Not exact matches
Take a look at some of the things they've been up to: Kelowna
law firm Pushor Mitchell closed its doors this past Tuesday for an excellent
reason: their lawyers and staff were participating in...
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Reasoning: While we have worked with many
law firms over the years for different
reasons, it seems silly to pay a legal entity which I can't even be certain will exist when I die, to keep a document that is much safer and
more readily accessible by my executor somewhere else.
There are many
reasons law firms and legal tech companies would want to identify a model agreement:... [
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But there's a
more important
reason why
law firms can't really create a brand: clients are already doing that for them.
You might object that a
law firm's lawyers don't actually believe that, and you may be right; but that's all the
more reason for
firms to take steps to infuse this ethic organization - wide.
Here are a few great
reasons why solo practitioners and small
law firms need to have a
more niche focus to succeed in the modern legal industry, and some growing legal niches for lawyers to consider.
According to Michael Bryant, Co-Founder and CEO of nSource, «With a focus on driving
more profits to the bottom line and the need to streamline efforts to focus on delivering the highest levels of service to clients,
law firms have historically studied their back / middle office operations for one of two
reasons: 1) As part of a broad - based cost savings / optimization effort or 2) Attorney - driven demand for service improvement due to dissatisfaction with quality, availability of services.
There is a
reason most
law firms bill their students at a much lower rate - a senior legal research lawyer can be
more effective and efficient than a student.
But there is another — equally if not
more compelling —
reason to avoid them: In some instances, it may be the
law firm, not LAWPRO (or your own malpractice carrier if you are outside Ontario), that foots... [
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He agreed already to pay the balance, but it is my belief that he will fail again, because he has been flip - flopping for
more than a year ago and that is my
reason to contact a
Law firm like yours to help enforce him to comply with the rest payments.
One of the
more common
reasons associates defect for another
law firm is to get away from what is affectionately known in HR circles as a «difficult personality» — diplomatic speak for a toxic person.
One
reason more Ivy League alumni aren't CEOs may be that many have traditionally chosen careers in investment banks and at big
law firms, where they could earn big sums quickly and wouldn't have to start in entry - level management jobs.
As a follow - up to this earlier post on
law firm rankings, David Bernstein of Volokh complains that one
reason that there's so much focus on the U.S. News rankings is that the publication has a virtual monopoly on the rankings, though others (like Leiter) provide
more useful information to those concerned about academic quality.
Accomplished medical malpractice and personal injury lawyer Ron Mercaldo founded our
law firm more than 30 years ago for one
reason: to achieve justice for innocent victims of catastrophic loss who are too injured or ill and financially distressed to fend for themselves.
lawyer or
law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other
reason than they can bill
more), which is unfair to our great country - and I am very happy with my existing team.
And while those are valid
reasons, another potentially
more damaging
reason has now emerged: «doppelganger» domain names that are set up in order to steal emails that are supposed to be going to employees at your
law firm or company.
Looks like alot of marketers are going to have to get even
more creative to hold onto their accounts and give
law firms and other large institutions
reasons to hire locally rather than go overseas.
One
reason is that the UK's regulatory environment for legal services has become very flexible (thanks largely to the separation of the SRA and the
Law Society) and incentivises UK
firms to be
more open to alternative models than their US counterparts — as they, and their clients, know that traditional legal services can be easily disintermediated by newlaw competitors.
There are many
reasons you should get
more likes on your
law firm Facebook page such as authority, recognition, and brand awareness.
There are so many
reasons law firms need to do
more to empower their lawyers and staff to excel in their careers.
The main
reason for these programs is to permit a
law firm to run
more smoothly.
For this
reason, we are proud to offer the sophisticated representation of a large
law firm at a far
more affordable rate.
The article is of course by no means a complete bible, covering all the services and all the
reasons why burn victims in Kansas should contact our
law firm, but the article does cover a few important areas in
more detail and we are sure that you will find it interesting and useful.
Consider: (1) the separation from the pack by a few of The AmLaw 200; (2) a recent report by ALM Intelligence revealing that
law firms now account for only 25 % market share; (3) changed customer expectations — «faster, better, cheaper» and «
more with less»; (4) new competitors — notably the BigFour, in - house departments, and legal service providers; (5) the sustainability of the partnership model for economic, cultural, structural, and succession
reasons; and (6) the emergence of legal operations — CLOC and its ACC counterpart — and the distinction between legal practice and delivery.
Often the
reasons law firms are not signing
more cases is actually buried in some of their intake processes rather than in mistakes in their global advertising strategy.
