the conveyancing market from tens of thousands of small firms to four behemoths who, according to Fitch Inc., have 87 % of the market and who offer, in the words of an employee of a US title insurer, «shit services».

Even the folks in the banking industry — linked to the current foreclosure crisis and our widespread economic woes — ranked higher than lawyers, with a 28 percent holding a positive image.

With more than 25 yers of experience from the pharmaceuticals industry Johannes is one of the leading pharma lawyers in Europé.

Yes, he may be probably more negative on the industry generally (just because of legal numbers declining / firms cutting costs / outsourcing of lawyers etc. rather than he thinks law firms are suddenly going to decide they don't need information nor switch to a Google style product) but more that the old duopoly that drove profits is dead.

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While other industries that have been more exposed to non-traditional ways of working see the trend as an opportunity to be more agile and adaptable, the legal industry sees only a loss of control — of data, of lawyers who are spending less time in the office, and of their client relationships as they become more focused on the individual legal professional rather than the reputation of the firm.

Besides, most lawyers are skilled speakers and — based on industry averages — can talk nearly ten times faster than they can type.

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A just - released survey of 650 lawyers commissioned by legal industry giant LexisNexis Martindale - Hubbell and conducted by Leader Networks reveals that almost 50 percent of attorneys already belong to online social networks, and more than 40 percent want to join online networks.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

The legal services industry is in the throes of reformation and this is exactly the wrong time for lawyers to have a governing body that is nothing more than a weather vane spinning around according to the whims of the noisiest group of lawyers.

«In the P.E.I. market, clients tend to identify with individual lawyers more than law firms — whether it's a lawyer's experience with top industries or a lawyer's involvement with the community,» says Scales.

Young lawyers are leaving the profession more than ever before and I don't believe that if we continue to give these lawyers repetitive, low value work, we will attract and retain these lawyers in the industry.

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But since that predicted value has traditionally been so hard to determine (and defense lawyers will often up the value to justify more billable hours spent on the matter), the industry is left really with no better model than something based on the actual billable hours whether that be the actual amount or some predicted amount in the case of a flat fee.

And yet, the title insurance industry would have you believe that they are somehow more important in maintaining the integrity of the client's title in the property than the lawyers are.

(4) Such cartelization is certain to lead to higher prices to the public (see, to cite only one example among many, many, what happened when a handful of US title insurers replaced 100,000 US real estate lawyers — a «dysfunctional» per the State of California and «invidious» per the Supreme Court of Iowa industry «in which the public pays too much» per the State of California (about four times more than what the lawyers used to charge) while delivering services that are «shit» per an employee of a US title insurer who used to be an independent lawyer until she and all the other real estate lawyers in her city in Florida were put out of business by predatory pricing that lasted only as long as it took to kill the lawyers).

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).

Lawyers and law firm employees execute more documents annually than any other industry.

The report is important because the changes in the legal profession don't affect anyone more acutely than law students and young lawyers, who will actually live to see the changes sweep across the industry.

The websites are stuffed with information that the lawyers consider important (most of it ego - feeding) but that clients either don't care about or automatically discount, and they're organized by «lawyer» categories (e.g., practice areas) rather than by problems or opportunities or markets or industries, which are the categories in which clients tend to think.

With more than 50 years in the industry, the Toronto car accident lawyers have the knowledge and experience necessary to help you recover from your personal and financial losses.

Tom Mighell: So here's my rather simplistic view of why I think that healthcare is going to continue to be slightly ahead of the legal industry at least for a while in this particular area, and that's that — I think that for most people, they consider information about their health, gathering it or capturing it or viewing it or reading it is I think at least in some respects more accessible than getting information about the legal manner that their lawyer might be handling for them, and I want to trace it if I could speculate here.

With more than 635 lawyers across 12 offices, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP provides clients with unparalleled service in matters ranging from billion - dollar deals to complex class actions, across a broad spectrum of industries.

We are more than just lawyers, we are industry experts with unrivalled commitment to the sectors in which our clients operate.

Many lawyers still view AI as no more than a marketing buzzword which is something we as an industry have to get better at tackling.

After a few years in the industry, I recognized that litigators who build visual aides for trial and work with other creatively - minded lawyers to do so get better results than those who work alone or those who work only with a graphic artist.

Whether finding someone with expertise in a specific legal area or industry, a top lawyer in a certain geography, or a lawyer or team that's simply better at delivering quality legal service than what they're currently experiencing.

The award represents one of the most prestigious honors in the legal industry, recognizing lawyers who are more than skilled — they're fighting on the frontier of the law itself.

While managing partners at a firm are not accountants, they are lawyers, and they understand their own industries compliance regulations better than anyone else.

Lawyers who don't want to bill by the hour, but still want to work in the legal industry and make decent pay, now have more options other than working in - house because of the explosion in legal tech startups.

With more than 1,000 lawyers and 23 strategically located offices worldwide, McGuireWoods uses client - focused teams to serve public, private, government and nonprofit clients from many industries, including automotive, energy resources, financial services, healthcare, technology and transportation.

Lawyers, not unlike their forbears in other industries facing massive upheaval, tend to do more of what they know rather than proactively seek change, and as a result simple techniques to improve client satisfaction and retention — efforts that in other industries are generally called «sales» — are discarded as unseemly or unnecessary for educated professionals to take on.

Lawyers in private law practice tend to forget sometimes that they serve a more complex and important function in this industry than mere sellers of legal services.

Dane Blunt is a «multi-tool» lawyer with more than a decade of commercial real estate and construction industry experience.

He is a veteran trial lawyer with more than 25 years of national experience representing companies and individuals in complex commercial litigation concerning a broad array of fields and industries.

Compared to the title insurance premiums, the legal fees are a bargain because at least the lawyer is actually doing something useful and beneficial while the title insurance premium provides coverage not much above the level of a scam (read up on that industry's abysmal record of burying gaps in coverage in the turgid fine print and equally abysmal record of not paying claims that are more than a few hundred dollars worth of tax arrears).

With more than 480 lawyers across the Firm's Canadian offices, Dentons provides clients with on - the - ground legal experience across many industries, private and public business, in key sectors of the Canadian economy.

I have worked more overtime in my legal career, never actually working less than the lawyers I was employed by, than any other industry I have had contact with over the years.

There are many more clients than lawyers in the legal industry (i.e., more buyers than sellers), which is a problem that exacerbates the access to justice crisis.

Though in - house lawyers may work across dozens of industries and for hundreds of different companies, their concerns, challenges, and goals share more similarities than differences.