Sentences with phrase «junior associates at»

Factor in the appearance of LPOs like Exigent and CounselQuest which can do traditional junior associate work and one begins to wonder how large Canadian law firms will be able to afford junior associates at all — especially if other providers can do the same work better, faster and cheaper.

Fed up with the rising cost of outsourcing work to inexperienced junior associates at BigLaw firms — whose average hourly rate is approaching $ 300 — a growing number of companies are opting for the more cost - effective route of hiring their own lawyers fresh out of law school and training them in - house.

Staff attorneys, similar to junior associates at law firms, may typically be assigned research - oriented tasks or are asked to provide support for the senior staff attorneys.

The most junior associates at CC are now set to receive # 85,000 a year in base pay plus a fixed bonus as long as they meet their development goals, up from a maximum of # 84,000 last year if they received their full discretionary bonus.

Years ago as a junior associate, Robillard attended a client dinner and proceeded to sit side - by - side with fellow junior associates at one end of the dinner table.

Professionally speaking, Lauren began her career working with managed portfolios and investments in 1998, beginning as a junior associate at the financial advisor Homrich and Berg and later the hedge fund management company New Providence Advisors both of Atlanta.

Speaking of graduation, the incubator should last at least one year, but perhaps as long as three — about the time it takes a lawyer to become a useful junior associate at a big firm.

About twenty years ago, when I was a junior associate at a Boston law firm, a more senior lawyer told me about a lawyer he had known who had practiced law until the 1950s.

Pretend that you are a junior associate at a law firm who has been asked by a partner to «check these out» and report back.

Her time with Legal Aid Ontario and as a junior associate at a small firm has allowed Erika to work directly with clients and gain valuable experience as a litigator and negotiator.

Not exact matches

He holds an associate degree in culinary arts from Joliet Junior College, and studied baking and pastry at The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York.

Cottone, a junior from Wilmington, Delaware, is working with Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences at UD, on research to help this globally important grain cope with increasing stress.

At the Smithsonian, Roberts explains that many senior scientists — preoccupied with administrative activities — delegate public education to junior associates.

«When you are a junior faculty [member] and you have a family and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing tiny «nanomaterials» using a «bottom - up» approach called «molecular self - assembly.»

After a postdoc with Thomas Graf and a junior faculty position at the EMBL Heidelberg, he was recruited as research director on the associate professor level by the French national research agency CNRS and moved to the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille - Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, where he has been a principle investigator since 1999 and was promoted to research director on the full professor level in 2009.

Prior to AYPF, Jesse worked as a junior associate in the enrollment office at DC Public Schools, as part of their Urban Education Leaders Internship Program, and as an intern in the Housing Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a junior research associate (impact and evaluation) to cover maternity leave on our Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF) Project, based at our Curriculum Centre in Norwich.

This bill would authorize funding for the development of alternatives for high school juniors and seniors to take college - level courses and work toward an associate's degree or take courses at a career or technical college.

Christine Murphy of Bristol also opted out her son, Justin, a high school junior at Bristol Central High School with a letter that demanded that he not take the test, nor any pre-test or activity associated with it.

«We're very excited about this release,» added Dale A. Starr, junior associate director, Technology Support & Service, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts — Amherst.

While working, she earned an Associate's degree at St. Petersburg Junior College.

Castles are usually associated with fairytales and where better to make an enchanted story a reality than with the Juniors at Ashford Castle.

Corozal Junior College in Corozal, Muffles College in Orange Walk Town, and the Associate Program at the University of Belize in the City of Belmopan are other examples (as of this writing UB is in a sorry mess and NOT recommended by Belize.com), Corozal Junior College and UB also offer evening and extension programs directed primarily to adults.

Exhibitions at MoMA PS1 are made possible by the Annual Exhibition Fund with support from Volkswagen of America, MoMA's Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation, Jerry I. Speyer, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Philip and Shelley Aarons, Agnes Gund, Peter Norton, Beth Swofford, Susan Hayden, Angela A. Chao and Jim Breyer, Sheikha Hoor Al - Qasimi, Sarah Arison, Adriana Cisneros de Griffin, Wendy Fisher, Adam Kimmel, Julia Stoschek, Svetlana Uspenskaya, Maja Oeri, Jennifer McSweeney, Simon Mordant, Dana Farouki, Richard Menschel, Robert Menschel, Michael Werner Inc., Dorothy Lichtenstein, Linyao Kiki Liu, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Sydie Lansing, John Comfort, Dayana Tamendarova, Mimi Haas, Marlene Hess and Jim Zirin, Donald B. Marron, Prada USA Corp. / Miuccia, Rob and Anne - Cecilie Speyer, Michael Ovitz, Michele Gerber Klein / Liberman Fdn, Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz, Enzo Viscusi, MoMA International Council, Lise Stolt - Nielsen, Union Beer Distributors, Ace Hotel New York, CANADA LLC, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, Bill & Ellen Taubman, Foundation Galeries Lafayette, Susan and David Rockefeller, Philip Munger, Flanders House, with additional funding from The Director's Circle of MoMA PS1, and The Contemporary Circle of MoMA PS1.

