Sentences with phrase «a fee earners»

The JLV launched in 2011 with a combined firm of 12 partners and 44 fee earners.

The deal, confirmed today (3 October), includes 16 partners and about 400 other fee earners and staff based in Liverpool, London and Manchester but excludes Hill Dickinson's marine insurance and clinical negligence business.

Partnership with leading workplace survey company will help law firms improve quality of tech they provide fee earners

Last year's Best Employers Report generated 2,300 responses from fee earners and support staff at global, UK and City firms.

I think that this is madness; these costs should be eliminated so that more pay is returned to the people generating most of the fees for the firm: the non-equity partner fee earners.

To further streamline the inception process and ensure compliance, Eclipse's integration with an ID / AML checking service will allow fee earners to request «one - click» ID checks directly from Proclaim, with search results returned to the relevant files.

Additionally, Proclaim's integration with the LRBG will allow conveyancing fee earners to access Land Registry services directly from the system, whilst the integration with BigHand will expand the functionality of Proclaim and enhance the current digital dictation solution, including speech recognition, which the firm already uses.

In addition to the inherent Proclaim functionality — such as data storage, document creation, time recording, etc — the solution has also been tailored to seamlessly guide fee earners through all mediation case stages.

Big law firms are falling over themselves to use IT more productively, so as to free up office space and allow their fee earners more «flexibility».

Eclipse will implement its out - of - the - box Proclaim Case Management Software solution at Williams & Co, providing fee earners with a streamlined...

DLA Phillips Fox has over 800 fee earners and 1,400 staff in eight offices in New Zealand and Australia.

The roles of an individual in management, as a fee earner / employee and as an equity participate are blurred and decisions often made whilst wearing the wrong hat — or all at once.

Clyde & Co has introduced a new policy that will see UK fee earners allowed to include up to 50 hours of pro bono work in their billable hours targets.

In another win for Intapp, City law firm Fox Williams has selected Intapp Time as its new time management system, with plans to roll it out to nearly 70 fee earners in place of its current time recording process, which is based on Thomson Reuters Elite's sunsetted Envision practice management system.

Caroline Davison, Operations Director at Berwins Solicitors explains the need for a new system, «We needed a solution that would manage the requests sent from Fee Earners in the Residential Property Department to the 4 administrative and legal assistants.

I joined Hodge Jones & Allen in 2011 as an assistant to fee earners in the personal injury and civil liberties teams.

Aluko & Oyebode is rolling out Rekoop to 70 fee earners across three offices, integrating with LexisNexis's PCLaw PMS.

Our paralegals have assisted with general land registry applications, compliance issues and day to day help to fee earners.

«Intapp Time will introduce a step change to how our fee earners keep track of their time.

Being web based, it reflects the aspirations of our firm and means our fee earners are no longer tied to the office.

In a «six - figure deal» Copley Clark will be rolling out ready - to - go Proclaim Case Management solutions across a number of departments including Conveyancing and Probate to provide a one - stop desktop application for fee earners.

Our Flexible Fee Earners are typically individuals who trained with Norton Rose Fulbright or at other leading firms, and who are now seeking greater flexibility in their working arrangements.

ALC understand how important it is to recover legal costs quickly and efficiently, leaving fee earners to concentrate on doing what they do best.

Similarly, by allocating individuals to matters in an intelligent way, drawing on the offices across our platform, our Flexible Fee Earners and our Hubs, we are able to ensure the right people are doing the right work.

Taking this further, the firm has implemented Eclipse's TouchPoint self - service portal to provide a device - independent and interactive experience for clients, enabling fee earners to deliver bespoke real - time data and information, resulting in an entirely personal self - service experience.

The firm is expecting that roughly 80 fee earners will lose their jobs and will launch a separate review of support staff.

Partner and head of personal injury — heading a team of 35 fee earners including associate solicitors, assistant solicitors, legal executives, trainees and paralegals.

The website for the index provides region - by - region breakdowns of the data as well as listing of the top law firms in the region ranked by average pro bono hours per fee earner.

Fee earner career framework covering development milestones for staff from newly qualified solicitors to senior associates

There are separate cells for each grade of fee earner and for each stage.

The Legal Week Best Technology Survey reveals a worrying ambivalence among busy fee earners towards crucial IT training

So, what can we learn from the latest feedback from more than 2,000 fee earners?

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Fieldfisher, Withers and RPC have joined a growing group of UK top 50 law firms looking to change the way they appraise their fee earners and staff.

The programme has already proved successful — the LinkedIn page has seen its number of followers increase by more than half during the past 12 months, attracting both fee earners and people with business services backgrounds, and new hires have been made via LinkedIn at the director, manager and executive level.

In delivering some answers, the 2015 Legal Week Best Employers Report — now in its 12th year — canvassed the views of Generation Y, questioning 2,076 fee earners in 16 UK, City and international firms.

Reed Smith promises fee earners a positive working environment including flexible working and attractive benefits

FPC letters in will attract an award and increased rates will be triggered if the fee earner's office is within the south - east circuit.

The Scottish firm — which has 62 partners and almost 200 other fee earners — will see its brand disappear on completion of the tie - up.

Training involves a range of people in a firm: supervising someone's work and giving feedback is «training»; fee earners who give a talk on a new legal development are delivering training.

The firm launched a review in February that was set to affect 10 fee earners across the firm's insurance and shipping practices as well as six business services roles, which comprised a mix of secretarial and support staff.

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang reports no earnings differential among fee earners apart from «minimal pay gaps» in its Bristol office, but across all its UK employees, it found a 32.8 % median hourly earnings gap and a 17.3 % mean hourly pay gap.

Minster is unusual among large law firms in that it works under a corporate structure, with its 840 staff in York and Wakefield comprising around 170 fee earners and just 54 qualified lawyers.

Working with a talented team who are good fun and witnessing (and helping) more junior fee earners develop as lawyers and businesspeople.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hiked pay for its newly qualified lawyers by 26 % as it also introduces flexible working for fee earners.

Law firms are urgently requested to respond to the Costs Survey, which will inform recommendations on new guideline hourly rates (GHR) for fee earners.

Bristol - based Burges Salmon sets out to provide its fee earners with quality work and responsibility while promoting a collegiate atmosphere, aided by the fact that it operates out of a single office.

Praising fee earners for going that extra mile costs nothing and reaps dividends; but partners need to get much better at it

Reed Smith promises fee earners a positive working environment including flexible working, an attractive benefits package and a range of volunteering opportunities.

A common distinction between partners and more junior fee earners is the extent to which they consider the wider needs and ambitions of the business.

Eversheds former Newcastle practice head Weatherburn and a team of fee earners left for Beachcroft in November 2008, when the top 10 UK firm pulled out of clinical negligence work.