Sentences with phrase «volume of legal work»

Discover underserved legal markets by tracking the volume of legal work and the capabilities of rival firms in these markets.

It is possible that the financial markets — one of the key drivers of complex legal work — will look quite different in coming years, and generate a lower volume of legal work for lawyers.

To obtain a greater volume of legal work from particular clients, more firms are offering volume discounts on fees, based upon an overall level of fees charged for services performed.

«What we're seeing, in Quebec anyway, is an overall increase in the volume of legal work that needs to be done.

Similar to last year, 62.1 per cent of the 303 respondents said the volume of legal work carried out by their department and external counsel was likely to grow.

But now, it seems like in - house counsel are expected to have business acumen to come with data to back up their intuition and their recommendations, and to be able to process these huge volumes of legal work product efficiently and cost effectively.»

Not exact matches

With nearly 500 claims against pharmaceutical companies, distributors and pharmacies consolidated in Ohio alone, Denton said that the volume of work involved is daunting for insurance, risk and legal professionals.

It might actually work and not just turn the legal tobacco consumption into illegal tobacco consumption of the same volume which then needs to be suppressed by law enforcement personnel which needs to be hired for this purpose.

The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus in its larger context of historical discrimination and the legal battle for educational equity.

And, of course, in order to use the systems of citation common, if not mandated, in legal work, one must have access to volumes published by Westlaw or LexisNexis in which the citations and pagination appear — although online portals like Google Scholar and Fastcase are doing pretty well at adding this information.

This may be less true in some of the solicitor's practices where technology has made document production more efficient and where process efficiencies can be adopted in routine aspects of legal work where there is sufficient volume.

And as a result, those four benefits, essential to high quality legal services, are obtained and maximized as greater levels of specialization are enabled by constantly scaling - up the volume of work done by each specialist, and new specialist and specialization created.

A question of collection tools, in - house expertise, volume of work The legal industry has adopted the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, a structural workflow that professionals can follow (www.edrm.net).

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

In addition to retaining individual attorneys in different firms to perform specific legal work, it is commonplace for business and corporate clients to negotiate fees, seek volume discounts, and, for certain types of matters, propose flat fees and contingency / risk forms of billing.

As a result, legal process outsourcers (both domestic and offshore) now handle growing volumes of routine work formerly done in - firm by lawyers and legal staff.

At the Legal Futures conference last week, John Llewelyn Lloyd of stockbrokers and investment bankers, Arden Partners, was clear that: «Fixed fees and transparent prices will be the norm for all volume / mid market work.»

Our team of legal assistants and support support specialists can efficiently handle the volume of routine work you face, but in a more cost effective way, allowing your firm to grow more quickly and profitably.

Last year, Carillion launched a legal process outsourcing venture to help the company tackle its huge volume of employment work.

No survey has been done as to the volume of such work needed to make even a dent in the problem, and the volume of legal labour that could definitely be assured of being provided.

News of the cuts follows the firm's November sale of its volume work division D3 Legal to rival practice Optima Legal.

ES Ignite's focus is to streamline the time constraints and economic demands of in - house legal work, based on best practice developed in over 20 years» experience of delivering high - volume commoditized legal work.

Our team of Legal Assistants and Support Specialists can efficiently handle high volumes of routine work much more cost effectively — and we can even provide you with very affordable Flat Fee Pricing — allowing your firm to grow more quickly and profitably.

Our experience with complex litigation allows us to use trial preparation techniques geared specifically toward complex legal matters, and our technical and legal support team is specifically trained to deal with the high volume of work associated with these complicated cases.

Gemma has a unique and practical perspective on legal matters as a result of her work on a seconded basis at Olin Corporation (negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, managing a large inter-disciplinary team, and coordinating acquisition integration related matters), her work as a contract negotiator on the business side at Texas Instruments (negotiating advanced development as well as intermediate and high volume production contracts and complex joint ventures), her work in house at EXE Technologies (providing commercial counsel and IPO counsel), her work on a seconded basis at Computer Sciences Corporation (managing M&A and negotiating strategic alliances), and at ACS (handling securities matters and negotiating M&A transactions).

Will there continue to be the great single or multiple volumes of works on legal subjects?

Economic and regulatory changes, developments in the legal market, the increasing volume and complexity of workload for legal teams and the advent of technology are changing how general counsel work, how they see themselves and their position in the organisation.

