Not exact matches
Of course, in my first year — it really wasn't that long ago, you know — the classrooms weren't
named after
law firms, and the career services office was a locked and unstaffed storeroom
full of
firm brochures halfway down a basement corridor.
I kept a spreadsheet
full of
law firms»
names, addresses, and contact information.
(i) BMO reducing its roster of
firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister
firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their
firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv)
firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of
firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to
name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium
law» work; (ix) the introduction of
full time project managers in many
firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.
As a
full - service, boutique advertising agency, our mission is to get your
law firm's
name out there by utilizing the most efficient and latest marketing tools available.
We are a
full service
law firm, in
name and in practice, and have been fortunate to represent folks with local, state wide and national presences.
Even the largest
law firm in Canada struggles with this one: when I refer to BLG, more often than not I have to spell out the
firm's
full name before recognition dawns.
They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of
naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding
Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osl
Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief
Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osl
Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so
full of spritely humour) was in
full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the
law firm library at Osl
law firm library at Osler.
LHS Solicitors LLP (LHS) is the new
name for the # 12m
law firm created by the
full merger of Abbey Legal Services...
LHS Solicitors LLP (LHS) is the new
name for the # 12m
law firm created by the
full merger of Abbey Legal Services with Lewis Hymanson Small.