Sentences with phrase «smaller law departments»

And it certainly makes sense for smaller law departments which do not have the resources to hire top talent in all substantive areas in which legal work is done.

A lot of our readers are in smaller law departments, less than five people in many of them.

The «lack of simple and inexpensive matter management software tools for smaller law departments» was identified by 15 per cent of in - house counsel in public companies as the most important challenge.

Not exact matches

Dale Brown, FSI's president and CEO, stated on the call that FSI, as well as the other groups joining the suit, «has supported a uniform fiduciary standard since 2009 — before Dodd - Frank became law... but the Department of Labor's complex and unworkable rule will only harm the smaller investors it claims to protect.»

Small correction: When ATF was moved to the Department of Justice, under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, its law enforcement and regulatory functions were split.

The committee will also discuss «a Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of small business services to report violations concerning public wholesale markets.»

2014 has been a significant year of accomplishments for Mark, including working with the Legislature to pass a balanced budget with a small tax cut, opening the Erie County Health Mall, signing an executive order requiring that all contractors with Erie County comply with equal pay laws for women, restructuring the Department of Social Services while hiring more CPS caseworkers, and managing the emergency response to four major weather - related events: two blizzards, flooding in West Seneca and Winter Storm Knife.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

It might take a change in law for the Department to change their practice, which is no small feat.

San Diego Humane Society's Humane Law Enforcement department offers a wide range of volunteer opportunities through its Animal Rescue Reserve (ARR), a team of trained volunteers who assist during disasters by safely evacuating horses, livestock and smaller pets.

The policy change, expected to be authorized soon by Hawaii governor David Ige, who appointed Case to head the Department of Land & Natural Resources in April 2015, states that, «Any dog, cat, or other domestic pet, while being a stray within a small boat harbor, may be seized by officers and employees of the department, or by any other person authorized by law, and shall be disposed of as provided in chapter 183D - 65, Hawaii Revised StatutDepartment of Land & Natural Resources in April 2015, states that, «Any dog, cat, or other domestic pet, while being a stray within a small boat harbor, may be seized by officers and employees of the department, or by any other person authorized by law, and shall be disposed of as provided in chapter 183D - 65, Hawaii Revised Statutdepartment, or by any other person authorized by law, and shall be disposed of as provided in chapter 183D - 65, Hawaii Revised Statutes.»

This matter - based court deadline solution inside Outlook will be designed for law firms and legal departments and will work with all small business and enterprise versions of Office 365 that include Outlook online or on premise, ranging from Exchange Online all the way up to Microsoft's Office 365 Enterprise 5 which includes voice with Cloud PBX.

Lawyers must thrive in a world where information is readily available and growing exponentially and that includes small law firms even if they don't have specialized e-discovery or technology - related departments, according to a panel of experts on the subject.

Best Paths to White Collar Criminal Lawyer — If you're interested in practicing white collar criminal law, Biglaw may not always be the best option right out of law school, suggests Professor Ellen Pogdor at White Collar Crime Profs.. Other options include Department of Justice Honors Program, the FBI, state attorney generals» offices or smaller firms that specialize in white collar criminal practice.

Corporate legal departments also generally offer greater benefits and perks than law firm respondents, although that may be a reflection more of the size of an organization than of anything else as smaller law firms don't tend to offer many perks or extensive benefits.

As Lorne O'Reilly, senior counsel of Dow Chemical, defined it in the call when we determined the Toronto District School Board as the winner in the category of Law Department Management, small departments and our overall winner of Innovation of the Year:

As corporate legal departments become more like small law firms, changes need to be made to improve legal department operations and overall corporate legal efficiency.

Agile Legal enables small law firms and legal departments to focus on their areas of expertise while operating their organizations more effectively and efficiently.

Entity regulation is about regulating the entity in which lawyers work (e.g., law firms, corporate law departments, government law departments, and solo and small firms).

We work with small, mid-size and large Law Firms, as well as Global 1000 corporate legal departments, on both project - based work and extended - term retained leadership assignments.

I suspect not too many solo and / or small law firms have their own IT departments — will LexisNexis be providing technical support as well for the Practice Suite?

But that's often not the case, especially for smaller law firms that don't have a human resources department.

«All in - house legal departments, small, medium, and large, are experiencing challenges requiring them to be more efficient,» says Emily Jelich, senior vice president and senior associate general counsel for the Royal Bank of Canada law group.

J. Craig Williams: I read that most of the major police departments in the country and many smaller legal departments have robots, in fact I am not sure a lot of people are aware of that, do we need either of your opinion legislation of any kind, either on a state level or on a federal level to address the use of robots in law enforcement?

Our two subcommittees pursue initiatives seeking to address the needs of larger law firms and corporate law departments, as well as solo / smaller firms.

• Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa (CLASA) Achievement Award, sponsored by ENSafrica — The Honourable Judge Dikgang Moseneke • International Law Firm of the Year — Baker & McKenzie • African Law Firm of the Year — Large Practice, sponsored by AfricaLegalJobs.com — Anjarwalla & Khanna • African Law Firm of the Year — Small Practice — AB & David • General Counsel of the Year, sponsored by Eversheds — Pieter Badenhorst — AFGRI • Legal Department of the Year — Large Team, sponsored by Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group — South African Reserve Bank • Legal Department of the Year — Small Team — Life Healthcare Group • Legal Counsel of the Year — Jonathan Maphosa — South African Reserve Bank • Assistant / Associate Solicitor of the Year — Ghassan Sader, Hogan Lovells • Innovation Award — Barefoot Law • CSR Award, sponsored by AfricaLegalJobs.com - AFGRI; Baker & McKenzie • Diversity, Transformation and Economic Empowerment Award — AB & David • M&A Team of the Year — Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer • Banking, Finance and Restructuring Team of the Year — Baker & McKenzie • Competition and Regulatory Team of the Year — Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group • Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year — Webber Wentzel • Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year — Chadbourne & Parke • TMT Team of the Year — DLA Piper • Employment Law Team of the Year — ENSafrica • IP Team of the Year — Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group • Transportation and Infrastructure Team of the Year — Hogan Lovells • Property and Construction Team of the Year — Hogan Lovells

But despite the gaggle of surveys that have pronounced on this subject, the number of firms that a given law department fires each year is probably a small fraction of all of its law firm relationships.

Alternative fees and discount arrangements with law firms were at the top of the list, in addition to strategies small legal departments have employed to take more work in - house as a cost - saving measure.

During law school, he spent a summer as a law clerk for a small plaintiff's firm and was later employed in the corporate legal department of the J.R. Simplot Company.

Figure 6: Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report Macro Trend: Law departments use only a small set of law firms for M&A work Based on rolling 12 - month totals ending December 31 for years 2011 to 2Law departments use only a small set of law firms for M&A work Based on rolling 12 - month totals ending December 31 for years 2011 to 2law firms for M&A work Based on rolling 12 - month totals ending December 31 for years 2011 to 2015

Note in particular that for practices such as M&A, law departments use only a small set of law firms.

The stated mission according to its website is: «To help legal operations professionals and other core corporate legal industry players (e.g. tech providers, law firms, LPOs, law schools, etc.) optimize the legal service delivery models needed to support the needs of small, medium, and large legal departments.»

Private KM teams Imagine this: a small group of lawyers (as few as five, up to around 20, ideally about 10), each potentially in a different type of environment — a large law firm, a small boutique, a sole practice, an in - house department, a law faculty, whatever.

Most tasks handled by large law firms, by small law firms, and by in - house legal departments are made - to - order.

However, with increasingly advanced AI discovery software, a small legal department can now quickly analyze any kind of data and determine whether or not it is necessary to pay money to a law firm for the full complement of legal services.

In - house legal departments of 49 or fewer lawyers are evaluated in the Small Law category.

Available to law firms, legal departments, and small and solo attorneys worldwide.

Using legal matter management systems to perform data mining saves legal professionals time and money while giving even small law firms and legal departments a competitive edge.»

We also serve as an outsourced legal marketing department for small - to mid-sized law firms that do not have an in - house marketing department.

All three provide in - house counsel the opportunity to advise nonprofit organizations or small businesses and are produced in collaboration with legal departments, ACC chapters, local public interest organizations, and major law firms.

The response to the event was amazing — with lawyers participating from Fortune 500 legal departments (including Abercrombie & Fitch, Allstate, Microsoft, Scripps Networks Interactive and Shell Oil); large and small private law firms (including Armstrong Teasdale and Knobbe Martens), and government organizations (including Freddie Mac and the Department of Justice).

In smaller law firms with fewer departments, the training opportunities may be more limited and your training contract will need to be tailored accordingly.

Smaller firms are more flexible, and therefore can accommodate the demand by in - house law departments to adjust quickly to market demands, and provide responsive legal counsel based on current needs.

Law departments here, meanwhile, are much smaller in than those in the U.S., and so less capable of in - sourcing the really big projects.

Our consulting clients have included law firms in 70 different countries ranging from small boutiques to the world's largest, as well as corporate legal departments throughout the Fortune 100.

Working with large and smaller firms, practice groups, clients, in - house law departments and non-traditional legal service providers, I draw on my years of practicing law and as a consultant to increase the effectiveness of the legal industry.

Key awards include International Law Firm of the Year, African Law Firm of the Year (Large and Small Practice), General Counsel of the Year and Legal Department of the Year (Large Team and Small Team).

Our clients range from major international law firms to small, often first generation, independent firms and with legal departments ranging from hundreds of lawyers across multiple locations to a small team in one location.

Combine that data with innumerable client engagements, from small law firms to large — and from corporate legal departments to legal services bureaus — and we're able to chronicle insights for the market in neatly packaged white papers.

Many of these smaller legal teams work for large and high - brand recognition companies, proving again what the demographics of law departments have shown for years: that many of the largest companies have small legal teams because they live by the values of a more carefully - sourced service management philosophy for cost centers in the company.