Sentences with phrase «where fee earners»

At Capsticks, which specialises in health, social care and social housing, IT director Tim Bond said of Carpe Diem: «The intuitive interface makes it simple to use and the seamless display across devices means no matter how or where our fee earners are recording time, whether on their laptop, phone or tablet, in the office, on a train, they are always presented with the same interface and are able to access all the features and functionality of the software.

One area where fee earners were more satisfied this year was with the skills training and development being offered by their firms, ranking it 4 out of 5, up from 3.9 last year.

Not exact matches

This cutback will accelerate the point at which the program moves into supposed «negative equity» — a calculation that ignores the option of restoring pension funding to the government's general budget, where it would be paid out of progressively levied income tax and hence borne mainly by the wealthy, not by lower - income wage earners as a «user fee.»

For professional advice markets where the fee - earner and client relationship and the ability to sustain and increase justifiable billing are key, individual expertise appears to me to be the critical factor.

** An hourly rate in excess of the guideline figures may be appropriate for Grade A fee earners in substantial and complex litigation where other factors, including the value of the litigation, the level of complexity, the urgency or importance of the matter as well as any international element would justify a significantly higher rate to reflect higher average costs.

Hannah Riordan, associate at law firm Clarion, says: «Sitting at the County Court at Liverpool, HHJ Wood ruled that DJ Jenkinson was wrong to construe the «Jenkins exception'to the rule against CFA assignment, so narrowly as to only apply where a client loyally follows an individual fee earner from one firm to another.

That fact is old news; what's new is that we are approaching the point when paralegal fee - earners in firms may begin to outnumber solicitors — where solicitors become a minority in their own profession.

This is an ideal method of resolving issues in a team where partners have fallen out, cliques have developed among the fee earners, morale and performance have plummeted, and there is a lack of managerial focus for the team going forward.

There are some cases where the courts can help with child maintenance, for example if the parent who pays lives overseas, is a very high earner, or if there are school fees to pay.