Sentences with phrase «of lawyers say»

Fifty - three percent of lawyers say they have not used cloud computing and 10 percent do not know whether they have or not, according to the survey, which the LTRC conducts annually.

Thirty - eight percent of lawyers say they go first to a fee - based resource, while 37 percent say they start with a general search engine such as Google or Bing.

Overall, 60 percent of lawyers say their firm has a conflict - checking system.

Nicole Abboud: Yeah, yeah it definitely is, If someone goes to... If somehow someone gets a hold of your name and they go and Google you... So actually that's the thing a lot of lawyers say, I get all my clients from referrals, word of mouth and I always say okay that's great but I'm sure when someone refers a friend to a lawyer that friend is going to go look you up regardless, you know they're not just gonna call you blindly.

Only 5 percent of lawyers say their firm has a blog, and only 5 percent say they maintain a personal legal - topic blog.

Seventy - five percent of lawyers say getting new clients is either a moderate or significant challenge, with 28 percent saying it is a significant challenge.

This year we learned that only 30 % of lawyers say they use a web - based service.1

78 percent of lawyers say that acquiring new business is one of their top challenges, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group.

But while information overload is crushing us, nearly 70 percent of lawyers say that finding specific pieces of legal research or information is easier today than just two years ago, with 20 percent saying it is much easier today.

Fifty - one percent of lawyers say they use a tablet for doing law - related work while away from their primary workplace.

According to a recent study, more than half of lawyers say they spend way too much time on billing — as much as 8 or 16 hours each month.

A lot of lawyers say they handle big injury cases, but be sure to do your homework before you sign.

Overall, 5 percent of lawyers say they use such services, with solos being the most likely to use them (10 percent).

While only a small percentage of lawyers describe themselves as virtual, nearly three quarters of lawyers say that they telecommute at times.

Overall, 35 of lawyers say that their firms offer unbundled legal services, which the survey described as «specific, stand - alone services like document preparation, offered as an alternative to full representation.»

Only 40 percent of lawyers say they have ever downloaded a legal - specific smartphone app, but of those who have, -LSB-...]

«That's Troy Phelan,» one of the lawyers said as he hovered above the corpse.

This year, 84 % of lawyers said their firms have websites, compared with 85 % in 2009, 83 % in 2008 and 73 % in 2007.

This year, 8 percent of lawyers said that they personally maintain a legal - topic blog.

This year, 59 percent of lawyers said that their firms maintain a presence in a social network such as LinkedIn or Facebook.

The chart below shows that 88 percent of lawyers said their firms are on LinkedIn and 55 percent are on Facebook.

Asked whether they personally maintain a presence in an online social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Legal OnRamp, 56 % of lawyers said yes.

The survey found that 42 percent of lawyers said that challenging assignments provide the greatest job satisfaction; compensation packages ranked second, receiving 22 percent of the response.

When asked whether they personally use Twitter for professional purposes, 11 percent of lawyers said yes, up from 6 percent in 2011.

As I've noted here before, both Martindale - Hubbell Connected and Legal OnRamp are still operating, but the 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report indicated that both have only a fraction of lawyers as members — with 1.8 % of lawyers saying they personally use Connected and 1 % saying they use OnRamp.

For example 64 % of lawyers said, «finding skilled legal professionals is somewhat or very challenging.»

The second greatest challenge they face is spending too much time on administrative tasks, with 70 percent of lawyers saying it is either a moderate or significant challenge and 25 percent say it is a significant challenge.

In Alberta, 87 % of judges and 89 % of lawyers said that settlement without trial or before the end of trial is less likely or much less likely if one party is self - represented.

Despite, or perhaps because of this, a substantial 65 percent of lawyers said that achieving what their organization wants has to be their main priority.

Both Martindale - Hubbell Connected and Legal OnRamp are still operating, but the 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report showed that both have only a fraction of lawyers as members — with 1.8 % of lawyers saying they personally use Connected and 1 % saying they use OnRamp.

While everyone loves to vouch for their favourite show, barely anyone actually sees their own lives on the screen with only one per cent of lawyers saying the shows «hit too close to home.»

41 % of lawyers said they would spend even more time, if they had it, getting clients.

Aman Johal, director of Your Lawyers said of the upcoming court date: «It is time that victims of Volkswagen's emissions scandal achieve justice and that their voices are heard.

«It was not the decision of a bunch of lawyers saying, «We're going to stop using these firms and only use these firms.»

Nearly one - quarter (23 percent) of lawyers said their law firm will increase its hiring of partner - or senior - level attorneys in the next two years.

Not exact matches

Saying this could qualify as «willful» disregard of the law, lawyer Robert Barnes wrote for the site LawNewz, and a court would take that into account when assessing the newspaper's right to do so.

That's not the kind of behaviour you reward through governments,» says Levy, a lawyer and an executive director of Canadian Cannabis Clinics.

«These three engineers are seeking to ensure that Uber pays women and people of color equally for the hard work they've done — and will continue to do — to help make Uber successful,» said lawyer Jahan Sagafi of Outten & Golden which is representing the plaintiffs.

But Denise Lash, a lawyer specializing in condo law says that these types of clashes between tenants and condo boards usually come down to a lack of communication and possibly overworked, overwhelmed employees.

In his statement, Ryan said the FBI raid «resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney - client communications between a lawyer and his clients.»

Although no recent First Amendment cases could be seen to apply directly to the publication of tax returns from a candidate for president, lawyer Floyd Abrams said that «all the cases make it extremely unlikely that the Times could constitutionally be held liable for publishing such a newsworthy story, a month before a presidential election, about a candidate for President.»

«Terminating an employee within 24 hours of utilizing the «hotline»... is yet another indication of (Fox's) lack of oversight and retaliatory animus for those that are brave enough to report unlawful conduct,» Golloher's lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, said in a statement.

Alphabet's Waymo unit is seeking about $ 2.6 billion from Uber for the alleged theft of one of several trade secrets in a lawsuit over self - driving cars, a lawyer for Uber said on Wednesday.

The Financial Times said lawyers who represented each side of the agreement declined to comment on the NDA.

Wheeler said he also planned to set up an FCC ombudsman that would relieve small businesses and consumers of the burden and expense of retaining their own lawyers to contest alleged abuses.

The industry has become «way too restrictive,» says Hans Mercier, a lawyer in Saint - Georges, the heart of maple syrup country in the Chaudière - Appalaches region.

«This isn't reinventing the wheel,» said Christina Strong, a New Jersey lawyer who co-wrote a set of standards that most states largely adopted for the organ transplant industry.

«Likely more litigation work for tax lawyers and a more complicated corporate tax structure with even more shades of gray that will provoke even more tax avoidance techniques,» says Krishna.

may find themselves triggering a discrimination complaint, says Greg Siskind, an immigration lawyer and founder of Memphis - based Siskind Susser.

Last year it commissioned Montreal lawyer Lloyd Lipsett to review Bisha's current practices; his report, published in April, said spot checks of discharge papers and interviews with Segen workers confirmed they'd been discharged from national service.