Sentences with phrase «of higher legal costs»

Research by Thomson Reuters found widespread expectation of higher legal costs, regulatory fines and compensation claims.

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If you convert an employee later to non-exempt because of the minimum salary increases or the position is found to be non-exempt based on a legal challenge, your overtime costs will be based on a higher base rate.

Royalties are generally secured through legal threats; smaller companies sometimes settle up front to avoid the high cost of going to court.

Cut in compensation of about 10 % came in a year when the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.

In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high - cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.

This is particularly true in cases where the new rules single out certain activities as especially concerning and impose further taxes, whether in the form of higher capital charges, more stringent regulatory supervision or activity - specific legal and regulatory costs and restrictions.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

Banks still face numerous headwinds, including high legal costs as regulators and investigators work through a backlog of industry activity and scrutinize everything from overseas hiring to potential manipulation of currency and interest - rate benchmarks.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

James Murdoch denied the large out - of - court settlements to the PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor (# 700,000), and publicist Max Clifford (# 1m including legal costs), authorised by him in 2008, had not been pitched so high to buy their silence.

Town officials said the improvement was due to cost - saving efforts including buying used trucks for the town instead of new ones, coating roads with cheaper beet - juice brine before snowstorms instead of using salt, installing high - efficiency LED streetlights, posting legal notices online instead of in print, and hiring part - time snow plow operators to avoid paying overtime for full - time crews.

Given the high costs and complexity of disability litigation, the issue of enforcing legal rights that protect against discrimination under the DDA has courted controversy since the act was introduced.

The council can only meet the legal requirement to balance its budget by raiding # 3milion from its reserves while carrying out a raft of mid-year spending cuts, including cutting personal budgets for adult care users by a fifth and targeting high - cost adult care packages for reductions (appendices 4 and 5, pages 12 - 13).

The research team found that a single outbreak of listeria in fast food and casual style restaurants could cost upwards of $ 2.5 million in meals lost per illness, lawsuits, legal fees, fines and higher insurance premiums for a 250 - person outbreak.

The model ran several different scenarios to determine the impact level ranging from smaller outbreaks that may incur few costs (i.e., no lawsuits and legal fees or fines) to larger outbreaks that incur a high amount of lawsuits and legal fees.

Robin Lake from the Center on Reinventing Public Education cites high legal barriers to entry, high startup costs, and the challenges of obtaining funding among the possible factors that are at play in this trend.

Four years ago, legal costs were much higher: publicly available data on free school spending showed costs of up to # 30 million per month, but open release of this data stopped in April 2014.

The «review» produced a lengthy libel lawsuit that spanned years, and was resolved in 2011 when Britain's High Court decided that the lawsuit should be thrown out and ordered Tesla to pay the BBC's legal costs of over $ 100,000.

Whether or not the publishers» corporate counsel were earning their keep back in early 2010, there are certainly some serious legal costs now as all of the Defendants are being represented in federal court by some of the highest - billing law firms in the country.

In statements released today, Hachette and HarperCollins admitted to no wrongdoing and said they settled reluctantly, in order to avoid protracted legal battles and high court costs that, in the words of Hachette, would be «too disruptive to our business.»

As many as half of Russia's readers are believed to pay nothing for the content they consume, Anuriev says, and high costs, or perceptions of them as high, are thought to be the primary barrier to legal procurement of content.

These costs may include a land transfer tax (an escalating levy that rises to 2 % of the purchase price), a bank appraisal fee ($ 300), legal fees (roughly $ 1,200), as well as a high - ratio mortgage insurance premium, which is required if you make a down payment of less than 20 %.

Costs of a home equity loan or 2nd mortgage are appraisal costs, legal costs both for the borrower & lender as well as broker & / or lender fees on top of a higher interest Costs of a home equity loan or 2nd mortgage are appraisal costs, legal costs both for the borrower & lender as well as broker & / or lender fees on top of a higher interest costs, legal costs both for the borrower & lender as well as broker & / or lender fees on top of a higher interest costs both for the borrower & lender as well as broker & / or lender fees on top of a higher interest rate.