Their
more than 100 years of trial experience,
more than 6,000 cases handled, track record of success in dealings with insurance companies and millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for our many clients are major
reasons why you should choose our
law firm to represent your interests.
There's just a number of
reasons individual
law blogs may be
more successful — especially so in large
firms, where general counsel value the reputation of individual lawyers above the
firm's brand and reputation.
This is all the
more reason to listen to Catherine's outstanding view of
law departments and BigLaw
firms innovating with technology from the insider - outsiders» angle
More and more law firms today are moving to the cloud for various reas
More and
more law firms today are moving to the cloud for various reas
more law firms today are moving to the cloud for various
reasons.
McLachlin asked if those same questions were put to a
law firm or legal organization where the standard
law firm model of all billable hours at the same price, regardless of merit, would perhaps be shown to be one of the
reasons there aren't
more women in
law firms.
Seeking Advice For the
reasons set out above, there is far
more churn in partners leaving
law firms, particularly in London.
Law firm adviser Colin Cameron, president of Vancouver - based Profits for Partners Management Consulting Inc., says larger
firms are
more likely to have subjective merit - based compensation formulas that assess various factors in addition to objective production numbers, one
reason being they have the manpower to run such sophisticated systems.
For that
reason, hiring
more laterals consistently ranks among the top
law firm growth strategies.
Whitten & Lublin, workplace lawyers, has
more recommendations from past clients than any other employment or labour
law firm in the GTA and for a good
reason!
As I've mentioned before, I believe that part of the
reason law firms aren't doing
more to innovate around client value delivery is that clients aren't asking for enough.
While the natural place to start may be compliance with jurisdictional rules and practice directions, other
reasons could include; mastering eDiscovery will position our
law firm as an industry leader; pro-actively addressing eDiscovery considerations will reduce risks for our clients; understanding how to manage electronically stored information (ESI) will provide additional value to our clients and provide a competitive advantage over other
law firms; eDiscovery will enable us to have greater access to information and empower us to collaborate
more effectively with our internal legal team, with outside experts and with the client.
If
law firms truly want to capture the attention of the marketplace, to stand out for all the right
reasons, they need to start thinking
more about how they present themselves to the market and how they deliver their services.
For a variety of
reasons covered here before — closer scrutiny by
more sophisticated and motivated clients, new technology and processes capable of handling rote work cheaply, low - cost alternatives to associates in low - cost jurisdictions — large
firms won't be able to employ armies of associates on work that a bright
law student could do.
Ethical obligations are one of the
reasons that Lizzie Borden's lead lawyer's client files continue to be kept locked away and confidential by the
law firm he established
more than a century ago.
With
law firms and
law schools in crisis, federal and state governments paralyzed, and the citizens restless and weary of
more of the same cynicism and cowardice, we need a comic book hero, someone to inspire us and give us
reason to hope for a brighter day.
But many of the
reasons for the decrease cited in the article — stronger economic times,
more lucrative non-
law career paths, bad publicity about punishing workloads in
law firms — cross gender barriers altogether.
More general counsel decided to cut ties with their external
law firms this year compared to 2012, highlighting price and budget reduction among the top
reasons.
Earlier this year, we were very excited to hear that Sean Robichaud, Criminal lawyer in Toronto, was starting an ambitious project to upload and allow access to his
firm's Criminal
Law Precedents Database (you can read
more about their
reasoning behind their decision here).
The Top 5
Reasons Your
Law Firm Can't Cross-Sell Many years ago as a young marketer at a 500 - lawyer firm, the managing partner tasked me with developing a firm - wide cross-selling project, with the goal of institutionalizing more of our bi
Firm Can't Cross-Sell Many years ago as a young marketer at a 500 - lawyer
firm, the managing partner tasked me with developing a firm - wide cross-selling project, with the goal of institutionalizing more of our bi
firm, the managing partner tasked me with developing a
firm - wide cross-selling project, with the goal of institutionalizing more of our bi
firm - wide cross-selling project, with the goal of institutionalizing
more of our big...
Although I believe that
law firms will gain
more work from clients because they seek feedback on how they are doing, that can not be the
reason for undertaking such a program.
Using Accounting that Makes Sense The
reason I bring this up is that as
law firms become
more sophisticated in their use of practice groups, they are increasingly tracking revenues and expenses to those groups and making management and compensation decisions based on each group's profitability.
«But the other
reason cases are moving
more quickly is that lenders have improved their foreclosure practices and worked out logistics with their
law firms and, as a result, they're geared up to handle foreclosures
more efficiently.»