Sentences with phrase «production of legal services»

[7] For a discussion of economies of scale and other «economies» for the production of legal services without the use of support services, see; Professor Noel Semple, Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2015) at pp. 167 - 182.

More likely the commercial production of legal services by such as, LegalZoom, [i] RocketLawyer, and LegalX, will provide a safety valve to relieve the potentially fatal public and political pressure upon law societies that the social media could generate.

No longer can they adequately regulate the legal profession without a civil service to advise and carry out major law society - sponsored services, such as the innovations in the production of legal services that would make legal services again affordable to the majority of society.

All of beneficial uses of technology should be made available to the production of legal services.

Instead, the commercial market for the production of legal services will fill the economic vacuum created by the unaffordability of a lawyer's services, particularly legal advice services.

Therefore we see for example, LSUC embracing apps, with no assessment as to: (1) their relation to, and impact upon solving the problem; (2) their ability to bring about the economies - of - scale so badly needed in the production of legal services; (3) their ability to serve and sustain the continued existence of the general practitioner; (4) the prevalence (frequency and availability) of the solicitor - client relationship among all of the many and fast - moving developments in the provision of legal services; and, (5) the issues set out above.

But it is the innovation of: (1) alternative legal services that cut costs by cutting the competence of the people who deliver the legal services; (2) the commercialization and industrial production of legal services (such as, LegalX, LegalZoom, LegalZoom (Canada), Axiom, and, Neota Logic); and, (3) of ownership of law firms by investors referred to as, «alternative business structures.»

And the other response being used by law societies — «apps,» (applications of electronic technology to the production of legal services), won't create affordable legal services.

It is innovation that creates national support services for the production of legal services.

That's why support services methods exist everywhere in the production of everything, except where there are poorly functioning monopolies such as in the production of legal services.

The production of legal services is not so different than the production of other services that do depend upon support services.

Rather, limiting the means of production of legal service to spending lawyer time (or time directly supervised by a lawyer on a problem) is inherently limiting and so needs for some legal services are unmet.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

In the letter to you Dr Kachikwu alleged among others appointments and postings in NNPC without due process; award of contracts above $ 20m without following the legal and procedural requirements for such contracts including the Crude Term contracts - value at over $ 10bn; the DSDP contracts - value over $ 5bn; the AKK pipeline contract - value approximately $ 3bn; various financing allocation funding contracts with the NOCs — value over $ 3bn; and various NPDC production service contracts — value at over $ 3bn — $ 4bn.»

As the Chief Operating Officer of Author Solutions, Bill leads the Global Fulfillment Department — production, design, customer service, author marketing services, digital content management, and distribution — and oversees Information Technology, the Program Management Office, and the Legal Department.

Neither Golden Financial Services, nor any participants in the production of this website make any representation that they are attorneys, nor that they are able to offer legal advice.

Led by group of AAA games industry veterans, Versus Evil's services include the full suite of publishing support including brand marketing, community, social, PR, creative, production, QA, legal, distribution and other general business support.

I started LAO LAW in 1979, and therefore know the purpose and power of support services methods of production, and the technology of centralized legal research.

Support services methods of production are essential to solving the «unaffordable legal services problem.»

As a result, the A2J problem of unaffordable legal services is inevitable because law firms do not have the necessary high degree of specialization and volume of production that produce the economies - of - scale necessary to maintain legal services as affordable.

In regard to each particular type of legal service, no law firm has a sufficient volume of production in regard to each legal service.

It continues as a true support service but it has had to shift from emphasizing its production of complete legal opinions, to the free downloading of highly specialized memoranda of law, factums, and other materials.

The new Proclaim Mediation Case Management system has been designed to eliminate time - consuming document production and simplify the complicated rates and structures associated with this particular area of legal services.

The support services method of production makes much higher degrees of competence compatible with much higher degrees of cost - efficiency and volumes of producing legal services than any law firm is capable of.

It exists because the method of producing legal services dictates that there can be no economies - of - scale in the practice of law, i.e., the cost of production can not be lowered by greater volumes of production.

The support services method of production is not limited to legal research products.

The solution requires the legal profession to change from its «handcraftsman's - cottage industry» type of production, to a support services method of production.

An example of a very effective support service would be the production of legal research services and products.

