The phrase
"outside firm" refers to a company or business that is not part of or affiliated with the organization or group being discussed. It represents a company that is external or independent from the one being referred to.
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Over the past year, we have been working
with outside firms to analyze our old site and identify what the public needs when it comes to legal information on the Web.
Depending on company size and budget, there are plenty
of outside firms skilled in creating personalized employee wellness programs.
For CEOs who come
from outside the firm, the lifespan is even shorter, at 4.3 years versus an average 7.1 years for insiders.
Get partners, staff and your assistant on your team, and then, look
outside the firm for external champions who can influence work, mentor and guide you.
Outside firms don't always appreciate that some of the smaller matters they handle successfully have particular political impact.
To provide the best possible response to completed consultation forms submitted to this web site, we may consult with
attorneys outside our firm to whom your matter may be referred.
When managing the work of attorneys, whether
at outside firms or inside your company, there are best practices you should follow to ensure that the work is performed efficiently and effectively.
The following legal bill review programs are qualified
outside firms who provide quantitative analysis of legal billing entries.
I know a lawyer who routinely would send mass emails to dozens of
lawyers outside his firm asking if anyone knew about a particular judge.
We also understand that in addition to building their careers, all of our employees have personal
lives outside the firm.
It allows lawyers to share information from within Firm Manager directly with their clients or
others outside the firm.
Despite the fact that she has performed well and taken on a considerable workload, she must move
outside the firm when her contract ends in 3 months.
A plan intended strictly for internal use may also omit some elements that would be important in one aimed at
someone outside the firm.
When you
look outside your firm — and even outside the financial services industry — which industries or realms do you see that do tend to operate according to their principles?
The PR adviser will step back and explain what people are talking
about outside the firm and help it join that conversation.
With so many vendors using the same 12 words to describe their electronic data discovery services, no wonder general counsel and
outside firms often feel overwhelmed when trying to evaluate companies.
Sometimes these failures to implement priorities are
visible outside the firm, to the detriment of the firm's ability to attract and keep clients and legal talent.
That means — even with the improvement over the prior year — six in ten clients would not recommend event their
primary outside firm.
In a six - month span, they generated just over 15 percent of the invoices, and less than four percent of
outside firm costs.
Younger lawyers can form peer support groups either inside or
outside the firm where they can meet regularly to support each other and exchange ideas.
Advice on a leader's future roles inside and
outside the firm once he or she has stepped down from a leadership position.
Some are merely a public face, signing clients and handing them off to
larger outside firms, presumably for substantial referral fees.
Firms need to look at providing opportunities for continuous learning for their millennial lawyers to mitigate the risk of them pursuing
careers outside the firm.
Real flexibility comes with the ability to walk out of the firm entirely, to spend time with
friends outside the firm or family.
Their legal departments are being forced to reduce costs, and legal services
from outside firms are a prime target for reduction.
These legal operations professionals are under intense pressure to drive efficiencies and keep costs down while maintaining valuable relationships
with outside firms.
That means that junior lawyers must
go outside the firm to find clients and build their books of business.
Another issue is that in - house lawyers and
outside firms often have longstanding relationships.
I would encourage in - house women to open up a discussion with their counterparts
at outside firms.
The party isn't going to be able to get around the agreement by
hiring outside firms, and even agreed it would not return to court to try to modify this deal or reconstitute some form of DFS for the next three election cycles — basically, a decade.
But among Facebook's recent privacy scandals, including the unauthorized use of data
by outside firm Cambridge Analytica, this appeared to be yet another breach of trust.