Sentences with phrase «number of firms moving»

With a growing number of firms moving towards this niche - subject, audience - focused approach, you might now be wondering whether it's even possible for a law firm website to compete for top search engine rankings?

Economic pressures to reduce legal costs is the primary force behind a growing number of firms moving away from the billable - hours model to new alternative billing models such as fixed, flat, blended or capped fees.

Indeed, in the years following the end of the tech boom, SEP (No. 93 on the PROFIT 500, with $ 11.4 million in revenue) had ridden a wave of expansion as a growing number of firms moved to search advertising and other forms of digital brand promotion.

With a large portion of the profession moving to the cloud (facilitating a more frequent relationship with clients), we're seeing a number of firms move to a monthly fee.

Not exact matches

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

The firm (which owns Canadian Business) has made a number of major moves leading up to and since then, including shutting down video service Shomi, paring down their print magazine portfolio and shaking up their management structure.

The move made plenty of sense, too: Since 2009, two - thirds of Benchmark's investments have been in start - ups within San Francisco, and the firm believes the number may only get higher.

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

After the first denial - of - service attacks (attacks that block legitimate users from accessing sites or applications) in 2001, a number of upstarts and existing security firms rushed to market with technologies to thwart so - called DOS attacks, and companies quickly moved to implement them.

Women are moving into the middle market at impressive rates: Between 2008 and 2014, while the number of middle market firms increased by 4.1 % overall, the number of women - owned or - led firms in the middle market has increased by 32.4 %, and the number of majority women - owned firms in the middle market has increased by 23.6 %.

Valencia battled back after the break and had a number of chances to pull a goal back but Madrid's defence, with Iker Casillas selected ahead of Antonio Adan in goal, held firm to complete a great night for Jose Mourinho's men, who moved back to within 15 points of leaders Barcelona.

By moving to a lobbying firm, Wilson follows in the footsteps of his former colleagues Craig Oliver, Ameet Gill and Caroline Preston — all of whom have made a similar move since Theresa May entered Number 10.

Three Cambridge Analytica employees, including two data scientists, immediately moved to San Antonio to embed with Parscale's firm and by August, the number of fulltime staffers in Texas ballooned to 13.

The budget office found the payment could not offset a lower - than - expected number of public sewer system workers hired by the firm or moving to other county jobs.

This is a loss for Mercury, which started as a GOP - dominated firm and then broadened its horizons by bringing on a number of Democrats (a move undertaken by a number of firms back when Eliot Spitzer was about to replace George Pataki in Albany).

Indian outsourcing firms, for example, currently use large numbers of H - 1B visas to bring workers into the country to train for jobs that are then moved overseas.

Students who have a firm mental number line are far more able to manipulate numbers and have a better sense of when they're moving in the right direction in solving math problems.

Following an initial product trial, the firm adopted Mesma software to boost the central co-ordination of quality assurance activity in a move to simplify existing processes in a business with a number of locations across the country.

>> OLD - SCHOOL PENSIONS STILL ON DECLINE Consulting firm Towers Watson says the number of providing defined - benefit pensions continues to fall, although fewer companies moved away from such plans last year than in any other year over the past decade.

Recently European countries have begun cracking down on the operations of unregulated Binary Options firms with Italian Courts IP blocking a number of firms, these moves have led to increasing number firms seeking to be regulated within the European Union.

CySEC's move to regulate Binary options back in 2012 saw a number of firms seeking a CySEC licence.

CC's move comes as growing numbers of firms introduce AI systems, with DLA Piper signing a deal with Kira in June — its first use of AI technology.

Despite a move toward greater control on lock - up resulting in a year on year reduction in the number of days, 2016 revealed a worrying increase with firms of 11 - 25 partners seeing lock - up increasing by 31 days from 129 in 2015.

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.

The number of clients a partner controls also determines the ease with which a partner can move to another firm.

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.

DLA Piper announced Thursday that it plans to fully merge with Australian alliance partner DLA Phillips Fox in a move aimed at giving the firm a much larger footprint in the Asia Pacific region — and positioning it as the largest firm in the world in terms of number of lawyers.

The belief that Australia offers an attractive path into Asia has motivated a number of major moves Down Under by international firms in the past year or so.

A number of former Cobbetts partners who moved to DWF in last year's pre-pack administration are to face payment claims in the final wind - down of the firm, Legal Week has learned.

Unless firms can change existing ethics rules to redefine what constitutes a conflict of interest (and I believe that we'll see these attempts, especially if firms move towards the model of a publicly - traded law firm), the number of conflicts based malpractice actions will proliferate.

In recent months, a number of leading firms have unveiled significant changes to the way they assess performance, with Linklaters set to drop both individual financial targets and annual performance reviews for partners, and Allen & Overy and Hogan Lovells both moving away from formal annual assessments in favour of ongoing — or «continuous» — feedback.

Nearly half of City partners do not understand the move towards principles - based regulation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), with a similar number believing the body has not been effective in its efforts to build links with commercial law firms.

I remember attending a session a few years ago in Colorado with a number of law firm CIOs where email management moved from nowhere on their radar to their number one issue in less than a year.

In my role as a legal recruiter, it recently became apparent that there are a number of junior and mid-level law firm associates who are hesitant to consider a lateral career move.

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.

Last year saw a number of big - money partner moves, from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's hire of White & Case private equity star Richard Youle, to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer buyout heavyweight David Higgins» $ 10m move to Kirkland & Ellis, and many top UK firms are rethinking their compensation systems in an effort to ward off the advances of US rivals with money to burn.

As the professional services sector moves to adopt more flexible working practices, we also offer consultancy services to a number of ALSPs including interim / contractor providers and other non-legal professional services firms to help them acquire and manage freelance consultants who work within dispersed networks.

A number of former Cobbetts partners who moved to DWF in last year's pre-pack administration are to face payment claims in the final wind - down of the failed firm, Legal Week has learned.

Anglo - US firm follows a number of US peers by removing annual cap on holiday days but move will not apply to offices outside the US

Meanwhile, six partners have been asked to leave, alongside a number of departures to other law firms and moves in - house.

Commenting on his new role, Michael said: «I am delighted to be joining Browne Jacobson, particularly at a time when the firm is making a number of strategic moves to grow its presence in the North West.

The article contains a number of examples of law firms that have moved past the simple combination of «good grades» and «good presentation» that drive so many hiring decisions in this industry.

The move comes as the firm increasingly targets the insurance market in the region, with growing numbers of insurers setting up a presence in Singapore as an access point for the wider Asia market.

Dewey & LeBoeuf saw a dramatic drop in gross revenue in 2009 while profits per equity partner moved up 3.4 percent, the result of a 10 percent decrease in equity partner headcount, according to numbers released by the firm Friday.

As the U.K. firms report their numbers, we expect more of them to point to exchange rates as a big factor in how much their top lines have moved.

During the fourth quarter of 2014 and first quarter of 2015, at least 118 partners at the 200 largest U.S. - based law firms by domestic headcount had made lateral job moves, while that number dropped 16 percent, to 99, during the fourth quarter of 2015 and first quarter of this year, according to data on law firm hiring collected by Law360.

I expect this discussion to become more frequent and more vocal in 2018, with clients continuing to exercise choice and move increasingly to the growing number of new law firms and legal start - ups.

That being said, depending on the lawyer and the firm, they may be able to work a number of cases at the same time, leveraging their staff to move paperwork forward and do the necessary research to push your case along.

Several law firms are demonstrating their commitment to the city with a number of moves scheduled in the next few years as prestigious new office buildings are built.