Sentences with phrase «in rainmaking»

While not all of these will be involved in rainmaking, he says there is... [more]

While not all of these will be involved in rainmaking, he says there is value in having them be familiar with the approach and language used.

Within firms, it would be useful for those who work in business development and marketing for research and prospecting as well as for partners and associates who are involved in rainmaking.

People wouldn't say that about some of the other things that I can do, but in the rainmaking department, they would say I am pretty good for a woman.

Bad Paper has already published a small book by sculptor Daniella Mooney, whose wood and stone sculpture, Holy Water: A Study in Rainmaking (2014), may still be called upon to demonstrate its powers.

Not exact matches

The accelerator will launch this September in partnership with Rainmaking, a global collective of serial entrepreneurs who bring together startups to scale new businesses.

To inspire innovation and also get access to new customers, Tryg partnered with coworking space company Rainmaking Loft to build a custom space «The Camp» at its headquarters in Ballerup, Denmark.

And several fundraisers said they knew of very few major events in the Hamptons — the summer playground for the wealthy that was long worked by the Clintons, who used it for simultaneous socializing, vacationing and rainmaking for the national party committees.

Why not create an expectation of gubernatorial rainmaking in January and then rain - delay a campaign announcement?

«Nor is there anything improper about an attorney earning referral fees for bringing in business to a law firm: «Rainmaking» is not a federal crime.»

In 1870 a civil engineer proposed that the wartime explosions themselves had provoked the rain, suggesting a key to rainmaking.

It is used in photography and artificial rainmaking.

London is one of three trendy Rainmaking co-working office spaces, with others in Berlin and Copenhagen.

... in some areas pangolins are sacrificed for rainmaking ceremonies, and in others they are hunted for meat.»

In this last episode of 2011, executive coach Debra Forman notes that it's the best time to take an inventory of your business development achievements of the past year and use that intel to start rainmaking planning for next year.

Among her many achievements, Silvia is author of the book, The Woman Lawyer's Rainmaking Game, published by Thomson / West, co-founder of the Legal Sales and Service Organization, a former president of the Legal Marketing Association and editor - in - chief of the ALM newsletter Law Firm Partnership and Benefits Report.

In either job, there's no rainmaking, no billable hours, and the dress code is, well, loose.

Allison has supported her clients in achieving success in a number of areas including: developing powerful rainmaking skills, launching profitable new practice areas and revitalising burned - out practices.

Even if they make partner, conditions can be difficult for women in traditional law firm partnerships: In its 2015 survey of 73 of the country's largest firms, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) reports that, among other discriminatory practices, men outpace women in obtaining rainmaking credits, and there is a gender gap in revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hourin traditional law firm partnerships: In its 2015 survey of 73 of the country's largest firms, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) reports that, among other discriminatory practices, men outpace women in obtaining rainmaking credits, and there is a gender gap in revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hourIn its 2015 survey of 73 of the country's largest firms, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) reports that, among other discriminatory practices, men outpace women in obtaining rainmaking credits, and there is a gender gap in revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hourin obtaining rainmaking credits, and there is a gender gap in revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hourin revenues generated from client billings, even as women partners report higher working hours.

The length of time that a firm remains in one of the above governance cycles depends, to a greater or lesser degree, upon: the firm's economics; its culture; the traditional method of admitting partners - through the firm's career development program, lateral hires or combination; the method of allocating profits to the partners and how the system is administered; the personal characteristics, the rainmaking and professional skills of partners whose practice areas are profitable over an extended period of time; and how certain of the more influential partners are perceived by other influential partners.

Individualized career counseling to lawyers seeking success in their workplace includes such issues as career focus, work / life balance issues, networking and rainmaking — as well as how to assess the pros and cons of a career move and how to maximize career potential.

Real - world rainmaking is the primary reason that D.C. lawyer Lieberman — aka Navets Potato — participates in Second Life.

The seminars and webinars range from rainmaking to real estate and everything in between.

As Kaplan explains, writing demonstrate genuine interest in a subject, saves partners valuable time and shows that you're cognizant of the importance of rainmaking.

As with last year's demise of firms like Thacher Profitt, Thelen and Heller Ehrman, Wolf Block's failure, as described by The Legal Intelligencer, follows the same pattern: failed merger attempts, rainmaking partners jumping ship and a primary practice area (real estate) that suffered in the economic downturn.

