Sentences with phrase «lot of business law»

For example, perhaps your firm takes a lot of Business Law cases.

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But a new study on patent infringement, one packed with lots of great data on things like the law firms and courts most involved, pulls back the curtain on fantasy and reveals the role of big businesses in the fast - changing patent law landscape.

If you decided to turn down a degree in law or business, a higher paying job or are transitioning completely from your current career to pursue your entrepreneurial dreams, you are going to cause a lot of confusion and judgment from those around you.

«The larger exemption provides a lot of planning opportunities for people who own businesses or other assets that they expect to go up in value,» said Michelle Canerday, head of the private client group in Chicago for law firm Nixon Peabody.

Over the decades he spent in law enforcement, Frank Muscato talked to lots of his fellow cops about starting a business.

«A lot of my clients are in Class 35 for marketing agencies and business consultants, but some also consider themselves business coaches, where Class 41 comes in,» says Rachel Rodgers, a lawyer and the founder of startup law resource Small Business Bobusiness consultants, but some also consider themselves business coaches, where Class 41 comes in,» says Rachel Rodgers, a lawyer and the founder of startup law resource Small Business Bobusiness coaches, where Class 41 comes in,» says Rachel Rodgers, a lawyer and the founder of startup law resource Small Business BoBusiness Bodyguard.

Frank Braconi, chief economist for the city comptroller's office, pointed out that a lot of the job gains in the city had come in professional and business services, like law and accounting, fields in which blacks tended to be underrepresented.

Considering how many trials of former buddies and law school friends and business associates and whatnot have yet to take place, I would invest in a lot of perspiration prevention if I were Steve - O.

That's a big advantage, but there are some downsides to the Ph.D. track: Law school and business school take a lot less time, and graduates of top medical schools, law schools, and business schools can expect to make big money when they finiLaw school and business school take a lot less time, and graduates of top medical schools, law schools, and business schools can expect to make big money when they finilaw schools, and business schools can expect to make big money when they finish.

The law school and business school are on different campuses on opposite sides of town so it was a lot of running around!

Coming from working at a law office 5 days a week, I have too much a lot of business casual in my closet.

I wish I had started my businesses in college — it would've saved me a lot of law school debt!

Harassment: Lexington Law also acts as a collections agency, so a lot of complaints you see registered against the company have to do with that arm of the business, since no one likes harassing collection calls.

My husband is the only one on the 1st mtg. and I'm the only one on the 2nd mtg. Due to some business complications with my husband and his brother there is a lot of law suits and so my husband is having to claim bankruptcy on the house.

«It protects the interests of the Congolese... a lot of minerals are going to be certified, and the law will do away with fly - by - night businesses and introduce bona fide companies that don't infringe on the rights of the the people.»

What they really knew a lot about were the European philosophers of government, European history, law, business, war, farming, finance, and American government at all levels.

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Even though we have a lot of documents, they almost all cover «meat and potatoes» aspects of business law, and the only somewhat esoteric items on the system are there because, while rarely used, they are things unusually likely to involve risk.

If a prospect has called you and you've answered, you've come a lot further than your peer law firms (one - third of whom neglect phone calls, and therefore miss out on new business), but you aren't done yet.

Not surprisingly, this is tough to answer for a lot of businesses — law firms included.

I gained confidence about my ability to do whatever they assumed I could, learned about the business side of the practice of law, and learned a lot about people and leadership.

These days, there's a lot more to law firm management than simply running the day - to - day business of your law firm....

I think that when you have an owner and an ownership structure I think law firm partnerships lack ownership influence because a lot of partners certainly in larger partnerships, there is a both sort of say three, four, five partners when you have larger partnerships I think it's hard to feel if anybody owns the business because everybody's in the business sort of their income and sharing profits and competing with each other for those profits.

When it comes to things like customer service, leveraging technology, branding, marketing, and understanding key business metrics, a lot of law firms are behind the curve.

