Lisa Bloom is a legal analyst for Avvo.com, bestselling author of Think and Swagger and the founder and managing partner of The Bloom Firm, a prominent general practice law firm based in Los Angeles that handles family, civil and criminal matters.
More executives will be settling with the SEC as the scandal wears on, says Steven Friedman, chairman of the executive compensation practice at law firm Littler Mendelson.
There's a shortage of senior accountants right now, and the recession has actually provided a chance for them to revive client relationships, believes Mark Koziel, senior manager of firm practice management at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
But shoppers have been conditioned to shop only for deals, and David Bassuk, head of the global retail practice at consulting firm AlixPartners, said the next few weeks could set up a "game of chicken, " with consumers waiting to see if retailers' prices will come down before buying.
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Original bricks are a must, according to Hugh Scott and Travis James who help run the technology practice at real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
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In practical terms, the real revolution in management practice comes when the firm starts defining the goals of work in the form of user stories.
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"As economic situations get tougher, that's when everyone is looking to cut costs, " says Lisa Petkun, partner in the tax-practice group at law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP in Philadelphia.
Mr. Bisgay is a certified public accountant and was employed in the Financial Services Industry Practice at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1989 to 2001, most recently as a Senior Manager.
Kathleen McKenna, a partner in the labor practice at the law firm Proskauer Rose, says that both federal and local statutes forbid interviewers from asking about marital or family status, or about medical conditions.
"If you don't, you're not giving them the same courtesy as other employees, you're treating them worse, " says Rania Sedhom, regional leader of the labor relations and employee benefits practice of the consulting firm BDO Seidman.
Whether you are leading the consulting practice of an IT firm or whether you are a partner in an architecture and design business, you work to develop client relationships while delivering proposals and making sure that your team is ready when the time comes.
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In meetings with some complaining websites, Google executives have held firm that the practice wasn't anticompetitive, according to representatives of those sites.
The theory behind this practice is that a brokerage firm invests its time and money training raw globs of clay into becoming high-powered, professional stockbrokers.
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Some judges said in interviews that the firm has the practice down to a science, creating a model that many competitors are working to mirror.
Cross trading could happen in any firm and the head of compliance for Sky Capital itself informed those within the firm that the practice was not illegal.
To stay ahead, Clearwire may forge partnerships with smaller WiMAX providers, says Dan Hays, a partner and head of the telecom practice at global management consulting firm PRTM.
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Then, while the flames build and the smoke billows, these hotshots return to private practice, where their law firm represents the respondents and defendants that they had only recently prosecuted.
According to Greg Welch, who launched Spencer Stuart's marketing practice and now heads the firm's global consumer goods and services business, the average CMO tenure has grown to just over 28 months in 2008, up four months since Welch started measuring CMO tenure in 2004.
These ideas have been put into practice at Semler's Brazilian firm, Semco, with a great deal of success.
In October, several dozen Landwell lawyers defected from the firm's French practice.
The typical electronic legal invoice format captures information such as legal process, practice area, industry, law firm timekeeper (associate vs. partner), law firm size and location.
"The efficiency of law practice has just changed dramatically in the past five years, " says Bill Dantzler, a hiring partner and head of the firm's tax practice.
McGladrey is the next tier public accounting firm with the alternative practice structure and exposure to Madoff and Petters fraud litigation as well as responsibility for the Sentinel fraud.
Several administrative law judges said the firm has since stopped the practice.
Although Napster states that it is not possible to keep the same account logged in on two machines simultaneously, MusicAlly, a music industry analysis firm, found that in practice quite the reverse was true.
Sonya Leydecker, head of the firm's global disputes practice, said the decision to open in Belfast would enable Herbert Smith to offer clients "a very attractive combination of quality, efficiency and value for money".
Kaplan's main contention is that Dosoretz and his firm interfered with his ability to practice elsewhere.
Enron's demise has raised new questions about the common practice of companies hiring consultants from the same firm that supplies its auditors.
Mujtaba Rahman, head of research firm Eurasia Group's Europe practice, said Draghi "exhausted" his political capital when he introduced the OMT program in September.
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