Several others focus on women lawyers, among them Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law, The Woman Lawyer's Rainmaking Game and Women Attorneys Speak Out.

If you're not a rainmaker, it's time to incorporate rainmaking strategies into your practice and engage in the art of business development.

She currently co-authors the blog, the Georgia Practice Advisor; and she authored the chapters When and How to Use Technology Consultants in Flying Solo: A Survival for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer, 4th Edition and How to Make Your Bills a Rainmaking Tool in How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers.

Associates also want support in building their rainmaking skills.

This increased emphasis on originating clients is a major source of stress for many partners, who are often untrained in the art of rainmaking, according to Barbara Mayden of the legal search and consulting firm Young Mayden LLC.

The program, entitled How to Get the Business: A Conversation with Givers and Getters, featured a group of givers, in - house counsel who routinely direct their organization's business to outside counsel, and getters, firm lawyers who have been particularly successful at rainmaking.

Shekhar Parmar, director of the Calgary office at legal recruiter The Counsel Network, says Canadian firms may be particularly wary of overpaid rainmaking because of this country's own cautionary tale in the 2007 dissolution of Goodman and Carr LLP.

Struggling to overcome the death of rainmaking lobbyist Jim Krog, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey is closing down its Tallahassee operations and offering its four remaining lawyers there opportunities in its other Florida offices, reports the Daily Business Review, a sibling publication.

I see these numbers is in spite of helping lawyers write and work personal marketing plans, running lunch - «n - learn workshops on how to get new clients, offering one - on - one coaching help, hiring outside coaches and trainers, sending lawyers off to seminars at snazzy resorts, distributing articles with rainmaking ideas and, when all else failed, cajoling, nudging and browbeating them into making an effort.

The competitive advantages that these companies offer have nothing to do with knowledge of local laws or, in most of their cases, with the personality or rainmaking capabilities of any particular lawyer or lawyers.

Successfully representing a large broking house in litigation enforcing a seven figure liquidated damages clause on the no show of a rainmaking broker recruited from a competitor — the leading case on the enforcement of liquidated damages clauses in employment contracts.

Conceptions of «power» within a firm, based on rainmaking or litigation successes, seemed to play the dominant role in who takes the lead in management responsibilities (overlooking committee and managing partner elections).

If that writing isn't clean and clear and concise and I don't need to tell you about some of the contract language, but you end up in all kinds of problems that lead to litigation later and you can — the cynical among us can say, well, that's just rainmaking for the litigation people that as you know the clients are happy about that, and it just creates all kinds of problems.

In the past year I've had the fortune of authoring a chapter for the Women Rainmakers newest Rainmaking Tips book (a big high - five to Afi Johnson - Parris and Dee Schiavelli for their management on the book) and I've had the pleasure of acting as the Issue Editor for the November issue of Law Practice Today (another shout out to Micah Buchdahl, Andrea Malone and Elizabeth Henslee for all their support throughout this undertaking).

How many high - flying business originators could service the business they bring in without equally high - flying practitioners, skilled in their art, deep in their practice, and concentrated on their case load to the exclusion of rainmaking junkets that could make them rich beyond their present imagining.

CHICAGO — In its eighth year, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL ®) and The NAWL Foundation's ® annual Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms reveals not much has changed in its findings of compensation, leadership roles, rainmaking, and equity partnership at the nation's largest 200 firmIn its eighth year, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL ®) and The NAWL Foundation's ® annual Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms reveals not much has changed in its findings of compensation, leadership roles, rainmaking, and equity partnership at the nation's largest 200 firmin Law Firms reveals not much has changed in its findings of compensation, leadership roles, rainmaking, and equity partnership at the nation's largest 200 firmin its findings of compensation, leadership roles, rainmaking, and equity partnership at the nation's largest 200 firms.

Jim reports on legal rainmaking trends in his blog, Legal Business Development at jimhassett.com.

December 30, 2012 in Collaboration, Marketing And Rainmaking, Money, Niche Practice, Of Interest, Starting A Law Practice Permalink

How can they be expected to be brilliant at managing and rainmaking when they are expected to be in the office 60 hours per week grinding?

Her articles have been published in numerous national publications and for eight years she was the author of «Rainmaking» and «Fresh Out», two quarterly columns for the ABA's Law Practice magazine.

These experiences by young attorneys are not necessarily the norm, but are reflective of a changing attitude in developing a better - rounded Associate that will be more prepared for «rainmaking» responsibility when the time comes.

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