When I told this story to Alan Tecktiel, Global HR
Director at the law firm Baker & McKenzie, he noted that Jill was able to go to the lengths she did because companies like FedEx (FDX) their employees to do these kinds of things.
Pamela MacKenzie is
a Director at the law firm of Goulston & Storrs, an Am Law 200 firm with offices in Boston, New York and Washington D.C., and focuses her practice in the corporate and real estate finance areas.
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect in May, schools must begin putting their plan together sooner rather than later if they are to achieve compliance in time for its arrival, according to Paula Tighe, information governance
director at law firm Wright Hassall
However, Susan Brown,
director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»
The latest research from Thomson Reuters Legal reveals that poaching has become a major issue for finance
directors at law firms.
The top 20 law firms may be able to ignore Avvo, but if I was the marketing
director at any law firm below # 20, I would at the very least encourage the lawyers to fill in the profiles.
Not exact matches
Mark Hawtin, investment
director at GAM, discusses how the European Union's revamped data
law will impact tech
firms.
The arrests send a message that «even an informal information - sharing relationship with trusted Russian intelligence and
law enforcement officers might be considered treason,» said Vitali Kremez,
director of research
at American security
firm Flashpoint.
He returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to work in a private client
law firm, becoming a
director of trust and legal affairs
at an international trust company after that.
Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive
director of Becket, a leading religious liberty
law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke
at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.
In another matter,
at the Oct. 23 Community Enrichment Committee meeting, legislators questioned the Library
Director about decisions made to spend more than $ 422,000 on an Albany lobbyist and
law firm in hopes of creating a special taxing district.
Associate
director at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned
Law Firms.
And if you're not getting paid for your work
at a Manhattan
law firm, then New Yorkers are right to question if you're getting paid for your work in Albany,» said Tom Stebbins, the executive
director of Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York, who noted favorable state
laws for trial lawyers.
In one, he was alleged to have funneled public money into the Mesothelioma Center
at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, after the
director of the center
at the time had requested that the speaker's
law firm Weitz & Luxenberg donate to the facility.
Principal Attorney
at Koplen
Law Firm, New City, Trustee, Village of New Hempstead, Former County Legislator, Former Assistant County Attorney, President and
Director, Washington Online Learning Institute (www.WOLI.edu)
Owen Willcox,
Director & Solicitor and Peter Hill, Associate & Solicitor
at Public services specialist
firm, TPP
Law.
Before starting her career in education, Leigh was Senior Managing
Director in the Investment Management Group of Bank One (now part of JPMorgan Chase), served as the company's Litigation
Director and a division General Counsel, and practiced
law at the Washington, D.C.
firm of Arnold & Porter.
He has a full - time job as a CPA and
director of finance
at a
law firm but that doesn't stop him from giving back.
Kevin Walsh, executive
director at Kingston Communications says: «This research clearly shows that many
law firms can't guarantee the protection and accessibility of critical business information.
Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Lorraine Heard, Legal
Director at transatlantic
law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, on...
Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Lorraine Heard, Legal
Director at transatlantic
law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, on the challenges faced by ONS when it comes to justifying the gender pay gap across the UK.
They include Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in
Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the AC
Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the
Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S.
firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his
firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC
at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate
law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the AC
law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the
firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive
director of the ACLU.
«There is now tremendous pressure on
law firms to understand, agree and keep to, service level agreements with their clients, and to ensure their responses reflect the commercial and wider - industry in which the client operates,» said Samantha Steer, Director, Large and Medium Law Firms, at the Legal UK & Ireland business for Thomson Reute
law firms to understand, agree and keep to, service level agreements with their clients, and to ensure their responses reflect the commercial and wider - industry in which the client operates,» said Samantha Steer, Director, Large and Medium Law Firms, at the Legal UK & Ireland business for Thomson Reu
firms to understand, agree and keep to, service level agreements with their clients, and to ensure their responses reflect the commercial and wider - industry in which the client operates,» said Samantha Steer,
Director, Large and Medium
Law Firms, at the Legal UK & Ireland business for Thomson Reute
Law Firms, at the Legal UK & Ireland business for Thomson Reu
Firms,
at the Legal UK & Ireland business for Thomson Reuters.
From co-author Nelson: Normally, I write SLAW columns with Sensei VP John Simek, but in light of the recent and horrific disasters experienced by American
law firms, I teamed up with Jim Calloway,
Director of Management Assistance Program
at Oklahoma Bar Association, to offer these disaster recovery tips.
Before joining Catalyst, Willis was
director of product development
at DiscoverReady, where he worked closely with corporate legal departments and
law firms to build solutions to meet their discovery and other data management needs.
Neyla Ortiz (Associate & Program
Director) has recently announced that the following students have been selected for the
Firm's 2014 Summer Associates Program: Adriana M. Vega: Adriana is a second year student
at the University of Puerto Rico School of
Law.
Neyla Ortiz (Summer Associate Program
Director) announced that after a very competitive selection process, we are happy to inform that the following
law student has been selected for the Firm's 2017 Summer Associates Program: Agustín Agosto Cintrón: Agustín is a third year student at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in the joint program (JD / MBA) with
law student has been selected for the
Firm's 2017 Summer Associates Program: Agustín Agosto Cintrón: Agustín is a third year student
at the University of Puerto Rico School of
Law in the joint program (JD / MBA) with
Law in the joint program (JD / MBA) with the
Marie Bernard worked previously as European
Director of Innovations
at Dentons
law firm, and became strategic advisor to Dentos» legal technology venture NextLaw Labs before being appointed CEO.
