Sentences with phrase «from major law firms»

Given the critical stage which negotiations with India have reached and how they are expected to develop in the autumn, the Society will be holding a meeting in October for senior representatives from the major law firms interested in India to discuss strategy for the next 6 - 12 months.

Unless the government really doesn't care about the quality of the medical evidence or for that matter justice, you have to ask, if qualified professionals from major law firms have raised concerns about the efficacy and ease of dealing with MedCo, how will injured lay people cope?»

The dinner is a who's who of Texas, attended by attorneys from major law firms, judges and chief justices, other local and statewide public officials, university leaders, corporate leaders, and many other committed individuals.

From major law firms to boutiques, corporations, governmental entities, and non-profits, we have active job searches throughout California and affiliates in major markets nationwide.

The legal economy ended 2009 in shambles, as no fewer than 12,196 people were laid off from major law firms during the year.

The Stem Legal blog has collected 101 «taglines» from major law firms in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.

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

Since the mid 1990s, our firm has supported litigators from every major law firm on more than 10,000 cases with trillions of dollars cummulativily at stake.

Weil took over the case from another major law firm after an adverse ruling on a motion to dismiss.

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.

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.

A former corporate lawyer, Barbara graduated from Stanford Law School and practiced securities litigation at a major law firm in New York CiLaw School and practiced securities litigation at a major law firm in New York Cilaw firm in New York City.

In her statement, she pointed to Schumer's campaign contributions from major financial institutions and law firms.

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.

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.

What prosecutors cast as misdeeds — collecting referral fees from a real estate law firm employed by major developers and a firm that represented asbestos patients treated by a medical researcher that Silver gave state funding — were presented as the inevitable conflicts of a part - time Legislature where lawmakers have side jobs.

Prosecutors accused him of receiving money from another law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, after getting two major developers to use its services.

As it turns out, a new entry in the super Sonic racer series — as well as two FPS titles with «major partners» — may be in the works, according to a leaked presentation from a British law firm.

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 work.

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.

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.»

Chloe Pearson, a major force in Jaguar Land Rover's commercial fleet development team & Peter Henderson, an operations manager from a North West Law firm, were chosen as the outstanding candidates.

He regularly accepts referrals from major national law firms.

His clients range from public companies, banks and major accountancy practices to PLC directors, senior banking executives and partners in law firms.

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.

This year saw several speakers from across Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, while the large audience of general counsel (GC) and attendees from major Nordic law firms were also buzzing with energy.

Ms. Nava practiced law in Mexico from 1989 to 1996 and since 1996 has practiced in the US with major law firms until joining Sheppard Mullin in 2017.

Lex Machina, which started out with a niche focus on intellectual property litigation data and has gradually expanded out into securities and antitrust law, has as part of this latest product development process interviewed commercial litigators from top law firms and major corporations to better understand their particular analytics use - cases.

Our experience spans the whole public sector, from local authorities and NHS bodies to major government departments, including the Insolvency Service and HMRC, making us a genuine public sector firm of a calibre which is rarely seen outside of the expensive «City» law firms.

Prior to the official start of LegalTech New York 2015 this morning, a few dozen legal professionals from large corporate law departments and major law firms gathered at the «LTNY 2015 Kick - Off Breakfast» to discuss the keys to success... Read More»

(* 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 there.)

This question is a theme on The Dialogue and was a major feature in Chapter 8 of Remaking Law Firms: Why & How, so I welcome this new post from John Grimley, advocate - in - chief for BigLaw Firms to embrace professional sales forces.

Jon Lindsey is the New York founding partner of Major, Lindsey & Africa, voted the «Best Legal Recruiter» by the readers of The National Law Journal, «best legal search firm in the United States» in Worldlaw Business magazine's survey of the AmLaw 100, and «in a league apart» from other legal recruiters by The American Lawyer.

The CLE breakfast briefing, held in the firm's New York City office, explored the radically changing legal landscape resulting from these laws and specifically provided ways to address employment concerns in the City and State before they become major distractions.

At its simplest level, lawyers from the same law firm can not take on opposing sides in the same case but they should also not act for the competitors of major clients of the firm.

You can see from perusing the site that a number of major law firms distribute their content through JD Supra, so clearly they believe they are getting value for whatever they pay.

The title of this article was the first part of some feedback that we received from a partner who attended the hackathon — he wrote «' Innovate or die» ought to be the mantra of every major law firm.»

Norton Rose's transatlantic tie - up with Fulbright & Jaworski has received broad approval from law firm partners, against a more sceptical reponse to the other major merger deal of recent weeks — the proposed three - way union of SNR Denton, Salans and Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC).

It's not the first time this has been canvassed here on Slaw, as John Gregory's post from earlier this year attests, but since I recently prepared materials for a webinar on social media as evidence, and in the course of that started a trial run of X1 Social Discovery (which is what the Department of Justice, RCMP, and at least two major Canadian law firms are... [more]

If a major law firm (a) revamped its entire approach to client relations and (b) showed a substantial profit from doing so, that might get some people's attention.

However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

We need to set out a clear vision of what we expect from law firms and engage with the profession and firms, including the major commercial firms, on the delivery of good services for clients and the public interest in a reputable, well working legal system.

Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean of the Melbourne Law School, wrote the foreword for the State of the Legal Market — 2015 white paper (available from Melbourne Law School or simple write to me), which is based on research by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor of financial information from 23 major Australian law firms for the financial year to 30 June 20Law School, wrote the foreword for the State of the Legal Market — 2015 white paper (available from Melbourne Law School or simple write to me), which is based on research by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor of financial information from 23 major Australian law firms for the financial year to 30 June 20Law School or simple write to me), which is based on research by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor of financial information from 23 major Australian law firms for the financial year to 30 June 20law firms for the financial year to 30 June 2015.

Once you remove content publishing from the equation, there are typically four major entry points into law firm websites: the homepage, practice pages, lawyer profiles and regional office pages.

Meanwhile, ROSS has gone from clever idea to actual product, signing deals in 2016 with several major law firms, including Baker & Hostetler, Latham & Watkins, von Briesen & Roper and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.

The National Law Journal reports that the Diversity and Flexibility Connection, a new initiative headed by the Project for Attorney Retention, will bring together a dozen general counsel from major U.S. companies with managing partners from law firms with good track records on work / life issues in an effort to develop a list of best practices that promote both diversity and work / life balance among attorneLaw Journal reports that the Diversity and Flexibility Connection, a new initiative headed by the Project for Attorney Retention, will bring together a dozen general counsel from major U.S. companies with managing partners from law firms with good track records on work / life issues in an effort to develop a list of best practices that promote both diversity and work / life balance among attornelaw firms with good track records on work / life issues in an effort to develop a list of best practices that promote both diversity and work / life balance among attorneys.

Currently in private beta testing, this site will launch with nearly 30,000 documents contributed from national law firms, major regional firms, academics, leading practitioners and legal bloggers, research specialists, commercial publishers and law societies.