Sharon Nelson: Well, David, I know some of our listeners won't have a lot of familiarity with Alternative Business Structures or ABS as that term applies to law firms.

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.

Erin Gerstenzang: I think one of the significant challenges, or the significant challenge, of being solo and why probably a lot of people avoid it is this idea that you have to be running a successful business, which is very much different than the practice of law.

«There would be a lot of focus on the evaluation of the reserve, the land tenure, the licences, the royalties and the statuses of the joint ventures, permitting, environmental compliance and then the assessment of all the liabilities, whether they're accrued or contingent,» says Philippe Tardif, a business law partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

«While we do get a bad reputation in the law that we're slow adopters, what we're seeing now with artificial intelligence is that we are among the first folks to move into it because it makes a lot of sense for our business model and this is about the practical use of this,» said Arruda.

When you need to dissolve your law firm, there are a lot of administrative and financial details to tackle, such as canceling your business insurance, closing your credit card merchant accounts, and returning unearned trust funds.

Companies going through this have issues in a lot of areas of business law.

There's a lot more to being a lawyer than just practicing law, but as a new grad or associate, it can be difficult to learn about the business side of things.

Sam Glover: Maybe to back it up even higher, maybe what the trend is, is that the balance of power is shifting back towards clients even in consumer legal services like family law and small business transactions and IP because for a lot of reasons, right.

If you're in the content business and are concerned about copyright infringement, you might want to build an in - house legal team with a lot of depth and experience in copyright law and save outside counsel for other one - off IP matters.

But so too are lots of nonminorities who look to law school as a way to keep options open, as an entry to a career in the movies or business or to make tons of money, only to discover the harsh reality after graduation that law school isn't necessarily a ticket to financial success.

The practice of law (and the business side of running a law practice, for that matter) involves a lot of mistakes, missteps, and corrections.

But you will need a law firm website, business cards, letterhead, and you will need to schedule lots of coffee, lunch, and beer with potential referral sources and clients.

One of the things I think about is when you... Lots of people want to know if they go right out of law school are they going to be able to start their own firm, and it's really hard to learn how to run a business and practice law at the same time.

This means McMillan's lawyers would be able to tell their clients they understand what the cost of doing business in a law firm is, «which is something a lot of law firms don't understand, I think,» says Dufort.

In many international business law firms, there's been a lot of talk of layoffs recently.

It's a two - fer — kind of like Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School all in one morning... but a lot easier.

One, they are getting a lot larger, we know that, but fundamentally that's not about sort of more seats and chairs, it's really a new business model and it's affecting how law firms invest in technology, how they think about technology, how they think about process, how they think about their business models, that's going to be really what that opening session is about is exploring that whole space and talking about how those changes are impacting all the conversations that will be happening throughout Legalweek in all the different streams and in all the different sessions.

I don't know what the statistic is on business failure as a whole, but I've talked to a lot of law firm owners and I can tell you a majority of them (over 80 %) are struggling to just make ends meet.

We work with a lot of law firms, a lot of small businesses as well.

I think when Legaltech started, certainly technology was sort of a thing off on the side, it wasn't integral to the practice of law, and as you say, now law practice, law business, and technology are all intertwined and it makes a lot of sense to bring them altogether.

As result, both law departments and law firms wind up wasting a lot of time, money and energy when getting down to brass tacks on the business goals would be much more efficient.

Large businesses that send lots of work to a law firm are likely to benefit from deep discounts.

And according to Domnick, there is and will be a lot more disruption in the legal profession, but at the end of the day, the practice of law is a people business.

I mean, basically this was sort of like a business and enterprise look at Cloud that she did, but there were a couple of things I thought were interesting there and one is, there is a kind of shift as there is the acceptance of use of the Cloud too, away from their focus on data security and cost that we used to do, and I think a lot of the law firms do to more of a concerned about am I locked into a vendor, if I go to Cloud, how do I get my data out?

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