Sentences with phrase «pricing of legal services»

From a pricing of legal services perspective it will enable firms to understand whether the rates or fees quoted are making a positive or negative contribution to the firm's profits.

Held earlier this month (and still available on demand), he spoke to the need of firms to think more strategic in their pricing of legal services.

This is a critical functional step in the pricing of legal services.

Demands of clients and competition among law firms are causing changes in the pricing of legal services away from straight hourly billing to task - based billing, contingent fees, modified hourly rate with a success factor, fixed - fee or combinations of the above.

I'm not, and have never been, big law so this is speculation, but is this really a sign of the «platform changing» as it relates to the pricing of legal services or evidence that producing partners are not going to put up with non-producing partners.

Data by itself can be a powerful incentive to rationalizing the pricing of legal services for consumers and small business.

Compounded by the current recession, demands of clients and competition among law firms are causing fairly dramatic changes in the pricing of legal services, away from straight hourly billing.

The conversation continues with a candid discussion of the pricing of legal services, how it relates to project management and what clients really think of firm initiatives in this regard.

From a pricing of legal services perspective it will enable firms to understand whether the rates or fee quoted are making a positive or negative contribution to the firm's profits.

There is little doubt these trends will continue, as the pricing of legal services continues to be at the forefront of our industry.

PC: Pricing of legal services will have to be more predictable.

Where lawyers who do not want their jobs to depend upon on billing a high number of hours would not need to bill a high number of hours: Under a corporate structure, there would be no «leveraged pyramid» for partner compensation, fixed prices would be determined by professionals skilled in the pricing of legal services, and the lawyers» jobs would depend upon their productivity.

The BSB agrees with the CMA that individuals and small businesses would benefit from better information about the quality and price of legal services.

In addition, as I've already mentioned, the power to set the price of legal services has by now switched hands into those of the corporate client - at least when it comes to companies of a certain size.

The marketing fee depends on the price of the legal service the lawyer provided.

Semple remarks in his book that «both quality and price of legal services are difficult for legally inexperienced clients to ascertain... There is a startling lack of objective, verifiable information available concerning an attorney's malpractice and discipline history and record of failure and success.»

A glut which may have the potential of deflating the price of legal services.

But if there is no mechanism whereby such time can be provided without having to increase the price of legal services, the unaffordable legal services problem is inevitable.

However, there was no evidence that this had led to an increase in the price of legal services.

And so lawyers have to increase the price of legal services because more time is needed to produce them due to changing circumstances, i.e., the rapidly increasing volumes of law, their complexity, dependence upon technology, and the great volumes of records that electronic technology has made possible.

More potent in the long run is the combination of consumers rising up en masse against the high price of legal services and upstarts like J & M seeking to make money by challenging the satus quo.

Not exact matches

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Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

The legal system often lags behind the ever - changing business practices of the digital era; Google's promotion of its own price comparison service had been going on for nearly a decade before the EU Commission's ruling.

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«The current situation with pirated content in the Russian e-book market could be explained by the lack of legal alternatives in terms of service, product range and prices,» says Yurchenko.»

The lower the Loan - to - Value ratio the better because it gives some protection against the risk of a decline in property or home values (prices) which can adversely affect the MIE if it has to pay for expenses associated to selling the property that has been used as collateral such as legal fees, realtor commissionsCommissions What you pay to a broker or agent for their services.

This is all perfectly legal, as long as they (A) include the disclaimer and (B) disclose the full price of their service.

The lawyers must be in a field of public service and helping those that are underserved or unable to secure financial resources for high priced legal defenses and prosecutions.

«In the world of automobiles, what Cirvek bought in terms of legal services was a cross between a Bentley and a Ferrari, with the price tag included.

We agree that consumers would benefit from better information about the price and quality of different legal services providers and we look forward to working with them as they take their work forward.

In contrast, most law firms price work, bill clients, compensate lawyers and reward partners based on the amount of time and effort required to produce and deliver legal services.

This is a critical step towards enhancing the role of paralegals and providing the public greater access to reasonably priced legal services.

Ashe approached this challenge as a business problem versus a legal problem and provided Nike with a response that include structured workflow, new and innovative pricing models, unique SLA's, and a variety of legal services at different price points.

If such technology were used by CanLII, in addition to legal opinions, from its large databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized databases and projects such as databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.

Myers concludes that Google Adwords commoditizes legal services, and that this is detrimental to his business model since, as he puts it, «when your service becomes a commodity, the only remaining determinant between your ounce of gold and someone else's ounce of gold (or whatever commodity) is... price.»

The EU layer of public service regulation further adds to this complexity as it interacts in many different ways with the national legal frameworks in this field: EU law may structure national legal norms, coordinate the provision of services between the Member States, bring about minimal or maximal standards (e.g. pertaining to quality, ubiquity or affordability of the services provided), comprise detailed regulation or even set prices for the provision of public services as in the case of mobile roaming tariffs.

With profit margins continuously getting smaller, working without knowing the true cost (and the relative price) of the legal services provided means risking the closure of a law firm.

The market for legal services for ordinary people is fairly characterized as a market with asymmetric information as to the quality of the lawyer, the price of the services on offer and what is reasonably achievable as a result of proffered services.

If we give people the option of hiring a lawyer for just some of a legal problem instead of all of it, we let them choose the legal services they want, when they want, at a price they can afford.

With only seventeen per cent of service providers publishing their prices online, FSB is pleased the CMA has backed its calls to improve transparency in the market, including considering whether legal providers should be required to publish their tariffs.

Greater transparency on price and quality of legal services will encourage more small businesses to seek expert advice when necessary.

As a result the CMA asked regulators of legal services to revise their regulatory requirements to set a new minimum standard for disclosures on price and service.

According to research published by the Legal Services Board (LSB) in November 2017 in Prices of Individual Consumer Legal Services 2017 only 11 % of firms currently advertise any prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans tServices Board (LSB) in November 2017 in Prices of Individual Consumer Legal Services 2017 only 11 % of firms currently advertise any prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans to Prices of Individual Consumer Legal Services 2017 only 11 % of firms currently advertise any prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans tServices 2017 only 11 % of firms currently advertise any prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans to prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans tservices on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans to prices, 74 % had no current plans to do so.

Consumers find it hard to make informed choices because there is very little transparency about price, service and quality... lack of transparency weakens competition between providers and means that some consumers do not obtain legal advice when they would benefit from it.

«CMA Final Report: Demand for Better Price and Service Transparency from Law Firms, and Review of Legal Regulation.»