Sentences with phrase «big corporate firms»

Unlike big corporate firms, SMEs tend not to hire months in advance, but only when they need new employees.

One can apply for the position in small as well as big corporate firms.

We're not lone wolves — when necessary we can work as co-counsel with the big corporate firms.

David Harris was a 27 - year - old law school graduate working in a big corporate firm in Indianapolis when Peterson asked him if he'd like to be the «education guy» for his campaign.

Both are lawyers, but the solo practitioner can actually live out his / her dream and not have to work at a big corporate firm just to pay back his / her student loans.

It's more like Slater & Gordon, the Australian law firm that did a public offering a few years ago, than a conventional big corporate firm driven by rainmaking partners.

Not exact matches

CNBC reports that buyout firms are racing to strike big deals now, before any tax law changes means their corporate competitors can pay even more for deals.

Inversion is a process whereby a bigger organization targets and acquires a smaller firm that's located in a more corporate tax - friendly country, with the deal structured so that the smaller company becomes the controlling partner of the larger firm.

That strategy will help producers pay for the big, transformational deals they made in 2016, aimed at overhauling their business to contend with low prices, said Curt Karges, who leads consulting firm PwC's corporate finance team in Houston, in a year - end report.

And DB5 gains the potential brand appeal from an outsourced, automated system that helps it appear more like a corporate titan than a small business — key for a firm with big clients such as GE, AT&T and Girl Scouts of the USA.

The CLC estimate is what you get if you assume that the only behavioural response to an increase in corporate tax rates is that firms» CFOs will grit their teeth and put bigger numbers on the cheques they send to the Receiver - General.

Big, national employers are currently subject to only one set of health insurance regulations (federal), while small firms» plans are regulated at both the federal and state level (this is one of many reasons why individual and small group plans are so much more expensive than corporate plans).

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

A big believer in the importance of Eddy's well defined corporate culture, Robyn has successfully balanced the demands of the family shareholders with the growth of a dynamic business to create one of Canada's finest family firms.

The United States regulator of accounting firms said on Thursday that a Big Four firm, Ernst & Young, had been too willing to trust figures supplied by corporate executives instead of evaluating them independently and had failed to improve its procedures even after being told to do so.

But when I think about other ubiquitous fast food outlets and their brewed coffee, I think about Folger's being served at Wendy's, about Dunkin Donuts being owned by three creepy private equity firms (providing little or no information on where their coffee comes from), and another of the «big four» corporate roasters, Sara Lee «s Douwe Egberts division, supplying Burger King's coffee.

He also quietly muses about his own Chinese lineage being a plus in the current corporate world, where just about every firm needs a «China strategy» on how to tackle one of the world's biggest growth economies.

Federal «Corporate Welfare» Database Now Online Study: Large Corporations Dominate Federal Subsidy Awards; Banks, Foreign - Owned Energy Firms and Federal Contractors Among the Biggest Recipients

According to his corporate biography, he previously worked at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm and one of the biggest lobbying firms in Albany.

He's a corporate lawyer at a big white - shoe Manhattan firm; a son - in - law of Richard Nixon; and a descendant of four of the country's oldest Wasp families.

Mireille Enos stars as Alice Vaughan, a tough (but glam) top investigator at a private security firm, willing to do anything to protect big corporate clients and techie billionaires from hackers and thieves.

HELSINKI, July 31 (Reuters)- The following stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Wednesday: POHJOLA BANK Finland's Pohjola Bank reported a bigger - than - expected rise in quarterly profit, helped by a capital gain as well as firm demand for corporate loans.

KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, one of the nation's largest accounting firms, said Thursday in Orlando it will promote and market Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT computer system to corporate customers.The Big Six accounting firm said it is forming a consulting group devoted to NT, Microsoft's high - powered operating system for big companiBig Six accounting firm said it is forming a consulting group devoted to NT, Microsoft's high - powered operating system for big companibig companies.

The Kyoto - based firm is one of the biggest and oldest corporate names.

