Sentences with phrase «surprised legal clients»

And then I thought about how surprised legal clients sometimes are when they receive bills.

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This month, we are providing some legal information about your obligation to archive veterinary client emails, and our research may surprise you.

«There are many recent cases where lawyers have found themselves in trouble because of their use of client confidential information in settings that might surprise people,» says Mary K. Foster, counsel to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) review board and lecturer on legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law.

To me the «unconventional and adaptable» element of this role is in surprising our clients with a fresh approach to legal issues.

These initiatives have the potential to materially improve the billing customer service experience that law firms deliver to their corporate legal department clients, i.e., eliminate billing surprises to clients, which is a personal mission of mine!

That means not creating a sense of false hope when defending someone in court and explaining legal policies that may surprise a client.

[1] Second, a legal marketing colleague shared a somewhat surprising client seminar planning experience: on the eve of the seminar, very little lawyer - side preparation had been done, despite his cajoling, stalking and pleading.

That may seem surprising, considering that most clients are also dissatisfied with the cost of legal services, and oftentimes the outcome of the service is less than optimal.

This is not surprising given there is a great disconnect between legal professionals and most clients.

While advertising and marketing your law practice in search engines will not make it rain overnight, if you commit to thinking about how your potential clients might use search to consume legal information, get answers, and perform research, you might surprise yourself as to how successfully you can increase your firm's profile online.

In handling legal matters for our clients, we strive to avoid surprises in every way possible.

Legal clients don't like such surprises, especially cost overruns.

Clients promise anything up front in order to get legal representation, but the reality of legal costs takes them by surprise.

Our clients have come to appreciate and depend upon Conroy Simberg's consistent, no - surprise approach to legal services.

The presentation emphasized practical legal advice, the avoidance of litigation and need for creative solutions when the client must deal with termination, forced changes to planned means and methods, and surprise scope increases.

Given the uncertainty of dispute resolution, flat rate pricing may be appealing for your small dispute clients and help you avoid uncomfortable surprises if their legal fees run up too high against the amount in controversy.

It might come as a surprise to most people that it's legal and accepted by our courts to increase the hourly rate without advising you, or to round up hours to a higher amount, or add on a «premium» for a lawyer's success in court to a client's bill.

It may be no surprise to outside counsel, who have seen corporate clients take more legal work internally in recent years.

After decades of poor billing practices including; lump sum billing, unclear labeling, surprise fees, and delayed billing - clients have lost trust in the legal billing process.

Clients whose expectations have been adequately managed are less likely to turn on their lawyers (rightly or wrongly) than those who are taken by surprise by the result of their case or legal fees.

It is an axiom of legal practice that clients hate surprises, at least the «bad news» kind.

These surprises have often negatively impacted the quality and value of the legal services delivered (or received) and force the practitioner into a reactive solution mode — at a higher risk and greater cost for their clients.

«Numbers of the key findings in our Client - led Innovation in Legal Services report will surprise law firms.

Erin DeGeorge has extensive experience in Family Law and has earned an enviable peer reputation for legal tenaciousness and surprising outcomes for her clients.

Carolyne, Jonh and PED... I'm surprised that none of you, or anyone else for that matter, so far, has not taken me to task for my interpretation of our (Realtors») responsibilities to the interests of both customers and clients from a «ratification» (undocumented) legal perspective.