Sentences with phrase «technology at the big firms»

During my time as an articling student in Montreal, technology at the big firms consisted of a Blackberry, a billing system, and a boomerang - shaped...

During my time as an articling student in Montreal, technology at the big firms consisted of a Blackberry, a billing system, and a boomerang - shaped co...

During my time as an articling student in Montreal, technology at the big firms consisted of a Blackberry, a billing system, and a boomerang - shaped conference call contraption that no one knew how to use.

Not exact matches

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

At a time when investment firms are increasingly experimenting with artificial intelligence and technology that can make trading decisions in a fraction of a second, identifying disreputable sources has become a bigger challenge.

In this fund administration special, we bring together five top tech experts to answer the big technology questions facing private equity firms; look at the administrative strain GPs are under; consider the implications of Brexit for UK fund managers; explain how the outsourcing model is changing; consider the challenges faced by CFOs; explore the issues involved in raising a first credit vehicle; plus much more.

Rather than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a middle - aged male Ph.D. toiling at a large U.S. firm — and perhaps born abroad — is more likely to be behind the next big thing, conclude researchers from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Stiff competition for a stiff material «The biggest hurdles are cost, throughput and recycling,» said Ross Kozarsky, senior analyst at Lux Research, a technology research and advisory firm.

The big question is: Do public markets and institutional investors have the stomach for a low - revenue, non-profitable, capital intensive energy firm with a technology unproven at scale — plus, a tortoise problem?

Ulster's Legal Innovation Centre will hold courses in technology aimed particularly — but not exclusively — at the needs of the two big firms in town.

For Thomson Reuters, the big news at LegalTech was the announcement of its new «legal solutions» product strategy and its release of three products tied to that strategy: Concourse, a suite of tools for corporate and government legal professionals; Firm Central, a practice management platform for small firms; and Hosted Practice Technology, a suite of litigation - related tools.

In the latest issue of the ABA Journal, I have an article that looks at two examples of how technology tools are enabling small firms to make use of big data: Small firms are using data tools for analysis, too.

Sam Glover: I guess, I'm curious about what both of you think about this, but there's been a lot of talk about the movement at big firms and I think smaller firms are starting to try to do this too, where you do build the firm up as a brand that guarantees a kind of service and a level of service and institutional knowledge and technology competency, to try and encourage companies and clients of all kinds to hire the firm, not the lawyer and so that the firm can say to the lawyer, «Go ahead and leave.

Here at CosmoLex we are, not surprisingly, big advocates of how technology can help improve law firm practice management.

In looking at this year's International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) attendance list, I saw lots of legal professionals from well - known and well - heeled law firms, a big group of big tech vendors, a few legal startups, and very few practicing lawyers.

If technology is to provide law firms with a strategic advantage, those firms have to be willing to do things differently, to try something new, to think bigger than just the problem at hand.

Before joining Eversheds Sutherland (US) in 2011, Doug served as vice president of property tax services for a major information technology and services company, as principal of the property tax services group with one of the Big Four accounting firms and as a partner at two midsize law firms.

When I first got into legal technology in the early 2000s, law firm knowledge management was a big hot topic at that point in time.

In this September edition of Law Technology Now, host Monica Bay, editor - in - chief of ALM's Law Technology News, joins Dechert's Colleen Nihill, firm wide director of project management and Anthony Licata, chief financial officer, and Kim Craig, director of project management office at Seyfarth Shaw, to discuss how Big Law is adopting legal project management, especially...

So I would humbly suggest that it would behoove the decision - makers at large firms to step back and take a look at the big picture and then rethink their policies and attitudes about emerging technology.

At the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) Solo and Small Firm Technology Conference, the biggest and brightest legal tech minds converged on Columbus, Ohio.

As a fifth - year lawyer at Fulbright, I reached a point where I had to decide what I wanted to do when I grew up — become a big firm partner or... well, there weren't many other options at that time (today, law students are fortunate to have many varied opportunities including project management, technology, data analysis, etc.).

A recent study found half of the lawyers at London's biggest law firms believe AI and machine learning technologies will threaten their roles and lead to job cuts.

By and large, solo attorneys use technology that is at least as cutting edge, if not more cutting edge, than big firms.

«You can have a spot - on profile and the perfect resume, but if you have grammatical and spelling errors or use slang — if it doesn't immediately disqualify you — it puts you at a big disadvantage,» says John Reed, senior executive director at Robert Half Technology, a global IT staffing firm.

For Claire Adams, vice president of Marketing at First Team Real Estate in Irvine, Calif., Real Estate Webmasters (REW) has stepped up to the plate in a big way, providing the firm with a cutting - edge technology package that has set them apart from the cutthroat competition in their local market.