Exhibitions at P.S. 1 are made possible by the Annual Exhibition Fund with support from Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Christopher Daly, Brandon Paul Coburn, and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California San Diego, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Pomona College, where he teaches, «Foundations of 2D design,» «Junior / Senior Art seminar,» «Performance in Contemporary Art,» and «Artist as Curator, Artist as Organizer.»

Former Dewey junior manager set to take new associate role at US law firm after agreeing deferred prosecution agreement

«Junior partners are not rewarded particularly well when compared to senior associates» salaries, while at the same time being under huge billing pressure without much support from more senior partners.»

By forming relationships with peers at a variety of companies, junior associates can put themselves years ahead of their fellow associates and increase their long - term value to their firms.

While cranking out close to 100 hour weeks as a junior associate, I was also running around at night honing my craft as a standup comedian at the various dingy comedy clubs and bars that would give me my 5 minute of stage time.

Another area that has been flagged by a number of junior lawyers as a concern, which was not covered in the survey, is the lack of transparency about why some associates on the partnership track do not make it at the end.

According to the firm's press release, seven of its summer and junior associates have clerked at the Federal Circuit and returned to the firm to practice in the past three years.

By the same token, at the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country, junior associates generally research and write briefs and law journal articles for senior partners.

The famous Cravath business model endows junior associates with considerable self - worth: «I was amazed at the level of responsibility,» recounted one source.

It gives you a behind - the - scenes look at the lives of junior associates, examining firms» culture, work and training opportunities, office environments, diversity, hours culture and pro bono.

Flexibility around daily work hours and vacation time was the deal - clincher for associates at high - performing firms in this survey — treating juniors like adults, in other words.

Although senior associates can help manage the work of junior associates and create profits, we believe that value added leveraging is something that will more likely occur at the income or junior partner levels.

Glenn Greenwald began in 1994 at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, one of the most brutal legal houses in New York, with a junior associate position.

At the junior levels, billable hours are also a measure of experience; the more time an associate spends practicing, the greater the opportunity for skill growth.

Students get all the benefits of articling at a large firm (legal research tools, varied work assignments and a rich educational program) while enjoying the culture and feel of a much smaller firm (work / life balance, a friendly, collegial atmosphere and a true «open - door» policy from the most junior associates to the most senior partners).

Junior Work Done at Senior Billing Rates In most firms, senior attorneys are billed out at higher hourly rates than junior attorneys, and clients want to see tasks being performed in the most efficient manner possible for them: if a $ 150 / hour associate can draft a client update in the same time and at roughly the same skill level as a $ 450 / hour partner, then the client will not want to pay three times the amount for the same rJunior Work Done at Senior Billing Rates In most firms, senior attorneys are billed out at higher hourly rates than junior attorneys, and clients want to see tasks being performed in the most efficient manner possible for them: if a $ 150 / hour associate can draft a client update in the same time and at roughly the same skill level as a $ 450 / hour partner, then the client will not want to pay three times the amount for the same rjunior attorneys, and clients want to see tasks being performed in the most efficient manner possible for them: if a $ 150 / hour associate can draft a client update in the same time and at roughly the same skill level as a $ 450 / hour partner, then the client will not want to pay three times the amount for the same result.

Milwaukee (firm HQ), Boston and Washington, DC house the most junior associates; at the time of our calls there were 15 second and third - years in the HQ and 11 apiece in the other two.

Junior associates looking to move firms in Brexit's turbulent aftermath could look at the process as a divorce proceeding, which not surprisingly much of the press and some of the protagonists, have... There will be a division of assets, a negotiation of contracts and a mutually binding sovereign and judicial process regarding how the two parties should manage their relationship in the future.

Traditionally, law firms have adopted a «pyramid» model for hiring, with a small number of partners at the top followed by a larger number of senior associates and a still larger proportion of juniors at the bottom.

«You have a few associates, a fair number at the senior associate junior partner level, and then a few senior partners, so you can envision a diamond.»

If a firm can hire a contract attorney with a decade of experience for $ 100 an hour and bill her out at $ 200, then the client gets a far, far better product at a lower cost than if the law firm had used a junior associate.

Caroline Field, president of the Junior LSLA & senior associate at City law firm, Fox Lawyers ([email protected]; www.foxlawyers.com)

While it's true that demand for junior associates has waned, particularly at big firms, the outlook is getting better.

As for Rodrigues, she's found that as she grows more senior at her firm, she has more client contact and increased responsibility for managing junior associates.