No law firm has the necessary degree of specialization of staff, legal materials used, re-use of previously created work - product, or scaled volumes of production, to be able to cope with rapidly expanding volumes of laws, complexity of laws based upon technology, and the masses of records created by the automating of records by electronic technology — every interaction, communication, and transmission that we have now, produces a record, which could be related to some legal service, and records are now the most frequently used kind of evidence in legal proceedings.

Having sold his firm Golds Solicitors to English insurance heavyweight Irwin Mitchell a decade ago, Mr Gold is well versed in how the high - volume commoditised segment of the market works while Mr Cockburn's experience includes an eight - year stint at volume business Optima Legal.

So, to reap the harvest of the great volume of new legal work that technology will bring the legal profession, it must first solve the problem of unaffordable legal services.

Through superior workflow and productivity tools, Legal Files provides the ability to handle an increased volume of work with the same number or fewer staff — up to 40 percent or more based upon the experience of our customers.

In many law firms case management technology has been traditionally perceived as a workflow solution almost exclusively for the high - volume and low - margin category of legal work.

It will combine a mix of legal expertise, process efficiency and technology to handle high - volume or document - intensive work more efficiently and cost effectively for clients.

With the advent of Legal COOs now running legal as a business, this range of services is becoming hard to stay on top of: complex legal advisory work, mid-tier business - as - usual work, low level but high - volume work, legal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goeLegal COOs now running legal as a business, this range of services is becoming hard to stay on top of: complex legal advisory work, mid-tier business - as - usual work, low level but high - volume work, legal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goelegal as a business, this range of services is becoming hard to stay on top of: complex legal advisory work, mid-tier business - as - usual work, low level but high - volume work, legal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goelegal advisory work, mid-tier business - as - usual work, low level but high - volume work, legal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goelegal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goelegal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goelegal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goes on.

Many parts of lawyers» work, such as legal research, should be done by highly specialized, high volume support services, available to all lawyers and judges.

Indeed, it would be a grave mistake for practitioners to accept volume work on the basis that, across the board, the majority of consumer loans are capable of being written off, once the appropriate legal challenge is mounted.

CAKEsoft Inc. (Computer Assisted Knowledge Engineering) produces a number of application software products that automate high - volume, complex, knowledge - based work in legal practices.

In large measure this is because different clients have differing volumes of work, complexity of legal needs and price sensitivity.

With a strong foundation in the technology industry, Bill has become one of the pioneers of the legal operations movement, helping to bring data, process, and technology to bear on the growing volume and complexity of work facing large, multinational legal departments.

He led client - facing analytics teams, worked with partners and clients to track the delivery of legal services, to forecast matter outcomes, and to pinpoint factors that impact the risk and volume of matters.

I suspect that his Lordship didn't think it appropriate that he be paid for this work, so instead he negotiated an agreement for a free copy of the legal tome and any new volumes of Halsbury's Laws following work his father, High Court judge Mr Justice Phillips, did on the book in the past.

Law Society chief executive, Desmond Hudson says: «The UK could lose large volumes of legal transactional work to other jurisdictions if we are not allowed access to the best talent in strong and emerging economies, such as China and India, as well as our partners in the US and Australia.»

Given the variety of work and high volume of transactions, EDC legal tries to find efficiencies for its customers while providing quality legal guidance.

A growing demand for legal services; greater volume of work; higher expectations; quicker turnaround times; higher lawyer salaries; higher operating costs; reduced budgets and lawyer attrition are some of the challenges that lawyers face today.

The survey found that 19 per cent of corporate legal departments used AFAs for more than half of their legal work, a 12 - per - cent increase over 2011, and 51 per cent said the volume of AFAs increased in 2012.

The nature of the legal work, the volume of transactions, and the methods both companies used to document transactions underwent radical change.

The piece looks into the varying margin and volume levels of types of legal work and the effect that has on who performs it and the associated costs.

«Being geographically separated from clients and indeed legal colleagues can often mean the volume and variety of work going through Ireland is not necessarily apparent elsewhere», she said.

This lets hiring managers and recruiters know she has increased her level of work and responsibilities over time and could potentially handle high - volume situations in a legal office.

Specific responsibilities of a Storekeeper include: updating sales records, answering to customer inquiries, arranging items on shelves, doing data entry work, ordering supplies, liaising with vendors, updating prices, offering information about each product, tracking sales volumes, and adhering to company and legal procedures.