Sentences with phrase «percent of firms»

57 percent of respondents expect assignment activity to increase, 37 percent expect it to stay about the same, and 6 percent of firms surveyed envision decreasing their number of global transferees.

This focus is returning dividends — 77 percent of firms dedicated to green building say it helps their bottom line.

With 170 RE / MAX offices making the Top 500 list and accounting for 29 percent of all firms, the RE / MAX network's closest competitor was Coldwell Banker, with 106 firms.

Thirty - four percent of firms are concerned with millennials» reputation as the «sharing generation» affecting their overall view of homeownership.

When it comes to homeownership, 52 percent of firms are concerned with millennials» ability to buy a home because of stagnant wage growth, their debt - to - income ratios and a slow job market.

According to this new report, most real estate firms are small, independent businesses that specialize in residential brokerage, with 69 percent of all firms expecting profitability to increase over the next year.

Only 22 percent of firms offer health insurance to their independent contractors and licensees, although the licensee typically pays the full cost.

Worse, eighty - one percent of firms expect it will either become harder or remain as difficult to find qualified craft workers during the next 12 months... 72 percent of responding firms predict it will get harder, or remain as hard, to find qualified construction professionals this year.»

Only 8 percent of firms have four or more offices, but have a median of 100 licensees.

Sixty percent of firms expect profitability (net income) from all real estate activities to increase in the next year, down from 64 percent in 2016.

The typical real estate firm has been in business for 13 years; 80 percent of firms operate out of a single office and have a median of two licensees.

Eighty percent of firms (82 percent of residential firms and 79 percent of commercial firms) are also emphasizing the importance of community involvement, encouraging their agents to volunteer in their community.

Fifty percent of firms are concerned about contending with «virtual» firms — a challenge NAR plans to meet head - on, says CEO Bob Goldberg.

While the number of women entrepreneurs is growing at a rapid pace, the National Women's Business Council (NWBC) reports that 89.5 percent of women - owned businesses employ no one other than the owner, and data from the SBA Office of Advocacy shows that 60.1 percent of all firms without paid employees are home - based.

Real estate firms are sensing strengthened competition this year, as 50 percent of firms expect competition to increase in the next year from non-traditional market participants, up from 43 percent in 2016.

According to Talent Management Magazine's article about a recent survey from CareerBuilder, nearly 37 percent of firms use social networking sites to research job candidates.

Only ten percent of firms that apply meet the rigorous requirements of AESC membership.

Yet IBM director of research Arvind Krishn told Fortune he thinks 90 percent of the firms now investing in blockchain will fail before this technology ever reaches mainstream audiences.

Isn't it amazing, but completely contrary to the impression created, that less than one percent of the firms were terminated or might have been in jeopardy?

As it turns out, only nine percent of firms surveyed gave themselves the same «excellent» or «solid» rating in measuring themselves from their clients» perspectives.

20 percent of the firms surveyed responded this year, with 35 % indicating that they do not buy smartphones for their lawyers.

As found in the in the 2016 ILTA / Inside Legal Technology Survey, 42 percent of firms struggle with user adoption.

Further, practice management technology isn't available at most U.S. firms — the 2016 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report found that only 46 percent of firms have the technology at hand.

Although 68 percent of firms are handling an average of 10 or fewer RFPs every month, it's a different story at the high end.

Among the 97 percent of firms that bill at least some of their work on a non-hourly basis, 72 percent of respondents indicated that their firms take a reactive approach, addressing AFAs only in response to client requests.

Above means steps with a higher percentage of success than the percent of firms using them.

The 2012 survey saw those numbers rise to 80 percent of firms employing staff attorneys, 70 percent of which were women.

Nearly 50 percent of firms report that blogging and social networking had helped produce leads for new clients.

Only 38 percent of solos have these systems, while 71 percent of firms in the 11 - 29 lawyer range have them.

In contrast, only 20 percent of firms of 2 to 9 attorneys have blogs, while just 12 percent of attorneys in solo practices have their own blogs.

88 percent of firms polled now also use predictive coding to cull large data sets and 68 percent of these rated their experience with it as six or higher on a scale of one to ten.

In the survey, more than 80 percent of firms of more than 50 lawyers reported that they had received work from membership in a legal network.

Across the board with respect to the challenges firms list, 66 - 80 percent of firms have not implemented changes to address them.

This time, it was the smaller firms that were more likely to be pursing innovation, with 60.7 percent of firms of 50 - 99 lawyers answering yes to this question, while just 18.2 percent of firms of 1,000 or more lawyers answered yes.

The survey grouped these responses to conclude that 8.6 percent of firms have a high confidence level, 67.2 percent have a moderate confidence level, and 24.3 percent have a low confidence level.

Sixty - six percent of firms expect revenue drops in 2009, with half of those predicting drops of greater than 5 percent.

Forty percent of firms had lower interest rates than a year ago.

The bottom line: 20 percent of firms have blogs, 60 percent have newsletters and only a measly 3 percent podcast.

Still, newsletters remain most popular, with 60 percent of firms publishing newsletters.

The reality is, those types of firms represent only 1 percent of all firms in the US, and according to NALP, more than 80 % of working attorneys are in fact employed in firms with 50 people or less.

Nearly 60 percent of the firms published e-newsletters, as did nearly 90 percent of the firms with 200 lawyers or more.

In one of the articles that accompanies the report, Nicholas Bruch, senior analyst at ALM Legal Intelligence, which assisted in compiling the results, and Hugh A. Simons, an industry analyst and former COO at Ropes & Gray in Boston, write that 78 percent of the firms in this year's Am Law 100 surpassed their pre-recession levels of profits per equity partner — and did so in large part through management.

Just 12.5 percent of the firms in the sample have paid search engines for higher search engine placement, a practice that was more common among smaller than larger firms.

In fact, ILTA's 2014 Technology Survey reported that 62 percent of firms are using some form of speech recognition technology, which has risen by nearly 20 points in the last four years.

Of the 59 percent of firms that are on social networks at all, only 1 percent are on Legal OnRamp, down from 2 percent the year before.

Impressively, 42 percent of responding firms offered on - site daycare, and 40 percent of the firms had policies in place that allowed attorneys to take several years of leave with the option of returning to the firm at a later date.

According to a 2016 FindLaw analysis of U.S. law firms, only 16 percent of those firms surveyed currently engage in paid social advertising and even fewer do so at a steady frequency.

According to the 2016 Thomson Reuters State of the U.S. Small Law Firm survey, 45 percent of firms considered improving marketing and business development a key goal.

One percent of these firms reported a presence on LawLink.

Percent of firms with sites.