Sentences with phrase «than an outside firm»

The controversy appears to be over little more than an outside firm's independent research failing to cater to corporate interests, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund - IT.

Not exact matches

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

To a certain extent, the ability to prove a product without significant outside investment is industry - specific — thanks to cloud computing and lower development costs, it has become cheaper than ever to launch a software firm — but it's also a privilege most often afforded to those with deep pockets.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Companies led by a family member were particularly good bets, producing better returns than both widely held firms and those that were family controlled but managed by someone outside the clan.

Toronto law firm Skylaw is also tapping a cloud of outside experts to offer a much wider array of services than a boutique firm could normally boast.

Some small firms choose to appoint an employee as their ISO 9000 representative rather than hire an outside consultant.

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

On Tuesday, Uber was said to have terminated more than 20 employees as a result of its internal investigation led by an outside law firm.

Although it does not appear that this particular issue is top of mind for regulators just now, shadow financial firms that operate outside the standard formats, in both credit and investment markets, should be receiving even more wide - ranging attention than they have been.

It has raised more than $ 4 billion in outside equity and debt financing; its investors include a Who's Who of Silicon Valley venture - capital firms (Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz) and a number of high - profile individuals, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The Park District is exploring whether outside firms could provide refuse collection for all of its regions - except the lakefront - and repair its truck and auto fleet more cheaply and efficiently than in - house workers.

Mr. Silver, an attorney by trade, collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Tuesday released his 2013 tax returns, while his campaign also revealed the Westchester County executive had received more than $ 100,000 in outside income over the last several years from a Connecticut - based media firm.

Senator John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, is one of several Senators who report earning more than $ 100,000 a year from outside employment, in his case also a law firm.

Mr. Silver collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002, according to the complaint.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

The list of potential senior Clinton tech hires also includes more than a dozen specialists with ties to the Obama White House, Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, Democratic congressional campaign offices and the outside groups and firms that supply the party with online infrastructure.

A stinging 35 - page federal complaint said Silver pocketed the loot over more than a decade and that his claims that he had legitimate outside income from personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg was «materially false and misleading.»

Panepinto, who won with less than 50 percent of the vote in 2014, said during his announcement that his decision was both personal and professional, citing the cancer battle being fought by his law firm partner, a looming crackdown on lawmakers» outside income and some sort of sexual harassment probe involving his former chief of staff.

The county hired six outside law firms to defend against the suit, which cost more than $ 500,000.

When I visit Lincoln Center, I find noise up to 80 dB on the street corner outside, but after I step into the empty Tully Hall and close the door behind me, my meter bottoms out at its lower limit of 50 dB for the first time; Holden tells me his firm's measurements show that the sound level in the space is actually less than 25 dB.

NPD's research shows that iPad purchase preference is higher among larger firms than smaller ones, which is an important indicator that Apple is gaining traction far outside its typical consumer space.»

It is my firm belief, and a belief that I think is shared by most people in this room, that the end of cancer is actually closer at hand than anyone outside of this room even realizes,» Parker said at the gala.

It makes up more than three - quarters of the outside layers of your skin and improves upon how firm it is.

The management likely conspired with the bondholders against its shareholders, seemingly in an effort to gain a greater reward from the bondholders who would own the firm post-bankruptcy than they could from operating the firm outside of bankruptcy.

As might be expected, the smaller the firm was, the more they relied upon personal assets rather than outside financing.

2) Immediately hire at least one new highly qualified professional lease termination negotiator or mediator (other than Company's outside counsel or outside commercial real estate firm) to resolve an exit to the remaining lease within 30 days.

Even on the rare moments when you do get outside it's still a colorless world, although this is hardly surprising as it's a horror - survival game and they have a firm belief that having anything other than grey is simply not allowed.

A former nonequity partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Seattle has been disbarred for collecting more than $ 56,000 in fees from outside immigration clients without telling the firm about the...

A former nonequity partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Seattle has been disbarred for collecting more than $ 56,000 in fees from outside immigration clients without telling the firm about the work.

This means any information you send — absent such full execution of a formal engagement letter — may be subject to disclosure to those outside my firm or other than myself, including persons or entities whose interests are, whose interest will be, or whose interests might be adverse to you.

As clients demand more value from their outside counsel relationships and institute SLAs, firms struggle to quantify how they are better serving clients than their competition.

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»

Allstate's legal department decided to divvy up all its outside legal work among 13 firms instead of tapping more than 100 providers, as it routinely used to do.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) slashed spending on firms outside its panel last year by more than 60 %, figures show.

Right now, I am using it for several cases that involve more work than average, and two cases that involve co-counsel outside the firm.

Volkswagen's Dr Manfred Doss went home as Transatlantic General Counsel of the Year, while Archer Daniels Midland secured the Transatlantic Legal Department of the Year award for a technology - led overhaul that has delivered more than $ 20m in savings and seen its 700 - firm outside adviser panel slashed by 75 %.

In 2016, more than 100 individualized responses were provided to lawyers requesting information on topics such as: lawyer mobility (across Canada and outside Canada); how coverage applies where lawyers enter into indemnity agreements with third parties; coverage for firm general counsel; and whether coverage is available for document review work or other non-traditional services, such as those provided by individuals working as workplace investigators, mediators, arbitrators, trustees / executors, or escrow agents.

It found that Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester are the leading cities outside of London, each with more than 750,000 square feet of office space occupied by top 100 law firms.

Field Fisher Waterhouse has confirmed it is in merger talks with LG, in a move which could create a law firm with revenues of more than # 150m, placing it just outside the UK top 20.

Den Ouden noted if a department has more than $ 5 million in outside firm spending a system can net a return on your investment fairly quickly.

There are, of course, now more non-English law qualified A&O partners than English law qualified ones; more partners in the firm's offices outside the UK than in it.

After articling at an established medium - sized Vancouver firm myself 26 years ago, and pretty well staying with downtown Vancouver firms for most of my professional life, I'd have to say that students who article in Surrey or practise for their first few years there (or for that matter, any place outside of downtown Vancouver), may have a greater opportunity for getting into court on a regular basis than their downtown counterparts, who can be stuck compiling lists of documents on multimillion - dollar deals and doing memos of law while their Surrey colleagues are in trial after trial, and chambers application after chambers application, cutting their teeth in front of judges.

A Legal Week Intelligence and Microsoft survey of legal professionals in the UK found that more than two thirds of respondents felt their firm provided them with some of the right technology to do their jobs effectively inside and outside the office, but that there was room for improvement.

This is not an especially new development: as has been the case every year since 2011, the 2015 Altman Weil survey of Chief Legal Officers found that more law departments decreased their spend on outside law firms than increased it.

In fact, other than «Other,» win - generation - likelihood was the factor ranked lowest for how in - house counsel hires outside litigation firms.

With the focus on outcome (ends), rather than strategy (means), your outside law firms are free to concentrate on lawyering and winning for you both.

Frankly, the title is less important than the function, which is to bring the outside into the firm (e.g., client input, market intelligence, competitor intelligence, etc.) and to coordinate the firm's response to that information in ways that (profitably) extend and deepen existing client relationships and establish new ones.