Sentences with phrase «at larger firms of»

It is targeted at larger firms of 200 or more lawyers.

At the other end of the spectrum, at large firms of 500 or more lawyers, 31.4 percent report that Westlaw is the service they use most often, followed by Lexis at 22.1 percent.

Number of Associate Hours Worked Increases at Largest Firms (NALP Bulletin, February 2012)-- The most recent information available suggests that, while hours worked and billed started to bounce back somewhat in 2010 after two years of decline, the recovery has been the greatest at the largest firms of 701 + lawyers.

Not exact matches

At the helm of the world's most prestigious management consulting firm, where 80 % of the world's largest corporations go to receive counsel, sits Canadian Dominic Barton.

Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.

TriNet generally absorbs at least half of the legal liability for their clients, and they also enable smaller firms to compete with larger, wealthier employers by putting together competitive bonus packages.

While part of his plans involve taking on a larger role at Initialized Capital, the VC firm he co-founded with Garry Tan, he also says that the decision involved the «promise he made to this little poppy seed.»

«Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world,» Fink, the head of the largest asset management firm in the world, said at an Institute of International Finance meeting.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

Shanta Puchtler, co — chief investment officer at Man Numeric, a division of Man Group, one of the world's largest hedge fund firms, with $ 77 billion under management, says his team hasn't been able to glean actionable insights from social media.

When a college student asked me how to spend his summers, I advised him to try and get an internship at a large firm for some of the reasons above.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

With the benefit of hindsight, Novolker points out that for a business - to - business firm like his, many larger potential customers in the States may balk at the prospect of being the first customer, even if the supplier has a solid reputation in Canada.

Performance of the different offerings was uneven; two large funds launched at the company's peak tumbled by 20 per cent at one point, damaging the nascent firm's reputation.

The small details of running a business, managing workplace culture and making large investment decisions were not in his purview, according to those who worked at the firm.

One senior manager at a large accounting firm in Ottawa who asked not to be named recommends asking for drafts of reports being prepared by perfectionists.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports.

Researchers from the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Michigan interviewed 42 executives at large U.S. companies and identified several flattery techniques the executives used successfully on their peers to secure board seats at other firms.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

Donors can open accounts at many brokerage firms or large foundations, and then make gifts of cash, marketable securities, and even hard - to - value assets.

As a Partner and Regional Business Tax Services Leader at EY, Belinda Pestana works with leadership on strategy for tax advisory and planning, and is the Global Tax Account Leader on one of the firm's largest clients, managing $ 50 million plus of tax revenue.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiAt Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiat private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoil.

While completing a doctorate degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, «A large Philadelphia law firm approached me with a request to translate thousands of pages in an international litigation case,» says Stejskal, now 48.

According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

The approach comes at a time of renewed interest by large drugmakers in smaller biotech firms, with U.S. - based Celgene clinching a deal to buy Impact Biomedicines for up to $ 7 billion on Sunday and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical agreeing last week to buy another Belgian biotech group TiGenix for $ 630 million.

Stock picker Steve Mandel's Lone Pine Capital had the largest gain of any hedge fund firm in 2017, at $ 5 billion, and is now ranked fourth overall.

That's because with larger acquisitions, «you start getting questions on national security... and overall stability and growth of the Chinese economy, so there's a lot more scrutiny over large, marquee deals,» said Benjamin Cavender, principal at consulting firm China Market Research.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

Will Reynolds, CEO of SEER Interactive (# 25), left his job at a large firm because his boss would not allow him to leave work a little early to volunteer at a local hospital.

One explanation is that CEOs in larger firms have less of a direct impact on the company's performance — perhaps because they delegate more than CEOs at smaller firms.

Using proprietary data collected by Restaurant Business and its sister research firm Technomic from 2016, we looked at nearly 100 of the largest US chains and rated them on three criteria we considered the most telling for all - around fast - food excellence: financial performance, customer satisfaction, and overall value.

At Wealthfront — the largest robo - advisor, with $ 2 billion - plus in assets under management — 90 percent of the firm's 21,000 - plus accounts come from clients under age 50.

The RCMP carried out a search warrant at the Montreal headquarters of Canada's largest construction and engineering firm on April 13 as part of an ongoing investigation.

At just 35 years old Burrows entered the C - suite of one of Canada's largest utility firms.

For starters, suggests Joel Evans, co-author of Retail Management: A Strategic Approachand the RMI Distinguished Professor of Business at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business in Hempstead, New York, entrepreneurs should track their sales and customer retention, and then look at the pricing activities of similarly sized companies in their geographical area - while being mildly alert to what larger firms are doing.

Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies.

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

«We offer the experience of a large firm, at the cost of a small one.»

Small businesses typically create more jobs than larger firms do at the start of economic recoveries.

Prior to that she was a general partner for 15 years at Accel; she left to co-found Aspect with the goal of bringing collaboration back to Series A companies and bridging the gap between angel investors and larger multi-stage VC firms.

Mr. Feinberg began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was actively involved in trading large pools of firm capital.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.

«When there's success at one of the large financial services firms or large plan sponsors, the plaintiffs» bar will utilize that settlement or judgment to obtain a very rapid resolution with others,» says Hamburger.

Reuters reported at the time of the March deal that it was the largest takeover of a Canadian company by a foreign firm since 2015, when Spanish - based Repsol agreed to buy Talisman energy.

Previously, he was chair of the Executive Committee and Partner at Perkins Coie, a large Northwest - based law firm.

From 2006 to 2014, almost all of the 1,000 largest U.S. firms completely changed their CEOs» performance metrics at least once, and almost 60 % changed them multiple times.

This measure is described in a recent article in Caixin, which describes a meeting held by the CSRC involving the heads of China's 21 largest brokers: «The firms announced in a joint statement that to stabilize the stock market they would spend at least 120 billion yuan combined to buy exchange - traded funds linked to blue - chip stocks listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.