Sentences with phrase «by junior lawyers»

By «making many junior lawyers obsolete» I mean that a lot of tasks traditionally done by junior lawyers will be replaced with computers.

The two week expedition, taking place from 29 October to 14 November 2010, was launched by the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) in association charity Raleigh.

One CC partner told Legal Business that they did not understand why the firm is keeping its cards close to its chest, as «the increase has been received positively by junior lawyers, and that the growth is «high numbers» all - around in terms of pounds and pence».

Law firms are increasingly embracing technology and hiring coders or artificial intelligence experts to help them automate routine work once undertaken by junior lawyers.

He believes AI may replace some of the grunt work done by junior lawyers and paralegals, but that no machine can talk to a client or argue in front of a High Court judge.

``... lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research.»

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

The long hours worked by junior lawyers, and the considerable billings associated with them, seem to have little connection to the salary packages on offer.

The recent news that Deutsche Bank will no longer pay panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers has provoked a strong reaction across the legal profession, with a Legal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonable.

Talwar says technology will undoubtedly replace work done by junior lawyers, which is why he says we'll have to rethink how many lawyers we need and how they should be trained.

The platform would assign a flag, for example, when it identifies a more - senior lawyer doing work typically done by junior lawyers, or when it finds partners unnecessarily billing to review associates» work.

The majority of in - house lawyers have reservations about Deutsche Bank's plan to stop paying panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers, but believe the move is likely to start a trend, according to a new Legal Week survey of corporate counsel.

«A lot of the ideas and processes that we implement are driven by junior lawyers and paralegal teams who are digitally savvy and are first adopters of some of the new technologies and new ways of doing things,» she says.

The lowest paid on the law firm payroll who would kill for the salaries demanded by junior lawyers.

Not exact matches

On behalf of the players, the Charney Lawyers, a Toronto - based firm specializing in class - action law, is seeking compensation for time logged by the plaintiffs in the major junior league.

When asked about the general outlook for hiring in patent law, all of the «associates» (junior lawyers in a firm) and «partners» (senior lawyers in a firm) interviewed by Next Wave for this feature gave upbeat answers.

Point being, often firms put a grayhaired elder partner up to present an argument that was crafted by young junior lawyers who have become intimately familiar with the details of the argument, which the elder partner may not fully understand.

He believes that junior lawyers should be focused on crafting a unique narrative by developing a global outlook, transparent personal branding and honest networking.

Firms will transition from using junior lawyers as profit centers and instead begin to outsource, offshore or automate many tasks previously performed by associates.

Madam Justice Steel reminded the more junior lawyers in the audience not to become complacent and assume the «battles fought» and won by women lawyers in the past have forever settled the issues.

Described as a junior clerk in training, Billy Bot is a project by Clerksroom to test artificial intelligence and how it can be used to link lawyers together to find the right barrister.

Another area that has been flagged by a number of junior lawyers as a concern, which was not covered in the survey, is the lack of transparency about why some associates on the partnership track do not make it at the end.

The intake of newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at the largest US and international firms in the UK fell by 6 % in the last year, highlighting the continued uncertainty for lawyers at the junior end of the profession.

We hear again and again from their juniors just waiting to make the leap to in - house lawyering, lured by the promise of shorter hours and a more predictable schedule.

James has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners in recent years as a leading junior for commercial chancery disputes, where he is described as a «great lawyer with a fine intellect, who is very hard - working», who has «continued to enhance his growing reputation by acting in high - stakes cases.»

We are also concerned that changes to the way in which the fund is administered do not have negative consequences for junior lawyers, particularly in terms of ensuring that sponsored training contracts and other mechanisms designed to ensure quality supervision and career progression for legal aid lawyers do not fall by the way side.

Many firms develop successors to management by delegating to selected mid-level and junior partners short term management assignments and by rotating these partners through various management areas to develop their general management skills rather than developing particular lawyers as specialists in specific management areas.

