Sentences with phrase «particularly small firms»

Despite this, the American Bar Association's latest Tech Report shows that many law firms, particularly small firms, still struggle with embracing technology.

And what it looks like, as in much of the rest of the country, is older, particularly the small firms and solo practices.

«Limiting the use of paralegals and other nonlawyer professionals may make it increasingly difficult for many lawyers, particularly small firms and solo practitioners, to practice to the top of their licenses,» says Ellen Murphy, a professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law who specializes in professional responsibility issues.

Yet I don't see much in the way of incentives for businesses, particularly smaller firms, to insure their workers, apart from the obligatory promise to lower costs through technology, deregulation, and tort reform.

The future of these supply chain businesses, particularly smaller firms, is in doubt since most are unlikely to be paid anything of what is owed.

Efficiency continues to become more and more urgent as competition and client expectations place increasing demands on law firms, particularly smaller firms with limited budgets.

Not exact matches

The counseling, particularly, is expensive — coupled with administrating the program, it cost 48 cents for every dollar loaned to small firms in 2006.

Small - business owners, with their strong voting records and firm intentions of hitting the polls in November, represent an untapped but potentially game - changing force in this presidential race, particularly if overall voter turnout comes in low.

Policy makers responded with more than a year of restrictive policies that slowed the economy and created a credit crunch that has been particularly severe for medium and small firms and that only recently has led to a moderation of inflation.

Paran Johar, chief marketing officer of mobile advertising solutions provider Jumptap, says mobile advertising is particularly well matched to small - business verticals such as financing and debt - consolida - tion firms, and quick - service restaurants.

The growth of the electronic media industry in lower Manhattan, Soho and elsewhere in the City, involving both small and large firms, is particularly exciting.

Traditional secondary firms typically seek fully - funded secondaries, particularly for smaller venture capital and technology growth equity funds.

Werner's boutique law firm is specifically focused on small - business clients, and Werner himself has been drawn to technology — a combination that has served him well in the Windy City, particularly when it comes to digital currencies.

FinTech firms and their products are still new and require greater care by banks, according to the OCC's warning, particularly when it comes to underwriting loans for consumers and small businesses.

«It is crucial that HMRC act in a fair and proportionate way with both large and small firms, particularly given the pressures which many businesses are facing at present.

While large suppliers like Abcam invest in new antibody validation technologies, smaller firms face their own problems, particularly those specializing in manufacturing.

The report states that obstacles which previously prevented small firms from initiating a business are slowly falling away - in part due to the growing influence of new technologies, particularly the proliferation mobile and digital devices to further business prospects.

Yes, but at a cost: Higher accounting costs, particularly for smaller firms, more firms going private, and fewer foreign firms listed in the US.

Because small value stocks have performed particularly well in the past, the list was further narrowed down to firms with market capitalizations (shares times price per share) of less than $ 1 billion.

He is particularly interested in small technology firms.

Although late - payment penalties aren't particularly high for many small businesses, they do add up to a collective $ 2.9 billion a year for those firms, according to American Express OPEN.

It is particularly important that we support small and medium - sized firms and the Games Investment Fund would improve access to finance, as well as promoting creativity and innovation in the UK.

These valleys of death particularly plague capital - starved start - ups and entrepreneurial small and medium - sized firms, the very same innovators that are so often at the heart of American economic vitality.

The absence of these programs or similar solutions is particularly surprising when one considers the large number of vendor supplied and internally customized labour saving solutions law firms implement in the interest of repeatedly saving small amounts of time and the institution wide licences many universities have implemented to encourage their use.

The key takeaway is this: Being small can work to a firm's advantage, particularly if that size translates into personalized and dedicated service.

Jeremy — I'm particularly interested in your views on how the LSBC cloud computing recommendations may be setting up solo and small firm members to fail.

We have seen some years when firms, particularly the smaller ones and those with a significant conveyancing practice, have had difficulty obtaining cover.

Paul Philip, SRA Chief Executive, said: «Our proposals will help firms — particularly small ones — make sure they are not paying more than they need to protect themselves and their clients.

Typically, a smaller firm would hold less motivation to the more advanced criminal groups — particularly those groups that are motivated by data related to mergers and acquisition deals.

Small - town firms or those with a particularly strong connection to their community could tie their use of #TBT to local events that they support.

Butler told me that this feature is particularly popular with lawyers at smaller firms who have limited experience in putting out e-discovery RFPs.

Costs and savings are particularly important for small firms and solos.

It focuses on real - world marketing strategies that have been executed successfully by small firm attorneys, particularly those with offices in shared office space New York, including Law Firm Suifirm attorneys, particularly those with offices in shared office space New York, including Law Firm SuiFirm Suites.

«Starting a solo or small firm practice can be a complex and challenging undertaking, particularly in a difficult economy.

Workflow challenges are particularly prevalent for small and mid-size firms.

Unfortunately, many law practices, particularly small and solo firms, struggle to properly maintain financial books and records.

As for the solo and small firm attorneys charging on an hourly fee basis, particularly the litigators, their practices are unlikely to change either.

Those efforts have resulted in practicepro.ca becoming a regular destination for many lawyers, particularly solo and small firm lawyers who may not have access to all the resources of a larger firm.

Lawyers ill - equipped to work in these areas will be ill - prepared to handle cases that might produce income and be essential to their professional survival, particularly those in solo practice or small firms.

He will be joining our roster of regular columnists and writing on the subject of law and technology, particularly as technology affects smaller law firms.

Another I've recommended, particularly for smaller - firm lawyers, is Avvo's Lawyernomics, where the focus is on marketing and biz dev.

Any firm that has attempted to trace where its entertainment expenses are going, particularly tickets to sporting events and usage of stadium loges, will quickly note the small clients are entertained with a frequency disproportionate to their revenue contribution.

Of course, the best - laid plans «gang aft agley,» as Robbie Burns says, and sometimes it's simply not possible to unplug completely, particularly for those in sole or small firms.

Small firms that use QuickBooks will particularly enjoy the fact that top billing software solutions provide seamless account synchronization that makes it easy to integrate firm billing data into QuickBooks.

For many clients, particularly small and medium sized enterprises, law firm networks have more affordable legal fees and generally more ready access to senior lawyers.

This can be particularly beneficial for smaller and medium - sized firms, as they may not be able to provide permanent staff on the ground.

Some insurers have remarked to Marsh that incidences of mortgage fraud backed by organized crime have begun to surface in the claims notifications of some of the smaller law firms involved in, particularly, «buy to let» transactions.

Our debt finance group is supported by members of other subgroups within the Business Department, including mergers and acquisitions (for all sizes of transactions, for public and private clients, and on both the buyer and seller sides), investment management (for clients with investment management divisions and matters), small business investment companies (for clients looking to form SBICs, obtain SBIC funding, or conduct portfolio financing transactions), securities (for public clients, particularly with respect to public and Rule 144A debt offerings), tax (including for cross-border transactions), ERISA / employee benefits and international (for clients with international operations and assets), as well as other practice groups within the Firm, including Cleantech & Renewables, Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition practices and the Labor and Employment practice.

But for many new lawyers, particularly in smaller firms, mentors aren't so easy to come by.

«Most of the [plans] I've done for 15 and 25 attorney firms and under, particularly even smaller ones, will typically be 10 pages or less,» he says.