Counsel On Call is a legal services company that works with corporate law departments, law firms and government entities in all areas of law. It is a certified woman-owned business enterprise and has strict experience requirements of its attorneys and focuses on value-oriented services and billing.
Business model
Counsel On Call falls into the virtual law firm category of professional services providers, although it is not technically a law firm. According to the company's website, it is able to provide its services at low rates mainly because it does not have the overhead expenses of traditional legal service providers and does not consider itself a staffing company. Each of Counsel On Call’s corporate employees who interact with clients and attorney candidates are former practicing attorneys and focus on process, collaboration and cost containment.
History
The company was founded by Jane Hanner Allen in April 2000 in Nashville, Tennessee. Allen, who at the time practiced employment law with Doramus, Trauger & Ney (now Trauger & Tuke), recognized that many talented attorneys, especially women, were being driven from the legal profession because they wanted to pursue other interests in addition to the practice of law. She saw an opportunity for these attorneys to help clients contain costs while practicing law on their terms, unconcerned about the partnership track, billing requirements or other issues prevalent at many law firms.
Since 2000, the company has opened offices in Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago and Boston. Counsel On Call has a presence in Charlotte and Dallas, as well as attorneys working in cities across the U.S. The company has been named to list of the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. three times.
E-Discovery division
Litigation is one of the biggest line items in a legal budget, and the discovery process, including electronic discovery (e-discovery), is typically the most expensive part of litigation. Counsel On Call formally established its E-Discovery Division in 2007, led by Richard Stout, and Counsel On Call clients such as Fidelity Investments and Hospital Corporation of America have discussed how they have partnered with Counsel On Call's E-Discovery Division.
Clients
Counsel On Call predominantly works with the corporate legal departments of Fortune 500, publicly traded companies, and large private companies, as well as law firms of all sizes, including many of the AmLaw 200. The company’s Atlanta office, for example, currently works with 12 of the 13 largest publicly traded companies and 14 of the 15 largest law firms in the market.
Business model
Counsel On Call falls into the virtual law firm category of professional services providers, although it is not technically a law firm. According to the company's website, it is able to provide its services at low rates mainly because it does not have the overhead expenses of traditional legal service providers and does not consider itself a staffing company. Each of Counsel On Call’s corporate employees who interact with clients and attorney candidates are former practicing attorneys and focus on process, collaboration and cost containment.
History
The company was founded by Jane Hanner Allen in April 2000 in Nashville, Tennessee. Allen, who at the time practiced employment law with Doramus, Trauger & Ney (now Trauger & Tuke), recognized that many talented attorneys, especially women, were being driven from the legal profession because they wanted to pursue other interests in addition to the practice of law. She saw an opportunity for these attorneys to help clients contain costs while practicing law on their terms, unconcerned about the partnership track, billing requirements or other issues prevalent at many law firms.
Since 2000, the company has opened offices in Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago and Boston. Counsel On Call has a presence in Charlotte and Dallas, as well as attorneys working in cities across the U.S. The company has been named to list of the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. three times.
E-Discovery division
Litigation is one of the biggest line items in a legal budget, and the discovery process, including electronic discovery (e-discovery), is typically the most expensive part of litigation. Counsel On Call formally established its E-Discovery Division in 2007, led by Richard Stout, and Counsel On Call clients such as Fidelity Investments and Hospital Corporation of America have discussed how they have partnered with Counsel On Call's E-Discovery Division.
Clients
Counsel On Call predominantly works with the corporate legal departments of Fortune 500, publicly traded companies, and large private companies, as well as law firms of all sizes, including many of the AmLaw 200. The company’s Atlanta office, for example, currently works with 12 of the 13 largest publicly traded companies and 14 of the 15 largest law firms in the market.
The Café Leonar is a café, bar and bookstore (selling fiction, non fiction and Judaica) in Hamburg, Germany, founded by Sonia Simmenauer. It is the first Jewish café in Hamburg since pre-war times, and serves kosher pastries as well as Jewish specialities. It opened its doors on the 15 January 2008 in the old Jewish part of Hamburg called the Grindel.
