Sentences with phrase «worse than a client»

Nothing is worse than a client who can not get in touch with his or her lawyer.

Not exact matches

There's nothing worse than unhappy clients who haven't received their gifts in time for the holidays.

I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

«While this result was slightly worse than expected, we believe that Canadian National's service is improving and will continue to improve as we move through 2018,» wrote Edward Jones analyst Dan Sherman in a note to clients.

His thought was that the active managers who collect massive fees would leave their clients «worse off» than the amateurs who simply invested in unmanaged low - cost index funds.

In addition, under certain market conditions the execution price of a Stop Loss Order may be worse than its price set by the Client and the realized losses can be larger than expected.

As the Italian Banking Association admits in a statement today, deposits are declining -LRB--1.9 % YoY) and bonds sold to clients -LRB--9.4 % YoY) as Italy's bank clients with bad loans have more than doubled since 2008.

In the introductory text for Part I of their 2016 book, Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Porfolios to Profit in Good Times — and Bad, Adam Butler, Michael Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo state: ``... we have come to stand for something square and real, a true Iron Law of Wealth Management: We would rather lose half our clients during a raging bull market than half of our clients» money during a vicious bear market.

Yes, in the limited - good society, the Patron's clients may have exploited the poor, thus making the unprofitable servant the actual hero of the story, and the Patron nothing more than a bad man.

We will need people who are going to bear down on that and be a good client rather than a bad dowager duchess messing around with the plans every second day.»

Whether client deals that have fallen through, product launches that performed worse than expected, or article pitches that were rejected, dealing with setbacks is just part of business.

The best advice for these situations is to avoid excess consumption of alcohol; when you're trying to impress a client, nothing looks worse than slurring over your lunch and tripping over your napkin when you make a less than graceful exit from the table.

JoLynn has the personal experience on both sides of the coin: she has personally placed herself in massive struggle with food and her weight, struggle that is even worse than the struggle her coaching clients experience prior to working with her.

People in the service industry really shouldn't take out their bad moods on their clients cause nothing will cause them to lose them faster than that.

Even worse, I've had clients who told me the highest - priced services are no better than some of the lower - priced services.

And his occasional scrawls on notepads, made while interviewing a dizzying array of clients and witnesses, become increasingly less focused on the clues and connections he's making than they resemble the mental overflow of someone on a very bad trip.

Diamonds, Danger, and A Deadly Secret... A Katerina Carter Legal ThrillerOut of work and running out of money, Private Investigator and Fraud Expert, Katerina Carter, desperately needs more clients or she'll be forced to go crawling back to a cubicle at her previous firm, a fate worse than debt.So when Liberty Diamond Mines CEO Susan Sullivan hires Kat to find Liberty's missing CFO and a large sum of embezzled money, she's eager to accept the job.

They should have known better than to take on a lawyer as a client: — RRB - But it also shows that even professional lawyers can be quite badly informed about fraudulent practices in vanity publishing.

Now, many lending shops deliver the service of personal loans for bad credit clients, so there is no need to be concerned over a less than perfect credit history.

Clients may restrict any of the stocks or other securities traded in their account, but should note that any restrictions they place on their investments could affect the performance of their account leading it to perform differently, i.e., worse or better, than IB Asset Management's account managing the portfolio or other client accounts invested in the same portfolio.

Clients may restrict any of the stocks or ETFs traded in their account, but should note that any restrictions they place on their investments could affect the performance of their account leading it to perform differently, worse or better, than (a) IB Asset Management's account managing the portfolio or (b) other client accounts invested in the same portfolio.

The same goes for financial advisers and brokers, only worse, because many people selling stock or mutual funds didn't have to take courses, they only had to pass a test, which is geared almost entirely towards «the business of selling» rather than helping a client meet financial goals.

Over the last year, I have seen clients go from the worst credit scenarios to more than commendable credit.

