Sentences with phrase «using alternative billing»

In this episode of New Solo, host Adriana Linares talks with Vandenack Weaver LLC founder Mary Vandenack about lawyers using alternative billing models.

The query stems from an observation of substantial profits by large U.S. firms using alternative billing arrangements for plaintiff - side antitrust cases.

Everyone pretty much agrees that one of the keys to profitably using alternative billing is being able to resell existing knowledge.

4) You refer to my «continued attachment to the billable hour,» but any reader of my pieces on the billable hour or value billing know that (a) I have frequently advocated using alternative billing [see my opening above], while (b) defending the ethical use of billable hours (see chronomentrophobia).

This newly revised third edition of the highly acclaimed Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour: Strategies that Work, provides you with tools you can use in your practice to implement and evaluate alternative billing methods, including real case studies of lawyers and firms successfully using alternative billing to deliver value to both the client and the lawyer.

Privately owned businesses, with and without in - house counsel, and publicly owned corporations, have legal matters that are suitable to be performed by smaller and midsized firms that may be billed using alternative billing methods.

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It's being billed as the first mainstream service allowing consumers to buy and sell bitcoin, the virtual currency used as an alternative to traditional money systems.

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

FICO, the company that created one of the most widely used credit - scoring systems in the U.S., recently announced it was starting a pilot program to increase the number of consumers who could be assigned a credit score based on alternative data, such as utility and phone bills.

Using 10 - year returns for U.S. stocks and various alternative safe assets (bills, notes and bonds) during 1925 through 2013, he finds that: Keep Reading

Using 10 - year returns for U.S. stocks and various alternative safe assets (bills, notes and bonds) during 1925 through 2013,

The bill was first announced Thursday in the Assembly, with Democrats backing legislation that would replace state - created or written examinations with alternative assessments for school districts that do not use state tests, with regulations set by the state Education Department.

The City Council approved the bill that would have placed strict limits on the advertising crisis pregnancy centers may use and required them to post signs designed to discourage women from seeking their abortion alternatives services.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

The amended bill, which would mandate that the government outline alternative uses for the island, is expected to pass a House committee Thursday, Zeldin said at a news conference in Riverhead with local elected officials and environmentalists.

Other Republican lawmakers have said they were either studying the measure itself or had proposed alternative bills that would prohibit the use of smokable marijuana.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

Poust would not say why the conference no longer uses Patricia Lynch and Associates, but he said Silver didn't let the bill come to the floor because an alternative had been introduced, and his Democratic conference was split on which to support.

This bill would create substantive alternatives to solitary confinement, place strict limitations on the use and permitted durations of confinement, and improve due process protections for people facing disciplinary infractions.

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Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

So imagine my excitement when the folks at Tropical Traditions sent me a 32 oz Jar of their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil!I always try and look for healthier alternatives in my cooking and baking and Coconut Oil seems to fit the bill perfectly.Its pretty versatile since it can be used in both sweet and savory creations and I love its warm sweet aroma filling my kitchen when I use it!

Instead of using natural gas or oil and as an alternative to incurring high electricity bills, geothermal energy works to draw off the Earth's core.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

The new bill would make that permanent and require the state Education Department to come up with «alternative assessments» to be used in the teacher - rating process.

Senate Bill 193 would allow parents to use 90 percent of the per - pupil grant the state gives to local public schools and instead put it toward alternative educational expenses, including private school tuition or homeschooling.

Allows states to use alternative assessments for an unlimited number of students with disabilities: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the current regulation that limits the use of alternative assessments to only students with severe cognitive disabilities — approximately 10 percent of SWD or 1 percent of all students.

TCTA also noted that while we appreciated that the bill eliminated the 1 percent cap on the use of special education student test scores on alternative assessments for AYP, we were concerned that the bill didn't address the remaining 2 percent cap on the use of special education test scores on modified assessments for AYP, which we also wanted eliminated.

Council member David Grosso, who wrote the proposed bill, said it is an effort to encourage wider use of alternative disciplinary practices.

Billed as a more affordable alternative, the 190 SL still used the same fully independent suspension (double wishbones at the front and swing axles at the rear) as its sibling.

Overdrive has launched this new system in order to offer a compelling alternative to Hoopla, who pioneered pay - per - use or what Overdrive is billing as Cost - per - Circ.

Some folks use margin loans to buy cars or pay the kids» college bills, in part because the alternative may be to sell winning stocks and thus trigger capital gains taxes.

It is also tricky to get a mortgage with very limited credit history, though a lender may be able to use alternative credit like rent, utility, and other bills that don't show up on a traditional credit report.

For instance, in order to assess the credit score of people with limited credit history, VantageScore uses alternative data by factoring in reoccurring payments such as utilities, rent or phone bills into its scoring formula.

However, some consumer groups, which initially supported the thrust of the bill and using alternative data to score more borrowers, have cooled on the measure because the FHFA is already exploring alternative credit models.

Truth: The «alternative» data VantageScore uses is utilities and cell phone bills... [Read More]

It's marketed as an alternative to traditional checking accounts and can be used to send money and pay bills online.

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As it happens, I do pay extra money into my monthly electricity bill, money which is used to capitalize «alternative» energy sources.

«If you have customers paying near zero bills but still using the grid, you can't scale that to a large percentage of customers,» said Matthew Freedman, an attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a ratepayer advocacy group that proposed an alternative to net metering to the PUC.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

Using alternative energy can prevent pollution from fossil fuels and save money on heating and electric bills.

Ars Technica reports, «The research aims of the bill fall into three broad categories: to figure out how best to deal with the e-waste already out there, to «develop and demonstrate environmentally friendly alternatives to the use of hazardous and potentially hazardous materials in electronic devices and the production of such devices,» and to «reconsider product design and assembly to facilitate and improve refurbishment, reuse, and recycling of electronic devices, including an emphasis on design for recycling.»

(The Senate bill even eschews any talk of cap - and - trade, though Luntz balked at the Democrats» alternative term --» Global Warming Pollution Reduction and Investment» — because it uses the words «global warming.»)

The most popular option, with an incredible 83 percent support, was «an energy bill that provides incentives for using solar and other alternative energy resources.»

Whether you bill hourly or use alternative fee arrangements, knowing how much work you're putting into a matter versus how much you think you should or want to put into it is critical.

The use of alternative fees such as non-hourly based billing is also up, but still only represents 10 per cent of fees collected, according to the Law Firms in Transition Survey, which received responses from law firm leaders at 238 U.S. law firms with 50 or more lawyers.

The majority of law firm partners favour the traditional hourly rate model as a more accurate way of billing, despite a continued push from clients to use fixed fees and other alternative billing methods, according to Legal Week research.

A wide range of innovations are mentioned as being used by traditional providers including alternative billing, document assembly, artificial intelligence, project management and process improvement, and unbundling.