Sentences with phrase «less than a law firm»

The results are fees that are significantly less, sometimes as much as 60 % less than law firms offering comparable talent.

The primary disadvantage of public interest work is compensation: jobs in the public interest sector generally pay less than a law firm and corporate positions.

Not exact matches

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

Working at McDonald's has no less dignity than working at a law firm.

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

I work for a small law firm of less than 50 employees as a legal assistant.

If the firm gave the data or sold it at less than fair market value, the transaction would amount to a campaign contribution — a twofer violation of the law, which bars corporations and foreign nationals from contributing.

Our secretary to attorney ratio is competitive with, and in most cases significantly less, than that found in similarly sized law firms.

While the complaint against Silver does not detail his interactions with Glenwood during these months, it does allege that he had already developed financial relations with the company: «In or about 2011... the Real Estate Law Firm represented approximately 19 properties owned by [Glenwood] and Developer - 2, constituting less than one percent of all properties represented by the firm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&raFirm represented approximately 19 properties owned by [Glenwood] and Developer - 2, constituting less than one percent of all properties represented by the firm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&rafirm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&raFirm that year.»

That comes to a maximum of $ 125 per hour, less than what a junior attorney at a New York law firm typically bills.

Panepinto, who won with less than 50 percent of the vote in 2014, said during his announcement that his decision was both personal and professional, citing the cancer battle being fought by his law firm partner, a looming crackdown on lawmakers» outside income and some sort of sexual harassment probe involving his former chief of staff.

By the time I graduated from law school in 1975, I had three preschool - age kids and a husband, at a time when female lawyers comprised less than 3 percent of all lawyers and were generally unwelcome in law firms and the halls of justice.

For starters, Bingham is less of an oily have wreaking havoc on the have - nots than he is just another guy doing an unpleasant job, a cousin of sorts to the law - firm fixer Clooney played in Michael Clayton.

Bolstered by as A-list a cast as anything on TV (with the exception of «Westworld» perhaps) and tighter, less showy writing than we've come to expect from Kelley, «Goliath» cruises through boardrooms of billion - dollar law firms and seedy bars populated with lowlifes with equal amounts of confidence.

The student aid company promises that this law firm can settle your student loan debt for thousands less than you owe.

The study covered a range of law firm sizes with 36 per cent of them employing less than 150 people.

A recent analysis of invoices from more than 3,000 law firms demonstrated that no matter what tier firm women work at, female lawyers are billed at 10 % less than male lawyers per hour.

In Canada, most medium - to large - sized law firms depend on commercial legal work, rather than litigation, and hence there is much less emphasis here on eDiscovery.

She writes that less than 15 years ago, law firm partners often handled human resources, recruiting, marketing and communications tasks, but as firms have grown, these day - to - day operations have become too onerous for lawyers:

I recommend that law firms use Facebook in a less orthodox manner than their website or other social media tools, and the same applies to CLE providers.

Speaking generally, I'm much less bullish on what LinkedIn can do for law firms than what either of the other two networks can offer.

Professionalism — FAIL — The modern law firm partnership model is no less profit focused than the modern corporation; therefore it also risks putting profits before professionalism.

Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who methodically established himself over less than a decade as a leading Supreme Court advocate, is leaving the firm he founded, Goldstein & Howe, to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Law Blog reports.

As before, I'm going to focus less on the benefits that Twitter can deliver to individual lawyers (which I've covered a couple of times at Law21) than on the best ways that law firms as corporate entities can utilize this social media tool.

And today, the Wall Street Journal reports that clients are starting to proactively ask law firms about using Indian lawyers, who bill at around $ 75 to $ 100 an hour, the same rate for U.S. - based paralegals and often less than U.S. barred contract lawyers.

With that in mind, here is a truism you ought to know: Most consumers can't readily distinguish between law firms and assume they're more or less the same; and now that smartphones enable consumers to review a larger array of options more quickly than ever before, you can't afford to be one of many and subsist on whichever clients just so happen to come across you.

At the moment, smaller law firms are being targeted by those threat attackers lower down the food chain but they are being targeted more frequently than the larger firms who are ignored by those less capable attackers.

As Tom Kane at the Legal Marketing Blog advises, it's important for law firms to continue marketing to existing clients because, as we all know, «it is far less expensive to market to current customers than it is to acquire new customers... especially during this dismal economy.»

These Documents Are Way Less Expensive Than What ALL Law Firms Charge.

Working Mother and Flex Time Lawyers said that, «Female representation is lower at partner levels than in less senior roles; however, Best Law Firms, on average, employ more female equity partners (20 %) than the national average (18 %).»

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LeanLaw knows that passing the bar is much more technical and complex than setting up a lean law firm and that much less capable people that ANYONE who padded the bar can learn to use this technology.

Even adversaries of our injury law firm know and respect us and understand that it is out of the question for us to settle a lawsuit for less than a full and fair result for our clients.

A lawyer website design company that tells you they can't create a legal website for less than the cost of a car, likely doesn't have your law firm's lead generation or any attorney leads for that matter at the top of their list of priorities.

Our law firm will handle all aspects of the process for less than $ 500.

The leaked documents were released less than a week after a report of the federal investigation that brought the cybersecurity practices of U.S. law firms Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP into the limelight.

Of the top 100 law firms, 55 have less than 10 % female attorneys on cases, and 8 firms have never had a single female attorney work on their PTAB AIA - Trial cases.

On average, our firm charges 40 - 60 % less than comparable area law firms while still providing quality legal services.

(Law firms have little reason to appreciate the distinction between a perfect substitute, which is a complete replacement in the eyes of the client, and imperfect substitute, which is a less - than - perfect - but - acceptable substitute.

Biglaw attorneys also need mediators and arbitrators, and smalls are less likely to be conflicted out than neutrals at other large law firms.

Dean John Corkery of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago said that law firms would like to see more (rather than less) emphasis on legal writing, training to improve analytical skills, and training that would require lawyers to work together weLaw School in Chicago said that law firms would like to see more (rather than less) emphasis on legal writing, training to improve analytical skills, and training that would require lawyers to work together welaw firms would like to see more (rather than less) emphasis on legal writing, training to improve analytical skills, and training that would require lawyers to work together well.

Where state bars have been very clear that solo practitioners should not imply that their firms are larger than they are, the rules about how those same practitioners should deal with virtual law practices (VLPs) are much less clear.

The survey also found that women's initiatives require more funding: The typical law firm spends far less on its women's initiatives than on the salary of one first - year associate.

Morrison explains that each company hires around 200 law firms, and if they plan on firing just one, there's a less than 1 percent chance that it might be your firm.

Going through a list of the top 50 law firms, I was quite surprised to see that no less than 95 percent of the names that I thought these top 50 law firms would eventually want to use were unregistered.

Despite Biodun's classroom success, statistics have shown that she is 92 % less likely to be hired by a major UK law firm than her white, male and younger counterparts.

At its core, the less than exemplary behavior described above is encouraged by the structure of most law firms — one that emphasizes the interests of the individual over those of the group.

Whether the non-equities believe their opportunities for advancement, professionally, personally and financially, are better than, less than, or about the same as opportunities available to their peers for performing similar kinds of work by other law firms and corporations.

The new product, which is designed for cases of less than 1 million records (approximately 80 % of all litigated disputes in the U.S.), was built to help litigation teams at smaller law firms manage the eDiscovery workflow faster and more accurately, right from their desktops.

Whether the non-equities believe their «total» compensation (cash and benefits) is better than, less than, or about the same as the «average» total compensation paid to their peers, for performing similar kinds of work, and demands on their time, by other law firms and corporations?