Gives advice that is not appropriate for the client, leaving the client in a worse position than before they received the advice

Also, it should be noted that value managers have client bases that often invest more in bad times, and take profits in good times, so their dollar - weighted returns are often higher than the time - weighted returns.

Good credit cardholders lumped in with bad — Banks are pulling back more than ever before to limit the amount of risk they have, so even perfect payment clients are compromised... (See AmEx)

Potential hurdles: Overcoming bad habits of retaining client - matter email in folders in an individual user mailbox rather than in the organizationally responsible DMS saved copy method.

Your worst client may be the one that emails too frequently, doesn't ever listen or follow your advice or one that takes up more of your time and energy than is reasonable.

As I've written over here at My Shingle, sometimes getting too close to a client can produce results that are even worse than those you'll find with difficult clients whom you despise.

«What's Worse than Billing a Client for Bottled Water?

About a year ago, two British Columbia lawyers got the idea that a web site directed at clients» issues rather than a lawyer's practice was not a bad idea.

Even worse than just talking down to clients, I see attorneys treat clients like they are below the attorney.

I've heard grumblings from clients over the years that it's almost worse to be asked for feedback that's not acted upon than not to be asked at all — almost, but not quite.

In my 26 years the only lawyers that I have seen successfully take this approach are tax lawyers selling tax shelters, and that more often than not ended badly for lawyer and client.

I'll end on a happy note: I've heard more good than bad about lawyers from surveying their clients.

Not only did she likely lose her train of thought (actually, it's much worse thans simply losing a train of thought), consider the message she sent to her colleague... or client: My email is more important than you are — and I don't even know who sent it yet!

Clients, on the other hand, say they don't want to accept fixed fees because they figure that the lawyer, always having his or her own financial interests uppermost in mind, would only offer an AFA if it was guaranteed to produce more revenue than the billable - hour model would have generated; if the lawyer wants it, it must be bad for the client.

If you have evidence to suggest that clients are worse off now than they were in 1999 in Australia, please present it.

If you have evidence to suggest that clients are worse off now than they were in 2011 in the UK, please present it.

When there is a change in circumstances significant enough to warrant further fees, as often as not it is good rather than bad news for the client; it may arise from an improved chance of wining.

Obtaining feedback from clients and never looking at it or taking action on it can be worse than failing to ask for the feedback in the first place.

At the same time, I suppose that a shark tank could help family law clients put their problems in perspective by making them realize that, bad as the court process may be, it's still better than being trapped in a tank with carnivorous fish.

Now we assume that the developer made a bad decission and calculates the total amount on the client side and does not validate it any further on the server side, this amount is than passed to an online payment service.

Disturbing practice trends — such as lawyers abandoning practice to non-lawyers who are not supervised; or lawyers who (perhaps unthinkingly) deal with an intermediary rather than with the actual client and who are surprised when the client ends up unhappy and sues the lawyer (or worse still, the intermediary turns out to be a fraudster).

Representation of a major international insurer in a Massachusetts statutory bad faith action in which the injured plaintiffs sought more than $ 40 million in compensatory and punitive damages against our client (primary insurer on business auto policy) for its alleged failure to promptly settle a catastrophic personal injury claim.

BYOD policies are a necessity to ensure that data on mobile devices remain secure in the event a device is lost or stolen, because the only thing worse than losing an iPad is losing an unsecured iPad chock - full of sensitive client data.

All that tells you is that their client was very badly injured — it doesn't tell you anything about the quality of service or representation provided by the lawyer, and it doesn't tell you whether the lawyer got a better or worse result than another lawyer would have obtained for the same client.

Once a client signs a release, it is too late to come back to the insurance company and ask for more compensation if it turns out that the injuries are worse than expected.

BC family lawyers need to be aware of this test in order to effectively advise clients; while there are few things better than obtaining costs, there are few worse than being assessed for costs.

Nothing is worse than when our firm in El Cajon gets news that a potential client has accepted an early offer on their case when we are certain that we could have doubled if not tripled their settlement.