Sentences with phrase «lots of billed hours»

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There has been extensive industry debate and consultation on the bill but to dump a lot of material on industry at the 11th hour will understandably make people suspicious.

calling lots of places, putting in way more hours than she billed.

And if you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced hours, took a pay cut as household bills rocketed, or - and I know a lot of people don't like to admit this - someone who finds themselves out of work or on lower wages because of low - skilled immigration, life simply doesn't seem fair.

Justice minister Bridget Prentice wasn't having any of it, saying she had «heard a lot of nonsense» and pointing out the bill had spent 43 hours and 32 minutes in committee.

At a public event hours before the bill passed, however, Holdren told ScienceInsider that he hoped to find common ground with the bill's Republican sponsors, «but it's going to take a lot of work.»

Go to those happy hours, attend every event, meet lots of people, and travel, travel, travel, because 10 years later you'll have lots of bills to pay, staff to employ, and kids to care for.

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My biggest concern was that Amalur, having been billed as an action - RPG with heavy focus on the action part, wouldn't deliver a compelling RPG experience, by which I mean giving me lots and lots of skills to play with and upgrade as well as lots of numbers to spend hours drooling over.

Although clients are not always guaranteed, only billing 6 hours per week leaves a lot of time to develop that client base through networking and marketing.

When I was practicing at the big firm I used to be jealous of my compatriots who did a lot of travel and took depositions, because their hours billed sitting on an airplane, reading a magazine were just as good as my hours billed reading cases on Westlaw and actually drafting, and I did a lot more that kind of thing and it's hard to achieve the same level of billable hours doing what I do than it is in other areas like just regular litigation.

Are we really that excited about spending our days doing tedious work just so we can bill lots of hours?

Firms have taken advantage of this simplicity by pushing work down to junior attorneys and even paralegals, who bill a lot less per hour.

One example that comes to mind is a lot of firms that do employment law, like management side employment law, they still tend to bill by the hour, have pretty traditional practices.

As an associate, your job is to bill lots of hours and develop your legal skills.

There's lots of talk about moving to billing alternatives to the billable hour.

Associates expect to bill lots of hours, but they want to feel like they are being treated as adults, trusted to get their work done without micro-management.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

Then you can present that to your client and you feel confident that's the right number, they feel confident because of the reasons we had just talked about and I think you'll find that a lot of lawyers will get over that hurdle is whatever system or tools you have, whether it's an Excel file, whether it's your billing system, figure out a wan na to lay out all your tasks, assign your rate to it, and then track in real time, so you can really tell, «Does it really take me two hours to do this task, I always thought it did», but as it turns out it usually takes me three.

Whenever I see a partner billing regularly a couple of hours every bill for things like reviewing correspondence — whenever there are a lot of people touching the file and docketing,» says Cheryl Foy, university secretary and general counsel with the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

While, clearly, Schulman generates lots of billings from heading megacases that involve hundreds of man hours, you can't bring in the kinds of large clients that produce that type of revenue without marketing.

«Yes very flexibility in the hours it was quite nice at times and others I wanted lots of hours so I could make the rent and bills and a little bit of...»

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