Lyn Baranowski is a corporate development executive with experience spanning biotech, big pharma, and venture capital firms.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

In the wake of Cobbetts» recent rescue takeover by DWF and Dewey & LeBoeuf's implosion last year, the latest Big Question survey found 95 % of respondents acknowledging the possibility that more large corporate law firms would fail in the near term, including 32 % who believed another collapse in the next two years was «likely» and a further 42 % describing such an event as «very likely».

Some commenters believe that big firms can't use Twitter because a faceless corporate entity can't engage with its followers: it can't answer questions, participate in dialogues or otherwise affix a personality to the logo.

While he does not think solos and small firms will be competitive with big corporate legal service providers, he does think innovative small firms may be able to prosper other ways.

Why would a newspaper that caters to big business and corporate interests defend a class action firm whose raison d'etre was to sue big corporations (WSJ's primary constituents) for securities violations?

Corporate Counsel magazine is out with its annual listing of the law firms that represent America's biggest companies.The usual suspects make the list — the megafirms whose names alone are enough to make general counsel sleep better at night.

The Association of Corporate Counsel in 2012 even began a «Value Challenge» that tracks and rewards firms who deliver the biggest bang for the buck.

Calling him «Eric Holden,» Spence says that when a lawyer works long enough for big corporations, as Holder did as partner at a corporate law firm, «the human psyche begins to dry up and one day will fall out on the carpet of the boardroom floor... like a dried up old prune.»

Indeed, by representing individual players, these firms would conflict themselves out of their ability to represent the big corporate entities that can afford large firm rates.

Having started his career as an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP, a prestigious, global corporate law firm, Michael quickly realized that representing big corporations was not for him.

Instead, I considered myself fortunate enough to receive an offer from a big firm that specialized in corporate defense.

At BASTA, we pride ourselves in treating every client's case with the same zealous advocacy that a «big» firm would provide to a paying corporate client.

A host of speakers from leading firms and corporates will be at the event in London, with big names from organisations including Barclays, Harvard Law School, Travers Smith, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Slaughter and May, RPC, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and DLA Piper.

«I think a lot of the mergers and big corporate changes in firms are window dressing to cover the inherent problems in the structures themselves.»

For Thomson Reuters, the big news at LegalTech was the announcement of its new «legal solutions» product strategy and its release of three products tied to that strategy: Concourse, a suite of tools for corporate and government legal professionals; Firm Central, a practice management platform for small firms; and Hosted Practice Technology, a suite of litigation - related tools.

What the survey actually did ascertain was which skills might best well serve young lawyers once they land a job at a big law firm that mostly deals with corporate clients.

The demise of KWM Europe is perhaps the most compelling case for calling time on the big corporate law firm model.

James Ferguson, partner and head of family at Boodle Hatfield, whose main departments are property, private client and tax, corporate, family and litigation, said: «Emily joins the family team at an exciting time — the demand for high quality, international family law is growing — and her appointment will further enhance the firm's domestic and international reputation in advising on big ticket and complex family breakdowns.»

With around 140 employees and lawyers from more than 20 countries, Lansky, Ganzger + partner (LGP) ranks among the biggest corporate law firms in Austria and Slovakia.

Attorneys in our Class Action Practice represent «household name» corporations in defense of consumer and false advertising class actions; Big Four accounting firms and corporate issuers in securities class actions; companies who have been accused of improperly disclosing customer data; employers alleged to have violated labor and employment laws; and industrial manufacturers in products liability class and mass tort actions, among others.

Sam Glover: I suppose if you're at a big firm and you're a big corporate client, you probably have the partner who you have a relationship with who sort of functions as that concierge, but there's nobody like that for small companies and individual consumers.

But — and there is a big but here — if a law firm is going to create a corporate presence on Facebook, it had better do it well.

Rumberg joined the big four Scots law firm's London office last week (1 June) as a partner in the corporate group.

One of the country's Big Five firms, Bowman Gilfillan made additions to its corporate practices in October last year, enticing John Bellew away from Johannesburg - headquartered rival Webber Wentzel to be its head of private equity, bringing with him partner James Westgate and senior associate Timothy McDougall.

Sarah has extensive experience in tax within both legal and Big 4 firms, and her experience spans corporate and international tax with significant FS and M&A experience.