Sentences with phrase «different generations of lawyers»
Presentations were on the future of the practice of law, as well as the changing expectations of different generations of lawyers.
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Over at Idealawg, Stephanie West Allen plays host to a robust debate over whether Generation Y lawyers — or «millennials,» lawyers under 30 — who seek work / life balance to the exclusion of focusing on client needs are unrealistic slackers or serious professionals with different priorities than previous generations.
On the whole, in a traditional law firm, the lawyers do a number of different things, ranging from marketing and lead generation through the actual legal work, and potentially even other activities.
If the marketplace is pulling lawyers away from smaller centers and towards the cities — which is happening in the general population, as yesterday's census results confirm — then I don't see why lawyers» governing bodies should attempt to maintain what amounts to an artificial geographical distribution of lawyers that belongs to a different demographic generation.
It meant something different to spend four years to do an undergraduate degree for aspiring lawyers when tuition was $ 700 per year, as it was for my parents» generation, than it is now when one year of undergraduate university costs approximately ten times that amount (not including living expenses, books and opportunity cost) and the market for young lawyers is much more competitive.
«Now, the reaction of many lawyers to a conscious, premeditated plan to develop the next generation of their firm's leaders through reliance on tools born in behavioral science and honed in corporate America may be the reflexive, «But we're different than a corporation!
«My role has meant being at the apex of both substantive law and tech advancements with a focus on coming up with new ways to make content speak to different ways of working and new generations of lawyers.
The strain between the different generations drains profits and wastes lawyers» time due to increasing attrition; the headache of recruiting, hiring, training new associates.
On the other side of the coin we have a new generation of young lawyers entering the workforce with a different set of values and life experiences than that of their predecessors.
Law students, and the generation of lawyers now early in their careers, have a completely different relationship to digital information.
As the next generation of lawyers move through the ranks with their different cultural approach to work, life and career, will the old hierarchical, largely tenure - based titles still prove effective?