Sentences with phrase «legal spend continues»

Second, the number of companies using alternative fee arrangements for more than 20 % of their outside legal spend continues to grow.

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Hunter also spent $ 336,664 of campaign cash on legal fees, the Times reported, while Democrats continue to raise money against him and his campaign still has $ 114,412 in unpaid legal fees.

And as the probe has continued, his campaign funds have dried up — he spent more money on legal fees than he raised last year.

Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!

As a result, it will continue to spend time, money and energy on forcing or coaxing schools to change their legal status, at the expense of focusing on raising standards.

Continuing to use a card after the account holder dies can have dire ramifications, including putting you on the hook for any unpaid balances (not just what you spent) and potential legal prosecution.

Dedicated game enthusiasts continue to spend thousands of hours reviving discarded online games, but there is zero legal protection for them.

Going on to pursue his legal education under Putnam, Adams continued to work as a teacher and maintain a thrifty lifestyle with the exception of spending all his money on books.

While e-discovery software can somewhat soothe the painful process, many companies still continue to rely on outside counsel for their discovery needs, vastly increasing their legal spend as a result.

These cases already account for half of the expenditure on civil legal aid and while the number of cases completed was slightly down on the previous quarter the higher levels of spending appears to be a trend which is likely to continue given the wider picture around child protection policy.

So while we're spending resources of money, time and energy in advancing our technological presence, we're also planning to continue our in - person contacts to enrich our understanding of people's legal needs and experiences.

But while Saudi Arabia — the world's second largest oil producer — continues pumping out oil to protect its market share in the face of swelling US crude output, what is the impact of reduced spending in the region for the legal market and how are local law firms faring compared to their international counterparts?

In an era where increasing pressures constrain our clients to manage legal spend, we will continue to provide a distinct value to our clients.

A «perfect storm» is about to hit, the report claims, because public bodies and large corporate are seeking to reduce their advocacy spend; solicitor - advocates are increasing in number, and will soak up more advocacy work; 2,000 instructing law firms may close this year, and larger firms may seek to do more in - house; family law legal aid firms are closing shop following the introduction of new contracting rules, and the Ministry of Justice is seeking to cull criminal legal aid firms, perhaps to a level of 70 %, reducing the pool of referral law firms; and tenancies will continue to decrease as chambers merge to consolidate their business position.

While the sample size continues to grow, this particular study is based on more than $ 15 billion in legal spend and 3 million invoices, representing 450,000 matters gathered over the past 5 years.

They increased the scope and scale of analysis, including two supplementary surveys: one of nearly 3,000 lawyers (both Clio users and non-Clio users) to continue the investigation into how lawyers are spending their time, and one of over 2,000 consumers to understand how clients are finding and choosing their legal representation.

As Canadian corporate legal departments continue to grow in size, collecting data about spending and benchmarking against how others perform is becoming «table stakes,» a room of in - house lawyers heard Monday.

The market for legal services is not experiencing a renaissance, and although overall spend on services may be increasing, law firm market share continues to decline.

Guardian editorial, Public Spending: Banned aid: «Mr Clarke's sensible decision to continue to give legal aid in inquests, in asylum cases and in judicial reviews, to discover that the speed and severity of the cuts announced yesterday will once again disproportionately hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.

In Florida, e.g., this implies, as of 1 January 2017, that all lawyers as a part of their Continuing Legal Education, are required to spend a minimum of three hours over three years in an approved technology program.

Top - ranked Lavery de Billy LLP and its predecessors have spent the better part of a century cultivating roots in the province, and Richard Dolan, the chairman of the firm's board, says that continues to give them an edge over larger newcomers to Quebec's legal market.

There are so many examples that I could sit here all day and tell you them, but the point is that study after study continues to show that for every dollar we spend on legal services multiples of that dollar come back.

As legal costs for corporations continue to rise and the volume and complexity of the legal department's workload increase, corporate counsel must identify new ways to improve departmental efficiency, control legal spend, and proactively manage legal risk.

With the help of the file analysis and governance experts, the Pandora GRC team discovered that at least 60 % of its unstructured data had no value and there was no business or legal reason to continue to spend precious resources on protecting and storing it.

As general counsel vote by reducing their legal spend, the LPO and NewLaw ranks continue to swell, putting increasing downward pressure on the profits of BigLaw firms.

Legal departments are under continuing pressures to reduce costs, improve spend predictability, and increase the efficiency of their outside counsel.

«The University at Albany announced Oct. 2 that it will continue its partnership with the state Office of Indigent Legal Services to research the state of legal counsel for the underserved upstate, evaluating the impact of $ 12 million in state funding spent on tackling the iLegal Services to research the state of legal counsel for the underserved upstate, evaluating the impact of $ 12 million in state funding spent on tackling the ilegal counsel for the underserved upstate, evaluating the impact of $ 12 million in state funding spent on tackling the issue.

They must have spent at least 55 hours in specific Continuing Legal Education courses.

That legal department can now visualize on one screen the amount they are spending across their preferred providers and quickly assess which departments are not complying with program guidelines by continuing to hire non-preferred providers of legal services.

BTI's first look at legal spending for 2014 and 2015 shows corporate counsel continue on a 3 - year path of bringing work in - house.

Elevate continues to provide NetApp with managed support services, as well as ongoing consulting in the form of legal spend analysis and the use of alternative fee arrangements.

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Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

Legal spending by corporations has still not recovered from the Great Recession, yet firms continue to increase their hourly rates.

For the legal community, this means lawyers and firms will continue to spend time manually sharing content.

On the other hand, you could probably learn just as much of what you need just from reading Hogg and I suspect, spending a few hundred dollars to buy publications on the these subjects offered by organisations such as the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia.

You see, I had spent more than 11 years of my career life attending professional development conferences and acquiring continuing education in the legal profession.

And joint legal custody, or shared custody, with one parent remaining as the primary physical custodian does little to alter the amount of time a child spends with the noncustodial parent, and does a lot to create control conflicts between parents who continue to harbor resentment stemming from the failure of the marriage.

«Having the financial resources to spend in excess of # 10,000 in legal fees over the last fourteen months to continue to prevent me from having any contact with any of my children.»

This is despite their mother somehow having the financial resources to spend in excess of # 10,000 in legal fees over the last fourteen months to continue to prevent me from having any contact with any of my children.