They frequently delegate research, but never before having spent some time searching themselves to help them think about the case and identify the areas where
more research time was needed.
But as lawyers we know that answers to a law - related query are rarely binary, which is why we continue to run controlled search after controlled search until our gut tells us, «I think we got it» (or we know the client won't pay for
any more research time).
Have you ever noticed that some topics get
more research time than others?
Not exact matches
According to Forest
Research, it costs five
times more to find a new customer than to retain a current customers.
A Georgetown University
research cited 2005 data that found that small companies were four
times more likely to offer flexible working arrangements such as job sharing.
Other
research suggests that the perceived passage of
time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb; when you're young, everything seems new, which means your brain has
more to process... which means the perceived passage of
time feels longer.
There's biochemical
research that shows the release of dopamine when we perceive novel stimuli starts to drop past the age of twenty, which makes
time appear to go by
more quickly.
Research finds that children of the top 1 % are ten
times more likely to become inventors.
Equity funding of AI - focused startups reached an all -
time high last quarter of
more than $ 1 billion, according to the CB Insights
research firm.
(Instacart
research shows that shoppers spent 2.5
times more online than in stores).
Perth's CBD office market recorded $ 740 million worth of major transactions in the 12 months to March 2018,
more than three
times higher than it was this
time last year, according to
research undertaken by Savills Australia.
Research shows that customers spend
more, employees accomplish
more, and vendors are
more likely to pay on
time, if they're thanked regularly.
Research from The Boston Consulting Group found that the guys are not alone in how they spend on takeout: Millennials (ages 16 to 34) eat out 3.4
times per week and are
more likely than other groups to get food to go and eat with friends.
According to Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, «our
research shows that if a new wellness behavior evokes positive emotions, people are 4.5
times more likely to be continuing with that new behavior 15 months down the road, enjoying all of its healthy benefits.
Research shows that people in a flow state are five
times more productive than they otherwise would be.
«Maybe he is getting
more mellow,» said Schankerman, who has has spent a lot of
time discussing his
research on reforms needed in the patent system with Spangenberg.
Decades of
research show that working
more than 40 hours a week is unsustainable and severely dents productivity per hour, and neuroscientists and others warn that failing to give your brain adequate
time to rest and recuperate is a recipe for disaster (which you might guess that many people have grasped for themselves, given the current mania for «mindfulness»).
«We found that a high mental load consistently diminished the originality and creativity of the response: Participants with seven digits to recall resorted to the most statistically common responses (e.g., white / black), whereas participants with two digits gave less typical,
more varied pairings (e.g., white / cloud),» writes Bar in a New York
Times article explaining the
research.
A new report from
research firm Gartner says that smartphones have outsold
more basic handsets worldwide for the first
time.
Women have less
time for on - the - job labor because they spend
more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic
Research study.
DesRosiers also believes the federal government is failing to invest sufficiently in
research and development, and this at a
time when the U.S. has set highly aggressive fuel efficiency targets that demand much
more innovation.
But that doesn't mean most business leaders can't learn something valuable from the core finding of the Facebook
research project, which is, «If you want to keep your people — especially your stars — it's
time to pay
more attention to how you design their work.»
But, as I've pointed out repeatedly, the startling fact, backed by
research, is that these days, Americans, if anything, have
more leisure
time than previous generations.
One of the most interesting things I found in
researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's
more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many
times over.
Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the
research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on
more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.
A spate of
research dating back as far as 2015 has suggested that teens who vape are anywhere between two and seven
times more likely to eventually smoke conventional cigarettes as teens who never try e-cigs.
According to
research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 %
more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few
times per month.
An Edison
Research study on the audio habits of Americans found that podcast listeners are actually «super listeners,» consuming
more than one hour and 45 minutes of audio per day than the average American, and they spend
more than 25 percent of their total audio
time listening to podcasts.
Women are two
times more likely than men to think it will take
more than 20 years to pay off their loans, according to market
research firm ORC International.
Research from the University of California found that motivated employees were 31 percent
more productive, had 37 percent higher sales and were three
times more creative than demotivated employees.
Health experts have responded by urging office workers to get up
more often or even switch to a standing desk, but new
research offers another easy way to trim the amount of
time you spend sitting each day — opt for standing meetings.
Amazon Web Services remains the king of cloud, according to Gartner's latest
research: In fact, the amount of computing power it is supplying customers is
more than ten
times that of the other top 14 cloud providers combined.
About a fifth (21 percent) think the answer is investing
more money in IT systems, and 13 percent say they should spend
more time planning and
researching the best solutions for the company's needs.
Vendors claim that gamification can lead to a 100 to 150 percent pickup in engagement metrics including unique views, page views, community activities and
time on site, according to M2
Research, and 63 percent of American adults agree that making everyday activities
more like a game would make them
more fun and rewarding, JW Intelligence reports.
Not only will you meet people who share your ideals and feel
more socially connected,
research has shown that those who donate their
time to others may reap better physical health, including lower blood pressure and a longer life.
«They punch themselves into the market, break glass, upset people and then figure out how to bring everybody together in a
more friendly way,» as Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader of
research firm Gartner, put it to the Los Angeles
Times last year.
If you take the
time to show you've done your
research, the person you've reached out to is
more likely to take the
time to respond.
Researching and budgeting for any associated costs and
time can free up
more space — not only in suitcases, but also in a cabin full of children.
As David Thomas, the senior director of industry
research at BIO, explained to me a while back, one the law's major provisions ensured that «companies could go and talk to investors
more than one
time, and not in a very formal setting like it had been structured before.»
A recent report from the Pew
Research Center, conducted before 2017's wave of sexual misconduct allegations, notes that employed women are five
times more likely than employed men to say they've earned less for doing the same job.
While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the company's marketing and consumer
research departments),
more than 50 % of his
time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.
«Now is the
time to invest in, care for, protect, and empower our aging population so they can live
more independent lives,» said Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President at IBM
Research, in a statement.
Research from Great Place to Work shows why this approach is so effective: Surveyed employees who agree with the statement «I feel I make a difference here» are 6.6
times more likely to say they want to stay with their companies over the long term, compared to those who don't feel they make a difference.
According to The New York
Times,
research shows that you're
more likely to reach the top of an organization if you've had a variety of roles, from finance to marketing, rather than hunkered down and built expertise in just one department where you felt comfortable.
New
research asserts that a face - to face - request is 34
times more likely to be successful than one done via email.
Our
research shows that Millennials who found «special meaning» in their work were six
times more likely to plan to stay at their workplaces.
A new report confirms your suspicions — toys with a science or technology element are three
time more likely to be marketed for boys, according to
research by the Institution for Engineering and Technology.
The company has moved from
research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many
times more.
Moynihan, at the
time a sociologist and
research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for
more government action to improve the economic prospects of black families.
Cowen had some intense
research based on a survey of 1,000 U.S. citizens, which indicated that the original content available on Netflix caused users to spend
more time using it.