Sentences with phrase «with budget predictability»

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The Executive Budget takes two steps backward for one step forward — with improvements to target poverty this year outweighed by the loss of predictability and transparency in future years and by not doing enough to ensure that schools serving low - income students and students of color receive the resources they need to increase achievement and opportunity.

A teacher pension fund reserve, he said, would provide districts with greater predictability in their budgeting, because it would give them a financial cushion in years when pension costs rise.

To achieve these priorities, the Governor and General Assembly must seek a balanced approach that combines smart, strategic spending in key budget priorities with tax reforms that assure fairness, stability, predictability, and adequacy.

Many would also have predictability on their lists, along with effective budgeting.

Developing and implementing a legal project management tool for a client's in - house counsel to provide increased budget predictability and transparency, including when the client works with firms other than Thompson Hine.

They all want a level of predictability so that legal spend can be planned and budgeted for with no unpleasant surprises.

GCs will increasingly prefer law firms with whom it is easy to do business because they have invested in organizing themselves effectively in terms of pricing models to deliver certainty and predictability, optimized e-billing practices which map to the departments own tools and processes, and ideally, real - time online reporting of financial data, helping the GC to manage his or her budgets and stakeholders.

Only by using such systems and metrics will firms be able to make better process and staffing decisions with greater predictability for their own internal planning and budgeting purposes, and to negotiate fixed or discounted fees with a better sense of what the costs and risks will be.

For clients with tight budgets predictability is important, and flat fee structures may help clients to plan for the cost of legal services more effectively.

The firm can make better process and staffing decisions, with greater predictability for its own internal planning and budgeting purposes.

I've implemented some monthly retainer agreements for general advice and staged fixed - fee agreements for standard litigation (human rights, workers» comp) to help increase efficiency and predictability (which helps with budgeting).

Similarly, blended rates help with with budget predictability and force firms to push work down to the right (more junior) levels, where appropriate.

I've been pushing hard on these «alternative fee agreements» (AFAs)-- with the goal of not only obtaining good rates but also, and perhaps more importantly, achieving some financial certainty and predictability for our budget.

It eliminates all predictability as to where companies may be sued, and such uncertainty also strains defendants» budgets, burdens interstate commerce by exerting upward pressure on consumer prices, and erodes core principles of federalism as courts in certain states interfere with the regulatory affairs of other states.