Sentences with phrase «percent of legal work»

A much higher percent of legal work is fee sensitive than many partners understand.

Not exact matches

Even as legal hiring dropped in 2011, according to Mr. Procel, Thomas Jefferson stated that 92.1 percent of its graduates were working at full - time jobs.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

And while the de Blasio administration has increased funding for free legal services for tenants, lawyers working with low - income New Yorkers say that isn't solving the problem, citing the arsenal of strategies landlords can use to evict rent - stabilized tenants since they can increase rents up to 20 percent — without making any renovations — when units are vacant.

«I work at a volunteer legal clinic, and 80 to 85 percent of the people that come in are there to talk all about housing.»

Researchers have found that the imaging of supposedly normal brains reveals clinically significant findings 8 to 10 percent of the time — «disconcertingly often,» says Henry Greely, a law professor at Stanford who works on legal and bioethical issues that include neuroscience, genetics, and stem cells.

Meanwhile 72 percent of legal consumers choose to work with the first attorney they contact.

Ariba, a company that sells one of the main reverse - auction software tools, estimates that a whopping (and surprising) 40 percent of today's market for legal work «is contracted through electronic, online means, most of which involve a reverse auction.»

The American Bar Association today released the results of its 2002 Legal Technology Survey, finding that U.S. lawyers» use of technology is now nearly universal, with more than 98 percent of respondents saying that they use a computer for work - related tasks.

Twenty - one percent of lawyers «upbilled» for their time in 2015, rounding up their hours worked to the next hour or half hour, according to an analysis of legal invoices from about 100 companies.

The highest rate increase, 11 percent, was at firms with more than 1,000 lawyers, and M&A work posted the highest hourly rate increase of 18 percent, according to the report, which included 113,651 hours billed in 2015 to in - house legal departments by 914 lawyers at 103 firms.

The 2012 Legal Technology Survey Report of the American Bar Association (ABA) revealed that 89 percent of attorneys claimed using a smartphone for various law - related work while not in their law office.

In contrast, only 57 percent of practicing attorneys who work at companies that hire recent law school graduates believe recent law school graduates are effective legal writers.

The New Normal doesn't claim that 100 percent of today's legal work gets disrupted in this way, but 30 to 40 percent will — with significant impact.

51 Sixty - seven and one - half percent of the respondents answered yes to the question: Have you ever worked on a legal matter, including any that required consultation with local foreign counsel, that required you to know something about:

The most informative result from the survey is that a substantial majority, 51 67.5 percent, of the respondents reported that they had worked on a legal matter that required them to know something about foreign and / or international law.52 This response (see Appendix C) supports our original thesis that international and comparative legal issues have become part of the general practice of law.

He notes that even if growth in the legal market stayed flat over the next few years, «about 91 percent of the class of 2016 will find long - term, full - time work, compared with about 72 percent last year.»

Rather than offer straight severance pay, Foley gave Dineen the option of accepting 25 percent of his salary to spend a year working for legal aid, which Dineen accepted.

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.

Though the study reports that most 87.1 percent of companies pay for legal services through hourly billing arrangements, companies are requiring outside counsel to set budgets, particularly for litigation, transactional or IP work.

As for where that work went, nearly half of the responding legal departments increased their outside counsel ranks while only 28 percent hired more in - house attorneys.

44 percent of legal departments engaged with at least one new US firm (one they hadn't worked with in the prior four years) in 2015 *

The In - House Legal Trends Survey found that salary was not the biggest draw for talent, with only 13 percent of respondents citing compensation as a top reason for working at their current company.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenLegal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

Through superior workflow and productivity tools, Legal Files provides the ability to handle an increased volume of work with the same number or fewer staff — up to 40 percent or more based upon the experience of our customers.

A recent Deloitte report surveying in - house counsel found that 55 percent are reviewing their current legal services providers, and 52 percent would consider employing nontraditional firms that offer an array of professional services for their outside work.

The resolution urged courts to work with their access to justice commissions towards an «aspirational goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs.»

New York - based Thomson Reuters, a global provider of business and legal information solutions, said in October that it planned to trim about 5 percent of its total work force, and the bulk of the cuts would affect its financial and risk department.

discounted its rates only 10 percent and charged Amtrak up to $ 590 an hour for Ryan's legal work, according to copies of

But this time Manatt discounted its rates only 10 percent and charged Amtrak up to $ 590 an hour for Ryan's legal work, according to copies of Manatt's engagement letters in Toothman's report.

Legal Workspace, a leading provider of cloud - based work environments designed specifically for law firms, today announced that it increased its 2014 customer base by 37 percent when compared to 2013.

This Comment joins other work in arguing that the legitimacy of stare decisis depends upon widespread publication.4 The doctrine of stare decisis itself emerged only with the consistent and reliable publication of court opinions, 5 and legal processes that do not result in the issuance of publicly available opinions, such as settlements and arbitrations, generally lack stare decisis norms altogether.6 Although previous scholarship has discussed the proper role of stare decisis in the context of «unpublished» opinions, 7 which make up around eighty percent of all United States courts of appeals opinions8 (and are usually publicly available despite their name), 9 this Comment provides the first examination of the tenability of stare decisis as applied to truly secret opinions like those of the FISC.

With 25 percent of participants» time devoted to pro bono legal work, the Incubator Program addresses the unmet legal needs of poor or moderate - income individuals in the Greater New Orleans area.

... while this higher - level legal work represents only fifteen percent of the LPO market right now, it is quickly growing; as LPO firms become more established, they tend to take on increasingly more sophisticated work.

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