Sentences with phrase «traditional firms which»

They can choose to work at larger, traditional firms which have a business model that requires a certain amount of billable fees earned each year per lawyer to remain profitable.

«It's always struck me as necessary in a market with a fragmented supplier base of traditional firms which is likely to be up against ABSs owned and driven by high street brands.»

Not exact matches

This same corporate cohort is working with Diversity Lab to adapt the Mansfield Rule, which is law firm specific, to traditional corporate structures.

It's a relatively new offering from the 25 - person firm, which has worked for traditional publishing houses for a decade.

As an advisor with a traditional wealth management firm, Ahluwalia witnessed a burgeoning need, which led him to co-found National Social Security Partners, a national network of advisors that provide outsourced Social Security income - maximization planning to clients of CPAs, law firms and banks.

Earlier this year, traditional brokerage firms launched proprietary digital advice platforms, which have not yet stolen much business from the upstarts.

The law followed now - familiar protests from traditional taxi firms, furious at the competition posed by services such as Uber, which do not adhere to the same licensing standards and can offer lower prices by having drivers bear the costs of their vehicles.

Most robo advisory firms charge between 0.15 % and 0.5 % as an annual asset management fee — a bargain compared to the 1 - 3 % which many traditional advisors currently charge.

In addition to these traditional competitors within the global alternative asset management industry, we have increasingly faced competition from local and regional firms, financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds, in the various countries in which we invest.

Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.

Nevertheless, we remain optimistic about the firm's other business lines, which include consumer electronics, water filtration, healthcare, and separators in traditional lead - acid batteries.

Private equity firm Leonard Green and Partners offered a price, the financing of which would have relied on equity care of the firm, the Nordstrom family, third - party funding and traditional debt.

«Richardson GMP is the first wealth management firm to provide its clients with access to the VC asset class through our managed model, which bridges the gap between traditional wealth management and accessible venture capital via our new online investor platform,» said Mark Skapinker, Managing Partner at Brightspark.

To SamGoober: The health care legislation does not cut traditional Medicare benefits but does cut Medicare Advantage - which uses private firms such as Humana and UnitedHealth Group to deliver Medicare benefits.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

But the perception of relevance — and thus the efficacious use of practical reason — require a firm grounding in the past and the secure possession of the capacities and skills just referred to which are nurtured by the traditional school curriculum.

hi ellen: Because the ice cream isn't churned in the traditional manner, ie: in a machine which incorporates air into the mixture, it'll be much firmer when frozen.

Obviously all babies are different but as a rule breastfed babies have much looser stools (sometimes it's almost like they have diarrhoea) and tend to smell less than the poop of formula fed babies which may be firmer but can have a more distinct smell while being also a more traditional colour (different types of brown).

«[A] fter years of wrangling over how to fix the statute, in which officials sought to balance the interests of scientists, the agricultural industry, and biotech firms with those of indigenous populations demanding compensation for traditional knowledge, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff last week signed a law that is raising hopes among scientists.

The computers built by commercial firm D - Wave of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada, have many more qubits — about 500 — but use a method known as adiabatic quantum computing, which, unlike the traditional method, has not yet been proved to give a quantum power boost.

Speaking of electronic driver aids, the Levante is the first Maserati to be given the firm's new «Integrated Vehicle Control» (IVC) system, which apparently prevents instability without «correcting «driver mistakes» as a traditional Electronic Stability Program (ESP) system does.»

Led by Amazon and Author Solutions» imprints, which include iUniverse and Xlibris, self - publishing has become one of the fastest growing sectors in publishing.The two firms today announced the launch of Archway Publishing, which unlike traditional publishers, will not pay advances to authors, but instead charge fees to release, distribute and publicize their books in print or digital formats.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that Scottrade, my long - time stock broker is about to launch its own flexible dividend reinvestment program, which the brokerage firm says will be different from the traditional dividend reinvestment program (DRIP) that automatically reinvest dividends after they have been received without investors» intervention.

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.