So transaction costs are extraordinarily high, 5 % if you want to buy a million dollar house in Toronto you're going to pay $ 50,000 in terms of the brokerage fees and then legal fees, land transfer tax each time.

The minimum liability coverage required by state law is very low compared to the high cost of a legal claim, especially against a business.

However, if your client disputes the claim, the costs of legal action could be high.

High capital costs, low human capital, weak institutional quality, long times required to develop robust legal and regulatory frameworks, and proliferation concerns of nuclear fuel also serve as barriers to the adoption of nuclear technology on the continent.

Whereas Greenpeace et al have legal teams to take development or planning issues to the High Court, it was beyond the means of most campaigners to apply for judicial review, and would do at huge personal cost and financial risk.

Flaherty admits that comparing the gain from earning one corporation's legal business to the high cost of extensive computer training at a law firm with hundreds of lawyers makes his test little more than academic.

ACC believes that many traditional law firm business models and many of the approaches to lawyer training and cost management are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value - driven, high - quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost and develop lawyers as counselors (not just content - providers), advocates (not just process - doers) and professional partners.

This leads on to considerations of costs, given that defamation is a High Court remedy for which legal aid has never been available.

«We think that small businesses and lawyers will benefit tremendously from what Rocket Lawyer is offering in terms of high quality and low - cost legal solutions.»

But those media have very narrow doors through which tons of legal content is trying to squeeze, and the entry costs are high.

Avvo describes the forms as «a selection of no - cost, high - quality legal forms for family, businss, estate planning and real estate.»

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

Reduction of legal costs and due diligence, increased legal certainty and higher transaction volumes are regarded as positive effects of the introduction of a uniform rule on the property aspects of an assignment.

People can not deal with their legal problems without the help of lawyers because, the law is now too voluminous, complex, often based upon technology that must be understood, and requiring one to cope with the large volumes of electronic records made possible by the great automating power of electronic records technology (being the very technology that has created the prohibitively high cost of electronic discovery proceedings).

Maximizing the re-use of finished work - product is a key principle of creating the high cost - efficiency of a centralized legal research support service like LAO LAW, accompanied by highly specialized legal materials used, and specialized principles of database management.

«With the growing divide between consumers that need access to affordable legal help and the high cost of attorney fees, we knew the time was right to make legal insurance available to all consumers,» David Murray, ARAG president and CEO, said in announcing the plan.

The support services method of production makes much higher degrees of competence compatible with much higher degrees of cost - efficiency and volumes of producing legal services than any law firm is capable of.

The question of when a trial starts, as a trigger for an additional costs payment, has been an issue for some time, coming to the fore under the pre-LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012) success fee regime where a higher success fee was payable where a case concluded at trial.

But those media have very narrow doors through which tons of legal content is trying to squeeze; the entry costs are high.

The problems of high cost to the public are almost entirely on the litigation side of legal services.

The firm is committed to providing quality legal work in a cost - effective manner with a high degree of responsiveness and dedication.

This is an operational model whose success rests almost entirely upon three pillars: a perpetually high desire for legal services to be provided in the traditional manner; a marketplace wary of non-traditional providers; and clients that aren't cost - sensitive.

See these articles (pdf): (1) «Admissibility of Electronic Records Requires Proof of Records Management System Integrity»; (2) «The Sedona Canada Principles are Very Inadequate on Records Management and for Electronic Discovery»; (3) «A Legal Opinion is Necessary for Electronic Records Management Systems»; (4) «Electronic Records as Evidence»; and, (5) «Solving the High Cost of the «Review» Stage of Electronic Discovery».

First, the Court and proponents of the LLLT program stated that, based on the Civil Legal Needs Study findings, the high cost of lawyers is the primary cause of the justice gap.

A high level of training will yield high - quality legal services, and it will give our clients cost savings in the process.

At least from the perspective of the in - house lawyer or employee, these systems can help address the high cost and limited availability of legal counsel.