Sentences with phrase «number of firms look»

Murray's firm, which does brokerage valuations, has been hired by a record number of firms looking to merge or sell over the past 12 to 15 months.

Seoul continues to be quite active towards the end of this year with a number of firms looking for mid-level US associates on the corporate side.

Not exact matches

Client firms, he adds, are doing their own form of centralizing, increasingly looking to consolidate relationships and the number of vendors they deal with.

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

Dell has joined a growing number of foreign tech firms looking to extend their presence in the Chinese market through local cloud services.

The number of investments any firm makes is really small compared to the number of deals it looks at, Smerklo said.

The Alliance in 2010, after a number of years looking at the issues of non-investment risks and threats to families and firms, formed the Alliance Security Council.

According to reports The Gunners are looking to ship former number one goalkeeper Wojiciech Szczesny out of the club this summer, with Roma being the firm favourites to sign him!

Looking ahead, DiNapoli noted that a number of large financial firms have announced plans to reduce costs, which could lead to fewer employees in New York City and smaller bonuses next year.

I am a firm believer in these ideals, and I have built the programs and products at Nerd Fitness based around what I believe will help the greatest number of people have the greatest chance for success at the three goals above (happiness, healthiness, and looking - good - nakedness).

This paper examines the innovative history of a number of UK firms using two large databases, looking for evidence consistent with the view that firms that innovate typically do so persistently.

And when we're looking at that competitive set, we're now firm number two, in terms of global market share.

Though these numbers are relatively small and the writeoff announced today is undeniably big, RIM has chosen to look on the bright side and intends to treat the discounted sell - off of the PlayBook as a constructive exercise that gives the PlayBook OS a wider audience and firmer foothold.

For those looking for a real life example (I suspect I know the answer but I will defer to Charles to provide the numbers in next month's MFO), contrast the performance over time of the closed - end fund, Source Capital (SOR) run by one of the best value investment firms, First Pacific Advisors with the performance over time of the mutual funds run by the same firm, some with the same portfolio managers and strategy.

The question for me is whether really worthwhile funds will stubbornly insist on self - destructing because (1) the managers are obsessed about talking about raw performance numbers and (2) firms would rather die on their own terms rather than looking for ways to collaborate with other innovators to redefine the grounds of the debate.

Allen & Overy's (A&O) flexible legal services business Peerpoint has increased the number of lawyers on its books by more than 50 % in the past year, with New York and Frankfurt top of the agenda as the firm looks to expand the service around the world.

The pool of competent experts in financial sector litigation is surprisingly small and law firms looking for expert witnesses or advisers face a number of challenges:

This is just my feeling, of course; but I suspect we both end up looking at (far too much) blackhat spam, and overestimate the number of firms using it.

London, 23rd April 2018 — Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, today announced ending its financial year with both record numbers of new P4W sites and record sales and looks to continue its success with the addition of two more firms to its P4W client base.

Incidentally, if you become aware that your case handler has a ridiculously high number of claims to deal with, you should look into switching to another firm of solicitors.

Most small law firms are looking to expand and the number of new attorneys coming on board can make updating your website a chore.

Feeny and his team at the top 40 firm will start to look at a new strategy at the end of Q1 in 2016 and are already in discussion with a number of suppliers to work out how to move forward.

Da Costa says his firm has already rotated some lawyers from Australia to Hong Kong and is looking at moving a number of partners around in the coming months.

And, while firms aren't likely to drop too many partners off a cliff in terms of compensation, there are a number of ways they are ramping up the pressure on partners, from looking at only one year's billings to making it easier to move partners down the pay scale.

Led by IT director Clive Knott, the firm looked at a number of different options including a bespoke system but were swayed by Linetime's track record, which would allow for a more aggressive implementation schedule.

We are the commercial law firm of choice for an increasing number of clients looking to do business in Hong Kong and PRC.

For firms with large numbers of clients, portals also can be a significant timesaver by eliminating the process of hunting down copies of old returns every time a client calls looking for one.

Addleshaws has looked pretty stable since managing partner John Joyce took the reins but the firm is facing a potential challenge as it consults on plans that could restrict the number of partners able to leave in any one year.

EGO CHECK: Don't just assume you know everything about the seasonality of your firm without actually looking at the numbers.

That report looks at the numbers of lawyers in the firm broken down into specific groups such as indigenous black, Mi» kmaq, persons with disabilities, women, and visible minorities.

Recruiters also charge that Eversheds is looking for a scapegoat for lack of diversity now that clients like Tyco are pressuring the firm to increase the number of female and minority partners.

So again you need to look at not only the types of matters that you're handling, but also the number of bodies in the firm.

On litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of trying to get either flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney bills.

Obviously we're a tax litigation firm, so we're dealing with numbers to some extent in terms of looking at what amounts are people fighting over, what could they win in various scenarios and things like that.

Bruce MacEwen, who closely analyzed the AmLaw 100, takes a hard look at the American law firms that number 101 - 200 on Law.com's list of the nation's highest - grossing firms and writes:

The feasible responses seem to be (i) move into higher - end work, often of an advisory or highly specialist nature: Jeremy Robinson, aviation and competition law partner at Gates and Partners, solicitors, believes that the competition in his practice area does not come, and is unlikely to come, from PLFs or ABSs anytime soon; (ii) form collaborations short of ABSs or multi-disciplinary practices with complementary non-solicitor businesses (Martyn Taylor, MD of respected solicitors agency, Ashley Taylors, has noticed a huge increase in the number of solicitors» firms looking to work on litigation - related joint projects with Ashley Taylors; (iii) to the extent possible adopt the practices of more successful competitors; (iv) innovate.

However, sources close to the firm say that it has made approaches to Fraser Miliner Casgrain; Borden Ladner Gervais; and McCarthy Tétrault — the latter considered by many to be the number one target of international firms now looking at Canada.

The study, which looked at 44 of the largest international and US law firms in the City, found that the number of lateral partner hires made by the group dropped to 77, compared to 127 across the same group in 2012.

RBC nominated one of its external firms that does a lot of work for the company and last year responded positively to the fact RBC had been looking at a number of Lean Six Sigma projects.

Praised by the judges for its strong financial results, being «innovative» and for «really looking after its staff», the firm impressed on a number of levels.

Travers Smith has joined the growing number of law firms looking at artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve their working processes.

Nabarro already has a 16 - partner office in the city and this looks set to become an important focus for the merged firm outside of London, as Sheffield attracts increasing numbers of high profile manufacturing companies.

Halliwells» assets and business are set to be split between a number of regional rivals, with a deal with Hill Dickinson to take over the firm in its entirety looking increasingly unlikely.

A search on «wallace» (admittedly not a very sophisticated search if looking for law firm bulletin case comments on Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd., [1997] 3 S.C.R. 701) results in a number of hits on the bio's of lawyers named Wallace.

Things may well improve later in the month and into October but the news beginning to filter through on general law firm employment is looking pretty shaky across the board according to a number of articles I've read recently.

A number of US law firms are looking into shareholder claims relating to the Grenfell Tower disaster, as the New York - based manufacturer of the building's controversial cladding announced it is halting sales of the product.

Firms of all sizes from all over the country are taking a close look at the number of women they have in leadership and asking why they do not qualify when their competitors do.

According to Hamon a number of firms have already gone as far as hiring or looking to hire their own LPM head, in an example of how a big muscle client can help to drive a trend across the market.

What this looks like depends on the size of your firm, practice areas, the number of attorneys and how many offices you have.

Polson said that rather than looking to build a «super-lawyer» — one who can code and project manage — the future for firms was expanding the number of professions involved in the delivery of legal services.