Sentences with phrase «firm leaders just»

Not exact matches

We quickly found ourselves with multiple VC firms wanting to invest and I'm super proud to announce that we have just announced a $ 20 million round of funding to continue to grow the business into the enterprise class leader that I know we can become.

It should be noted that this is not the only path of progression for analysts: An analyst can remain just that and have a long successful career (including perhaps as a sector leader) at the firm.

A recent survey of business leaders by the international accounting and advisory firm Friedman, for example, found that just 23 percent would reinvest repatriated funds.

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a Uniondale law firm that employed state Sen. Dean Skelos, who resigned as majority leader this year after he was charged in a federal corruption case, also received three outside counsel contracts within the range just below the approval threshold: for $ 24,000, $ 24,900 and $ 25,000.

The CEO of the unnamed medical malpractice firm — like Anthony Bonomo, a former NYRA official — was afraid that if Adam Skelos lost his job at the company he would lose access to the elder Skelos, who just ascended to the majority leader post in the chamber.

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

Just this past year, we placed more teachers, coaches, and school leaders than any other recruitment firm in the world.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

The US leader has just added its third finance partner in London in one month, with GE Capital Real Estate counsel Quentin Gwyer joining as a partner in the firm's new real estate finance practice.

In just four years with Lewis Wagner, Lesley became a respected leader among her fellow associates and was asked to represent them on the firm's marketing committee.

The firm has not previously had a local leader of the group, which was launched in June 2008 and until now consisted of just two associates.

«What we have found is that while over 2014 sanctions have become more known in the public, there are still a large number of companies or managers who just simply don't appreciate what the nature of the sanctions are, what they mean and how they work,» says Vincent DeRose, a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa, where he is also national leader of the firm's defence and security industry group.

I talk to law firm leaders every day and I am sometimes talking to a CMO who has just made a $ 10 million investment in a technology piece, or a CIO who is desperately telling me how they are trying to convince their lawyers to work differently.

Firms with a dedicated AI lead observed a 17 % increase in inbound customer leads using AI vis - a-vis just 9 % increase for firms having no clear AI leFirms with a dedicated AI lead observed a 17 % increase in inbound customer leads using AI vis - a-vis just 9 % increase for firms having no clear AI lefirms having no clear AI leader.

The move, a rare example of a law firm leader leaving for a competitor, will see Picon join Latham as Madrid office head after just 18 months at the helm of DLA.

Most law firms these days have both types of leaders — Mavericks, who are open to change and focused on performance, and Formalists, who are averse to change and focused on just getting the job done.

Rather than feeling burdened or threatened, leader - mentors consider it an honor to mentor new leaders because they have been chosen by the firm not just to lead the firm today but also to prepare the finest possible leaders for tomorrow.

In some firms, rather than asking all leaders to groom their successors, it may be better to select just the best leader - mentors and have them work with a group of junior leaders.

Our Team Leaders: Our antitrust practice chair, Stephen Neuwirth of the firm's New York office, has been recognized as a «Titan of the Plaintiffs» Bar» by Law360, which also named Stephen one of just five antitrust «MVPs» in 2017.

Not just the formal leadership of managing partners and practice group leaders, but the informal leadership of heavyweight rainmakers and political players inside a firm.

We have a special experiment that we've just begun within AdvanceLaw, in collaboration with a sub-group of twenty GC thought leaders, as well as a number of firms.

Scott Turow's provocative 2007 ABA Journal cover story, «The Billable Hour Must Die», Cravath Partner Evan Chesler's «Kill the Billable Hour» column in Forbes in 2008, and Seyfarth Shaw Chairman Steve Poor's more recent observations on the firm's Rethink the Practice blog are just three examples of the many high profile law firm leaders convincingly making this case.

They want high - performing firms — but not just in the way that good lawyers think about performance, but more about how good business leaders think about performance.

One last thought on leadership. When truly disruptive innovation collides with any market, historically the big boys don't survive. They are lacking the bold leadership required to make major course corrections. The top ten most profitable law firms - 9 of which have no blogging presence to speak of — will lose their position if they don't join the party. As Kevin O'keefe noted this week, anonymity online is a losing proposition, while others disagree. We aren't just talking about blogging though, it's the whole social media system - Legal Onramp, JDSupra, and even LinkedIN, Twitter, and Facebook. These are powerful tools, and real leaders will understand, like their younger counterparts, it is much more significant to harness the power of fire, than to simply try and stamp it out for fear of getting burned.

and that shared direction needs to be facilitated by an effective leader; but I find that this idea that in order to be an effective firm leader, you need to articulate a vision, is just not grounded in any reality.

And I have for years challenged lawyers at multiple legal conferences to please give me just one example of a law firm, anywhere, wherein a firm leader proclaimed a vision and had all of his or her partners excited, eager to move forward and behaving in concert with that articulated vision.

Ed wasn't just a brilliant leader of a great law firm: he was a man of passionate interests and enthusiasms.

Its survey of 44 professional firms, about two - thirds of which were law firms, found women in 16 % of CEO roles, just over a quarter (27 %) of business unit leader roles and 46 % of functional management leadership roles.

Bob Huff, a former state senator and Republican minority leader who's hoping to replace retiring Republican Rep. Ed Royce, signed a contract with the firm for work on his congressional race and paid a $ 10,027 deposit just last month.

• If you're from an executive post eyeing smaller firms, show you're not just a leader who instructs.

But feedback is not just a product of firm leaders, self - assessment can also be extremely helpful in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a given sales associate.

The firm's strong focus on growing organically through learning and coaching are just a few of the things that have helped them achieve their status as a true market leader and a model ERA company.»