Sentences with phrase «business services roles»

Our partners and consultants have worked «on both sides of the fence» — in senior positions as fee - earners and in business service roles in several global law firms.

We have really seen a growth in new and emerging business services roles.

We are handling a rising number of business services roles in Europe, for instance, and they are taking on a broader focus — so a new marketing and BD position in Germany is more likely to have a «global» than «European» orientation.

We explore how senior business services roles at RPC are becoming more flexible — and the lessons we can take for the whole legal industry.

Rachel Street, Director of People and Talent Development at RPC, tells Gary Jones how senior business services roles in law are becoming more flexible.

Since the launch of Totum in 2012, we have seen many new business services roles emerge in law including in wholly new areas like pricing, project management, process improvement and innovation.

Dentons has begun a redundancy consultation ahead of its merger with Maclay Murray & Spens that could see up to 32 business services roles cut across three of the Scots firm's offices.

For example, at Totum we're now seeing a rise in blended business services roles that combine traditionally quite siloed skills in marketing, HR, IT and finance to deliver firm - wide benefits in areas including communication and digital marketing (see our recent article on the integration of business services).

The firm is also aiming to increase the efficiency of its global network, and announced in May that it would cut 170 global business services roles and open a low cost legal centre in Manila later this year.

Where once most business services roles were based in London, we are now helping firms to fill positions, at all levels of seniority, right across the UK and particularly in cities like Bristol, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham where firms are taking advantage of cost - efficiencies and business opportunities outside of the capital.

It showed just how far the profession has come in the past 20 or so years since we at Totum started recruiting our first people into business services roles in law.

New and cross-functional business services roles are fast emerging in law.

They really feel and breathe the sector and are the right firm for business services roles in the legal world.»

We too have worked on roles in the US market that lack the sophistication of business services roles in the UK and Australia.

Of these, 40 support jobs at Dundas & Wilson have been affected, while CMS UK has lost 20 business services roles at the firm and at third party suppliers Integreon, Initial and Xerox.

At Totum, we saw this shift coming and responded by launching a dedicated function to focus on a growing number of emerging business services roles in law.

This includes a comprehensive but clear and easy - to - use job search that helps promote the rising number of exciting new business services roles in law while supporting individuals along those first steps to finding the right role and firm for career growth.

At Shearman & Sterling she held senior business services roles in practice management and risk / compliance prior to focusing exclusively on knowledge and information management from 2011.

Legal Project Management: A Force for Change By Julius Reeves of legal sector recruiters, Totum Partners, and who focuses on emerging business services roles in law.

We are delighted to see that some forward - thinking firms see the opportunity here and have started to advertise all of their business services roles as being open to flexibility.

If you would like to know more about opportunities to promote innovation and change in law, please contact Julius Reeves, who heads up our function dedicated to emerging business services roles in the legal profession.

A business services role in a US firm's London office may therefore feel like working for a smaller firm with broader responsibilities and potentially greater variety reflecting the more general needs of the smaller team.

The firm launched a review in February that was set to affect 10 fee earners across the firm's insurance and shipping practices as well as six business services roles, which comprised a mix of secretarial and support staff.

The redundancies will affect up to 10 fee earners from the firm's insurance and shipping practices as well as six business services roles, which are a mix of secretarial and support staff.

The consultation, first reported by Roll on Friday, will see up to 40 jobs at Dundas & Wilson affected, while CMS UK has put around 20 business services roles at the firm and at third party suppliers Integreon, Initial and Xerox at risk.

Julius Reeves recently joined us to focus on emerging business services roles in law.

For example, the majority of our business services roles are performed by women.»

The review will affect about 78 business services roles and 12 legal support positions, which will either be cut or transferred to the firm's business services centres in Johannesburg and Birmingham, both of which were launched in 2014.

Consequently, in 2017 we welcomed Julius Reeves as a Consultant to focus on the many emerging business services roles in law, including legal project management, innovation and change, process management, programme management, and project and business analysis.

But perhaps the simplest evidence of the on - going change is just a quick look at the business services roles available today.