Sentences with phrase «fewer outside law firms»

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But while corporate clients often complain about their outside law firms, few outside of Dupont headquarters have turned that into meaningful action.

Barclays and Avis are just a few examples of how LPM has permeated legal department expectations for their outside counsel, but many Request for Proposals (RFPs) received by law firms in recent years have also emphasized the importance of LPM (you will note that as Casey suggested, some of these ask for specifics which make it harder to BS):

Abbott lists the many reasons why women do not advance to partnership in law firms: biased assumptions about women's competence and commitment to practice; fewer mentors and developmental work assignments; inadequate support for practice and business development and inflexible career expectations that penalize women for having responsibilities and priorities outside of work.

When considering location I expect many of you will say «London,» but don't forget some of the leading law firms, such as Taylor Vinters, have headquarters or have substantial offices in some of England's most exciting cities outside of London such as Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester and Milton Keynes (to name a few).

After articling at an established medium - sized Vancouver firm myself 26 years ago, and pretty well staying with downtown Vancouver firms for most of my professional life, I'd have to say that students who article in Surrey or practise for their first few years there (or for that matter, any place outside of downtown Vancouver), may have a greater opportunity for getting into court on a regular basis than their downtown counterparts, who can be stuck compiling lists of documents on multimillion - dollar deals and doing memos of law while their Surrey colleagues are in trial after trial, and chambers application after chambers application, cutting their teeth in front of judges.

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 55 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 - months ending June 30, 2015

The vast majority of the LOR respondents reported that their outside firms don't even bother with client satisfaction surveys, a result mirrored by the majority of law firm leaders who reported that they visit with few, if any, of their firm's key clients.

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 54 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 - months ending December 31, 2013

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 51 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 months ending December 31, 2014

I know very few in - house lawyers at corporations that directly handle their litigation matters — that's usually a job delegated to more experienced litigators from outside law firms.