Sentences with phrase «so alternative arrangements»

If you have a septic tank, please notify your doctor so alternative arrangements can be made.

Not exact matches

If you count only those whose primary way to earn a living comes from a so - called alternative work arrangement, you get to about 15 % of the American labor force.

So Apple sought alternatives to the tax arrangement Ireland would soon shut down.

We have now reached the 6 months mark and I am not ready for the transition to his nursery so will get a few more weeks before I find an alternative arrangement.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

If you believe that it will be difficult to access your home please call us so that we can make alternative arrangements to see your pets.

If it is determined that we can not get to you we can make arrangements to meet you in an alternative location so that we can see your pets.

«We quickly made alternative arrangements with other ferry operators so that our passengers could use our tickets on the Dover - Calais route,» said Christopher.

Check - in / out times Check - in from 15h00 to 21h00 Check - out by 10h00 If you will be arriving later than 21h00, please contact us so we can make alternative arrangements.

After that, you'll typically be reimbursed for up to $ 500, though some cards provide only $ 250 per person so check with the issuer before you overbook your alternative arrangements.

«With increasing demands for predictable budgets in traditional hourly matters and the growth in fixed - fee and other alternative fee arrangements with clients, Parker Poe needed a solution that would help the firm manage these client needs more effectively and to do so profitably.»

Now, in this panel discussion, we take the next step, as law firm and inhouse representatives explain how alternative arrangements are developed and tweaked so that both sides can derive value.

«At a time when general counsel are looking for alternative billing arrangements, the playing field has been leveled, so smaller firms can make pitches to big clients that would have fallen on deaf ears before,» DuPont General Counsel Thomas L. Sager told Cotts.

So, even if you're not quite ready to make the change to value - based billig, perhaps it's time start thinking about alternative fee arrangements.

To do so, a lawyer must first assess the case, determine the time that will likely be involved, apply the rate for the lawyer's time per hour and the rate for an associate lawyer time per hour (or determine whether an alternative fee arrangement is appropriate), charge for staff time, and estimate any other likely expenses.

So are attorney alternative fee arrangements here to stay, or this just a bump in the road to the slow death of the billable hour?

In much of the writing on this subject, the focus has been on so - called alternative fee arrangements or «AFAs», pricing strategies that are based on fixed - price or cost - plus models that make no reference to billable hours in the calculation of fees.

Fees are controlled through a combination of strong billing guidelines, rational alternative fee arrangements, real - time feedback on performance, streamlining of staffing, strategy, and tactics, early exploration of settlement and ADR, and so on.

If so many of us can't or aren't interested in accommodating exclusive romantic relationships, perhaps it's time for us as a society to be more embracing of alternative arrangements, ranging from the sort of open but binary relationships websites like AdultFriendFinder and SeekingArrangement seem to be designed for, to more enduring polyamorous relationships.

Even where a library might switch to lower - priced alternatives, this arrangement leaves it without savings to do so.

work can be better tracked so that the law firm has a sense of how long it takes to complete certain pieces of work so they can better estimate the cost to do the work — especially useful if clients are asking for alternative fee arrangements

KAREN MACKAY: It's interesting because I do hear it from both sides — from general counsel and from managing partners, who are trying to cope with all of this — and in so many firms, because general counsel, the client, has grown up in an hourly rate environment, in many cases, they'll come back with an alternative fee arrangement, it's just a lower hourly rate or a lower hourly rate by volume.

In my experience so far, the success of alternative billing arrangements is dependent on a number of factors:

The alternative fee arrangements don't work if there's no trust in the relationship, so that's why there must be completely full transparency between the law firm and the client, and there has to be constant communication.

serious, for the first time, about alternative fee arrangements, caps and blended rates, rate freezes, and so on

Indeed, as we said years ago in the post chronomentrophobia, «from the perspective of the overworked associate or partner, there is nothing wrong with the billable hour fee system that is not very likely to be carried over to any alternative billing arrangements, so long as the firm expects the shift to be made without reducing its income or profits, and the lawyer expects the same income.

But I'm so interested in talking about this publication and its importance to the developing field of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs, a topic we're focused on these days at Edge) that I'm willing to blur genres — and in any event, at 150 pages, it's not like this is a pamphlet.

Even so, my fee - for - service arrangement, as an alternative to commission, has served well, if not perfectly.

I was excited, too, thinking, wow... my house can look like that?!?!? So true about finding alternative arrangements for kids!