Sentences with phrase «big law firm culture»

Law firm management consultants have played central roles in creating the pervasive big law firm culture.

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A change in mentality and culture among lawyers and big law firms will need to happen to drive this change.

But how a law firm or its executive management choose to allocate that money can make the difference between a law firm that fosters a culture of cohesion and collaboration or where the battle for a bigger share of a finite pie promotes a culture of «me vs. them» competition.

Indeed, the relationship between the big law departments and big firms is often bedeviled by prickly issues relating to power, money, culture, and, ultimately, the foundational question of who controls the corporation's legal matters.

«Clients are often saying diversity and values are absolutely essential — they assume all big law firms have the quality of their lawyers» buttoned down so they then look at the cultures, behaviour, and trust in firms», she says.

After a while, these firms either become large law firms with a refreshed culture of entrepreneurialism (e.g. Boies Schiller) or they get absorbed into a big law firm (e.g. Bancroft LLP into Kirkland & Ellis).

The difference is that tech companies can offer the flexibility and meritocracy and culture that Big Law firms lack; they demonstrate that they value their employees as people, and value their lives outside of work as well.

The prevailing culture of the bar, for many years, has been to attach an unusual amount of prestige to big law firms and the lawyers who practise there.

But there's a big problem: the typical law firm culture can easily create too many hurdles around any shift in people, process, and / or technology.

When you go to work for a big company — a major international player like Apple or Google or Coca - Cola, or even for a large law firm or medical practice in your town — you have to know that you're not going to single - handedly change the company culture.