Sentences with phrase «at a big firm where»

I used to work at a big firm where I perceived that 3 % of the lawyers were happy.

Not exact matches

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

Jon Salas, 28, recently took a big pay cut to leave the «cardboard dry culture» at a multinational human resources consulting firm where he felt isolated from bosses and colleagues.

Goldman is the latest big bank ensnared in a multiyear scandal where currency traders at major Wall Street firms got caught using electronic chat rooms to talk about their customers» orders.

But when I think about other ubiquitous fast food outlets and their brewed coffee, I think about Folger's being served at Wendy's, about Dunkin Donuts being owned by three creepy private equity firms (providing little or no information on where their coffee comes from), and another of the «big four» corporate roasters, Sara Lee «s Douwe Egberts division, supplying Burger King's coffee.

where I'm living with my BFF, started an amazing job at a new firm, AND flew back to Chicago to celebrate my awe - inspiring big's graduation; I've even traveled to Washington for work!

Why should he give up the big bucks he's making at a law firm to take a job where you're basically a potted plant and you don't make much money?

Our meeting at the HQ of PR and lobbying firm Portland, where Campbell works part - time, comes 10 weeks after the prime minister's big speech pledging to tackle the «stigma» around mental health problems.

My firm has a Thanksgiving luncheon and I always try to look extra cute on days where I see the whole firm - I'm usually tucked away in my cubical, and I'll probably wear it for the big Thanksgiving gathering at my parents» house.

Alice lands a job as a paralegal at a big law firm where she makes fast friends with a flamboyant co-worker (Rebel Wilson) eager to show her the ropes both around the office and the Manhattan dating scene.

By twenty - four, she was a sales assistant at the investment banking firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, where she made deals for some of the biggest tycoons of the day, including media mogul Ted Turner and cosmetic king Ronald O. Perelman.

The non-Performance Pack Corsa VXR is still a capable small hot hatch, but stripped of the LSD, bigger brakes and the firmer suspension tune it's frustrating at the point where the Performance Pack model really comes alive.

It's skittish at higher speeds, where small inputs make big changes, and road imperfections throw you around in the lane thanks to the aggressively firm sport suspension.

Mr, Jolissaint was speaking at a private breakfast where the chief economists of the «Big Three» US car firms presented their forecasts for auto industry sales this year.

Big firms and alternative business structures can scale to the point where they will be able to offer superior legal help at lower prices (even access - to - justice prices).

Or is the reception not so much an award but rather a quid pro quo where big firms cash in on pro bono service by obtaining one - on - one access to the federal judges at an exclusive ceremony.

«It also represents an important win for businesses at the smaller end of the scale, and helps to preserve the web as a place where small firms can compete with bigger firms on a more even basis.»

There's some, I know Legal Zoom has some data that if I'm recalling it correctly says that law firms actually don't actually get more efficient until between 10 and 15 people and that there's sort of a jump in efficiency at two or three people and then they get less efficient until you get to 10 or 15 and then you can start taking advantage of some scale, which is interesting and you're sitting right in the middle of there where you can decide do you really want to move it forward and have a business or do you want to keep going and just serving clients without a bigger strategy in mind.

In larger cities where big firms prevail, many lawyers are leaving to start their own firms — a trend that I frequently document at my home blog, My Shingle.

One reason more Ivy League alumni aren't CEOs may be that many have traditionally chosen careers in investment banks and at big law firms, where they could earn big sums quickly and wouldn't have to start in entry - level management jobs.

Jordan Furlong tells a story of sitting on a client meeting at a big firm, where the client had managed to outsource a bunch of their discovery work and some of their IP work to non lawyer, non firm providers.

Sam Glover: I guess, I'm curious about what both of you think about this, but there's been a lot of talk about the movement at big firms and I think smaller firms are starting to try to do this too, where you do build the firm up as a brand that guarantees a kind of service and a level of service and institutional knowledge and technology competency, to try and encourage companies and clients of all kinds to hire the firm, not the lawyer and so that the firm can say to the lawyer, «Go ahead and leave.

While nothing is guaranteed in life or law, attorneys and firm management consultants say taking a step back and looking at the big picture, whether you're a solo practitioner or at a large firm, is essential to knowing where you've been, where you're going, and how you will keep growing.

We believe he's on to a big idea and yet, it also conjures up an important question at the strategic level: where should the case for change originate in a law firm?

As a fifth - year lawyer at Fulbright, I reached a point where I had to decide what I wanted to do when I grew up — become a big firm partner or... well, there weren't many other options at that time (today, law students are fortunate to have many varied opportunities including project management, technology, data analysis, etc.).

She admits though to being sucked into the law firm hiring period at school, where students battle for the best grades in the hopes of attracting the biggest firms and biggest paycheque.

I started my career in Biglaw and periodically hang out at events where someone is addressing the «lack of diversity» in the profession — without questioning the unspoken assumption that «the profession» is big firms.

Candidates I coach can obsess about getting on a big graduate scheme at a well - known firm and are almost unaware that in terms of numbers the vast majority of jobs are with small and medium sized firms where the opportunities to grow and take responsibility are just as large.

Adam Shapiro, a Miami attorney, says he's much happier as a lawyer at United Auto Insurance Company, where he can work from the courthouse or home at times, rather than at a big law firm, where the emphasis on face time at the office during and after hours was much greater.