A significant part of his practice centers on the special legal problems associated with production, marketing, and distribution of products and services, including the selection and termination of distribution channels, pricing, advertising and promotional programs, competition law compliance, intellectual property protection, and products liability prevention.

For attorneys who are able to provide unbundled legal services online, some of the benefits include increased client revenue, expanded online client base and improved flexibility in the work schedule as a result of the technology's ability to streamline the production of legal work.

As a result, law firms are not sufficiently specialized, nor scaled - up sufficiently in their volumes of production, to be able to provide high quality legal advice services at affordable prices.

We then describe five areas in which machine intelligence will provide services or factors of production currently provided by lawyers: discovery, legal search, document generation, brief generation, and prediction of case outcomes.»

Many of the biggest legal web marketing providers have video production services.

Scott focuses on legal issues in virtually all aspects of the energy sector, including oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, storage, power, chemical, petrochemical, energy marketing, and well service.

To the contrary, because of its very inadequate cost - efficiency and production capacity, the «handcraftsman's» method has been replaced by support services methods everywhere, except by the legal profession.

The technology to automate the production of headnotes (for example) will continue to improve, and since that technology will have much wider application (in parsing communication more generally as part of advancement in the fields of human - machine interaction and artificial intelligence research), it is unlikely that commercial legal reporting services will end up controlling that technology.

The method of producing legal services is very obsolete, i.e., making a cottage - industry method of production more cost - efficient will not enable the production of affordable legal services.

Agreed: affordability requires that the infrastructure for the delivery of legal services has to: (1) parallel that of the medical profession, i.e., specialist lawyers serving generalists; (2) thereby producing the highest degree of competence re every factor of production; and, (3) producing the large economies - of - scale required for affordable legal services.

No law firm has the necessary degree of specialization of staff, legal materials used, re-use of previously created work - product, or scaled volumes of production, to be able to cope with rapidly expanding volumes of laws, complexity of laws based upon technology, and the masses of records created by the automating of records by electronic technology — every interaction, communication, and transmission that we have now, produces a record, which could be related to some legal service, and records are now the most frequently used kind of evidence in legal proceedings.

Its capabilities cover the heart of the EDRM — from automated collections and legal holds, through processing, search, analytics, review, production and reporting — and it is supported by both Catalyst's own Professional Services team and a global partner network.

Financial disclosure: a new power to require production of financial records where the Legal Services Comission believes the business is at risk.

Founded in 1992, TLS offers a full suite of services, including digital forensics and e-discovery, web - based hosting and review, legal staffing, language services, court reporting, and paper discovery and production.

From relatively simple state court proceedings to cases ranging from complex multidistrict litigation, The National Legal Research Group has assisted our attorney - clients with many discovery - related services such as: requests for production, deposition summaries, the preparation of interrogatories, motions to compel discovery, deposition preparation, and requests for admissions.

A compensation plan that is well - conceived and skillfully implemented should: (1) enhance the ability of the lawyers to provide a high quality of legal work; (2) reward extraordinary performance in terms of business developers, over-achievers (production and collection) rising «young stars» and lawyer managers (legal and administrative); (3) promote an atmosphere conducive to client service; (4) attract and retain qualified lawyers; (5) encourage efficiency through division of skills and utilization of the expertise within the firm; and (6) improve the economics of the practice.

The constant refinement of each produces a continuingly improving cost - efficiency, which when combined with a greatly scaled - up volume of services rendered, produces a reduction in the costs of production that is not possible in any other part of the legal profession.

GPS&L provides a complete portfolio of legal services to help clients comply with the maze of regulatory requirements for the production, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Through the support of such a broad and influential client base within the legal industry, TLS was able to successfully launch and grew these new service offerings, including forensic data acquisition, e-discovery, paper discovery and production, managed review, staffing, and court reporting.

The passion and professionalism of our world - class court reporters legal video specialists and production support team is reflected in all our services.

A commercially orientated upstream oil and gas lawyer with extended experience advising on the acquisition and divestiture of exploration / production assets and on M&A deals as well as overseeing legal and commercial transactions of oil operators and service companies in Africa.

For more than 100 years, production of everything, that isn't produced by a monopoly producer like the legal profession, has undergone a continuous transition from cottage industry - handcraftsman's methods to support services methods.