Sentences with phrase «at private law firms»

The legal profession in Nova Scotia is steadily becoming more diverse, although a new study shows the gains are more noticeable in the public sector than at private law firms.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, who works part time at a private law firm, says he expects to agree on a «robust» new disclosure law, but concedes that it may only apply to new law clients, not existing business arrangements.

Some of those firms were title insurance companies that Skelos steered to his son from the Senate leader's work at a private law firm.

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

Some of those firms were title insurance companies that Sen. Skelos steered to his son from the Senate leader's work at a private law firm.

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Whether practicing at a private law firm or in - house, you need to understand your clients» objectives and the importance of any particular day - to - day legal question to the overall success of their business.

Ms. Riksheim began her legal career at a private law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she represented sureties and contractors in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitrations, mediations, and administrative hearings.

Despite being on Stanford Law Review, O'Connor could not find work at a private law firm upon graduation and was actually offered work as a legal secretary before being obtaining a job as a deputy county attorney.

Known since the early 1980s simply as The Law Offices of Chicago - Kent, our clinic was a pioneer in clinical legal education decades ago when it adopted a fee - generating model designed to replicate the experience of employment at a private law firm.

Not exact matches

Stoyanov worked for the cyber crime unit at Russia's Interior Ministry from 2001 - 2006 before leaving law enforcement for the private sector, first for a large Internet service provider and then for Indrik, a small Russian Internet security firm.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

In the event that you are currently involved in legal proceedings, the private law firm Jaroslawicz & Jaros says that it's better not to post at all.

A private - school attendee with a father who made partner at a law firm, Gates isn't exactly a rags to riches story.

Over the course of his private practice legal career, Jimmy was a partner at three major U.S. law firms — most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

Before his time with BlackRock, Mr. Collier was in private legal practice focusing on the investment management industry at a leading Canadian business law firm.

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

He returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to work in a private client law firm, becoming a director of trust and legal affairs at an international trust company after that.

As an associate at a private Manhattan law firm, Zellnor remained committed to public service.

Silver is charged with subverting his employment at two private law firms to gain nearly $ 6 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned the Government that any plans for a change in tax law aimed at private equity firms could also damage small firms.

Why don't you ask any partner at any private sector law firm or accounting firm or investment firm if they're aware of every investment made.

Six state agencies retained the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP on April 29, 2016 — the same day Governor Andrew Cuomo's office hired private investigator Bart Schwartz's Guidepost Solutions — at a total potential cost of $ 1.9 million.

Silver, who represents a district that includes Manhattan's Lower East Side, filed the proper documents, which included his income as a private lawyer representing individual clients at the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, the complaint says.

But one day after the governor's ambitious budget was released, the Assembly Speaker was arrested by US Attorney Preet Bharara, charged with illegally making millions of dollars through his employment at two private law firms.

The new rules stem from the arrest of the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, who is accused of using his outside employment at two private law firms to illegally net millions of dollars.

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected lobbying and law firms in Albany.

The refusal prompted a letter from a Pilgrim lawyer at the Decotiis FitzPatrick & Cole law firm stating the pipeline company «has the power to condemn private property.

The complaint labels the actions as a «secret and corrupt scheme» saying the speaker told the public that he worked at a law firm where private citizens hired him to represent them in personal injury lawsuits, and that none of his clients had any business before the state.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

SCMP - June 24 - The consortium that offered to take Momo private is «taking advantage of its position to purchase the company at an unfair price», according to American law firm Levi & Korsinsky.

The state, under Governor Davis, had fought the lawsuit, using an expensive private law firm to argue that the problems, if they existed at all, were the responsibility of local school districts.

Previously, she worked at the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP from 2005 - 2012, as a member of the Private Equity group, primarily focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate governance matters and the representation of early - and later - stage growth comPrivate Equity group, primarily focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate governance matters and the representation of early - and later - stage growth comprivate equity transactions, corporate governance matters and the representation of early - and later - stage growth companies.

Non-Qualifying Employment Graduates employed in private practice either by a law firm or a corporation, self - employed, or as a judicial law clerk at the federal or state level are not eligible to apply.

After graduating from law school, she spent several years in private practice at a mid-size law firm in Minneapolis before transitioning to in - house attorney positions at large publicly traded companies.

• The percentage of 2010 law grads who had private practice jobs in large law firms of at least 501 attorneys was 20.5 percent, compared to 25.6 percent for the Class of 2009.

He is currently a lecturer in Private International Law at the Private Law Department of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor / professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firLaw at the Private Law Department of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor / professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firLaw Department of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor / professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firLaw, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor / professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firlaw firms.

Sarah has also spent several years working at another large New Zealand law firm and in both private practice and in house roles in London.

Addleshaw Goddard nets «Law Firm of the Year — Deal Structuring» award at the British Private Equity Awards 2017

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David Gallo started his career in private practice at a large law firm, and then served as corporate counsel at American Electric Power.

Before becoming a barrister, Stephen had extensive experience as a solicitor at major City firms in public and private mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), corporate law, acquisition financing and infrastructure

In this video, Legal Week publisher John Malpas talks to Chris McKenzie, head of trusts and estate planning at BVI law firm O'Neal Webster, about the use of trusts and other techniques to deal with the disruption that can be caused by the death or incapacity of shareholders and directors of a private company.

Pupils from 10 leading private and grammar schools are 100 times more likely to apply for prestigious law firm graduate schemes than those educated at the bottom 10 % of schools, according to new analysis sponsored by Clifford Chance (CC).

With my prior experiences at a law firm, as a partner in a private fund and as a senior officer at the SEC, I am well prepared to advise clients on regulatory issues.

According to NALP, the attrition rate for associates last year in private law firms was 78 percent for those who had worked at firms for about five years, compared with 60 percent in 2000.

All eyes are on China's new economy, and winner of TMT Firm of the Year, Han Kun Law Offices, has positioned itself perfectly at the heart of the nation's TMT sector, sweeping up key investment and regulatory work and playing to its core strengths in M&A, private equity, venture capital and funds to help grow domestic startups and internet giants alike.

Law firms do better when they raise their published billing rates at a faster pace, even if those increases result in a widening gap between published and realised rates, according to a recent analysis by Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group.