Sentences with phrase «hiring local counsel»

«They're used to working across borders in a very complex, deep way — not just picking up the phone and hiring local counsel, but really knowing markets and knowing how people get business done in jurisdictions all over the world.»

On the Texas Lawyer blog, Michael Maslanka makes a similar point with respect to hiring local counsel — which he compares to professional golfers having an experienced «local caddy» at a tough golf course.

«We've had to regularly hire local counsel because of the barriers that exist in Delaware for lawyers practicing outside of the state,» Burch told The NLJ.

Not exact matches

They permit each district to set up its own idiosyncratic system, ensuring that counsel from afar must hire and rely upon a local to sherpa them up the mountain.

The laws that govern employment can be highly complex, and even an establishment with in - house counsel may be well served hiring an independent attorney with decades of proven and established success in dealing with state and local employment issues.

Schumacher provides employers with day - to - day preventive counseling and strategic solutions in connection with hiring, promotion, disability accommodation and termination of their employees, as well as compliance with local state and federal employment laws.

Finally, state and local government agencies must stop hiring private outside counsel to harass businesses that are operating legally, Chauvin said.

Often the law firms these departments retain have a global footprint that is very large and expensive, but they are considered a «necessary evil» because the department doesn't have enough experience with the jurisdictions they're in to self - counsel or hire smaller local firms.