Sentences with phrase «generation of lawyers who»

Moreover, a younger generation of lawyers who are more attuned to technology is entering the workforce.

Large law firms are also beginning to lose a generation of lawyers who actually practiced in a day when more cases went to jury trial.

Justice Martin has been an inspiration to a generation of lawyers who benefited from her teaching at the University of Calgary.»

Amani Smathers represents the views of a new generation of lawyers who have lived through the rapid changes spurred on by the recession and were met with market upheaval when they graduated from law school.

And for more on what some forward - looking firms are doing to help raise a new generation of lawyers who can ensure continuity of the firm, see this post by Bruce MacEwen (hint: The solutions don't involve associate bonuses!).

Do students have a right to feel that they've been sold a bill of goods by a generation of lawyers who've ridden the golden age of lawyering and now simply look at the new crop of graduates and exhort them to «work hard» and be a «damn good lawyer» and everything will magically work out?

They lamented that the new roster of lawyers at the firm were completely at odds with an older generation of lawyers who valued professionalism and collegiality.

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

For the generations of lawyers who've spent the better portion of their lives absorbing marketing and advertising, especially via unidirectional channels such as television, there's a real need to disconnect from that experience.

Yet many students worry that their ideas to make our profession better and more accessible to all Canadians will be callously pushed aside by older generations of lawyers who, as McLuhan said «see the present through a rear view mirror.»

Not exact matches

In this Manhattan and Queens district, Ms. Maloney, who has served nine terms in the House, is facing a challenge from Reshma Saujani, an impressive and energetic young lawyer of Indian descent who argues that New York needs the voice of a new generation and a new slice of the city's ethnic pie.

Samantha is a third - generation jeweler who left her career as a lawyer in 2011 to follow in the footsteps of her grandfather, father, and now, brother.

«We have trained a very bright generation of women and minority lawyers who have gone to our corporate clients and who now decide whether to hire us,» Mr. Hanlon said.

Over at Idealawg, Stephanie West Allen plays host to a robust debate over whether Generation Y lawyers — or «millennials,» lawyers under 30 — who seek work / life balance to the exclusion of focusing on client needs are unrealistic slackers or serious professionals with different priorities than previous generations.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

With a little urging from me, Kevin — who started out with a high street firm in Doncaster in 2003 and has since gone on to forge close friendships with the likes of Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke — explains how this generation of wannabe lawyers need to think outside the box in order to net a job.

Generation Y (so - called for who knows - «Y») and that a trial lawyer ignores this at his own risk (Well, more aptly, the risk of his client, but it's not so great for the attorney, either).

This fear is not limited to those lawyers who are older and more adept, but this also applies to the younger generation of lawyers as well.

But could it be that part of the blame lies with women lawyers at the top, who may judge the up - and - coming generation of smart women too harshly?

The second reason Stevens's remark to Adam Liptak is important is that it signals that Stevens, who by design has been out of the public spotlight, in retirement might turn his formidable writing skills to a memoir that would inspire and instruct future generations of lawyers and judges as well as presidents and senators who have the duty to nominate and confirm federal judges.

Many of the first generation lawyer - bloggers were either solos or lawyers who soon went solo after starting their blogs.

Dan is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, has been listed among Maryland's Top 50 Super Lawyers, is a winner of The Daily Record «s 2010 Leadership in Law Award, and received The Daily Record «s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, given to attorneys and judges who are well respected in their profession, active in their community, and dedicated to growing the next generation of legal leaders.

The report offered 22 recommendations on how the Canadian legal profession can innovate in response to «a new wave of competitors, a new breed of legal clients, a new generation of lawyers and law students [who] are planning and acting as if the future were already here.»

The most successful lawyers of the next generation will be those who commit their professional expertise to developing authentic partnerships with their clients — both domestic and corporate — by truly understanding how best to achieve what they need and want.

My main concern is that we may end up with a «lost generation» of lawyers — those who graduate between about 2008 and 2012.

In my case, while you are right that many Uruguayans (or Argentineans where I was born) share European backgrounds and few have «indigeneous ancestry» (however it is that you define that, since there are many generations who come from our region and are decendants of the Charrua tribes), I do personally consider myself, proudly, as a racialized lawyer.

Global law firm Hogan Lovells hooked up with diversity initiative Aspiring Solicitors in December to share the story of Rachel: a proud lesbian lawyer and first generation graduate who stormed to City success thanks to AS's help.

He served as one of two lead trial attorneys for the largest group of plaintiffs in the 2007 San Diego Wildfires, which included the City and County of San Diego, and recently was one of the trial lawyers who successfully conducted a jury trial resulting from the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico, where he represented individuals and the Native American Pueblos of Cochiti and Jemez against an electrical distribution and a transmission / generation cooperative.

We are also proud of our lawyers who have made the next Generation Lawyer list for the first time including Alison Proctor, Edward Rushton, Richard Booth, Emilie Bokor - Ingram, Christopher Smith, Mark Waters, Zohar Zik, Alex Kemp and William Maclachlan.

However, we have a generation of young lawyers who want to leave work when they need to leave to tend to family obligations, maybe leave at 5:00 and spend time with their kids and then plug back in later in the evening after the kids are in bed and work some more.

For generations, junior lawyers learned the practice of law from senior attorneys who, over time, gave them more responsibility and eventually direct access and exposure to clients.

Several attorneys were also individually recommended in their areas of practice, including David Attisani and Joan Lukey, who were named as «Leading Lawyers» and Anita Spieth, who was named a «Next Generation Lawyer.»

A first - generation lawyer who started at a firm and currently practices in - house commented, «Experience is far too expensive of a way to find out.»

Managing partner Claire Miller, has been highlighted as a «Next Generation Lawyer», a group of leading lawyers in the region who make a material difference to their firm's offering.

«In my department we are developing generation sites all over North America, so what that means for us is the lawyers who would otherwise be going full bore ahead on some Alberta projects are redeployed to the U.S. southwest or the mid-west of the U.S.,» says Chisholm.

The rest of the profession — including myself — is freeloading on the work of that 4 % who are shouldering the burden of training the next generation of lawyers.

The Institute for the Future Law Practice is interested in working with lawyers, legal educators, and allied professionals who believe that we need a new generation of legal professionals who can work more effectively in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

Finally, if you're looking for an old - fashioned blogger dustup complete with asperity and risk of hurt feelings, Scott Greenfield is feeling snappish toward Adrian Dayton and several others on a variety of topics that include Generation Y, social media and work / life balance (Greenfield's basically against the latter: «When the going gets tough, no one needs a lawyer who leaves the office whenever they have something more fun to do.»)

instinct is that it will be lawyers who first use these new generation of tools first, to provide faster, better services to their clients, rather than clients using them directly to replace lawyers.

We have electronic publishing totally tied up by lawyers before the products even hit the ground on the one hand, and on the other, the internet generation who really do not care about copyright restrictions and the implications down the track of not protecting the author's rights of ownership.

This is probably the nadir of lawyer employment, and there is much talk of a «lost generation» of lawyers who enrolled in law school just as Stage 1 was drawing to a close.

Some of the blame must be shared by the firms who failed to help their lawyers cultivate business generation skills.

Are we teaching the next generation of lawyers to become conventional one - on - one, face - to - face, bespoke, consultative specialist advisers who are expert in the substantive law of particular jurisdictions and charge on an hourly basis?

This topic, which can be broadly categorized as the professionalism of the younger generation of lawyers, is a topic that is often talked about in the legal academy, particularly among those of us who teach legal skills.