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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"law firm"”.
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Law Firm Mergers Among Canadian Law Firms: The Effect on Lawyer Retention
… experienced a surge in mergers of local law firms to form law firms with a national presence. More recently, instances of law firm mergers once again increased, this time on an international basis. Notwithstanding these trends, the general effect of law firm mergers on lawyer retention is …
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The information needs of attorneys in a large South African law firm
… needs of the attorneys in a large South African law firm. The survey research method was employed and a single survey conducted within a particular time-span. Two methods of data collection were employed, namely the analysis of documentary sources and questioning. A combination of …
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The Architecture of the Transformation of Folding and the Design of an Alexandria Law Firm
… for developing an Old town, Alexandria, Virginia law firm building. Folding is conceptually used in the spatial and inhabitable forms of the building as well as the materials, textures, and finishes of the walls, ceilings, and floors. Folding is structurally investigated by taking once planer and …
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Keystone Law: A Study into the Characteristics and Implications of Change in an International Platform Law Firm
… group of legal practitioners in the London based law firm, Keystone Law, a pioneering legal practice, and the first of the so-called platform law firms – one predicated on remote working with a centralised support function. The research is founded upon a qualitative design with an interpretivist …
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To what extent has research conducted by the GaWC Research Network aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography?
… explores whether a specific group of large EU law firms exhibited multiple common behaviours regarding their EU geographies between 1998 and 2009. These potentially common behaviours included their preferences for trading in certain EU locations, their usage of law firm alliances, and the …
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Fairness, trust and motivation in Profit Sharing Systems within German law firms. A qualitative analysis of law firm partner needs in a peer-to-peer context
… systems are in use today in otherwise comparable firms. The understanding of a “fair share” and how to motivate best varies con-siderably. Existing literature on professional service firms rarely discusses in which circumstances the different PSS types are adequate; non-economic per-spectives are …
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A Critical Analysis of Information Security Awareness in Legal Services
… that were undertaken in a large international law firm to evaluate the effectiveness of information security awareness training. The results of these exercises provided the basis for the security awareness toolkit. Confirmation of the effectiveness of the toolkit came from pre and post …
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The road to Absalom
… new chief would be a lucrative client for the law firm. The search begins at the site of the massacre. David discovers that the only surviving heir, Absalom, has been missing for several years. He picks up the trail at Absalom's old university, where an ex-lecturer tells him about Absalom's …
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Restructuring in corporate law firms : implications of a changing division of labor for organizational inequality
… a recent wave of restructuring among corporate law firm associateships. Drawing from an interview study in the Boston and New York legal markets, I argue that restructuring the division of labor in this context generates nuanced, textured forms of inequality that reach beyond compensation. Such …
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Um estudo de caso de aplicações de matemática na área do direito.
… of professionals working in the area of law in the exercise of their duties, using as a research field a law office of João Pessoa city. As a basis for our Theoretical consider the works of authors such as Costa (2011); Schneps and Colmez (2014) and others. For the study was first …
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A History of Irrigation in the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas, 1880-1910
… large plat of the Amazon Canal, the Garden City law firm of Calahan, Green, Calahan, and High and to their secretary Mrs. Luava Golightly (who is also secretary of the Finney County Water Users' Association) who provided free access to the Records of the Water Users' Association. Thanks are also …
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THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
… based on election data from three U.S. cities confirm these hypothesis, which suggest that local policies may tend to cater to the tastes of homeowners over renters. The second chapter develops a new method to identify and control for selection when estimating the productivity effects of city …
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Employee Departure from Organizations: Three Empirical Essays
… individuals to capture more value from their firms. The third essay examines the effect of employee departure on firm performance. Each essay identifies an important theoretical puzzle or tension related to employee departures and sheds light on its resolution through careful research design. …
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Unraveling the effects of workforce diversity on firm performance: The role of HRM practices in large U.S. corporate law firms
… race/ethnicity and gender diversity, on firm performance outcomes (workforce productivity and profitability) were examined in the context of U.S. law firms. Moderating influences of HRM practices in this relationship were also tested and these practices include: 1) a compensation …
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designing + (dis)assembling disputes: an ethnography of disputes & lawyers in the construction industry
… why they develop as they do once a construction lawyer is engaged. Accordingly, this research explores the question of what influences the outcome of a construction dispute and to what extent do construction lawyers control or direct this outcome? The research approach was ethnographic. Fieldwork …
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Attorneys and Accountants in a changung environment in South Africa: The case for multidisciplinary practice.
… complex tax problem would have turned to his lawyer. Ten years ago, he would have turned to his accountant. Today, he may even turn to his bank manager~ In 1986, we see lawyers and accountants competing with the merchant banks, the trust companies, insurance companies and other financial …