Sentences with phrase «before most other firms»

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Silver's other legal work, for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, was unknown to the public until a year ago: Prosecutors successfully argued that Silver received legal fees from real estate developers — including Glenwood Management, the state's most generous political donor — that had extensive business before the Legislature, and did his best to conceal the arrangement from ethics watchdogs.

Before I had intake people, I like most law firms had a paralegal or a legal assistant who answered the phone while they were trying to juggle 30 other things and that meant the phone was an interruption.

Lat questions why firms pay out these huge bonuses; as he points out, Supreme Court litigation is a narrow niche, it's not all that profitable and ethics rules bar Supreme Court clerks from appearing before the court for two years, by which time they may have left the law firm for other employment (most commonly, academia).

With almost every other discipline, from marketing to accounting, moving away from the billable hours model, it can only be a matter of time before most law firms go the same way.