Sentences with phrase «for major law firms»

«The market for major law firms is shrinking, certainly in Canada,» he says.

The report considers the challenges and opportunities in these four key markets, examining their likely future trajectories and what this will mean for major law firms.

In an unusual move, given that it has for years been established practice for major law firms in Wall Street and the City to disclose pay bands for junior lawyers, CC declined to comment, confirm or deny any specific figures when contacted.

In addition, almost every website for a major law firm and corporation has a page devoted to recruiting and hiring needs, so check specific employers you wish to target.

So there you have it: short - and long - term strategic planning and solutions, application of the best - evidence rule, and careful ongoing investigation — all in a day's work for a major law firm responding to a bed bug crisis.

The consortium's vision, Fisher said, is for every major law firm and corporate legal department to be a node in the blockchain with a synchronized copy of all the sequential ledger entries of identities.

2009 — 2013: Developed and maintained an engagement analysis tool for a major law firm where time, matter and client records are extracted from the firm's Elite ProLaw time database for selected matters for standardized analysis in Excel worksheets.

Not exact matches

Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Apple and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance law, weakening prospects for privacy reforms that would further protect customer data, according to sources familiar with the matter.

«For example, if I hack into a major law firm and then realize that this law firm has direct communication channels with the Fortune 50, then I can leapfrog from this law firm into all of those entities,» said Tom Kellermann, chief security officer at cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro.

On behalf of the players, the Charney Lawyers, a Toronto - based firm specializing in class - action law, is seeking compensation for time logged by the plaintiffs in the major junior league.

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

Through a secretive shell company, Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was paid by major corporations and a law firm for help navigating Washington in the Trump era after being shut out of a hoped - for top job with the administration.

In another alleged scheme, Silver received $ 700,000 from the law firm Goldberg & Iryami for pushing two major real - estate developers to use their services.

Her private sector experience includes working for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell and Fortress, a major hedge fund.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

In the second, far more lucrative arrangement, Bharara claims that a doctor directed patients with asbestos - related illnesses to Silver, who signed them up as clients for Weitz & Luxenberg, a major personal - injury law firm.

In documents obtained by Capital through the Freedom of Information Law, Cuomo administration director of administrative services Theresa Brennan, writing on behalf of the commissioners, outlined the commission's request for the contracting exemption and how it came to select K2 from a field of firms that also included some of the nation's major accounting firms.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

Since then, I have been a science communications consultant to a major university and observatory, a freelance science writer, an advice columnist, and, most recently, a technical specialist for a patent law firm.

Over time I worked for two major Manhattan law firms and on Long Island for a small firm handling radio advertising and a large telephonic communications corporation.

That decision was a major defeat for a coalition of state education groups, including the CTA, the state PTA and the California School Boards Association, along with advocates for minority students, led by the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, which brought the related lawsuits six years ago.

In fact, over a decade ago my situation was reversed — I supported my husband quite well (I was a corporate attorney at a major law firm) for four years while he went back to school and completed an electrical engineering degree.

Sara is an attorney who has worked as an associate at a major New York law firm as well as acted as in - house counsel both for book publishers and at nationally distributed magazine.

Tammie Lou Kapusta is a former paralegal with the law offices of David J. Stern, a Florida firm that works for all the major banks and handles up to 70,000 foreclosure cases a year.

If you want a witty legal drama, about how college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), begins work for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) at a major New York law firm, despite never attending law school.

The Canadian Law Firm Brand Index 2014 was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who, as part of Sharplegal 2013 research, were asked about their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound woLaw Firm Brand Index 2014 was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who, as part of Sharplegal 2013 research, were asked about their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound wolaw firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound work.

(For those of you who need details on the methodology, Acritas disclose that the research was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who were asked about six factors — their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; and their use of firms for high value and inbound woFor those of you who need details on the methodology, Acritas disclose that the research was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who were asked about six factors — their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; and their use of firms for high value and inbound wofor top - level litigation and major M&A; and their use of firms for high value and inbound wofor high value and inbound work.

