Sentences with phrase «at a big firm who»

These additions came with ups — «high profile clients» — and downs — «I'm working as hard as friends at bigger firms who are earning much more.

Not exact matches

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

ure out a way to say this,» starts entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who was Facebook's first big investor, thanks largely to Parker, and who later brought on Parker at his VC firm, Founders Fund.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

That strategy will help producers pay for the big, transformational deals they made in 2016, aimed at overhauling their business to contend with low prices, said Curt Karges, who leads consulting firm PwC's corporate finance team in Houston, in a year - end report.

«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.

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

Thankfully, at the time, I was a consultant for one of the «Big Four» accounting firms who could afford lawyers for the work visa process.

Ramani, who's led teams at Oracle and other big firms, shared a story of being «mansplained» and how it changed her career outlook at AOL and Adweek's MAKERS conference in September.

Bringhurst, 49, who is white, works as an employee benefits manager at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the biggest law firms in the city.

But at least one analyst who tracks big Wall Street firms» bonds says there may be an even bigger problem: Investors, pressured by the need to generate income, simply don't care whether the banks are too big to fail — one way or the other.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Perhaps the shattering was inevitable, but those who follow these developments closely argue persuasively that his firm intervention at a number of points might have made a big difference.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

Among the biggest givers to Panepinto were the Buffalo - area firm Brown Chiari, which gave the senator $ 6,500 during the period and had at least three cases before Nugent Panepinto; and attorney William Collins, who gave $ 6,000 to the senator and also had three cases before his wife.

Bratton and wife Rikki Klieman — who last month announced that they were moving back to New York after he accepted a big - bucks job with a private security firm — were spotted dining at Fresco by Scotto Tuesday night after a full day of viewings.

Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.

Cristela Alonzo stars as Cristela in — yup — «Cristela,» about a woman who's in her sixth year of law school, Cristela and is finally on the brink of landing her first big (unpaid) internship at a prestigious law firm.

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The hero is Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson), a former cop who, ten years ago, moved on to sell life insurance policies at a big firm in New York City.

The former chair of the Federal Reserve, who now works at the Brookings Institution and has taken up blogging, recalls the perilous days of the 2008 financial crisis and the Fed's unpopular decision to rescue some of Wall Street's biggest firms.

And the client who commissioned the firm Rewild Homes to build this tiny home for them wanted to have a bathroom big enough for a bathtub, as well as large windows so they can enjoy gazing at the surrounding nature as they bathe.

The best training ground in North America remains law firms, he says, and the Big Four would have to persuade «people who are successful and at the top of their game» to jump ship.

But then I thought about my wife, a self - described «boss - babe» who continues to work full - time at a Big 4 accounting firm while running the show at home as the primary caregiver for our two young children.

Sykes, who studied law at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and Dalhousie University, spent more than six years at the big law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP before moving to the academic world.

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.

Dig a little deeper, however, and you'll discover that many people at big firms and awesome clerkships have outright respect (and perhaps some level of jealously) for attorneys who run their own firms.

Pascale Pageau, a lawyer who founded Delegatus in Montreal in 2005 and is the mother of four children said: «Although my hours vary a lot, I generally work 30 - 35 hours per week now, instead of the 40 - 50 hours per week that I worked when I was at a big firm.»

Shawn McReynolds, managing partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, told us that the best training ground in North America for top legal talent remains law firms and the Big Four would have to persuade «people who are successful and at the top of their game» to jump ship.

Many of my friends who work at big firms do tons of pro bono work on the side, many times in an area of law that they do not normally practice.

«With big firms, they don't just look at your merits; they want the young ones — people who can work for 35 years.

Although he waves a big stick at one before - the - event insurer at p 293 he invites defendants to shop «claimant firms who act in an entirely unacceptable manner».

Back in the 1970s, the people running today's biggest law firms would have been young, carefree law students and associates who'd rush out each weekend to dance at the coolest clubs of the day.

Sam Glover: I suppose if you're at a big firm and you're a big corporate client, you probably have the partner who you have a relationship with who sort of functions as that concierge, but there's nobody like that for small companies and individual consumers.

There were plenty of bright, motivated, entrepreneurial law students at IU - Indianapolis - I know because some of them were my students - who saw this kind of small ball as an alternative to the big firms.

Back when I had my own firm, the woman who answered my phones was a highly skilled legal assistant who couldn't find a job at a big firm that let her do what she wanted to do, which was stay at home until her kids were both in school.

After thinking about it for a couple of months and then also talking to colleagues who had left big firm jobs and started their own solo practices or small firms and also honestly reading things like Lawyerist, reading articles that were on there and looking at... Listening to stories of other people who had done it, I became more and more confident that this was viable for me.

You might get to meet with an attorney at a big firm, but you could get passed off to lawyers or support staff who don't really have the experience to handle your case effectively.

Wilshire Law Firm won't back down from big business and powerful insurance companies, who will stop at nothing to withhold money from you and your family.

Among the bloggers who heap praise on Levy's post are Sam Bayard at the Citizen Media Law Project («Jones Day Gets Trademark Law Wrong, Squelches Legitimate Reporting») and Marc Randazza at The Legal Satyricon («Jones Day - Big Law Firm, Small Ethics»).

A couple of years after that, a colleague who worked with me at at the big firm told me that he was the only person from his graduating class that he knew of that had a full - time job as an attorney a year after his graduation.

Meanwhile, Ontario's regional firms are expanding their own reach at home by picking up new clients who are choosing leaner structures over «too big» firms.

This tip was inspired by a young mother I know, a senior associate at a big firm, who shared with me her recipe for handling the challenging tension between mom - time and lawyer time: the early escape.

The difference, suggests a 2004 post from the trial lawyer who writes The Uncivil Litigator, may lie in the fact that «most civil litigators at big firms have no opportunities for trial experience.»

Quantuma, the administrator of the collapsed business, has engaged big four accounting firm Deloitte to prepare KWM EUME's cessation accounts and is set to write to former partners who were at the firm during the period covered by these accounts to request «a commensurate contribution» to cover the cost.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

However, thanks to the past successes of the Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. law firm in Kansas City, the personal injury attorneys who work for this firm are now able to prepare their cases on a much bigger scale and with a much larger budget, at no extra cost to the plaintiff.

Schmitz, who previously was a tax lawyer at Big Four firm, PwC, explained that the goal is to provide a new type of contract that exploits the blockchain's ability to store key information in a «trustless» manner indefinitely, with the central idea being that a «live contract» linked to this stored data will be able to respond depending on how the contract has been designed.

For Gillian Baker, a consultant at high street firm Baker Gostelow Law, the biggest challenge now facing lawyers at the small end of the profession is how to ensure everyone who needs to access justice can do so.