Sentences with phrase «including lateral hiring»

And she «gets» law practice management — especially as it relates to the firm's growth opportunities, including lateral hiring and law firm combinations.

Other managers making upwardly mobile headway include lateral hiring professionals, often former or current partners or lawyers in the firm, who have significant experience and are personally facile in the complex aspects of hiring lateral partners.

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Some of the key points include: Personal lawyer brands are having a dramatic impact on our industry; Law Firm loyalty isn't what it used to be, we're fast becoming a free agent nation; Lateral hires are driving an already transient... more»

This appointment follows several other lateral hires into the Leeds office including corporate partner Simon Pilling real estate partner Julia Field and managing associate Jonathan Watmough.

Shearman's significant lateral hires last year included a well - respected antitrust team from Howrey in Brussels, as well as project finance partners John Inglis, from Ashurst in London, and Christophe Asselineau, from Simmons & Simmons in Paris.

The Mansfield Rule takes the same approach, but includes all of the positions in law firms where power is wielded: the chair position, executive committee membership, compensation committee membership, practice group leaders, and office managing partners, as well as new lateral partner hires.

He added: «The figures... include an excellent contribution from our London - based financial services company, Regulatory Solutions, and from our lateral hire partners.»

It has also pulled off some notable lateral hires for its London office, including Herbert Smith property litigation head Martin Smith and LG insolvency veteran John Verrill, whose move prompted the launch of the firm's City restructuring practice.

In firms lacking the profit levels and partner willingness needed to finance growth internally, firm leaders have increasingly turned to bank credit to finance the addition of lateral hires, including individuals and groups.

Part of a lateral hiring plan should include a repayment plan for the debt incurred.

Lateral hires over 2017 include Allen & Overy arbitration partner Jeffrey Sullivan and Herbert Smith Freehills energy partner Anna Howell.

To temper these extremes, we help firms create a lateral hire analysis process that includes the creativity of art and the discipline of science.

Another trend has been the «steady stream of laterals,» including the K&L Gates hires.

By attracting exceptional law school graduates and accomplished lateral hires, we have enhanced the scope of our legal services to include nearly every area of law.

In a statement, Ben Knowles, co-chair of the global arbitration group, singled out the firm's focus on oil and gas, as well as the overall arbitral capabilities, which have been enhanced over recent years with a range of lateral hires, recent partner promotions including this year's round, and law firm mergers, not least in the United States.

And while some key hires did come aboard in 2011 — including bankruptcy partner M. Natasha Labovitz from Kirkland & Ellis and financial institutions partner Ethan James from Davis Polk & Wardwell — Blair says he does not have plans for major lateral growth this year either.

This reflects investments the firm has made in the business over the last year, including opening new offices in Perth, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil, the latter of which opened as part of the firm's recruitment of the former BLG Aerospace team in October 2011; and a number of other lateral hires in support of the firm's core sectors of focus, including in International Arbitration, World Trade, Natural Resources, Insurance (corporate) and Shipping.

Other notable lateral moves include Baker McKenzie Johannesburg losing prominent litigator Gerhard Rudolph to Allen & Overy (South Africa) LLP, though Rudolph's former firm did hire a prominent team of tax partners in Stephan Spamer, Arnaaz Camay and Nishana Gosai from ENSafrica.

Chambers Associate: Cozen has taken on a number of lateral hires over the past year, including the acquisition of a fifteen - strong group from Miami - based IP boutique Feldman Gale.

Her areas of expertise include implementing workflows for new business intake, confidentiality screens, client - issued guidelines, lateral partner onboarding, and contract attorney hires.