Sentences with phrase «smaller value cases»

Whilst this is not the first litigation funding product launched specifically to supply the smaller value cases, it is the first time that a major litigation funder has taken a strategic position in this part of the market.

«In a problem which has become pandemic in class actions, class counsel are not much interested in small value cases,» he wrote.

Not exact matches

It's very difficult to say generically because if you have quite a small niche store then in some cases, homepage will have a strong value proposition.

As a result, the number of stocks meeting traditional «value» criteria has been smaller than is typically the case.

Everyone from corporate clients to people with smaller cases want the best value, and many boutique firms have earned a reputation for not only providing quality legal service, but also for being able to provide a personal touch that is often lacking with giant national firms.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Both species were less defensive at 11,000 and 16,000 microatmospheres (considered worst - case scenario values for many lakes)-- displaying fewer neck spikes or developing smaller crests.

The difference is that, yeah, in the one case the economic values go to a small segment of people and in the other case it's shared by all of us.

If this is the case, it would explain both the low value of the total bolometric flare energy (as the absolute luminosity of the superflare stars and thus the total bolometric flare energy would be larger) and the S index (as the light entering the fibre would likely be contaminated and the observed emission in the H and K lines would therefore be relatively small).

In other cases, your diet may not be working for you even if you have small portions because you're eating foods that have high calorific value.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

As with the cases discussed above, the differences could come from variations in teachers» true value - added across student groups or from measurement error enhanced by the small sample size.

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In 93 % of the cases, a 15 - year investor in small - cap value stocks would have obtained a compound return of 10 % or more, with the average being 17 %.

From 1928 through 2014 there were 48 periods of 40 - years, and in every case the small - cap value index had a compound return above 11 %.

As a result, only the small number of stand - alone law schools or law schools that otherwise have a unique ED identification number can even know the CDR, which, as discussed above, is of little to no value in any case.

I'm considering converting my small business into a worker co-op where all employees are also owners of the company, and I'm wondering how each worker's share (e.g. in the case of preferred stock) and the value of standard shares can be tracked and managed.

My house is one of the smallest on Cape Coral - mORTGAGE REMAINING = 34,000 after 16 years - Bought for 63,000 in 2000 Market value is 85,000 yOU ASSUME EVERYONE HAS A lot of $ $ $ on hand - that is not the case here - I have had many health problems etc etc

I would rather be somewhat more diversified among international, small - cap and value stocks in case large US growth stocks have an extended period of poor performance.

And in the case of small - cap value funds, the advantage compared with the S&P 500 is almost 4 % per year.

Regular readers of my blog might think that I'm a long only value investor, but that's not the case: I do sometimes take small short positions in companies that seem fraudulent, have a poor business model or are simply far too expensive.

Dirk Cotton gives a good argument that this is not the case because duration measures the expected change in value for only very small changes in interest rates.

And in some cases — like Choung's new condo in Phoenix — homes are selling for a small fraction of their former value.

A discount due to the liquidity of the holdings, and the uncertainty of the market value is probably warranted, but since these holdings are just a small part of the portfolio it's not going to materially alter the investment case.

Paul recently did a podcast in which he made a case for VIOV being a better choice than VBR for US small - cap value.

Just as is the case in developed markets, riskier small and value stocks produce higher returns than large - cap stocks over the long term.

Although I don't recommend two - asset - class portfolios such as that, this comparison is a good way to demonstrate the value of including a specific asset class (in this case international small - cap value stocks) into a portfolio.

In each case, it is worthwhile to note the lackluster annualized returns of both large and growth indexes, relative to the strong annualized returns delivered by all of the indexes labeled small or value.

Even though both strategies will yield ridiculously good returns, the fact that most of these companies don't have extremely durable moats means that just in case you're holding on these stocks while the stock market is entering a bear market, these companies might not survive the bear market due to narrow or no moats, or they will drop in value much more due to being in small to medium cap.

But, as is usually the case in ANY of these programs, buying points / miles outright is almost always a terrible value and should only be done when you need a small number to reach a certain award ticket level or something like that.

Or in our case, earn points for a small upfront cost, and use them for travel expenses with a much higher value.

What this does, of course, is tend to «compress» large temperature changes in some proxies toward the smaller values from other proxies, to the extent that the larger changes are accompanied by larger SDs, which is often the case, thereby homogenizing the extent of actual temperature change.

However, in order for the temperature to remain finite (and if b is negative, in order for the temperature to not be negative), such a Planck function distribution can not hold at the smallest ztau values (regions close to L), in which case, the linear proportionality must break down at sufficiently large CSD, when the region near L with the different Planck function distribution becomes a significant portion of the EWF's.

In our internal tests the difference the exact value made was small and we used a single value in the iRF and ERF cases.

There are additional problems related to the negative values of L, but their share is very small in this case.

... One doesn't expect Team adjustments to leave even small scraps on the table and this proved to be the case here as well — the added data substantially increased 20th century values and substantially lowered 1150 - 1250AD values, thereby altering the medieval - modern differential in favor of the 20th century.

As shown in Fig. 3, the EDoF of model ensembles increases with increasing number of ensemble members, appearing to asymptote to a relatively small value for some ensembles, but continuing to increase in other cases.

But in the model runs, though the distribution of trajectory errors included the values you found in your test (between the 90 and 95 % 2 - tailed CIs), the vectors were random and in only 10 % of the cases did the small balls move in the same direction (within experimental error).

Along the way, I have worked with Steve on numerous smaller projects and in every case he has not only carried things out but added value.

We manage any procedure from initial enquiries to fraud investigations, and any court action from small tribunal cases to high value litigation at all levels.

By raising the bar up to # 10,000, cases may now be allocated to the small claims track if they fall within that value bracket.

If the monetary value exceeds this specified limit, the case will need to be transferred to outside of small claims court.

The mainstream market caters for high - value cases (where cost / damages ratios are estimated to be at least 1:10) but there is a limited market for smaller matters, provided the damages are sufficient to discharge the funder's investment and success fee while leaving the lion's share for the client.

It is common experience that it is advantageous to read all the available papers so as to gain an overview of the entire case rather than limit that task to the relatively small area that is truly relevant to the expert's own field for the expert evidence in a particular case must be given in relation to the whole case if the opinion is to be of real value to the court when it comes to decide on the issues before it.

Will they be sufficiently discouraged to overlitigate the small ones such that the settlement value of the small cases are actually in line with the claimed injury suffered by the employee?

For disputes with large amounts at stake costs are less of a problem but for most cases, where value ranges from small claims to those worth tens (even low hundreds) of thousands the system is seen by many as prohibitively expensive.

Unlike a large proportion of personal injury cases, a claim with relatively low value does not equate necessarily with low costs as «smaller» cases are often just as complex and sometimes more so than high value cases.