Sentences with phrase «earlier career as a lawyer»

Following an earlier career as a lawyer, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Painting from the National Art School, as well as Bachelors of Arts (English) and Laws from the University of Sydney and a Masters in Laws from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Earlier, McLachlin had addressed the CBA council in the city where she spent much of her early career as a lawyer and judge, using the occasion to talk commend the CBA for its involvement in a number of access to justice projects.

Savard, who has been a judge since 2009, had an earlier career as a lawyer practising labour and employment, civil, and administrative law at the former Ogilvy Renault LLP.

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He started his career as a lawyer for early Internet pioneers such as Alta Vista, Yahoo, and Salesforce while practicing law at Skadden Arps.

Although I grew up watching the television show L.A. Law, like most intellectual property lawyers, I did not seriously consider law as a career until my early 20s.

Earlier in his career, he spent 16 years working at Harvard University as one of its lawyers, the University Secretary and Assistant to the President.

Earlier in his career, Willis served as the lead attorney and project manager for large - scale document reviews, and was a lawyer at the Internet Law Group from 2001 to 2006.

Lightfoot is committed to pro bono work not just because it is the right thing to do and an essential part of our professional obligation as lawyers, but also because pro bono matters allow our new lawyers critical opportunities to take responsibility in court and with clients to gain valuable experience early in their careers.

As a racialized and first - generation lawyer, when asked about the greatest barrier I faced early in my legal career, I always revert back to the same thing: the lack of mentorship opportunities and mentors.

As a lawyer, Strathy notes he also had some significant cases early in his career that took him to places such as the Supreme CourAs a lawyer, Strathy notes he also had some significant cases early in his career that took him to places such as the Supreme Couras the Supreme Court.

Author: «CM» is a woman in her early 30s «starting a second career as a lawyer after recovering from my past life as a software engineer.»

The Up and Coming Lawyer Award specifically recognizes those who may be early in their legal career but have shown a talent not only as lawyers but who also have a tremendous capacity for volunteer work.

Early in my career, I was the editor of both Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly (as well as of the now - defunct Lawyers Weekly USA), before they were owned by Dolan.

Travers Smith is considering allowing its lawyers to take a career break during their children's early years, as part of its ongoing efforts to boost diversity at the firm.

(Full disclosure: I serve as executive director of and lobbyist for the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, whose membership includes many GateHouse newspapers, and, earlier in my career, I was an editor and publisher for both Lawyers Weekly and Dolan Media.)

The topics of discussion — for it really was almost all discussion and very little one - way lecturing — ranged from how early career lawyers feel about the profession (and how we are in some ways letting them down) to the future of articling (a particularly hot topic in Ontario, as we all know) to how we might infuse a culture of entrepreneurship in how lawyers are trained (including some of the interesting experiments that are taking place at Ryerson) to the more fundamental challenges of incorporating experiential learning into the law school curriculum.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

Commercial finance lawyer Amanda S. Eckhoff organized the private get - together for new lenders in the early stages of their careers as a way for them to network with the firm and each other.

By forcing new lawyers into high - target fee - earning roles this early in their careers, we're trying to radically accelerate a development process that's meant to take much longer — maybe as long as five or ten years.

Earlier in his career, Eric served as the lead attorney and project manager for large - scale document reviews, and was a lawyer at the Internet Law Group from 2001 to 2006.

Because the lawyer evaluation process also serves as a ranking system, an early misstep can eliminate a junior lawyer — particularly a minority associate — from ever gaining an advocate to help his or her career advance within the firm.

Mr. Gancarczyk has also been recognized by The Law Bulletin Publishing Company and its Leading Lawyers division as an Emerging Lawyer in Illinois, which recognizes the top two percent of lawyers who are under the age of 40 or practicing law for less than ten years and have proven themselves professional, ethical and experienced at an early point of their Lawyers division as an Emerging Lawyer in Illinois, which recognizes the top two percent of lawyers who are under the age of 40 or practicing law for less than ten years and have proven themselves professional, ethical and experienced at an early point of their lawyers who are under the age of 40 or practicing law for less than ten years and have proven themselves professional, ethical and experienced at an early point of their career.

In the early years of my career as a lawyer, I mainly dealt with resolving commercial, construction, land & family disputes.

We would advise lawyers to try and put a little away every month as early as they can in their career and take proper financial guidance from someone who understands their career and can help them balance all of their financial needs.»

He describes a number of projects that moulded him during the course of his early career: «As a junior lawyer I had the opportunity from day one to advise on huge infrastructure projects.

I was trained in it and I have done decision trees earlier in my career, and periodically, when I find lawyers who are doing it I engage them, but that's another great example of a topic that isn't as sexy.