Sentences with phrase «number of firms seem»

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That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

These numbers have come under scrutiny recently, and while they seem plausible, Alibaba's creation of the new website, which is a partnership with branding firm VSA Partners, could be interpreted as a response.

I've been talking to a number of venture capital firms this week, and they seem to be cautiously optimistic.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

In the last few days, a number of incredible claims were made about the shadowy firm Cambridge Analytica and its relationship to both Facebook and the Trump campaign that seem like a combination of Black Mirror with Burn After Reading.

Sony's long - gestating Men In Black reboot has gone through a number of iterations over the past year or two, but now it finally seems the studio has a firm plan in place: having hired Fate Of The Furious director F. Gary Gray to helm the project, the studio has now set its sights on Thor: Ragnarok star Chris Hemsworth to headline the filof iterations over the past year or two, but now it finally seems the studio has a firm plan in place: having hired Fate Of The Furious director F. Gary Gray to helm the project, the studio has now set its sights on Thor: Ragnarok star Chris Hemsworth to headline the filOf The Furious director F. Gary Gray to helm the project, the studio has now set its sights on Thor: Ragnarok star Chris Hemsworth to headline the film.

At pottering speeds the 550 - 2's ride is resolutely firm, something highlighted by the vast number of cobbles that seem to pave the streets of major Italian cities (something I'd never really noticed before).

It seems to have become a trend since 2009 that, as ETFs are getting more and more attentions from investors (the total number of ETFs offered recently passed 1,000), brokerage firms began to offer them free of commission charges to their customers.

It's difficult to put a firm number on the economic value of an education, of course, but if high school graduates earn 33 percent more than high school dropouts, a 1 percent per year increase seems conservative.

Some measures reportedly discussed at the meeting with energy firms seem an obvious improvement, such as restricting the number, age, or load size of tankers or requiring more insurance to be bought by the companies that transport 145 million tons of hazardous substances — about two - thirds of it oil — through the straits each year.

In the legal field of personal injury, there seems to be an ever - growing number of law firms vying to represent injured individuals.

And the number of US and UK firms recruiting in Canadian law schools would seem to support that.

Pricing of these services seems to be all over the board, depending on any number of factors and on how good of a deal your firm is able to negotiate.

(I'm not sure how that squares with the number in the prior paragraph — it would seem that the number of solos who say their firms use Twitter should be the same as the number of solos who say they use Twitter.)

After starting out at a law firm that has produced what seems like an unusually high number of prominent judges, it's perhaps not a surprise to see Justice George Strathy become Ontario's new chief justice, a position that has been open since last December when Warren Winkler retired.

Still others combine the number of years they've been in practice to make it seem like the firm has lots of experience.

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.

Gee, have no law firms under the existing regime every failed, or disappeared with the client's money — it seems to me that there have been a number of instances of just that on the LSUC's plate right now.

What I did find was interesting is that, there was a huge focus on security now and I imagine a lot of that is due to the increasing number of data breaches on the ransomware issues that are attacking lots of firms and just the fact that security seems to be top of mind for everybody these days, but I think that there is a much heightened focus on security awareness, on security monitoring services, those types of things.

That seems to be the preferred number of law firms for many corporate legal departments.

My experience of those kind of firms is that they don't have much of a strategy beyond «adding (profitable) turnover» — I use parentheses advisedly, because in some cases turnover seems to be all they care about — and therefore practice development is just a numbers game.

Jeanne Graham has a great article in Texas Lawyer on the current batch of summer associates, Fewer Summer Associates Spread Their Wings at Big - Tex Firms This Year, while some firms are cutting back on the number of positions offered it, it doesn't seem to dampen the spirits of the summers she follows around for the article, but the statistics are the most interesFirms This Year, while some firms are cutting back on the number of positions offered it, it doesn't seem to dampen the spirits of the summers she follows around for the article, but the statistics are the most interesfirms are cutting back on the number of positions offered it, it doesn't seem to dampen the spirits of the summers she follows around for the article, but the statistics are the most interesting.

The «hours are getting longer and longer», an insider tell us, with another adding: «I don't doubt that the hours are generally better than City firms, but there does seem to be a number of trainees on any given day in late into the night.»

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.

But, unlike the way most businesses address size (annual revenue), law firms seem to define size as the number of lawyers practicing at a firm.

Based on interviews market participants in insurance, the conclusion was that, provided a core of firms within a particular market area took part, there seemed likely to be a strong business case for a number of possible applications of distributed ledgers.