Sentences with phrase «at a large law firm doing»

CP: Partnership at large law firms does not interest most associates.

Accident attorneys at larger law firms don't have the opportunity to work as closely with their clients as we do.

I started my career at a large law firm doing corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions and securities work, however, I eventually moved out of the law firm setting, and moved in - house.

Not exact matches

I don't work at a law firm, but even if I did, women are experiencing a large range of creative freedom to show off their style in the workplace and now it's your turn to be a lady boss who can wear versatile outfits like Jessica from Suits and kill it every time.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

$ 9.99 for your TransUnion credit report which at first doesn't seem like a good deal with all the other offers out there, but in this case your credit report is just the first step in enrolling with the largest, most trusted credit repair law firm in the nation.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

Adriana Linares: I totally agree with you and I'm very grateful that I have been around during this weird transition time and been watching it from the beginning, because I started my career at one of Florida's largest law firms and it's just so funny to think back and they are probably still doing — oh actually no, there are NetDocs from now.

I didn't draft agreements when I was at the large law firm where I spent my first 20 years in practice.

If it does, then the diamond could be forever, at least among larger law firms.

But they certainly won't do much to help them thrive — either at a large firm, or more importantly, at a career in the law.

The work at the law firm was a bit more mentally stimulating but I felt that the work I was doing at DHS would actually help a large number of people who really needed it.

In one of the articles that accompanies the report, Nicholas Bruch, senior analyst at ALM Legal Intelligence, which assisted in compiling the results, and Hugh A. Simons, an industry analyst and former COO at Ropes & Gray in Boston, write that 78 percent of the firms in this year's Am Law 100 surpassed their pre-recession levels of profits per equity partner — and did so in large part through management.

Lastly, many law firms and their clients are looking seriously at «in - sourcing» what service providers used to do for them — such as some e-discovery processing and hosting larger litigation cases themselves.

«[And] to make it clear not only to the legal community but also to the community at large that diversity and inclusion is something that law firms don't just give lip service to, it is really something that we want do and improve upon.»

And where it can become especially problematic is when again, you're dealing with a larger law firm, because sometimes the administrator, or the one person from that firm who is handling the insurance for the firm doesn't necessarily know that in litigation they took on this new matter that for whatever reason it wasn't underwritten at the time the policy was issued.

I take issue with so many aspects of the decision, from the cowardly way that it addresses a particular referral group, BNI, but doesn't mention it by name to the decision's failure to trust lawyers enough to exercise good judgment in making referrals to its willingness to ignore the same type of lawyer / non-lawyer networking activity that takes place every day at large law firms...»

While he articled at a large law firm he realized he wanted to do something very different from the typical path of a corporate lawyer.

«I didn't see a path for me to partnership at a large law firm.

at the ABA Journal; non-lawyer owned Novus Law is tripling revenue every year, doing work that would have previously been done by large law firLaw is tripling revenue every year, doing work that would have previously been done by large law firlaw firms.

Large law firm KM does well at scaling up the personal or small firm KM for externalizing knowledge.

Law firms in general have done a horrible job at creating unique brands (as opposed to clever slogans) that help differentiate themselves from competitors large and small.

Of greater interest is the arguably questionable decision by the law society to pursue the charges as long as it did and the question of whether the case indicates the problems law societies have in relation to the direct regulation of lawyers at large law firms.

«There aren't necessarily that many attractive large law firms — at this point, it's either firms that are top of the grade that are not going to be open to a merger in which they lose their brand and firms that don't have as much attractiveness for the global market,» he says.

To attract and retain these great attorneys — and do so through a model that greatly reduced client fees — we built the firm on a model that permits these attorneys to work from a position that support their life balance and from locations not possible in traditional practice settings and, at the same time, strips away overhead and fixed salaries that underpin a very large part of a traditional law firm's fee structure.

Working at three large law firms over two summers convinced me that indeed, I did not want to practice.

I did not go to law school hoping to land a lucrative job at a large firm.

I have been in the work force for more than 30 years and only went to law school about seven years ago, but I did work at a large law firm as the director of finance.

Rob La Gatta: As someone who looks at the intersection of technology and the law, do you think large law firms and state bars that discourage (or outright prohibit) lawyer blogging are inhibiting potential growth of the legal industry?

Looking at a lawyer's website will also give you a good idea of what type of law firm they practice in (e.g., is it a small or large firm, does the firm only specialize in one area of the law or do they have different attorneys working on different topics).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

With lawyers at both small and large law firms working harder than ever, increasing competition from overseas firms and LPOs becoming more visible, and constant talk of a new wave of competition, does not fill them with hope that easier times are ahead.

Since that's true, where does one look for trial experience now, and will there be a shortage of experienced trial lawyers soon at large law firms?

At a time when law firms are floundering, it is refreshing to see a large institution with a «why didn't I think of that first» kind of idea.

Factor in the appearance of LPOs like Exigent and CounselQuest which can do traditional junior associate work and one begins to wonder how large Canadian law firms will be able to afford junior associates at all — especially if other providers can do the same work better, faster and cheaper.

This, at the same time that dozens of large firms are paying associates not to work for them either, but rather to report to law clinics and public - interest legal employers, or to travel or do «something meaningful.»

With so many options available to women — such as prestigious government work or the ability to start their own law practices — they simply may decide that they no longer want to spend their time at large firms, just as they're doing now.

He decided to do some research and found that in the top 200 largest law firms in the U.S., the odds of an Asian American becoming a partner at a top firm was 6 - 1 — of every six Asians, only one became partner.

Matthew Zorn, an attorney at a large New York law firm, decided to do something about that, so he spent nine months writing a useful and beautifully designed app that he calls DkT.

She is very risk averse (she said so herself) but she didn't let her fear stand in the way of transitioning into a smaller law firm out of her corporate in house counsel job at a large bank here in Atlanta.