Sentences with phrase «ongoing about legal services»

For example, discussions are ongoing about legal services falling under GATT, the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.

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Now the tenants, upset about paying rent to a management company they claim failed to provide basic services and communicate with them throughout the ongoing ordeal, say they will be exploring legal avenues to get a break in their rent payments.

He wrote that he'd «like to caution the legal industry about possibly having a knee - jerk reaction to the latest business development trend du jour, perhaps in response to the serious and ongoing challenges of a global market that has produced flat or lower demand for legal services in recent years.»

Nevertheless, with the ongoing war for talent and the legal technology race heating up globally, it is more likely than not that law firms in the South East Asian region will soon be challenged to think about how their law firms — the centre of legal services — will be designed for the 21st century client.

BENEFITS: • Achievement of 17 % cost savings in their legal department spending since implementing CounselLink ® • Ability to make smarter decisions about how they assign matters to outside counsel, with the use of valuable data for tracking and analyzing the performance of Fred Loya's law firms • Delivery of reports that keep everyone accountable for litigation vs. settlement decisions, time management and other legal spending considerations • Outstanding, ongoing technical support and customer service from LexisNexis • Reliance on this central matter management system for the legal department provides a hub for tracking all matters throughout their lifecycle • Use of the Law Firm Registry feature has become a powerful tool for helping Fred Loya quickly establish working relationships with qualified law firms in particular venues where they have specific needs

Process improvement involves more input from and ongoing communication with clients; the use of new kinds of legal personnel, not all of them lawyers or employees of the firm; greater selectivity about the work that will be done, possibly omitting work that is not essential to the case; the disaggregation of some legal projects into discrete parts that may be handled by more than one law firm or vendor; and greater collaboration with the client and other legal service providers working together on a matter.

The ongoing changes in ownership in legal publishing can leave customers feeling like they are the last thing the owners care about; that the product is another profitable widget from which large margins can be extracted... There was, thirty years ago, a relationship of service between publisher to purchaser; now it is a sales person trying to flog a title of which s / he knows little and cares less, as long as the sale is made.