Sentences with phrase «try alternative arrangements»

Not exact matches

Among those of trying to imagine an alternative economic arrangement for scholarly publishing that will result in public access to research and scholarship, the journal subscription has become seemingly immovable impediment to the wider distribution of this form of intellectual property.

Many employers try to find alternative employment arrangements as a means to reduce payroll costs.

Lest you think that Cravath is stacking the decks against itself with this kind of advice, Chesler reveals that his firm is «trying more and more to come to alternative fee arrangements that make the billable hour irrelevant.»

If you want to try alternative billing arrangements, make sure you know the rules that might apply.

«I think [2012] is going to be the last year where people will get away with trying to meet a client's demands by offering alternative fee arrangements; after that it is working differently.»

The unhappiness reported in the survey may just be the result of attorneys trying to figure out when to use alternative fee arrangements and when to use the billable hour.

The HRTO disagreed that Mr. Miraka was required to try to make alternative arrangements, because the situation only involved «an infrequent, sporadic or unexpected need to miss work», rather than a permanent or long - term childcare issue.

Now more than ever, law firms and companies are trying to move to Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) for legal work, but navigating how to put AFAs into practice successfully is difficult.

KAREN MACKAY: It's interesting because I do hear it from both sides — from general counsel and from managing partners, who are trying to cope with all of this — and in so many firms, because general counsel, the client, has grown up in an hourly rate environment, in many cases, they'll come back with an alternative fee arrangement, it's just a lower hourly rate or a lower hourly rate by volume.