Sentences with phrase «targeted by larger firms»

Altman Weil's report explained that this was because intellectual property boutiques have become prime targets for the larger law firms, and are currently being targeted by larger firms looking to expand their knowledge bases rather than just their practices.

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Trends Bribery & Corruption Anti-bribery and corruption enforcement efforts are picking up worldwide, with private firms more likely to be targeted, while large, state - owned enterprises are getting off easier, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.

By 2018, China expects the top 10 local companies to account for 80 percent of the domestic market, with the largest three - to - five firms targeting annual sales of over five billion yuan ($ 818.

The firm was funded by large Republican donor Robert Mercer, and Trump's campaign used it to target ads on Facebook.

Most efforts have targeted the largest 200 publicly traded fossil fuel firms, maintained by a company called Fossil Free Indexes.

Our findings are consistent with those of Holderness and Sheehan (1985), who document significant price increases for firms targeted by «notorious» corporate raiders of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and also with those of Bethel, Liebeskind, and Opler (1998), who show similar results for firms targeted by individuals, rather than corporate or institutional large shareholders.

Money is too powerful and the nonlawyer string pullers would demand financial coverage, not just for our current costs of (a) overhead, (b) income to the lawyer, and, if you are in a firm large enough to be subject to billing targets set by management / compensation committees, (c) return to the partners, but also (D) profits to the string pullers.

At the moment, smaller law firms are being targeted by those threat attackers lower down the food chain but they are being targeted more frequently than the larger firms who are ignored by those less capable attackers.

Seven of the UK's 20 largest firms by revenue are actively considering ushering in targets: Eversheds Sutherland, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Ashurst, Gowling WLG, Pinsent Masons, CMS and Clyde & Co..

Claims firm Minster Law is targeting significant growth and expansion into new areas of law following its acquisition by insurance business BGL Group — a deal that marks the largest outright takeover of a UK law firm to date.

As a rule, large law firms are targeted more often than smaller ones, and those law firms that operate in the cloud are typically the least affected by cybercrime.

Despite this, the billable hours system continues to be used by the vast majority of large and medium firms in Australia, with some 86 % of solicitors in Queensland reporting that they have a billable hours target which they are required to meet as part of their job.

Miles Brown, CEO, commented: «This merger will make Coffin Mew one of the largest law firms in the region — and sets us firmly on track to achieve our target of being a # 20m turnover company by 2020.

Typically in Australian firms lawyers are in a lock - step system for the first two years of practice, following which pay increases are dependent on performance assessed, in large measure, by satisfaction of billable hour targets.

There are far larger targets than us (oil industry, cola companies, Ticket sales for events (a total monopoly by one firm)-RRB- but we are the public target of choice.