Sentences with phrase «number of firms engaged»

The volume of announced deals is poised to break records this year, and legal consultants say the number of firms engaged in undisclosed negotiations is also on the rise — making early intelligence about potential mergers an especially hot commodity.

On the other side, 28 % of companies have expanded the number of firms they engage by the same percentage or more.

Manufacturing and finance companies — at consolidation levels of 70 % and 67 % respectively — are the top two industry segments reducing the number of firms they engage.

Not exact matches

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

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Across the board, just 44 percent of clients engaged with a new firm in 2015 and that number only decreases when a new firm is added.

As it seeks to grow this business line, the firm has engaged with a number of events aimed at the startup community, such as sponsoring the Lisbon WebSummit, as well as hosting its own «Startupmania» event — a series of workshops with talks from successful entrepreneurs and investors.

Perhaps most value can be found in the ultimate recommendation that a firm considering engaging in social media should «consider having a policy in place» (I would have said, simply, «should») that addresses a number of key points such as «strategy», rules of «engagement», training and the like.

As with zero - hours contracts, larger firms that engage agency staff would have to publish information regarding the number of requests they grant and receive by workers to be directly engaged.

Ashurst has instructed IT infrastructure and services provider Softcat and begun engaging a number of key clients on moving much of its data to the cloud as the UK top 10 firm continues to lead a working party that puts Microsoft at the centre of law firm efforts to shift their infrastructure off premises.

I was shown some recent analysis that listed the number of different law firms and freelancers engaged by the ASX50.

I love this question for a number of reasons, but most of all because it forces many firms to engage with their clients in ways that demonstrate expertise and knowledge upfront.

Although that number seems shocking, Gaskins explains that once fully embedded and routine, the system will remove a lot of administration and remediation work, as well as mitigate some of the personal angst out of quibbling over costs: «Since the start of the change, the law firms have been very engaged and supportive — many of them already use e-billing with other clients and know the benefits it can have.

Download Report 2014 CounselLink Enterprise Legal Management Year - End Trends Report Executive Highlights AFA usage has been increasing steadily over the past 4 years The number of legal departments engaging in alternative fee arrangements with their law firms is...

However, CounselLink data reveals that the number of legal departments engaging in alternative fee arrangements with their law firms is increasing.

Figure 6: Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report Macro Trend: The majority of companies are consolidating the number of U.S. firms they engage Based on comparing the two - year span from December 31, 2011 to December 31, 2013

In classrooms of law schools, and conference rooms and offices of law firms large and small, both budding and senior lawyers are engaging in this practice in growing numbers.

So we have engaged a number of the lawyers at that firm who have been very involved with our litigation over the course of a number of years to sort of be an independent observer in terms of how that part of our risk - management framework has developed.

HSF joins a growing number of law firms to now publicly embrace the use of AI and to actively engage with clients to find out what services they want to be supported by machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) technology.

By taking the pledge, a firm simply commits that it will engage some number of veterans (as determined by the firm itself), hire those they are able, and / or provide us with feedback as to how our vet applicants can improve their chances going forward and with their next potential employer.