Sentences with phrase «at other firms because»

Their enthusiasm shows when we do recruiting events, and when you look at attrition figures, there's less here than at other firms because people have ownership over their careers.

Not exact matches

Other partners at the hedge fund firm he co-founded, Brevan Howard Asset Management, have independently made similar investments, the people said, asking not to be named because the information isn't public.

For instance, «someone has to pay for a mover and cough up the security deposit because you're not necessarily going to get it back from the original apartment if the other person is staying,» says Wynne Whitman, attorney at the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP and coauthor of Shacking Up: The Smart Girl's Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned.

Five experts at U.S. or other Western cyber firms all told Reuters their communication with contacts in Russia had been scaled back since the arrests, either because the Russians had stopped replying or because the Westerners had decided it was better not to contact them for now.

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarBecause it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarbecause the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

I love working at Franklin Templeton because being a global asset manager, the firm offers various opportunities for staff to enhance their learning, build and develop interactions with other jurisdictions along - with growth opportunities to move both vertically and horizontally within the organization to name a few.

«Because the ecosystem has become more transparent you are always competing with other firms,» says Ross Fubini, a partner at Canaan, who adds startups are still likely to choose the best venture capital firm, rather than the highest valuation.

Writing about Humanae Vitae just a month after Pope Paul VI issued it, at which point lots of Catholics, including a goodly number of Jesuits, had popped a cork, the then - superior general asked his fellow Jesuits to assume an attitude of «obedience which is at once loving, firm, open, and truly creative» and «to do everything possible to penetrate, and to help others penetrate, into the thought which may not have been his own previously» - precisely because they were Jesuits, and this is what Jesuits do.

Molo went on to highlight the numerous other firms to which Taub referred patients, as well as the other attorneys at Weitz who he had worked with because «they're a very good firm.»

It is easy politically to criticize the bonuses at AIG, because why whould a losing firm give bonuses, but perhaps employees did the right thing in their area of the company, while other areas failed.

My husband mentioned the idea of paying varying amounts to the CPA at the firm, and she felt this would not be possible because it would affect how the other partners paid their taxes as well.

2006 Morningstar comment on American Funds: «It has become clear that brokers at firms such as Edward Jones, Morgan Stanley, and others have sold funds because they have received kickbacks from fund firms to do so.

Others are brought in because the owner has noticed firm swellings under the ferret's chin or at the points of the shoulder and thigh.

«It's pretty exciting because... it really proves the concept of firm, dispatchable solar power at scale, without grants, without any economic influence other than just a purely commercial transaction,» he said.

In general, for law firms, we find that email marketing is most suited to marketing to existing clients and referral sources (simply because these subscribers are accustomed to receiving emails from attorneys at your firm on a regular basis), while blogs and social media are more effective at marketing to prospective clients, the media and other unknown parties.

Because they either want the upfront cash for themselves or they want to expand the reach of their firms essentially at the expense of other firms.

It is this emphasis on joint effort and camaraderie — where people strive to perform at their best because they do not want to let their network colleagues down — that not only sets some law firm alliances apart from others, it also sets apart the network model from traditional international law firms.

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.

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Schiff impressed one associate because «during OCIs with other firms, stray comments really grated on me and I didn't get any of that at Schiff.

The message at CLOC was in order to be successful in the future departments need to embrace all the other professionals in the legal and law firm ecosystem because without them things can't move forward.

«It's not something that happens every day, but if you look over the past year, you can see certain circumstances where practices moved from one firm to the other because they felt the platform at the second firm was better for them.

We stand out from most other Puerto Rico law firms because we can support institutes of higher education at every step of a legal transaction.

I mean on the one hand it's helping you get started, because you're able to reassure clients that you're still the same lawyer, but on the other hand as your clients start to build those kinds of relationships with other lawyers at your firm.

Don't stick your head in the sand or follow the crowd like the Madoff investors did: Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith, Esq. implores firms to stop following what others are doing because it's «socially comfortable» and to prevent single dominant practice groups from driving firm strategy, because those practice groups won't be profitable forever.

Furthermore, because I was basically a one - man construction division of my old firm, these clients did not know many (if any) of the other lawyers at the firm, so I did not have any internal, client - related struggles when I left.

At the other end, it's harder for those who don't find large - firm jobs to make a living because the rising cost of legal education means that smaller paychecks don't stretch as far.

KM at smaller law firms is made relatively easier, not because there's any less to remember, but that we externalize our knowledge to other people and our systems.

Leon Bass, a director and managing attorney at Southern California Edison Co., said he has sent numerous matters to LTL involving misappropriated trade secrets, trademark disputes and other IP - related work, partly because the firm is a model «diversity business enterprise.»

However, Frank Maher, partner at Legal Risk solicitors, urged firms «to consider carefully before they take advantage of the proposals, because other regulators» compulsory cover is not as comprehensive as the SRA's Minimum Terms and Conditions.

Press releases may come later, but lawyers at other firms would be naive to assume that because a rival isn't featuring in the press, yet, that they are not already experimenting with AI, or now starting to do client work with it.

While you could argue this comes at a price since, historically, salaries in the region have been on average between 20 and 30 % lower than in the major legal markets, Danielson notes: «We have been seeing a small but potentially significant shift in thinking among many firms towards raising their compensation packages, in part to be competitive for top candidates from other markets, but more likely because the econ

Because MetaJure stores and archives documents automatically, lawyers don't need any additional training nor do they have to alter their preferred way of working or do any extra steps to be sure the files can be accessed by others at the firm who are authorized to do so.

If an associate does not want to put in the hours because he or she has home life that they would like to enjoy, I respect that decision, but on the other hand, they can't expect to be paid a top salary at a top law firm, and quickly move up the firm structure towards partnership.

«I think that ROSS puts us at such an advantage over other small businesses, other law firms, just because we can do things more efficiently.»

No, we have some amazing customers, particularly with Big Law it was really challenging at first because every firm would say, well, what other big firms are using it?

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.

It is this emphasis on joint effort and camaraderie — where peo - ple strive to perform at their best because they do not want to let their network colleagues down — that not only sets some law firm alliances apart from others, it also sets apart the network model from traditional interna - tional law firms.

[08:32] But by redesigning the user interface, it makes it much easier for lawyers to work and to collaborate, because a lot of times when you look at law firms and how they've used document management systems in the past, you might find 40 ‑ 60 percent of the lawyers use it and the others don't.

Because, a successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with those bricks which others have thrown at her.

If you see the handwriting on the wall at your firm, it's a good time to start looking into other opportunities in other industries or pursuing your dream job because it's always harder to find a job without a job.

«If the cost of building a bridge increases because the cost of issuing debt has increased, companies are going to look for other, more economic alternatives,» said Henrietta Treyz, a managing partner and director of economic policy at Veda Partners, an investment advisory and policy consulting firm.

Cedar's shares are trading at a discount compared to other shopping center REITs because the firm has had slow internal growth and there are a few troubled properties in Ohio in its portfolio, which has hurt its overall occupancy rates, according to a note by Todd M. Thomas, a REIT analyst with KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc..

Attending events such as these helps women network with each other, as well as provide them with opportunities to bring more business for their firms because they are often the first to hear about new projects and deals happening at other companies, says Caldwell.