Second, less legal groundwork is needed, and therefore
less legal expense.
Our clients appreciate our ability to identify cases suitable for early resolution, which often results in far
less legal expenses.
Not exact matches
The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in headcount related
expenses of $ 5.6 million as a result of hiring additional employees to support our growth and, to a
lesser extent, increases of $ 2.4 million in facilities related
expenses, $ 1.1 million for audit, tax and
legal fees, and $ 0.9 million in
expenses for consulting and outside services.
On the other hand, any third party maintaining a single, consolidated database would be carrying out what is essentially a government function but with more
expense, more
legal ambiguity and actually
less accountability.»
The services of Salvos
Legal Humanitarian are offered free of charge; the firm has a staff of lawyers whose salaries are paid from the income,
less expenses, of Salvos
Legal.
K&L Gates saw its gross revenue rise
less than 1 percent and its profits per partner fall 4.3 percent in 2011 amid what chairman Peter Kalis described as a year when
expenses grew at a faster rate than revenue, according to sibling publication The
Legal Intelligencer.
Lyndon Willshire, sales manager at
legal expenses insurer DAS UK, says the new figures dash suggestions that employee relations are becoming
less combative and predicts a further rise in claims.
Though the Canadian market has been asking Carswell for years to publish the French and English editions as two separate,
less expensive publications, Carswell has refused, claiming on the one hand that a bilingual and bijuridical
legal culture requires both languages in one volume (the high road) or that bilingual production is possible only with the higher price to subsidize the additional
expense of producing it in two languages (the low road).
In the family law world we have the recently reported case involving litigation between Leanne and David Principato where a Superior Court Justice bemoaned the fact that at an early stage of the litigation the two sides had incurred
legal expenses in excess of $ 92,000 in spite of the fact that the two sides are of «very limited means,» have «limited incomes,» and their only «significant asset is the proceeds from the sale of the matrimonial home amounting to
less than $ 100,000.»
However, the cash value is initially
less than the
legal reserve because of deductions of sales
expenses and other acquisition costs.
Most of that money goes to troll profits and
legal expenses, with
less than 25 percent flowing to inventors.
«But if that issue was properly case - conferenced with a family law judge, it could help a litigant bridge the gap earlier, pay
less in
legal fees, and save themselves and the public from the
expense of ongoing litigation.»