Sentences with phrase «traditional large law»

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Since many of these organizations are ethnic specific, operating within ethnic enclaves in large metropolitan centers, they manipulate subcultures impenetrable to traditional law enforcement.

To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

Addressing a large crowd of people at the palace of the Paramount Chief of the Waala Traditional Area, Naa Fuseini Pelpuo IV, the former president said «this should serve as a wake - up call to all of us; to government, the law enforcement agencies, the courts to wake up to our responsibilities in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.»

The zonal chairman affirmed that a larger percentage of Fulani herdsmen were unaware that their traditional method of rearing cattle had been proscribed by the anti-open grazing law, threatening that any attempt to impound their cattle would spark a crisis in the state.

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I - At Large), who chairs the council's education committee, said he wasn't aware of the specific complaints against BASIS DC but made clear that the law applies to all of the city's traditional public schools and public charter schools.

The difficulty with this observation is that the required work hours of most traditional law firms make it difficult for them to retain large numbers of women, who still generally shoulder more child rearing responsibilities.

Even if they make partner, conditions can be difficult for women in traditional law firm partnerships: In its 2015 survey of 73 of the country's largest firms, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) reports that, among other discriminatory practices, men outpace women in obtaining rainmaking credits, and there is a gender gap in revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hours.

By contrast, the Internet has been aptly described as the world's largest library with the «books» all over the floor.64 Of course, this is an alarming vision for those who embrace traditionalist legal research theory.65 But can «traditional» legal research, that which we associate with orderly libraries and neat shelves of print digests, ever be relevant to the web - native law student?

At the core of EN's culture is the belief that large, traditional law firms are no longer essential for the practice of top - tier law.

First, many traditional offices, especially in larger law firms, create barriers to face - to - face collaboration.

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Recent graduate Andrea Sager is applying her traditional legal knowledge, Lunsford Academy training in multi-discipline problem - solving, and networking abilities at a large Cincinnati law firm and with her own clothing line business.

In other countries we see changes where large corporations are now law firms due to new laws, although the United States is far more defensive in its posture on traditional law firms.

Ken Young contributed to a Law360 article «Breaking Into BigLaw Without A BigLaw Resume,» discussing taking a less traditional path to tremendous success at large law firms.

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.

While Madison Avenue is a traditional route for large corporations, it remains an unconventional approach for law firms.

While the traditional career path inside a large law firm will remain, and the drudgery of some tasks will decline given technology, new paths into legal technology companies are opening up.

The problem is simply stated as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than judicial decisions.

While the revenues of the Big 4 are over 12 times that of the world's largest law firms, their DNA is still based on a traditional partnership model.

Freeing up lawyers to participate in variety of different kinds of companies and to offer «commercial» services together with legal ones are first steps towards enlarging the concept of «practicing law» — the first steps towards allowing lawyers and other legal professionals to develop a much larger variety of business models, potentially quite different from the «professional consultancy» /» solution shop» model of the traditional law firm.

With 30 years» experience of servicing traditional law firms, volume legal service providers as well as specialist teams within large organisations Linetime have a proven track record delivering robust, Microsoft based, legal solutions.

The most challenging tactical issue was getting a large law firm to embrace social media, blogging and real - time conversations with readers — especially in a lighter, more narrative format than is traditional for most legal articles and online presence.

The CLOC survey confirms that: (1) it is changing; (2) legal buyers — especially the largest ones — are signaling that «it's safe to use service providers, even for more complex work»; (3) that means that a tipping point has been reached where sourcing to «alternative providers» becomes the norm — not an «alternative» (necessitating new nomenclature for service providers); and (4) traditional law firm market share, already showing signs of softening, is projected to erode further.

That divide did not exist when the traditional law firms morphed into the large, multinational organizations many have become.

Whether you are freshly out of law school and admitted to the bar, or have been working in your own traditional law practice or larger firm for years, our current technological climate gives you the ability to start, operate, and maintain a virtual law office in ways that are easier than ever before.

Mainly the writers are wringing their hands about the disruption that is occurring to the traditional business models of large law firms.

The 2017 Georgetown Report cites, «erosion of the traditional law firm franchise,» a euphemism for «clients no longer need large law firms to handle many legal tasks.»

The lawyers may be at traditional law firms (large or smaller niche players) or LPO or other volume providers.

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...

Looking at the large number of clients served by online legal services companies, such as Legal Zoom, it's high time the legal profession stepped up to the plate to provide a safer alternative to online legal services companies by creating virtual law practices — whether completely web - based or as a part of a traditional firm that has made the decision to go paperless and online in addition to in - person representation.

Factor in the appearance of LPOs like Exigent and CounselQuest which can do traditional junior associate work and one begins to wonder how large Canadian law firms will be able to afford junior associates at all — especially if other providers can do the same work better, faster and cheaper.

Webelievewhileestateplanning is becoming increasingly important and needed for our aging population, our industry is becoming very polarized with large traditional law firms on one side and non-lawyer services like Legalzoom and Rocket Lawyer on the other.

This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones not only complicates traditional narratives of prairie exceptionalism, it also draws the region's history into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.

The firm's Web site describes it this way: «We are not a traditional medium or large law firm with a large staff of secretaries and assistants.

The most established, influential, and prestigious portions of the legal profession — large law firms, the federal judiciary, legal academia, and the ABA — tend to be traditional bound and skeptical of change that does not initiate with them.

The startup claims they charge half the price of traditional law firms and that they file patents in 14 days while larger firms spend as much as 30 days getting patents filed.

Most of the public perception tangential to the industry of cryptocurrency is based around the immense wealth generated by cryptocurrency investors and the uses for crypto that subvert traditional government regulations and law, both of which hold an interest to large swathes of the population.

It encourages the law and non-Indigenous Australians to see native title as a collection of traditional practices, rather than part of a larger system of traditional law and custom which evolves over time.