Sentences with phrase «over bigger firms»

Current legal trends reveal that sophisticated in - house counsel increasingly choose small high - quality law firms over bigger firms with excessive overhead and inflated billing rates.

Plus, I can't think of better marketing material than Wesemann's post to sell small clients on the benefits of a small practice over a big firm.

Solos and boutique firms have a huge advantage over big firms: they can start up or change their business model quickly, giving them more immediate access to clients who are learning to love fixed pricing, constant access to files, and engagement in their legal process.

In a smart follow - up to her piece of earlier this week (see «Some Really Bad Taglines»), Carolyn Elefant talks about why small firms have an advantage over big firms: «Large firms have effectively outsourced their core competency, the practice of law.

Our clients turn to us for help because our unique combination of advantages often gives us the edge over the big firms:

Not exact matches

The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

LONDON, May 2 - Forecast - beating results from the world's biggest company, Apple, lifted tech shares on Wednesday, putting Wall Street on track for a firmer session despite some trepidation over a Fed meeting later in the day.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

More hackers realize there's big money in taking over the computers of firms and demanding cash to set the data free.

The Montreal - based firm is RIM's sixth biggest investor (10.2 million shares at the end of the first quarter, worth about $ 361 million yesterday), and just sold over half its holdings.

One of the biggest supports to me psychologically over the past year setting up my firm is the number of unsolicited InMails I get from competitors.

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

Despite their having more resources than you, big firms might not have a chance against you when you leverage the following five advantages that you have over them:

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

As big firms in sectors like pharma increasingly fret over the overhead of internal skunkworks, says Tam, they are drawn to the «unbelievable» potential cost - savings of the open approach.

«People looking for a big title and control over others don't join the firm in the first place.»

According to the Big Four accounting firm's study, 61 % of C - level executives expect their M&A pipeline to increase over the next year.

«We see this as a big issue for China Airlines,» Steve Chang, senior vice president of the Taiwanese firm told reporters on Wednesday, adding the airline was trying to consult with the American Institute in the country over the issue.

Now, the biggest challenge, according to Reuters, is to find a way around a reduction of the period over which U.S. - based entities can supply Russian energy firms with funding.

Starting his career in Chicago with Big 4 accounting firm KPMG over ten years ago, he established a solid accounting foundation by working with several Fortune 1000 companies.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.

«The effective tax rate over the last five years [for small caps] is about 33 percent, so if you go from 33 percent to 20, that's a pretty big boost,» said Steven DeSanctis, a small - cap analyst at the investment bank and research firm Jefferies.

So «Apollo is preparing to meet with big debt investors including mutual fund managers in several cities over the next few months to ease concerns that the firm protects its investments in troubled companies at the expense of creditors.»

The company has lost more than $ 45 billion of its stock market value over the past three days on investor fears that any failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.

In the past, Forex — which is the world's biggest market for currency trading — was the preserve of hedge funds, global corporations and finance firms, but now individuals are trading on it over the internet.

The annual ranking is Barron's largest, most comprehensive listing, encompassing financial advisors from all over the nation, from small independent advisors to big Wall Street firms.

UK subsidiary breaks ranks with big spread - betting firms amid dispute over proposal for tougher rules on CFD products

Aldo gained over ten years experience dedicated to serving financial services entities (mainly hedge funds and private equity entities) and over four years of diversified experience in other industries and capital markets, both at Metlife as well as from other big four public accounting firms.

There is a great deal of hand - wringing in the U.S. media today over the plight of Deutsche Bank, the big German financial firm that has a hefty presence on Wall Street.

Prior to founding Arlington Capital Advisors, Vann spent over a decade with the big four accounting firm Deloitte, starting his career in the audit services group working with both public and private companies from $ 250 million to $ 2 billion in revenue.

After the program, our fellows have gone on to work for our companies full - time or as interns, leaped over to other functional areas, moved over to venture investing, joined notable big tech firms, and even started companies themselves.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

Its complaint said Chinese affiliates of the «Big Four» accounting firms - Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers - and a fifth firm, BDO, failed to comply with orders to hand over the documents.

MIAMI (AP)-- Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company's creditors and investors over a $ 5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to...

Over the past few weeks, Aramco executives and government officials pitched their plan for what could be world's largest share sale to some of the biggest U.S. mutual fund firms and hedge funds, according to people familiar with the discussions.

In 1997, a big options trading firm wanted to assess risk of financial instruments over a short horizon, and DiBartolomeo's team started investigating models.

I saw that your recipe includes coconut oil — a firm favourite in my kitchen — and thought I should let you know I'm giving away a big plant - based food hamper (worth over # 100) for anyone looking to start out eating plant - based or stock up, which includes coconut oil!

Wenger has been here since a very long period and has a very firm grip over the proceedings, it'll be a task to convince him to step down and offer him a different and bigger role.

I'm a firm believer in form over class, but i'm even a bigger believer in talent over form.

Holding firm at # 2 this week is Team Sammy following their big Win over Delta Sig in Hoops.

Here's the problem: Whenever he comes over to see Mom and he gets me alone — even for a minute — he says stuff like, «You're lookin» good today,» and tells me my breasts look big and firm.

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to give in when your child wants to exert control over something minor so that you can be more firm when it comes to the bigger stuff.

But Saujani, a former Hillary Clinton fundraiser who worked for an investment firm, made her own biggest news after the debate, telling reporters that Maloney had done a «mediocre» job over the past 18 years.

The announcement comes on the same day Big Brother Watch warned of payments being made by the state to communications firms totalling almost # 65 million so that they can retain data over a six year period.

That's less than biotechnology (at $ 365 billion) and pharmaceuticals (at $ 1094 billion), but it's a big industry — according to a report by the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, it's projected to grow over the next 3 to 5 years at an annual rate of 9 %, a growth rate comparable to big pharma.