Sentences with phrase «traditional firm setting»

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Before the financial crisis, Wall Street firms were generally not permitted to do traditional consumer lending because they were not set up as federally insured banks.

«As traditional full - service financial advisor businesses set their sights on the high - net - worth investor, many firms are deploying centralized advisor call centers»

The venture investing team has come almost entirely from outside Microsoft, from a diverse set of backgrounds including traditional venture firms, corporate venture arms, and startups.

Even when you set the driving mode selector to the sportiest, GS setting (heavy - effort steering, quicker shifts at higher rpm, and firmer suspension damping), this car remains a traditional Buick — quiet, composed, and tame.

You can set up a traditional or Roth IRA with a brokerage firm or a bank.

The alternative used to be to rely on a traditional financial adviser, for which «you're probably paying a premium for commission - based advice from someone incentivized to sell a specific product,» says Tea Nicola, co-founder and CEO of Vancouver - based robo adviser, WealthBar Financial Services Inc. «Your average investor underperforms the market, before and after costs,» Nicola says, «A set - it - and - forget - it strategy with a traditional firm would come with a high fee.

Millennials come to the table with a set of expectations that are very different from most traditional law firm clients.

It is this emphasis on joint effort and camaraderie — where people strive to perform at their best because they do not want to let their network colleagues down — that not only sets some law firm alliances apart from others, it also sets apart the network model from traditional international law firms.

That is leading to a shift in how law firms are structured, with many taking a sectoral approach to their client matters rather than the traditional practice group set up.

We organize our firm around teams and expect our teams to be more nimble than larger traditional practice groups and be able to set the best strategy and react to a disruptive environment.

The recent move by four Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) partners to break away and launch specialist sports firm Northridge is just one example of a wider trend of sports and media lawyers leaving larger, more traditional firms to set up shop in tightly - focused boutiques.

As far as possible we wish to have one set of principles and rules for both traditional law firms and ABSs in order to deliver consistent regulatory protection for consumers and a level regulatory playing field for ABSs and traditional law firms.

The win comes after a year in which the firm revamped its strategy, expanded internationally and embraced technology to set itself apart from other more traditional firms.

This traditional associate to nonequity partner to equity partner model sets the stage for intense internal competition among the many (associates / nonequity partners) for the few equity spots — where the real money at these firms is made.

To attract and retain these great attorneys — and do so through a model that greatly reduced client fees — we built the firm on a model that permits these attorneys to work from a position that support their life balance and from locations not possible in traditional practice settings and, at the same time, strips away overhead and fixed salaries that underpin a very large part of a traditional law firm's fee structure.

Alex Hamilton, CEO, Radiant Law (pictured above, right): «I have a traditional lawyer background and it was pretty clear to me the way law gets delivered is pretty ugly, so I thought it was easier to set up a law firm than change one.

I had a simple solution to office gossip and interloping partner problems when I last worked in a traditional law firm setting — I closed the door.

Even firms not tied to traditional oil and gas practices, like Gibson Dunn, Latham & Watkins, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, have set up shop there.

There's no denying it, in - house training contract opportunities are certainty much harder to come by compared with opportunities available in more traditional law firm settings.

The article, entitled «Unleashed», focuses on the growing trend among law departments, law firms and technology vendors to have employees working remotely from locations outside of the traditional office setting.

While many law firms are already investing in new technology to transform their businesses, a significant number still carry out tasks with a traditional mind - set.

Most of their digital assistants have over 10 years of experience in a traditional law firm setting.

It is this emphasis on joint effort and camaraderie — where peo - ple strive to perform at their best because they do not want to let their network colleagues down — that not only sets some law firm alliances apart from others, it also sets apart the network model from traditional interna - tional law firms.

If Slack can plant the seed of a new productivity platform inside of a dizzyingly expanding set of customer companies small and large, it's attacking incumbents twice: If it can supplant other large - scale tools at big firms, Slack undercuts enterprise - facing revenues currently collected, and if smaller companies pick Slack and its nascent platform over traditional productivity stacks, it could further undermine future income streams from these large companies.

According to experts, once more traditional firms start offering Bitcoin futures, the demand is likely to go up, which in turn will drive the price up to new record - setting heights.

Traditional search firms charge a percentage of candidate compensation, which sets up a conflict of interest.

The Western Australian Law Reform Commission has developed a set of principles which provide a firm foundation for effective protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge.

To get a mental image of the archetypical authoritarian family, try picturing a typical 1950s American family: There are traditional family values (patriarchal), set family roles, firm rules and everybody behaves in a predictable, orderly fashion.