Sentences with phrase «big firm hiring»

The traditional big firm hiring model — focused on law school pedigree and grades — does a poor job of selecting candidates who will succeed in today's legal marketplace.

While many of the bigger firms hire back most of their summer students for articling, the survey numbers do demonstrate that nothing is cast in stone for the majority of students.

Not exact matches

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

If you hire a big - five accounting firm to perform an audit, you should continue to use the small firm for your accounting and bookkeeping functions.

You can hire a big - budget PR firm to write press releases for you or you can acquire the skill to do it yourself.

The crisis - stricken Japanese group may ditch the Big Four auditor it hired only last year, Reuters reported on Wednesday, which might force the firm to risk using a second - tier player.

For another, they frequently can hire experienced employees laid off by bigger firms who would not be available in an upmarket.

The problem is, most entrepreneurs can't afford to hire big consulting or business firms to carry out these important jobs, yet the «experts» who are financially accessible can be inexperienced or have a narrow perspective based only on small - business scenarios.

Big firms may care about screening resumes, but a good sales hire is going to be a lot more than a piece of paper.

Both companies hired big consulting firms to explore a merger, Dell says.

I did well enough in law school to be hired by a big New York law firm, but it turned out to be a very strange place.

I get it: Hiring and firing at big private firms is a better indicator of the overall health of the economy.

The campaigns that everyone has heard about — that hit the big numbers — have tended to hire just a handful of firms.

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

I know I don't want to build a big firm and hire lots of people.

In December, Sacks reveals, Zenefits hired one of the Big Four auditing firms to conduct an independent review of the company's licensing procedures following reports that the company let unlicensed brokers sell insurance through its service.

The big picture remains solid, with small firms as optimistic, and inclined to spend and hire as they have ever been.

As reported in Chapter 5 of JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook, Ms. Fleischman is a graduate of Cornell University Law School and, in 2006, after several years of practice at a large Wall Street law firm, she was hired by JPMorgan Chase as a transaction manager.

Hillary was hired by the only big time law firm in Little Rock because her husband was big in politics.

He placed a big bet on psychographic profiling of Facebook users, even hiring a firm to «scrape» information from the social network and use it to create data snapshots of potential supporters.

So, Delta is making the big push on this issue, which includes hiring M Public Affairs — the firm run by Maggie Moran and Richard Bamberger, who was once Cuomo's top spokesman.

Gove's hiring record suggests that he is a big fan of the leading lobbying firm.

The same year de Blasio hired Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel to represent him in corruption probes, the law firm's lobbying unit suddenly started raking in bigger bucks.

Prosecutors said Silver delivered tax - abatement and rent - control legislation that favored developers while some of New York's biggest developers hired a small law firm that secretly sent $ 700,000 in fees to the then - speaker.

«Big pharma has been fairly resilient, with pharmaceutical firms continuing to hire for drug development.

My friend had a dinner with a big firm and the recruiter told her all the hiring partners would be wearing suits.

A former spy type is hired by a big firm to test security products but after two months, the workplace is empty a la «The Game.»

Still, marketing is something the author must do on their own, or, if their pockets are deep like the big boys and girls, hire an outside firm to manage it all.

I even considered hiring a top - rated Marketing & PR firm, at the cost of several thousand dollars, because some of the «big names» had used them in the past.

All of which is just another way to agree that Charles is right and that replacing drm with watermarking is the only viable plan c for publishers (though I'd also suggest to add in my cost cutting plan above and hire a tech firm like kobo etc. to launch their own brand Facebook linked e-reader apps with a 6 month release window advantage on their own big name authors while they still have locked - in big name authors to speak of!)

There is no need for Big Oil to hire expensive PR and lobbying firms or fund «conservative think tanks», because the environmental movement and politicians do all their own negative PR for them.

Firms big and small need to make affirmative and aggressive commitments to hire, retain, promote, and equitably pay women.

«Big, powerful law firms like Nashville's King & Ballow really ought to hire someone with journalistic and new media experience to advise them on how to handle clients who complain about things published by bloggers,» says media relations consultant and blogger Bill Hobbs.

«We've hired some laterals and promoted some talented associates, but we're still under - sized in comparison to the M&A powerhouses and big litigation teams at other New York firms.»

If Post-Series A, your company's legal bills still seem completely unmanageable, that's often a good indication that the law firm you hired is too big for what you're building (non-unicorn-track using a high - infrastructure unicorn law firm); assuming your expectations on what the bill should be simply aren't unhinged.

Becoming equity partner has long been the main goal of most big law firm associates, but with only about 10 % of new hires making it at some firms, this is now changing for some.

Typically New Law hires well - trained lawyers from large law firms (Big Law — sometimes more cheekily referred to as Old Law) and have a very different culture than the traditional firms.

New White & Case hire Patrick Sarch and City chief Oliver Brettle on the firm's plans to target big - ticket M&A

US firm posts record revenue after successful year in London, lateral hires and pipeline of big deals

Just a few years ago, big firms would hire scores of young lawyers for document review projects.

Especially those big firms who do that sort of OCI type interviewing, we would love to see them on the roster of people who are interested in hiring through the Veterans Legal Career Fair as well.

Big four Scots firm McGrigors has bolstered its Manchester office with two lateral hires.

Most of Fogler, Rubinoff's recent hires have come from bigger firms, says Appleton.

According to this Daily Journal article (via How Appealing), former clerks are not only still being hired by major law firms, but are commanding signing bonuses of up to $ 250,000 (on top of starting salaries of as much as $ 160,000 in big firms).

Last year saw a number of big - money partner moves, from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's hire of White & Case private equity star Richard Youle, to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer buyout heavyweight David Higgins» $ 10m move to Kirkland & Ellis, and many top UK firms are rethinking their compensation systems in an effort to ward off the advances of US rivals with money to burn.

Sam Glover: I guess, I'm curious about what both of you think about this, but there's been a lot of talk about the movement at big firms and I think smaller firms are starting to try to do this too, where you do build the firm up as a brand that guarantees a kind of service and a level of service and institutional knowledge and technology competency, to try and encourage companies and clients of all kinds to hire the firm, not the lawyer and so that the firm can say to the lawyer, «Go ahead and leave.

Fewer jobs out there right now; smaller practitioners are not hiring anyone; big firms are not hiring as many.

There's no way to sugarcoat it: law grads simply aren't getting hired by big, fancy firms at the same rates (and salary levels) as they used to — no matter -LSB-...]

There's no way to sugarcoat it: law grads simply aren't getting hired by big, fancy firms at the same rates (and salary levels) as they used to — no matter how fervently my Greek grandmother might assure me that law is a safe and sensible career path.

Adam actually hired some big law firm to take his case before he came to us.