Sentences with phrase «former big law»

The Atlanta Journal - Constitution profiles three former big law refugees who left practice at King & Spalding to start up an unusual practice in Law firm takes immigration fight to streets.

Valorem Law Group was started by former Big Law attorneys.

We are former big law firm lawyers whose sole focus is now helping injured people and their families.

We have a number of former big law firm staff on our team.

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That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

Sean Coffey and his former law firm made big campaign contributions to pension fund powerbrokers — including $ 16,000 to disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi — and supposedly landed big contracts in return.

Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association and a former LIPA chief, said the bigger commitment to wind could prove helpful now that the state has reached an agreement to shutter the 2,000 - megawatt Indian Point nuclear power plant.

«If you can find a corrupt mayor of New York City, holy moly, that's a big prize,» said Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.

Yeah, not a big deal that a sitting Governor, and former Attorney General, is hiring prostitutes and breaking the very laws he has sworn to uphled.

Questions have been raised of late about political contributions made by himself and his former law firm, which made big money in pension - related legal fees, to the past three state comptrollers.

Indicted state Sen. John Sampson has been thrown under the bus to the feds by a former top aide who is also in big trouble with the law, new court...

With only 27 days left until the 421a tax abatement and rent regulation laws expire on June 15, former Rent Guidelines Board chair Marvin Markus has inked a memo with some big ideas.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

The new law caps a former deduction for state and local taxes at $ 10,000, a move that Cuomo says will lead to big tax increases for many homeowners in high - tax states like New York.

In picking former judge and Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, Cuomo has settled on an experienced hand in penal law with a strong background in running a big office.

If he loses even one of these cases, people are going to wonder whether the big talk is consistent with the results,» Pace Law professor Bennett Gershman, a former state prosecutor, told the New York Daily News.

Atlanta — Last week, 35 former Atlanta educators were forced to take a perp walk, reporting to law enforcement authorities for arrest in connection with the nation's biggest (so far) academic scandal.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Rob Landry, head of global HR at Magna International and former chief operating officer at Gowling WLG Canada, is worried that law firms do not take the Big Four threat seriously and are too complacent.

One of the biggest differences between law students qualifying now, and those seeking a career 20 years ago, is the prevalence of the internet in the former groups» lives.

Carolyn Elefant examines the arrest of former big - firm partner Jamie Perdigao for embezzling as much as $ 20 million from his law firm.

After Chad Burton, a former «Big Law» attorney, built a firm for himself with, as he puts it, «low overhead, but sophisticated work,» he met so many other attorneys looking to do the same that he founded Curo Legal, a consulting and staffing business that helps lawyers strike out on their own.

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Many of these companies recruit former Big - Law associates who yearn for work - life balance.

According to this Daily Journal article (via How Appealing), former clerks are not only still being hired by major law firms, but are commanding signing bonuses of up to $ 250,000 (on top of starting salaries of as much as $ 160,000 in big firms).

With $ 14 million in venture capital, a board of directors that includes former LexisNexis CEO Lou Andreozzi, and an advisory board made up of former ABA president Robert Hirshon and Stanford Law professor Deborah Rhode, the buzz was that Avvo would be something big, even if no one knew what.

KRW honourable mentions went to the always colourful Ezra Levant for his Back Page column; former staff writer Glenn Kauth, who now edits Law Times, for his story «Big BD» and a profile of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart; and writer Paul Brent for his wrap - up on the legal aspects of the auto bailouts in the August 2009 cover story «Assembly line.»

Our biggest surprise was that neither law school nor former employers had ever taught us the things we needed most to run our business.

NEW: George Washington University law professor (and former prosecutor) Randall Eliason's posts delve into the big white - collar crime cases of the day, sometimes exploring the lawyers» tactics.

Big Law firms continued to strike deals with former Heenan Blaikie LLP lawyers this week in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal as the much - admired labour and employment group continued to be split up as well as some of the commercial litigators.

Such practices allow the firm's attorneys to charge rates that are but a tiny fraction of what these same attorneys charged at their former «Big Law» firms.

Big Law Business is competing with the Memisis Law site which was created by former Bloomberg video host, Lee Pacchia which offers similar video interviews of thought leaders on hot topics.

The price of a silver plan sets the other big subsidy in former President Barack Obama's health care law: the premium tax credit.