Sentences with phrase «traditional firms often»

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Offering only numbers is something that traditional brokerage firms do, and a lot of time is leads to deals that end up falling through the floor, because the amount of money a business needs often has little to do with why they need it or the reasons their current financial situation is the way it is.

Advocates that take firm stances on either traditional dating or online dating often believe that one method is significantly better than the other.

Often overlooked in favor of the more popular offerings from the German firms, the Peugeot 208 GTi is actually a traditional hot - hatch in Europe, having its roots in the 205 GTI of the 1980s.

By reducing the need to raise money from traditional lenders like private equity firms, Miller says the red tape that often plagues development is erased.

Most often, small associations lack the financial resources to hire a full - time staff, and while a traditional association management company (AMC) can be a viable option, these firms often lack experience in the veterinary profession... and with nonprofits.

Preventing pollution is a learned discipline that VC's and start - ups often lack but which larger traditional industrial firms have acquired at great effort.

Bernard has long been a promoter of technology and innovation in the law, and her understanding approach to the often slower decision making processes within traditional law firm, and passionate belief in new innovations and ideas has enabled her to create successful «co-innovation partnerships», allowing lawyers to explore and experiment with pilots and give them the space to adapt and change their thinking for themselves.

While our clients are often tempted to repeat traditional tactics they've seen dominating the airwaves, such as speed - and - greed talk, faked testimonials, and a hyper - focus on the size of firms and settlements, Network Affiliates now steers lawyers away from these communication strategies.

Traditional legal analytics show how often parties or law firms win cases, or the likelihood of winning legal relief in front of a particular judge.

I've used this opportunity to add management issues to the traditional marketing focus because I feel that a firm's activities, from culture and compensation formulas to seminars and websites, are often overlooked as a growth resource.

In traditional firms, the team is divided among fee - earners and non-fee-earners, and there is often a strong hierarchy among the lawyers, from junior associates up to senior partners.

Those of us who carry out legal research or provide legal research instruction as a regular part of our livelihoods or occupations often think of legal research in what I think of as a more traditional context: the private law firms,... [more]

The truth is that the traditional approach to legal marketing, like TV and billboards, is often more than a solo law firm can afford.

While traditional law firms are often nervous about competing with new technology - led law firms such as Riverview Law, Wallqvist says that their longevity and experience can give them the edge if they embrace technology.

Traditional library metrics are less helpful for law firm libraries compared to public or academic libraries; for example, circulation statistics are often used as an indicator of library usage and what parts of the library collection are in highest demand.

Lawyers are often doing a great job but they are working within the confines of a traditional mode which rewards long hours and risk adversity for the law firm.

With women comprising half of all law school graduates, law firms can not ignore the fact that these lawyers» career paths often differ from the traditional linear model.

45 Cf. Sinsheimer & Herring, supra note 2, at 123 (recommending, based on three - year observational study of law - firm associates, that «[l] egal educators should consider developing exercises that require students to compose emails in various contexts»); Wawrose, supra note 14, at 547 («One of the major structural changes to the first - year LRW syllabus our research suggests is the inclusion of short research and writing assignments to supplement the traditional memo and brief assignments often used in first - year LRW classes.»).

Her experience in the legal sector has taught her the importance of understanding the often unique requirements of law firms that are balancing the traditional strengths of a partnership environment with the commercial opportunities of modernisation and change.

Since 2000, Micah has presented the Pennsylvania Bar Association's annual marketing ethics program (as part of its three times per year «Ethics Potpourri» programming in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), changing the focus each year to address ethics topics that have included an analysis of U.S. Supreme Court cases, advertising ethics opinions across the country, lawyer rankings and ratings, use of social media, blogs, traditional marketing approaches and missteps, internet marketing, solicitation, multi-jurisdictional practices, and state - by - state advertising requirements as they relate to everything from pre-approvals, language limitations, disciplinary actions, and the myriad of ways a law firm can (often unknowingly) violate the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Most firms have some form of performance management in place but the disparity between formal performance evaluation procedures in the corporate governance world and that in traditional partnerships and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) is often stark.

Dispersed law firms One problem with the traditional law firm model is its large and unwieldy cost base, often resulting in thin profit margins t...

In a traditional pay - to - play legal network, firms are charged a fee for placement and often grant territorial exclusivity regardless of their level of expertise.

For women lawyers, who often have young children during the early building years of a legal career, the traditional law firm «up or out» promotion system may not work out well.

Those of us who carry out legal research or provide legal research instruction as a regular part of our livelihoods or occupations often think of legal research in what I think of as a more traditional context: the private law firms, the corporate legal department, the government (i.e., justice departments), the courts (i.e., by court counsel and students / clerks), the law school (by or for students and professors).

Having worked outside the traditional law firm office environment now for nearly seven years, I do look at the hugely expensive property assets (often with one desk for every lawyer, plus all the support infrastructure) and wonder how much cash law firms could free up by rationalising them.