Travers Smith has joined the growing
number of law firms looking at artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve their working processes.
Not exact matches
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:
Most small
law firms are
looking to expand and the
number of new attorneys coming on board can make updating your website a chore.
We are the commercial
law firm of choice for an increasing
number of clients
looking to do business in Hong Kong and PRC.
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.
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.
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.
If your
law firm offers 50 different practice areas, or if your business offers a
number of different services or products, we've found that it is more effective to group all
of these into a handful
of main categories, and letting the user navigate his or way through to find what he or she is
looking for.
The last time I
looked at a
number of law firm websites, few were distributing information to clients via RSS.
There are also a large
number of websites on the Internet which
look informational, but in fact are owned by
law firms.
By Valerie Fontaine —
Law firms compete for a limited
number of top lateral partner candidates with significant portable books
of business and
look to legal search consultants help them identify and hire the best.
Therefore, when you
look at the below chart, the
numbers represent the minimum amount
of defence work that a particular
law firm does in any one year:
It's a foregone conclusion that these severe storms will be more frequent, and we've also — there are
number of ABA entities, I am on the — I am the Board
of Governors liaison to the Section on Environment, Energy and Regulatory, which is, they even have a climate change committee that is
looking at the various impact that this extreme weather is having upon business and upon
law firms.
A survey released today by Thomson Reuters
of UK GCs found that
law firm responsiveness is the
number one characteristic they
look for.
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: • Identifying the right expert in a specialised discipline • Developing a short list
of suitable candidates on a discreet basis • Avoiding individual experts «shoe - horning» themselves into roles for which they are not properly equipped • Assessing individuals» strengths and weaknesses and prior track records Our experience - as experts ourselves and from working with our associates over an extended period - normally enables us to propose one or more candidates whom we consider the best equipped to address specific issues on which expert evidence is required.
For example, to measure engagement
of the game over time, the
law firm would
look at the average
number of actions taken that involve the desired behavior, the
number of players taking those actions and how often they return to do the same action and the level
of satisfaction that the players provide as feedback on their enjoyment
of the gamified platform.
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.
Increasing
numbers of consumers
looking online for an attorney, technology that's evolving faster than anyone can keep up with, DIY - ers who are bypassing legal representation altogether — your
law firm needs to be addressing all
of these issues.
With the rising
number of female lawyers, together with cloud based technology and a growing realisation that the rainmakers in a
law firm should be properly rewarded for their contributions, the traditional model
of a
law firm is
looking more and more archaic in a more commercial age.
Partner retirement is «a decision that a growing
number of large white - shoe
law firms are grappling with as aging, yet healthy, baby boomer lawyers
look to remain vital and integral rainmakers at the
firms where they built their careers.