Today, my guest is Liz Wall,
Director of Marketing and Business Development
at Drummond Woodsum, a regional New England
law firm with offices in Portland, Maine and Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire.
She is a certified family
law mediator, and is a founding member and current
director of Collaborative Lawyers, Inc., a state - wide educational and professional development association and business directory of independent Florida licensed attorneys
at law and
law firms who practice in the areas of collaborative divorce and collaborative family
law.
A member of the South Central Sub-Committee of the Immigration
Law Practitioners Association, an Expert Adviser on Migreat and a contributor on employment and immigration law for Emplaw, the UK's largest online advice site for employers, Tamara is very well regarded by clients, client firms and other practitioners — «Tamara in summary: great results; expert; high integrity» Jonathan Gregory, Director at Emplaw Online
Law Practitioners Association, an Expert Adviser on Migreat and a contributor on employment and immigration
law for Emplaw, the UK's largest online advice site for employers, Tamara is very well regarded by clients, client firms and other practitioners — «Tamara in summary: great results; expert; high integrity» Jonathan Gregory, Director at Emplaw Online
law for Emplaw, the UK's largest online advice site for employers, Tamara is very well regarded by clients, client
firms and other practitioners — «Tamara in summary: great results; expert; high integrity» Jonathan Gregory,
Director at Emplaw Online Ltd
A ubiquitous fixture on the US legal media scene, White and his team have had to fend off an onslaught from harassed
law firm marketing
directors creaking under the weight of a growing pile of surveys, as well as bar association busybodies who took umbrage
at the company's methodology.
Matt Lancaster, sales and marketing
director and one of the founding partners of Free2Convey, said: «In today's world of real time communication
law firms and their clients, and estate agents all require a collaboration tool that allows them access to real time information
at all times regardless of what computerised system they use.
I spoke with with Joe Borstein, the global
director of the
law firm division
at Pangea3, a legal process outsourcer.
In just a short time
at Totum, we have helped recruit more IT
Directors into
law firms than in the past five or six years put together.
Rosie was part of a panel with Paulo Nasser, a disputes partner
at São Paolo based
law firm Miguel Neto Advogados, Zeehan Shamji, a senior
director at K2 Intelligence, and Tom Arntz, an employment
law associate
at Citius Advocaten in Amsterdam.
To apply to attend Legal Leaders IT — which is open to IT
Directors and CIOs
at leading international
law firms, independents and high profile new entrants — visit the TavistockMedia website here.
* Chris Boyd is the
Director of Professional Development & Knowledge Management
at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a 600 - attorney
law firm headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and the premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the investment banks and venture capital
firms that finance them.
In this video, Legal Week publisher John Malpas talks to Chris McKenzie, head of trusts and estate planning
at BVI
law firm O'Neal Webster, about the use of trusts and other techniques to deal with the disruption that can be caused by the death or incapacity of shareholders and
directors of a private company.
The program, which Monica moderated, featured presentations by Alvidas Jasin,
director of business development
at Thompson Hine, who offered a mini version of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth; Bruce Lymburn, partner with Wendel Rosen, Black & Dean, on «The Greening of a
Law Firm»; Matthew Heartney, a partner with Arnold & Porter, on developing a green office initiative; and Tony Hoke, global technology purchasing and assets manager at Morrison & Foerster, on the leadership challenge of green l
Law Firm»; Matthew Heartney, a partner with Arnold & Porter, on developing a green office initiative; and Tony Hoke, global technology purchasing and assets manager
at Morrison & Foerster, on the leadership challenge of green
lawlaw.
Many
law firms have strategic - thinking CIOs, acknowledges Ron Friedmann
at the Prism Legal Consulting blog, and some also have
directors of knowledge management or
directors of practice services.
Prior to joining Osler, Samantha was
Director, Business Development
at another top - tier national business
law firm.
Given that this consolidation will have a direct (likely negative) impact on my ability to gather information for my clients, and our
law firm clients, I asked Frank Buckreus, Acting Executive
Director, Service Delivery
at Service Alberta about the consolidation plan in order to share this information with Slaw readers and he very kindly responded with the information below.
James Knight, managing
director at Keystone
Law, talks to Legal Week Intelligence about what makes the
firm a Best Legal Adviser for 2017 - 18
Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
director David Green QC has been tipped for a lucrative move to a US
law firm when his leadership term
at the regulator ends next year, according to City white - collar crime partners.
Conclusion The most interesting observation after spending two days discussing practice innovation was the variety of roles now seen
at law firms; chief value partners, marketing and IT
directors who lead cross-functional initiatives, business analysts, pricing executives, project managers, COOs and others.
My co-speaker was Andrew Terrett, the National
Director of Knowledge Management
at BLG who provided a great, pragmatic overview of project management in
law firms.
Carrying on with our special competition & antitrust focus, Lawyer Monthly here looks
at the markets in South Africa, what the latest legislative developments on competition
law have been in the region, how the M&A landscape is faring, and talks to Pieter Steyn,
Director of Werksmans and Chairman of LEX Africa, who details his and the
firm's thought leadership in this regional arena, and gives an outlook for 2017.
Schembor, founder of Easy Access Software, lists blogs that he finds «ideally suited to the knowledge needs of a senior project manager,
director of technology or CIO
at a medium to large size
law firm.
Neyla Ortiz (Associate & Program
Director) announced that the following student has been selected for the
Firm's 2016 Summer Associates Program: Emmanuel Loubriel Carreras: Emmanuel is a second year student
at the University of Puerto Rico School of
Law.