Sentences with phrase «fewer junior lawyers»

Not exact matches

It's difficult for young lawyers to get that experience today, partly because fewer cases are going to trial and partly because some insurers don't want to pay for junior lawyers to sit second chair in the courtroom, says McCarthy, a partner at McCarthy Bouley Barry & Morgan in Waltham, Massachusetts.

In the last several months, we have had several very junior and mid-level lawyers for various periods of time working in both our litigation support and contracts management departments, and have senior (more than 15 years) lawyers in operational and executive positions — a few of whom actually live in and work out of Delhi, and some of whom travel and work between India and their bases in the United States.

Please take a few minutes to email the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society to make your views heard.

«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.»

fewer paralegals (the IT or outsourcers will do their tasks), and less scope to train junior lawyers «on the job».

When senior female lawyers are asked to mentor junior associates, time is taken away from their billable hours in a scenario that already sees women clocking fewer billable hours and contributing more hours to non-billable but essential firm functions.

Similarly, a British survey by Legal Business of lawyers in large US and UK firms found that some firms are losing up to 30 % of their lawyers each year, and that fewer than 20 % of junior lawyers expect to be in their current jobs in five years.

In this Prawfs post a few months ago, I speculated that green (i.e., young / junior) lawyers may have a uniquely important role to play in the emerging marijuana «green rush» industry: not only may veteran lawyers be cautious and concerned about representing persons actively involved in state marijuana business, but marijuana reform often seems a «young man's game» for which junior lawyers may be uniquely positioned to be of service to persons needing legal help in this arena.

But by «junior» we should be talking about lawyers with a few years of real practice under their belts, not newly minted lawyers fresh out of articling or an alternative program.