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.

Firms producing traditional Chinese medicines are pressuring the government to permit the expansion of bear bile farming, a practice which has come under increasing scrutiny as inhumane and cruel.

Automation will happen, but within which of these three business models: (a) traditional, independent private practice; (b) commercialized, «fast food» type legal services; or, (c) ABS - owned law firms?

Artificial Lawyer has to ask before we end the interview: which is best placed to make use of legal AI — the client, the law firm, the Big Four, traditional LPOs, ALSPs, or something else?

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.

Until law schools expand their traditional teaching methods to include more skills - based and technical programs, which is slowly happening, law firms interested in promoting a culture of efficiency will need to consider less - traditional recruiting sources.

The shift probably occurred while the firm opened nine offices across Canada, which corresponded with a greater emphasis on traditional corporate law.

I have written previously that the traditional 1 / 3rd, 1 / 3rd, 1 / 3rd model is broken because, at the very least, the middle 1 / 3rd is accounted for in overheads which can not be justified in the truly modern firm.

One of the strangest habits of traditional law firms (which really means most law firms, if we're being honest) is the tendency to take one of the firm's most productive lawyers out of a practice he or she loves and appoint that lawyer to manage the firm.

That's why so many traditional firms, which came of age in such a market, seem to have one of these strategies factory - installed.

My career has not followed a traditional route, which probably explains why I am working for a non-traditional firm.

We at Kira are seeing a similar phenomenon, where our customers are telling us that our contract analysis software (which uses machine learning to identify contract provisions) enables them to understand business risks that would have been prohibitively expensive to uncover by engaging a traditional law firm advice.

Firms are increasingly wary of the instant flow of information made possible by blogs, which are more receptive to anonymous information than traditional media.

In a virtual firm, the requirements necessary to maximize productivity as a «traveling lawyer» shrink dramatically when compared to the traditional IT deployment model, which requires the installation, periodic rebuilding and maintenance of every core application on both individual PCs and separate laptops for out - of - office travel.

At the time, when the office opened, which would be traditional for any firm opening in a foreign country, they sent in a Canadian resident managing partner.

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.

Most of my discussion with the reporter focused on the larger issue, which is the economic misalignment between traditional firms and their corporate clients.

We're disrupting the traditional culture — which constrains many firms and practitioners — in a hugely positive way, and James is a key part of that.»

It is designed to replace traditional «tick - box» regulation with a new risk - based approach, allowing firms to achieve the right outcomes by delivering legal services in a way which best suits their individual clients and meets the public interest.

We strongly believe that there is growing evidence that the Big 4 are targeting a position in the legal market which threatens law firms and traditional ASPs.

They are in the minority, though, according to the report, which said that «most firms have made progress with more traditional digital technologies like mobile apps and client collaboration tools, but adoption of more cutting - edge technologies like artificial intelligence and robotic process automation is still immature».

Our 21st century technology - driven firm not only replaces the need for a traditional document review service; we take the business to the next level by providing specialty eDiscovery consultations and support throughout the case coupled with expert computer forensics, automated foreign language translation and cutting - edge document review software, much of which we have developed and perfected ourselves.

-LSB-...] associate satisfaction surveys sit in the same space as the American Lawyer A-List, which factors in diversity and pro bono work and goes beyond traditional measures of law firm -LSB-...]

Launched at the end of 2016, «Trailblazer» law apprenticeships have been developed by a high profile panel of law firms and offer an alternative route to legal practice which involves «learning on the job» as opposed to following the traditional route of a law degree followed by the Legal Practice Course (LPC).

The major reasons that lawyers seem to have ignored CRM is that 1) they don't actually convert clients (that's why Lexicata combines a CRM with a client intake software) and 2) the traditional sales cycle for a law firm is completely different from an enterprise sales company — which is what SalesForce, Insightly and all the other CRMs were designed for.

These regulatory bodies are facing increasing pressure to adapt to the times and allow some mechanism by which legal tech providers can coexist with the traditional law firm model.