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Jao says the law firm that counsels Retention Science provided it with discounted advice that the company didn't have to pay for during the first two years of getting off the ground.

Assembly spokesman Michael Whyland said the law firm was chosen by the bipartisan Assembly Ethics Committee and that Silver had no role in the selection.

Mr. Lippman said the law firm where he now works, Latham & Watkins, would set up the commission, and that it would receive help from the Center for Court Innovation.

A person briefed on the negotiations, but not authorized to comment publicly on the matter, said the law firm has discussed having Saint - Gobain pay its fees directly to the firm once any agreement is finalized.

The mayor said the law firm was hired in November at the recommendation of the village's attorney, John R. Patterson, Jr., and that the Village Board has «discussed components of the agreement» with a village citizens group, Healthy Hoosick Water, and received suggestions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health.

Overall, the number of lawyers who say their law firm has a website has changed little over the last few years.

You could say that law firms need to think local, act mobile.

The associate law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago - Kent College of Law says law firms can be better predictors of their services if they capture and analyze their data.

There are critics like Kowalski who say the law firm model is broken but Mackay maintains the model is just changing.

Lutecki says law firms are hiring to expand lucrative practice groups or establish new services while legal departments are recruiting professionals to support an increase in case work related to commercial litigation and transactions.

Vitaly Timokhov, a tax lawyer at Tax Chambers LLP, says the law firms could have been involved to incorporate the Canadian side of these companies, act as advisers for beneficiaries, or settlors of trusts, or help set up an offshore financial structure for companies to create «tax efficiencies.»

If the postings from this past week in the blogosphere are any indication, I'd say that law firms may need to make some modifications to their pricing structure if they want to keep clients happy.

Carayiannis said law firms may want to look at marketing their lawyers, and their value proposition in new ways, beyond their technical expertise.

Our survey shows 72 per cent of in - house counsel respondents say law firms have not contacted them in any way over the past year to take the pulse of the relationship.

With the salary raise, Roster said law firms will put more pressure on associates to bill, and partners may have more incentive to charge clients for associate learning time.

Jack Newton, the co-founder of Clio, a cloud - based practice management tool for lawyers, says law firms who want to attract startup clients need to show a willingness to embrace new ways of doing business.

A majority — 72 % said their law firms were more likely to use the cloud this year.

Hugh Louge, an analyst with Outsell, Inc., says law firms are caught in the middle amid new means to deliver legal services, according to a premium report titled «Information as a Legal Service.»

In a survey for 200 US - based attorneys by Robert Half Legal, three in every 10 say their law firm has plans to hire in the latter half of this year.

Citing Molly Porter's post, Robert Algeri at the Great Jakes blog says the law firm website isn't going anywhere, in part because

In the Canadian Lawyer Corporate Counsel Survey, published in the November / December 2008 issue, 92 per cent of the corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 12 months.

Brooke says law firms have learnt lessons from the recession of the early 1990s.

Artificial Lawyer has to say every law firm on the planet should be utilising outward - facing legal bots like this, just as every law firm today now has a website.

There is no law that says your law firm has to go broke to have a great website.

Online rumors say the law firm fired 30 attorneys...

The relationship with contract review system LegalSifter will offer a «combined intelligence» solution for contract negotiation to the UK and Ireland market, said the law firm, that will combine the AI company's NLP technology with their lawyers» legal expertise.

Edmonton - based law firm strategist Patrick McKenna says law firms have moved to shrink their equity partnership ranks because they've exhausted all other options to increase, or simply maintain, partner profitability.

The draft regulations could, says law firm Boodle Hatfield, require even straightforward arrangements to be disclosed, swamping HMRC with information that they do not want or need.

Even though they are seen as important, those compiling legal directories say some law firms fail to gain the rankings they deserve as the firms often leave inexperienced members of staff in charge of submissions.

As a result, Anne Edmonds, Canadian regional manager of Robert Half Legal, said law firms are increasingly dealing with the need to keep their top talent.

The majority — about 62 % — said their law firm typically spends between 8 - 16 hours a month invoicing and billing clients, while 58 % said they felt this was too much time.

Indeed, some would say the law firms» revenue per unit actually declines a bit to the right, so the picture is even worse.

Let's say your law firm marketing plan calls for sending out a weekly email news update.

That is to say law firm websites that publishes daily via instant notifications systems and blogs will steadily increase their position in Google's search results over firms that do not.

In the last few years, though, Web development and marketing professionals say law firms have gotten increasingly serious about the Web.

Law2023 says some law firms will react by tapping technology to find more efficient ways to serve the market.

I'd say law firm Internet marketing boils down to people, process, and performance.

Backtracking from Chubb Insurance's denial of coverage to a law firm with a blog, the insurer now says law firms publishing blogs will be covered by their malpractice policy so long as lawyers are not answering specific questions in a way that could be construed to be legal advice.

Artificial Lawyer - The relationship with contract review system LegalSifter will offer a «combined intelligence» solution for contract negotiation to the UK and Ireland market, said the law firm, that will combine the AI company's NLP technology with their lawyers» legal expertise.

Based on my recent discussions with Justia clients, and my own examination of the site's that they're producing I can confidently say that law firms could do much worse in terms of digital marketing than Justia.

Nearly one - third (31 percent) of lawyers interviewed by Robert Half Legal said their law firm or company plans to expand or add new positions while half (50 percent) said their organizations will be maintaining staff levels by filling vacated posts.

The Interim Report on the Joint Project of The American College Of Trial Lawyers Task Force On Discovery and The Institute For The Advancement Of The American Legal System contains this nugget: 64 % of the respondents (member lawyers, so people who try lots of cases) say law firms» economic models... Continue Reading

It's no excuse to say my law firm doesn't support mobile this or that.

Hal Marcus, a former litigator who now works as an «e-discovery evangelist» for San Francisco - based Recommind, says some law firms may spend too much time focusing on the production side of e-discovery, or getting documents ready to be turned over to the court or opposing counsel.

Malini Moorthy, vice president and associate general counsel at Bayer Corporation, says law firms need to give women more opportunities to lead.

He says law firms, by providing articles, are paying graduates to undergo training.

She says the law firms it works with are looking for new and inventive solutions to bring down the cost of their existing business models, creating efficiencies such as outsourcing legal research and project planning from a legal cost perspective.

There's a line of thought that says law firm Twitter accounts fail when they do little but promote the firm: brag about awards, circulate press releases, and congratulate lawyers on their publications or achievements, but I'm going to differ here.

However, revised regulations, which will be debated by parliament next month, say law firms without Malaysian offices will still be able to advise clients in the country, provided their stay does not exceed 60 days per lawyer, per year.

Bongard says law firms are trying to add more revenue to the top line and that often means recruitment.