"I really enjoy the small-firm touch that she's brought to our company," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the Leap to the Big Leagues] Reference

Solos and small-firm attorneys find themselves particularly vulnerable to charges of malpractice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Practice] Reference

Legal career: small-firm private lawyer, Long Island, 1961-1994; appointed to bench by President Clinton, 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Look at Judge in Bear Case:] Reference

Another path to network formation is quite different from the spontaneous origins of the small-firm networks in Italy or California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame] Reference

This result is quantified to show that this is not a small-firm large-firm phenomenon, but is actually a firm size issue at all levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [SBA Publishes Study Regarding Impact of Small Business Patenting] Reference

Yes, but state bars are more interested in regulating advertising of small-firm lawyers than they are in regulating corrupt prosecutors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Aren’t Bad Prosecutors Held Accountable?] Reference

So why do the major jimusho in the industry work in this non-transparent, small-firm structure rather than just expanding the size of their own firms?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two] Reference

Career coaches regularly encourage job seekers hoping to break into a larger company to market their small-firm experience by emphasizing the various roles they took on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the Leap to the Big Leagues] Reference

Once you take that into account, plus the role of a London-based market in attracting small-firm IPOs, it turns out there in fact has not been a shift of IPOs to other national markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: Blackstone and Capital's Scam] Reference

For all of the reputation of, say, the ABA as a "liberal" institution, the views of the membership and leadershipas reflected in its actions, such as refusal to make pro bono publico a requirement for lawyers and refusal to take steps to apply ethics rules equally to small-firm plaintiffs' lawyers and large-firm insurance-defense counselare far from "liberal.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scrivener's Error] Reference

Fifty-eight percent of small-firm owners rated the economy as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors.com] Reference

The firm provides clients small-firm attention with large-firm expertise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

After 15 years at a large law firm, Kleinman wanted "to try the small-firm thing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Law.com - Newswire]

The three small-firm candidates picked by the nominating committee of the Financial.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

After the ups and downs of small-firm and solo practice, I think I'd like to get back into the library.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

Many poor countries have suffered from bad government and unnecessary regulations that discourage small-firm formation and growth.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Small service businesses actually added 15,000 jobs, but that was more than offset by a loss of 27,000 small-firm goods-producing jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

The election, set to conclude Thursday at Finra's annual meeting, has opposing candidates for three small-firm seats and one midsize-firm seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

But he knows that there are many self-employed or small-firm workers who have no insurance, and a major illness could be catastrophic for them.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

small firms - those with no more than 150 brokers - vote for three small-firm representatives, as do large firms - those with more than 500 brokers.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

The small-firm challengers said that the three representatives chosen by the nominating committee are too close to Finra management, and unwilling to push back.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

Large-firm CEOs were rated as more competent 55 percent of the time, while their small-firm counterparts were judged as looking more trustworthy, likeable and attractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Finra-backed candidates who represent large and midsize firms are running unopposed so far in the regulator's upcoming board election, but a battle is brewing for three open small-firm seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

He said that while many broker-dealers use technology appropriately, very few have robust straight-through-processing systems in place that would improve small-firm efficiency and reduce costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

He says, "The relative role of smaller firms in generating jobs varies enormously from time to time and place to place … Most small-firm job creation occurs within a relatively few firms-the Gazelles.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Peril 白禍] Reference

But with corporate clients demanding global representation, the legal industry might have to figure out how to nurture small-firm values inside big-firm formats, said Patricia Gillette, a former Heller Ehrman partner now with San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington &.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

The candidate explanations include: an improving economy; massive government stimulus/liquidity programs keeping structurally weaker firms on artificial life support; and the recovery disconnect between Main St. and Wall St. (i.e., small-firm bankruptcies are on the rise even while major bankruptcies have declined).    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Dustin Cole, a business coach for lawyers whose clients range from solo practitioners to law firms with up to 80 attorneys, said small-firm lawyers need to offer billing flexibility and watch their own receivables "vastly more closely" to proactively determine if they need to offer alternative billing arrangements, including discounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law.com - Newswire] Reference

“I came to Resotech because I’d always wanted to work in a small-firm environment,” he explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Managing New Product and Process Development] Reference

Comprehensive Asset Management & Servicing Inc.; and small-firm candidates Ken Norensberg, managing director of Luxor Financial Group Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

Fifty-eight percent of small-firm owners rated the economy as "poor" in July, up from 51% in June, while only 7% rated the economy as "excellent" or "good," down from 12% in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors.com] Reference

"He obviously sought a small-firm environment where he can do different work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law.com - Newswire]

"The small-firm environment tends to give more flexibility to how they work -- as far as working from home or leaving early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law.com - Newswire] Reference

"I've always known I'm a small-firm kind of guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals] Reference