Sentences with phrase «biglaw cios»

At the same time, these lawyers are taking their Biglaw practices and lucrative clients with them — and, in many cases, are not experiencing a significant drop in salary.

I suggested in a post on my own blog that day that anyone reading from BigLaw should «take 30 seconds and register your law firm's name today... Even if you don't understand what Twitter is, please just trust me and do this.

Sure, go clerk at SCOTUS if you can, but while that will get you a fat salary in BigLaw (and probably no free time to spend all that money), it won't make you worth much in litigation or much of anything else.

Michael Cohen brought top client to BigLaw firm; other consulting clients have regrets May 11, 2018, 09:59 am CDT

Given how much I gripe about the how bars penalize solos more harshly than Biglaw attorneys, I thought that I'd feel some sense of gratification when I read about how a former Wilkie Farr partner has been suspended from the practice of law for a year for billing clients for $ 30,000 of personal long - distance calls.

In an op - ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal, controversial author - turned - lawyer Elizabeth Wurtzel (you read that correctly, she gained fame as an author and then became a corporate lawyer) ruminates on whether time spent working at BigLaw was really just one big waste:

That's how former BigLaw associate Afif Ghannoum, founder of the Ghannoum Law Firm, did it, drawing on pool of close to 500 respondents to staff his new firm's life - science and bio-technology practice.

But at the same time, when you get right down to it, we return to the question that I posed in my post of several weeks ago: Should a defendant be forced to pay for a Cadillac, Biglaw defense because a plaintiff was lucky enough to find pro bono representation?

If so, check out the article «BigLaw lawyer's public - speaking tips for women (lose the quirky mannerisms, don't giggle) cause stir» on the ABAJournal site, and then look at the more than 50 comments on the piece.

«Minority Women Least Content at Biglaw Main Typewriters Not Yet Obsolete... Law Firms Still Use Them»

The most striking finding of the Minority Experience Study published today by The Minority Law Journal and reported by D.M. Osborne on Law.com is that Biglaw satisfaction among midlevel associates correlates more to gender than race.

At first blush, the idea of a BigLaw, LLC iPhone app could sound like a good idea.

With recent small - firm victories at the Supreme Court, looks like Biglaw will have to look for a different approach other than criticizing solo lawyers» competence to attract Supreme Court cases.

Obama's Impact on Biglaw Attorney Taxes Ted Frank, guest posting at Above the Law explores the impact that Obama's tax policy might have on biglaw attorneys» take home pay.

I listed about 35 no - brainer Twitter usernames that I felt BigLaw needed to immediately lock up (e.g., @dlapiper, @jonesday, @akingump).

Have any of the 35 BigLaw firms attempted to reclaim these names, or perhaps given up and gone with Plan B names?

A group of lawyers could simply file a complaint at the EEOC, which has already shown that it's not shy about taking on Biglaw.

Does this mean that Biglaw is outpacing porn as an adopter and driver of new technology?

As this article from the Baltimore Sun (9/11/07) reports, increasingly, law firms are hiring MBAs to help manage the business side of Biglaw practice.

Looking at it through this BigLaw lens, I have been pretty skepticaI thus far as to Twitter's potential as a business development tool for lawyers (as opposed to a more generic PR / news distribution tool for law firm news and announcements, which seems like a no - brainer use to me).

As scandalously delicious as these books may be, they leave the literary and legal worlds with the distinct misimpression that only BigLaw lawyers have libidinous tales to tell.

Relationships with biglaw are a two - way street.

Elefant takes note of two former U.S. Attorneys, in fact, who eschewed BigLaw to pursue the lives of litigators.

This is true at the BigLaw level as well, where diversity — both in terms of people of color and in terms of advancing the role of women in a profession where they are far less likely to end up at the top — seems to be framed simultaneously as incredibly important but also impossible.

Biglaw's corporate clients are managed by people — who get divorced, have too much to drink before driving home, get into accidents, etc..

Moreover, moving from Ivy League law school to clerkship to biglaw firm was (and still is) a traditional career path that would virtually guarantee a successful legal career.

Were I on the BigLaw buy side, I would not give my EDD business to vendors competing for the same consulting dollars.

«Illuminating dark corners from an insider's perspective on BigLaw's ongoing transformation from a profession to a bottom - line business.»

I'm also interested in its use and value to lawyers, particularly to lawyers in the «BigLaw» world.

Smalls simply do not have the brand recognition that biglaw has; smalls are constantly marketing and looking for referrals.

As we head into 2007, seems that midlevel Biglaw associates who've reached that three to five year «sweet spot» (old enough to work independently, young enough to take orders) in the law firm hierarchy are well on their way to becoming an endangered species.

Yes, biglaw has a reputation for some qualities that give the law a bad name — high fees, leveraging associates to increase partner salaries, huge billable hour requirements, and lousy work / life balance, to name a few of the popular gripes.

Author: «lawshucks» spent seven years in BigLaw, but he has been in - house at a financial services company in recent years.

What would happen to the legal profession if Biglaw reached a point where it was no longer sustainable and went the way of the dinosaur?

I have yet to hear any BigLaw Twitter success stories, but perhaps that will be the next wave?

«I have to admit that I was a little mystified when I read about the recent Massachusetts Discipline committee's decision to disbar three prominent Boston attorneys, whose resumes included high government posts and stints at biglaw) biglaws.

BigLaw brands may offer comfort, but some vendors have hired experienced lawyers and may offer the better bundle of skills and experiences.

The life of a small - firm lawyer is no less glamorous, no less scandalous, no less titillating than that of any BigLaw lawyer working in some exotic overseas city.

Not quite, he says: «To my knowledge, the threat did not materialize — I see no evidence of significant BigLaw revenue loss.

The Wall Street Journal's legal blog features a half - dozen detailed posts daily on a wide variety of legal topics from law firm shakeups — sometimes featuring interviews with BigLaw names — to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It all kind of makes me wonder whether anyone at biglaw really wants to be a lawyer or whether they're biding their time, waiting for a book deal or stock options or a winning lottery ticket.

As a litigation partner at a large firm, Holder may have bought into the mentality that staff attorneys are inferior to Biglaw associates, but that wouldn't make him a racist.

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When I heard about Ntrepid Timestream, I hoped it would compare to BigLaw systems, and really impress me.

So there's another BigLaw tell - all making the circuit.

Biglaw firms may seem genteel and respectful of each other on the surface.

Posts dissect and comment on news coverage relating to BigLaw life — and sometimes what the blogger hears from other BigLaw partners like himself (though he has recently retired).

BigLaw uses systems that do this, but they are extremely expensive and complex, frequently involving outside vendors to process, and code documents.

Perhaps large firms aren't going the way of the mastodon just yet, despite various stories on how corporate clients are thinking twice about retaining their Biglaw counsel.

First there was lawyer - turned - sex - novelist Deidre Dare, whose erotic stories about a fictional BigLaw lawyer's party life in Moscow were said to be based on her real - life experiences there as a lawyer with Allen & Overy.