Background
The Jewish population is growing slowly but steadily in Hamburg, and in all of Germany. The people of Hamburg are taking more and more interest in the history of the Grindelviertel, the former center of the Jewish community. At the time of the Nazi takeover, as many as 5,000 Jews lived in the Grindel district, and it is home to many of the 4,000 Jews that live in Hamburg today. It is also the site of the Talmud Thora School, founded as a school for the poor at the start of the nineteenth century. It was forcefully closed down by the Nazis in 1942. Since then, there has been increasing demand for a revitalisation of the Jewish community in Grindel.
History of Café Leonar
Until 1938, Sonia Simmenauer's grandfather Leonhart and his partner Arndt owned a factory in Wandsbek, Hamburg. From the names of these two men came their factory's name, Leonar. It was the previous owner of the building who gave Simmenauer brochures of the factory from 1927 and 1929 with the words: "Leonar, a nice name for a café."
The café serves traditional kosher meals which had been vanishing from restaurant menus, and also hosts a bookstore and a 'Jewish salon', holding lectures, concerts, and workshops.
Background
The Jewish population is growing slowly but steadily in Hamburg, and in all of Germany. The people of Hamburg are taking more and more interest in the history of the Grindelviertel, the former center of the Jewish community. At the time of the Nazi takeover, as many as 5,000 Jews lived in the Grindel district, and it is home to many of the 4,000 Jews that live in Hamburg today. It is also the site of the Talmud Thora School, founded as a school for the poor at the start of the nineteenth century. It was forcefully closed down by the Nazis in 1942. Since then, there has been increasing demand for a revitalisation of the Jewish community in Grindel.
History of Café Leonar
Until 1938, Sonia Simmenauer's grandfather Leonhart and his partner Arndt owned a factory in Wandsbek, Hamburg. From the names of these two men came their factory's name, Leonar. It was the previous owner of the building who gave Simmenauer brochures of the factory from 1927 and 1929 with the words: "Leonar, a nice name for a café."
The café serves traditional kosher meals which had been vanishing from restaurant menus, and also hosts a bookstore and a 'Jewish salon', holding lectures, concerts, and workshops.
Rules is an athletic game played between two players, on a 64 foot square grid. It is characterized by its use of sticks similar to that of a stringed instrument bow, with the aim of getting one's tip through the other stick's space between the slack (the hair) and the rod (the wood).
Gameplay
The field consists of 16 squares, called cells, with sides of 2 feet arranged in a square. The players start in diagonally opposite squares in the middle. Every 20 seconds, the players must switch into an adjacent cell. A tally runs for 20 minutes in this fashion: 3 tallies making a game. One's goal is to strike their stick through the other's stick, whilst simultaneously preventing their own from being struck. However, the two participants must always be facing each other, and cannot move their stick behind their body.
Gameplay
The field consists of 16 squares, called cells, with sides of 2 feet arranged in a square. The players start in diagonally opposite squares in the middle. Every 20 seconds, the players must switch into an adjacent cell. A tally runs for 20 minutes in this fashion: 3 tallies making a game. One's goal is to strike their stick through the other's stick, whilst simultaneously preventing their own from being struck. However, the two participants must always be facing each other, and cannot move their stick behind their body.
Star Weiss is a journalist and author. She was born in Tarrytown, New York and moved around the state as a child, spending her teen years in White Plains. Weiss moved to Canada after meeting her husband, Russ. Together they have had two daughters and now live out of Victoria, British Columbia. She is the co-author of Island Cookery, the author of Kitchen Culture: The Lives and Foods of Immigrant Women in the Cowichan and Chemainus Valleys, and has been featured in Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover's Soul, Polenta on the Board (by Valerie Mitchell) and Ways We live, exploring the community (by Susan Berlin). Her writing has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, Focus Magazine and Chatelaine.
She is the author of Havens in a Hectic World: Finding Sacred Spaces.
Links and references
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*Star's Website
*Chicken Soup for the Soul
*MoreIslandLiving.com
*Publisher's website
She is the author of Havens in a Hectic World: Finding Sacred Spaces.
Links and references
<references/>
*Star's Website
*Chicken Soup for the Soul
*MoreIslandLiving.com
*Publisher's website