Sentences with phrase «big firm lawyers»
We generally respond to this by pointing to our own big firm pedigrees, talking about actual trial experience, which most big firm lawyers lack... Continue Reading
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``... big firm lawyers have aggressively fostered regimes over the people of one - sided fine print contracts (see faircontracts.org), weakened tort law for wrongfully injured persons and, most brazenly, even lobbied and litigated to place insuperable procedural obstructions before real peoples» access to the courts.
The survey, released today, asked 175 big firm lawyers in Canada and the United States about which areas of practice they expect will generate the most revenue for their firms.
Meanwhile, across town, big firm lawyers are trapped in miserable committee meetings fantasizing about escaping to your world.
There are a lot of ex-big firm lawyers out there who equal or exceed the experience and talent of big firm lawyers, but who have so much more ability, flexibility and interest in helping clients solve their most important problems without regard to the impact any deal will have on the firm's AmLaw 100 rank.
Or maybe big firm lawyers just don't come across very well on the small screen.
It reaches partners and associates, solos and big firm lawyers, government officials, judges and in - house counsel, providing vital information to decision - makers about the trends, people and economic forces that are influencing and changing the legal profession.
Legal commentators — and plenty of big firm lawyers themselves — believe that in this climate, in - house lawyers want law firm discounts and won't agree to these rates, no matter the complexity of the problem.
For big firm lawyers, especially managers, it's a no - brainer.
I know at the beginning of the book, Jordan, in the introduction, you say, «Big firm lawyers are going to get more out of it.»
So I'll throw the question out to you: Are big firm lawyers small - minded when it comes to understanding how others live?
Big firm lawyers can be just as helpless.
Solos and small firm lawyers need to sell themselves more directly, but even big firm lawyers need sales skills.
David Rubenstein started his career as a big firm lawyer, but decided that life wasn't for him.
My background as a big firm lawyer for large businesses means that I can not be intimidated.
He is a rare bird for these parts: a big firm lawyer... who gets down and dirty in the criminal defense trenches.»
Anonymous big firm lawyer and former judge on BestLawyers
His varied background as a big firm lawyer, corporate counsel, and as an entrepreneur gives him keen insight that translates into pragmatic advice about the opportunities and challenges that confront businesses each day.
Fran was a big firm lawyer at Millbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy who rose in the ranks to become its managing partner.
Client email to big firm lawyer # 1: «I have some Qs about a new employment policy.»
I knew, going in to law school, that I wasn't a big corporate lawyer or a big firm lawyer.
Not exact matches
That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.
ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.
The firm's three - year profits and three - year revenue are up 35 and 30 percent, respectively, with three - year revenue per lawyer up 20 percent — percentage increases well outside current Big Law norms.
Big law firms are obvious candidates for the technology, but so are in - house lawyers working for large corporations and governments.
«It would be a lot harder for Trump to have a lawyer representing him from a big firm, because most big firms, most large firms are not going to want to potentially alienate their client base by representing someone as controversial as Trump,» the former colleague of Hendon's said.
Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.
A top tax lawyer with a big firm said Morneau's consultation period was too short and his proposals too precise to invite a free - flowing discussion about other approaches.
Thankfully, at the time, I was a consultant for one of the «Big Four» accounting firms who could afford lawyers for the work visa process.
Deborah Epstein Henry, a former big - firm litigator, is now the president of Flex - Time Lawyers, a national consulting firm focused partly on strategies for the retention of female attorneys.
Having worked as a lawyer in Brazil's biggest law firm Pinheiro Neto she is now working full time on educating companies and individuals about Blockchain technology.
MIAMI (AP)-- Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company's creditors and investors over a $ 5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to...
I had started writing a gluten free food blog in 2009, soon after being laid off from my job as a lawyer in a big law firm.
My friend Brett is a typical big city lawyer in many ways: a sharp dresser, an even sharper mind and plenty of expensive lunches on his firm's dime.
Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.
There's a young lawyer, he goes to law school, works very, very hard, he wants to be a success, does well in law school, earns good grades, gets into a big firm.
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.
Lawyers for Ciminelli, the head of Buffalo's biggest construction contracting firm, had sought to delay the start of the trial until later this year because of serious health conditions affecting Ciminelli.
Last month Tamer's wife, a lawyer in a prominent Budapest law firm, gave birth to a baby girl, and Tamer says his U.S. - born daughter is looking forward to meeting her and being a big sister.
The story involves Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a skillful lawyer in a big, old - line Philadelphia law firm.
Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.
Washington plays the title role, a lawyer from a small firm that enters the big leagues.
A lawyer can be a partner in a big firm by 30.»
«[N] obody at Success worked as hard as big - firm lawyers or investment bankers,» Moskowitz asserts.
In addition to personal - injury claimants, structured settlements are frequently set up for those who win big liability and damage judgments, for lottery winners and for lawyers and law firms who are owed large sums in fees.
(Even though I'm under 30, I'm a lawyer at a big law firm, so I'm in an unusual situation financially for someone my age.)
The majority of his work is with lawyers and law firms (and also bigger corporations like Microsoft).
Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith Esq. thinks so, but Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle thinks the fallout from NALP's war with big firms will most hurt students and new lawyers.
As MIPTC has pointed out before, the big firms are only a small part of the entire population of lawyers.
It seems you can't go a day without reading about how law school enrollment is plummeting, big law firms are imploding, lawyers are flaming out faster than 4th of July -LSB-...]