Ollie discussed the issue of «paralegalisation», with paralegal experience now seen by many as a prerequisite to getting a training contract, and said that the aspiration for junior legal aid lawyers sat the moment «is limited to being able to survive and sustain a career».

This follows a review by the Law Society's Junior Lawyers Division, which represents students and solicitors with five years post qualifying experience.

The move, which was announced by Akin Gump earlier today (17 September), is set to come into effect «over the coming weeks», and is also likely to include additional junior lawyers from the offices.

One good sign would be when said general counsel recommends «hiring a junior lawyer to «oversee» litigation,» writes The Wired GC in response to this post by blawgger Patrick Lamb.

By implementing a framework that looks to the needs of internal stakeholders (read lawyers, including junior associates), law firms can create greater meaning and significance to members of the profession.

(See my post «How the Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)

A top clinical negligence lawyer, who is also a qualified doctor, Mala Sidebottom of Moore Blatch solicitors says that the recent recommendations by Monitor to allow junior medical staff to do more is a positive step forward.

In a way, Greg had the same problem that the junior lawyer in the law library had: he wasn't adapting his speech appropriately to the situation by using a higher register — that is, a more dignified level of speech.

Presented with results from the Initiative's own survey of client expectations, some lawyers present were a bit taken aback by the idea that clients wanted to do more of the work themselves in order to lower costs — because it seemed to contrast with their own experience of clients asking that junior lawyers not be put on their files in order to save time and money.

Perhaps a more junior lawyer can take on some of the tasks being carried out by a senior lawyer.

The initiative was the brainchild of Dean Parnell, a partner at Sydney Mitchell and Chair of the Law Society's Dispute Resolution Committee, who said, «It is recognised by both our Committee and the local courts that junior lawyers are not getting as much regular court exposure as perhaps was the case ten years ago.

Research undertaken by Legal Cheek shows Linklaters» London trainees and junior lawyers arrive at the office on average at 9:14 am and leave at 8:23 pm, which is in line with other top firms across the City.

Rather, the lawyer should be involved in a junior or supporting role in the case or, if acting as senior counsel, should ensure that there is supportive expertise provided by someone with the knowledge and competence the lawyer acts.

Conceptualizing organizational culture in this way underscores, for instance, that a lawyer's decision about whether to expose the firm to risk, by deliberately ignoring a potential conflict, may depend on whether the firm offers junior lawyers meaningful professional training opportunities, and whether it provides income partners with guidance on how to engage in business development.

More than three - fifths (61 %) of respondents to a survey by the Law Society's Junior Lawyers Division spent more than # 20,000 on their legal education, and more than a third spent at least # 25,000.

UK firm's new initiative adds multiple clients in just over five months with some won by staff and junior lawyers

He regularly contributes to his profession by delivering educational seminars and to our firm by mentoring junior lawyers.

Alison is regularly asked to lecture in her fields of expertise and is particularly committed to developing junior team members ensuring that her unfailingly client - focused approach is carried on by our new generation of family lawyers.

Taking on arguments put forward sometimes hysterically in the media and in a measured way by the likes of Richard and Daniel Susskind, Professor Dana Remus from the University of North Carolina School of Law and Professor Frank Levy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology examine in detail the suggestion that technology will soon replace much of the work currently done by lawyers, particularly junior ones.

Also in this year's pay review, Jones Day boosted their junior lawyers» pay by 18 %, rising to # 100,000, # 15,000 up from last year.

With a diverse group of lawyers ranging from senior partners to junior associates — with significant experience in workouts, restructurings, enforcement of remedies and bankruptcy matters — as well as related real estate transactional matters of all kinds — the Sheppard Mullin CMBS default practice provides a full service approach to the challenges faced by its special servicer clients.

They want to develop their «soft skills», as well, by taking on increasing levels of responsibility, managing teams, and supervising more junior lawyers as they gain seniority.

When a document template asks questions seasoned lawyers ask by instinct, junior lawyers acquired those instincts faster.