But as a former law librarian, who worked for provincial Ontario govn't organization, the Ontario courts and also a major global accounting firm, my thoughts on a commenter's excerpted remark:

Though given the present economy, major pay increases for associates seem unlikely here in the United States, over in India, law firms are hiking salaries — as much as 100 percent — to retain talent, as reported in India's Economic Times.

The Accord Project, a group launched last year to push for industry standards around legal smart contracts, has won some buy - in from major UK law firms.

The decision represents the second time the deadline for signing up to the plan — which if passed will be the quickest settlement ever reached in a major law firm bankruptcy — has been pushed back.

The major asset for most law firms is the partners working in the business.

Two leading advisors to major law firms predicted a declining demand for legal services, a 15 % drop in net income from 2008, the inability to raise rates, additional layoffs, salary freezes and cost cutting, heavier fee discounting, expenses rising faster than revenues — and a long wait for better times.

Is described as «the most popular patent law blog and a daily read for thousands of attorneys and agents from every major IP firm, innovative corporation, and TC at the USPTO.»

A personal injury law firm has won its case against an insurer which settled claims with clients behind its back, in a major victory for claimant lawyers.

Bodine writes that law firms themselves are often the major impediment to the successful implementation of a marketing plan by failing to hold lawyers accountable for marketing.

Legal OnRamp: Legal OnRamp was launched by the general counsel of Cisco and other major companies as an outlet for participating law firms to share expertise in a community environment.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the first major law firm to post retention rates for its spring 2014 intake, with the firm set to keep on 84 % of its newly - qualified (NQ) lawyers.

The competitive environment in the rural areas of Northern California creates major opportunities for lawyers and law firms that choose to upgrade to an integrated online marketing strategy.

Nonetheless, law firms (like other corporate entities) still strive for just a mention of the firm or its lawyers in a «major newspaper» or «national magazine.»

Major, Lindsey & Africa and Above the Law recently published the results of a survey of more than 1,200 law firm associates from 132 law firms that showed that only 4.82 % of Millennial attorneys felt that it was important for their clients» values to align with their oLaw recently published the results of a survey of more than 1,200 law firm associates from 132 law firms that showed that only 4.82 % of Millennial attorneys felt that it was important for their clients» values to align with their olaw firm associates from 132 law firms that showed that only 4.82 % of Millennial attorneys felt that it was important for their clients» values to align with their olaw firms that showed that only 4.82 % of Millennial attorneys felt that it was important for their clients» values to align with their own.

Ash joins Major, Lindsey & Africa's existing APAC Partner Practice team of Carl Hopkins (Hong Kong), Tom Stretton and Michael Robertson (Sydney), Laurie Lebrun (Tokyo), and Andrew Ng (Beijing) who also act for law firm partners.

The law firm successfully represented a major petroleum company before the Philippine Supreme Court in connection with the corporation's claim for refund or tax credit for excise taxes it paid on petroleum products sold and delivered to international carriers.

We have done this for litigators from all major law firms on more than 10,000 cases.

Once law firms know where they are most at risk, they can better determine where they need to spend money and effort, such as on training their employees and buying insurance to help cover their costs for the likely occurrence of a major data breach.

(* For legal market observers outside of the UK it can be the case that London usually gets all the limelight, but Leeds for example, which is 25 miles from York, is regarded as an important regional legal centre with major law firms such as DLA Piper and Squire Patton Boggs having offices therFor legal market observers outside of the UK it can be the case that London usually gets all the limelight, but Leeds for example, which is 25 miles from York, is regarded as an important regional legal centre with major law firms such as DLA Piper and Squire Patton Boggs having offices therfor example, which is 25 miles from York, is regarded as an important regional legal centre with major law firms such as DLA Piper and Squire Patton Boggs having offices there.)

IRIS, a member of the Canon Group, just announced that Kluge Advokatfirma, a full service, independent Norwegian law firm covering all major fields of business law, has selected iManage Work 10 for its document and email management.

Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake, risk and compliance software for law firms, today announced that major UK national law firm Weightmans LLP has chosen Compliguard Protect, the leading legal information barriers solution based on the Microsoft's.