Sentences with phrase «number of law firms used»

On average, they decreased the number of law firms used for these matters from 4.6 in 2011, to 3 in 2012.

While spending on outside law firms decreased from $ 2.9 million to $ 2.8 million from 2012 to 2013, the number of law firms used to handle class actions increased from three to four during this same period.

This is consistent with the increasing complexity of class action cases, and contrasts with a decline in the total number of law firms used between 2012 and 2013.

Law departments continue to consolidate the number of law firms used.

During my administration, the number of law firms using practice - management systems has grown significantly.

As clients reduce the number of law firms they use, we should revisit a basic question: why do law firms exist?

Banking group Investec has kicked off an adviser review in an effort to standardise relationships across its legal roster and cut back the number of law firms it uses.

In recent years, DuPont cut the number of law firms it uses to 34 from more than 350, and the legal department now lays down guidelines to prevent misunderstandings.

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«Glyphosate's days are numbered,» said Paul Achitoff, a lawyer for Earthjustice, an environmental law firm that is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in part over concerns about heavy glyphosate use.

The absence of these programs or similar solutions is particularly surprising when one considers the large number of vendor supplied and internally customized labour saving solutions law firms implement in the interest of repeatedly saving small amounts of time and the institution wide licences many universities have implemented to encourage their use.

Tightening competition and clients» use of a greater number of firms than ever, means law firms can not afford to take the risk of being last in clients» minds.

And I actually DO agree with you that it's ironic a law firm would cough up for an accountant to guard against trust report problems, and at the same time have its members travel with unencrypted flash drives of client data, leave their wifi networks open, or use pet names as passwords — or any number of things that an IT consultant would tell you not to do.

Following instruction, Archers Law will use FileView as a further option to keep clients and referrers informed, enabling staff to securely display case information on the firm's website, therefore reducing the number of «update» calls received.

All too often, law firms attempt to maximize the number of cases they can handle by using the same formula to litigate each case, in order to streamline the process.

Law firm HBJ Gateley Wareing says the number of couples opting to settle out of court using collaborative law practices has risen by a third in the last yeLaw firm HBJ Gateley Wareing says the number of couples opting to settle out of court using collaborative law practices has risen by a third in the last yelaw practices has risen by a third in the last year.

In a recent survey by Legal Week, 15 % of law firms said they use LPO services, with half believing that number would grow over the next year.

The plaintiff's lawyer and the lawyer with whom the defendant had spoken both practised as part of a group of lawyers under the same firm name, sharing the same business address and office premises and using the same telephone number (save for three digit extensions), fax number and email domain — but who were not partners, nor members of a law firm as traditionally defined.

Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com and author of Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, discussed how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your bottom line,» given at the Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov. 2.

Notable mandates: Represent the plaintiffs in a proposed class action against provincial law enforcement agencies regarding allegedly negligent use of breathalyzer machines; acts for hundreds of pre-sale contract holders with various condominium developments who are disputing their requirement to close under consumer protection laws; defended a law firm in a four - week hearing over enforcement of a significant contingency fee agreement; acted for a number of clients in online defamation cases

As the costs and risks involved in international arbitration continue to grow, an increasing number of business and law firms use international arbitration funding as a way to alleviate risk and remove the costs of arbitration from their balance sheet.

And many of the larger corporations are using requests for proposals to create panels of law firms to consolidate the number of firms with which they are working.

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.

But a number of usability disadvantages have traditionally kept law firms from using PDF as a publishing format.

These tactics had previously been used by some small business, and even a number of law firms in Canada (who shall remain unnamed), by paying «web specialists» and online marketers to populate the Internet with links leading to their site.

The approach that law firms use varies based upon the nature of the firm's practice, the number of clients to be surveyed, the relationship between the client and the firm, and the firm's objectives to be obtained from the survey.

If you're using a number of different software products in your law firm, you will realize savings by using this one product and combining all necessary functions in LEAP.

Recent polls of NALP (National Association of Law Placement) and NALSC (National Association of Legal Search Consultants) members, show an increasing number of law firms now use behavioral interviewing to better assess candidates» qualificatioLaw Placement) and NALSC (National Association of Legal Search Consultants) members, show an increasing number of law firms now use behavioral interviewing to better assess candidates» qualificatiolaw firms now use behavioral interviewing to better assess candidates» qualifications.

The average number of new tax cases sent to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has risen by a fifth since the credit crunch, as more businesses and other taxpayers use the court to challenge the actions of national tax authorities, says Pinsent Masons, the international law firm.

They do then load on the full - calorie cookie, which allows a number of features such as accessing secure areas of the website, analyzing information and tracking how you share content from the law firm website via social media or email, using sharing buttons provided by AddThis, for example.

A growing number of clients use legal - service delivery competencies to differentiate between law firms.

RFPs help clients narrow the number of outside counsel used, control costs and outline key considerations of a relationship between the client and its law firm.

With Lawcompany behind the wheel, the budget for your mass tort advertising campaign remains untouched and what your law firm gets in return is a media plan, a media buy, a HD TV commercial and exclusive use of a market - tested legal vanity number.

During the course of the last 12 months Asian MENA Counsel have asked a record number of in - house counsel «Which law firms do you prefer to use?»

For decades, law firms have achieved this through the use of high quality vanity numbers.

There are a number of simple processes that law firms can automate using readily available, and affordable software tools.

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 55 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 - months ending June 30, 2015

The firm actively participates in a number of charitable events throughout the year including the used clothes drive for the homeless and area shelters, sponsored by Gifts for the Homeless, a non-profit corporation comprised of lawyers and staff from area law firms to serve area shelters, and the annual book drive for Turning the Page.

There are a number of tools you can use to see how fast your law firm website is.

Lawyers and law firms who start using a product billed as successful because of money raised and traffic / user numbers (often inflated) take a hit.

Integrated practice management systems can solve a number of problems faced by law firms using a number of disparate systems.

The key feature of a «virtual law firm» is the use of a Web site that incorporates interactive and web - enabled programs to support interaction between lawyer and client along a number of dimensions.

While this year produced a significant increase in the number of firms with mobile sites, the majority of large law firms still do not yet have a mobile web despite the significant growth in smartphone use by clients, the media and other business contacts.

So, expert witnesses are a good example of partner data, and we have a number of partners who are providing that kind of expert witness data and then law firms are taking their own expert witness data and mashing it up together, and then using tools to understand and visualize that data.

Naturally, a law firm would use a number of paralegals, maybe even a dozen or more on a large matter.

Dixon also kindly mentioned research by Artificial Lawyer into the growing number of law firms publicly recognising their use or piloting of legal AI systems.

Flaherty also negotiates licensing agreements that would allow a law firm to pay a flat rate and use the test for a year for an unlimited number of their attorneys.

If one had surveyed law firms a few years ago, the total number of Global 100 firms using an AI system would also have been around 1 %.