Sentences with phrase «number of law firms going»

Question: Is there a link between Brexit, Trump and the growing number of law firms going into administration?

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Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

Yes, he may be probably more negative on the industry generally (just because of legal numbers declining / firms cutting costs / outsourcing of lawyers etc. rather than he thinks law firms are suddenly going to decide they don't need information nor switch to a Google style product) but more that the old duopoly that drove profits is dead.

Data from the claims portal and analysed by insurance law firm Weightmans, shows the number of claims for road accidents, workplace accidents and diseases have all gone down in the last year.

Companies, law firms, lawyers and individuals have to go through a large number of case laws and judicial decisions to identify or retrieve information necessary to support legal decision - making or finding something relevant to their case.

What is it that is causing us to see a large number of women leave the law when we're graduating almost 50 % out of law school and we're starting at law firms, almost 50 % so we're almost 50/50 going in, so why is it 10 years down the road we're down to 18, 20 % of women in the law.

It remains to be seen whether contract lawyering will become a viable proposition for a larger number of law firms and contract lawyers alike going forward, given that — by its very nature — the demand for contract legal services is unpredictable.

Both Cudjoe and David Aylward, senior business manager with RBC, spoke to the challenges of going through the process of consolidating the number of law firms their organizations use and the reaction from internal clients.

There's no way numbers like that aren't going to cause even the law firms in this country that didn't feel the full, hot blast of the economic recession to make some changes.

You are wrong if you think that Walmart law for personal injury or any litigation is going to be cheaper than going to any one of the large number of independent small firm litigation lawyers.

There are many directions you can go in and this article objectively addresses the pros and cons of a number of the more popular law firm marketing tactics.

«There have been a number of law firms over the years that have filed for bankruptcy protection, going back to Finley Kumble, and they've all basically ended up in liquidation,» Lauria told us at the time.

«Since the way law firms make money is based on leverage, which is the difference between the number of partner hours and the number of associate hours on a matter, if you're going to raise associate rates so fast that there's not that much of a gap between associates and partners, I'd rather have a hundred percent of the partner's time, and none of the associate's time.»

«The significant variance in opinion between the two groups on how much work is going to law firms tells us that companies are consolidating more work with a smaller number of law firms and that's a trend that is having a significant impact on our industry,» said Andrew Kopon, Jr., IADC President - Elect and a founding member of Kopon Airdo, LLC.

Similar statistics are presented for the law firm in question: Which companies it represents, what cases it has filed, and, again, the number of cases that have actually gone to trial.

Looking at the large number of clients served by online legal services companies, such as Legal Zoom, it's high time the legal profession stepped up to the plate to provide a safer alternative to online legal services companies by creating virtual law practices — whether completely web - based or as a part of a traditional firm that has made the decision to go paperless and online in addition to in - person representation.

There are a number of obvious benefits to such collaboration including guiding solutions that work in a real firm environment, focus on practising law without incurring the cost of adding an application development team and likely preferential pricing when it goes live.

He then went on to point out some of the current shortcomings of the system, like the fact that in the market for arbitrator services, the most valuable information tends to be controlled by a small number of people — partners, large law firms, and very occasionally highly sophisticated clients.