Which is fine for a while... until associates start to come up for partnership who have never met clients because they've spent the last decade
doing document review or due diligence.
One caveat — don't get too lost in the contract world: You don't want to be
doing document review full - time in three years, with only one or two satisfied clients to your name.
In the legal field, we see tasks that used to fall to junior associates working in those proverbial law firm basements —
doing document review, for example — now being done more efficiently and cost - effectively through outsourcing, and not just from offshore locations like India and the Philippines, but onshore in the US and UK, or as a hybrid onshore / offshore model, or even onsite.
I convinced myself that it was normal for me to be stuck making the rounds as a contract attorney,
doing document review, and bouncing from one depressing temp job to the next for two and a half years.
[I] n the short term contract attorneys
doing document review get a windfall but it may come at the expense of their long term prospects.
You're not making a lot of money
doing document review, so save you're money for your outside life.
For obvious reasons,
doing document review can be long and tedious and you will want to take frequent breaks.
Pay rate is obviously critical for everyone, especially since the rate for a contract attorney
doing document review has gone down in recent years.
Many will pick up low - paying temp work
doing document review.
What about a company that solely
does document review for eDiscovery or due diligence purposes?
This week, law firm WilmerHale announced that it is seeking 20 lawyers with the title of «discovery attorney» to
do document review out of the firm's «business services center» in Dayton, Ohio.
It is loosely based on his own experience
doing document reviews where he says he realized there was «so much ridiculousness and so many untold stories» that he felt he had to capture it somehow.
Anywhere you're looking to
do document review and analysis, we encourage you to contact Neota Logic for a complete analysis.
If
you do document review to make extra cash, follow these tips to limit downtime and book new jobs faster.
However, «contract attorney» often gives the impression that the attorney just
does document review or is contracted through an agency.
In addition, Howrey benefited from growth in its five - year - old global services center, which
does document review and electronic discovery work for Howrey, but also sometimes acts as a specialized e-discovery counsel in cases for which it is not litigation counsel.
A multinational corporation that is starting to
do document review and litigation support in - house in India needs its resources to be trained in litigation technology.
She gets to go to trial and
do document reviews, while the poor Megafirm schlub, shown here covered in Post-It notes, only gets to
do document reviews.
Law firms have wanted to have their people
do the document review because they then capture the profit associated with that review.
Not exact matches
I
did not read or recall this email exchange before it was shown to me by my lawyers when
reviewing documents for submission to the committees.
While the FBI report
did not name the victim of the destructive attack in its bulletin, two cybersecurity experts who
reviewed the
document said it was clearly referring to the breach at the California - based unit of Sony Corp..
I
do doc
review, but not a lot and almost always in situations in which the
documents are definitely highly relevant and the
review requires strategic calls relating to privilege or is
done for the purpose of preparing for depositions or briefing.»
Documents provided from inside Saudi Arabia and
reviewed by The Times reveal that representatives for the buyer, Prince Bader,
did not present him as a bidder until the day before the sale.
Of course, this raises a thorny issue: How
do the agents and prosecutors
review the
documents for privilege status, if the entire point of privilege is that it's not supposed to be seen by people outside the lawyer's office, particularly members of law enforcement?
The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $ 150,000 to a former Playboy centerfold model for her story of an affair a decade ago with the Republican presidential nominee, but then didn't publish it, according to
documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter.
Practically every company that goes public these days first files to
do so under the JOBS Act, a federal law which gives companies that meet certain criteria the ability to file confidentially while regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
review its
documents without subjecting them to public scrutiny.
The Trump transition didn't respond to a request for comment about if Trump had
reviewed the
document and what his thoughts were.
I don't want to scare you into thinking that any of these companies are irresponsible in their manufacturing processes, but it never hurts to run a quick search online, and again, reading
reviews might give you a deeper perspective of any safety concerns that may not have been
documented and published yet by the umbrella stroller manufacturer.
«Buffalo Grove has completed its
review of the public record and related
documents filed with the Village of Wheeling and has determined that fatal defects
do not exist in the Wheeling actions, «the press release said.
But if JCOPE
does decide to investigate the matter, then it would have subpoena power to
review internal
documents and communications in the matter, as well as possibly determine the extent to which Silver knew of the claims.
The
documents detail any problems Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) staff imagined could arise from the programme, information about issues which
did occur, and the outcome of a high - level
review.
«It doesn't look here like I
reviewed these
documents,» he testified.
«As the NFWB has not yet had the opportunity to
review the draft consent order referenced by Governor Cuomo, we can not therefore comment on its contents; however, the board
does look forward to assessing the
documents and will subsequently work with the DEC to improve plant performance and prevent any re-occurrences,» the board said in a statement.
Enang who
did not disclose when exactly the
document would reach the desk of the president for his assent, however, gave assurance that Nigerians would be happy soon, an indication that the processes must have largely been concluded by the Joint Committee set up to
review the budget and fine tune its grey areas.
The group's Mary Anne Kowalski says after several months, they've received their first batch of
documents, and have found that the health officials are actually
doing a pretty thorough job of
reviewing numerous studies.
JOHNSBURG The Johnsburg Town Board opted to table five contracts in order to give them a second look after Councilman Peter Olesheski Jr. told the board he
did not receive copies of the
documents to
review before voting on them.
David Kidera, director of the Authorities Budget Office, said his office conducted the
review «in part» to follow up on an article last May in The Post-Standard, which
documented the urban renewal agency's continued hiring of workers who have nothing to
do with urban renewal.
In that case, auditors found department officials failed to
review time and attendance schedules and
did not require department employees to
document their hours worked.
The grand jury, which met for two months,
reviewed thousands of pages of
documents and heard testimony from 21 witnesses — including eight sexual abuse victims —
did not hand down indictments, name pedophile priests or identify parishes where abuse took place due to the constraints of the law.
The Times Union provided a copy of the
document to Wade, who said in an email: «I
reviewed the attachment and don't remember it.
The group's Mary Anne Kowalski says after several months, they've received their first batch of
documents and have found that health officials are actually
doing a pretty thorough job of
reviewing numerous studies.
The Coalition could hammer out as detailed a Spending
Review as it can, whilst the Tories make it clear — either in footnotes or in a separate
document — what they would
do in case of a majority government after 2015.
David Cameron has asked for a
review of government
documents on the release of the Lockerbie bomber to see if more needs to be published, but said he
does not want a British inquiry.
The board also recommended that CMC should
review the conduct of a second nurse the panel found had failed to
document and assess Cannon's vital signs and «
did not assess his obvious neurological deficit,» among other issues.
Cornell says the hearing dates
did not allow enough time to
review the
documents involved.
We don't know, of course, all of what's in the
documents — Sen. Hoylman says he and his staff were permitted to
do a «limited
review» of them, but not make copies.
Only as one absorbed the content and read the full 104 - page
document did the sheer scale of this
review become clear and its implications begin to sink in.
«From 2000 to 2007, the NRC
did not conduct any
documented inspection activity of essential service water piping,» it states, while inspectors «provided no regulatory
review 2026 to support the licensee's lowering of the acceptable minimum wall thickness» in the piping.
Outside of this, most of the work she
does with regulatory
documents involves
reviewing and editing the work of others.
Gary Ellis, director of the Office for Protection from Research Risks at NIH, warns
review boards that «if it wasn't
documented, it wasn't
done,» meaning that reviewers should provide detailed documentation to show precisely how and by whom a research proposal was handled and discussed.