Sentences with phrase «big firm practice»

I'm a former BigLaw associate and the need for hyperspecialization in a particular practice area was one of the reasons I left big firm practice.

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The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

«If I'm investing in a company that was created and coddled by a big company early on, my presumption is that their market is going to be limited,» says Harden, whose firm has invested in YouTube, Practice Fusion and InternMatch.

Until recently, only big firms that could afford the necessary hardware, servers and IT support employed practice - management systems.

FORTUNE — Kent Kedl knew he had big problems last year when he took the helm of the Asia practice of London - based management consulting firm Control Risks.

His incendiary testimony suggested that big, even publicly traded, engineering firms were complicit in the cartel - like practices previously ascribed to lower - level construction companies in that province.

After the financial crisis, the Wall Street firm overhauled its business practices in an effort to avoid big reputational as well as financial risks.

Before any of you doth protest too much about this conclusion, let me explain the rationale for my inclusion of diversification strategy among the other much better known systemically fraudulent practices regularly engaged in by big commercial brokerage firms and banks.

«Most of the big projects that have gone up still have [loan] extension options available to them,» said attorney Timothy Little, head of the real estate practice at the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman.

As reported in Chapter 5 of JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook, Ms. Fleischman is a graduate of Cornell University Law School and, in 2006, after several years of practice at a large Wall Street law firm, she was hired by JPMorgan Chase as a transaction manager.

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

Peter headed up the economic practices in two «big four» advisory consulting firms and was a Partner in one of Canberra's largest public policy advisory firms where he specialised in industry and international trade policy development and regulation.

Asked whether Silver should have named a law firm that was paying him big bucks — money that originated from Glenwood and other landlords — she answered: «You would only need to list the income as «law practice.

Additionally, several big accounting and auditing firms have created practices around tracking and tracing supply - chain sustainability practices.

The law originally focused mainly on protecting small businesses against a variety of anti-competitive practices of big firms.

According to ALM Intelligence in its report «Elephants in the Room,» the law firm practice areas most susceptible to a Big Four assault include: tax, finance, labour and M&A.

Consider all the options: big firm, small firm, solo practice, government, in - house.

Every opportunity to contact your firm adds to the big picture of a successful practice, but the phone is still king.

As independent contractors, freelance attorneys build their own freelance law practices and are responsible for setting their own hours, finding their own clients, and bringing in their own income.Freelance attorneys come from every corner of the legal profession, including big law firms, in - house counsel, government positions, public sector, and solo practice.

In a big firm, it can be difficult to get out in front of people and practice speaking in public.

He considered both global law firms and other Big Four practices and concluded that «the accounting firms with their tax depth, related advisory services and [global] reach appeared to me to be the future solution.»

While that may not yet be the reality at your school, it's worth thinking early about alternatives to big - firm practice: small firms, and public service.

Many junior associates assume they could never land a whale of a big client for their firm, so they let this element of their practice slide, leaving rainmaking for the senior partners.

Creating Google alerts for your firm's big clients as well as key phrases relevant to your practice group will help you in your search.

But Clifford Chance, by beating its US rivals to the coveted title of the first # 1bn business, stands out as the world's biggest billing law firm ever with a gross turnover that is a tenth of the total figure for all the top 100 of UK law practices.

The big - firm practice groups I've seen on Twitter, though, could do better.

Though firms can and do use PPC to boost their business, you can also use it if you want to make your practice predictable rather than bigger.

Working at a big firm can lead to habits that are bad for a small or solo practice.

Drawing on the expertise of the Harvard Law community and Silicon Valley, wireLawyer provides an essential business - to - business platform, allowing lawyers to insource and outsource paid work, access thousands of peer - reviewed documents, and research curated questions, which bring big firm best practices to the entire legal community.

Each law practice, whether solo practitioner, big - firm junior associate, or general counsel, is a small business.

By that point I had considered becoming either... Working at big law or a medium - sized firm and I also had considered doing a solo practice.

They are too small to have the systems and discipline of the bigger firms (eg partners have to meet budget or they are sacked), but not small enough where all the partners still have a hunger to build a great practice.

Whether you work at a big firm or have a solo law practice, there are always times when things are slow and staying productive can be tricky.

No matter what stage your legal practice is in, no matter what budget you're working with, no matter how big or small your goals are, there's always something you can to do move your law firm closer to the future you want.

His two practice tool selection criteria stemmed from the quick changeover from big firm partner to sole practitioner («I wanted to get set up as fast as I could,» he says) and his loyalty to a non-Windows computer (Yelin uses a Mac).

More detailed feedback from clients about their experiences of working with international law firms revealed further concerns, with almost a quarter of GCs admitting that consistency in quality and service was the biggest challenge, while one in five reported problems with inconsistent working practices between offices, as well as patchy local insight and understanding of cultural nuances.

When I was practicing at the big firm I used to be jealous of my compatriots who did a lot of travel and took depositions, because their hours billed sitting on an airplane, reading a magazine were just as good as my hours billed reading cases on Westlaw and actually drafting, and I did a lot more that kind of thing and it's hard to achieve the same level of billable hours doing what I do than it is in other areas like just regular litigation.

«Alongside its formidable prosecution and licensing practice, the firm's full - service patent group boasts sophisticated scientific expertise that helps to set it apart in the hugely competitive life sciences patent litigation market,» according to Intellectual Asset Management, which noted that Foley Hoag is regularly retained in «some of the biggest biotech cases in the market.»

Bridges says he believes Winston's IP practice will thrive even with his departure: «I was a very small part of a very big firm.»

Now, in my experience, the majority of law firm leaders — including practice leaders, department heads, client team leaders, and industry team leaders — are also the biggest rainmakers in the firm.

Large firms with significant restructuring practices have made big money throughout the Great Recession — so much that the media occasionally reports on it.

This week in Bigger than Biglaw, Neena Dutta explores her new found social freedom that emerged as a direct result of leaving a law firm and locating her solo practice in shared law office space.

«It's a very effective way for attendees to see the bigger picture from all perspectives, and get insight into what is best practice now and into the future, depending on where your firm sits on the investment and innovation curve» — Laura O'Gorman, Partner, Buddle Findlay

A letter before action pursuant to Judicial Review proceedings has now been hand delivered to the Lord Chancellor's office on behalf of the Big Firms Group — an association of large criminal practices of which we are one.

Very large law firms that can maintain some of the same presence in bigger cities, but also can provide expertise on even the most detailed practice areas, will always be with us.

He brings the high quality practice of big law firms into the more congenial, value based, and client focused atmosphere of a boutique law firm.

In the past, many law firms have used a spokesperson or top attorney with a big personality and big cases behind him or her to «sell» the practice's qualifications.

Bunch said, «I am excited to bring my franchising practice to FisherBroyles, which provides clients with exceptional service and Big Law - caliber legal representation along with efficiencies that are intrinsic to the firm's distributed partnership platform.

I happen to know a fair number of individuals that currently work at big firms as a fallback to their own failed attempt at starting a solo practice.

I recall speaking with a Toronto lawyer from a big firm about his practice.