Sentences with phrase «junior associates on»

So, what career questions keep junior associates on pins and needles?

At the time of research, 25 of the 40 junior associates on our interviewee list were based in Dallas, ten were in Houston, with one each in New York and Austin.

Megibow worked full - time as a junior associate on the matter, with duties including «reviewing and analyzing documents acquired from the subject; evaluating evidence; preparing investigative outlines and issues to be discussed; interviews of witnesses; identifying witnesses to be interviewed; [and] conducting interviews.»

Not exact matches

Among the confessions were a junior associate who failed to include a timeline in a contract he was working on, which wound up killing the deal.

«Everyone has to do some level of diligence as a junior associate, but by rule the firm only really takes on interesting matters and complicated work.

Prior to joining the APF Canada, Joelle was a Junior Research Associate with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Myanmar, and a Graduate Research Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

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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.

Or, on the plus side, will he or she cheerfully volunteer for extra assignments, deal patiently with difficult clients, mentor junior associates and be a good leader?

«We're hoping that these junior associates will eventually pass on their appreciation for communication to those that follow them.»

[Box 5] Auditor, 1957 - 1983 Committee on Science and Society, 1940 Academy Conference Junior Academies Annual Meeting - Dates and Sites Ad Hoc Committee on Annual Meetings AAAS Activities, Growth, and Organization Banks - Bonds China - Mainland Committees - General Corporate Associates Program Engineers Cosmos Club

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.

Dr. Chance groomed his students and junior research associates to their full potential on the basis of scientific talent and capability regardless of their genders and national or racial origins.

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.

Items on the wish list for the entry - level Audi Junior include a selection of fancy driver aids, best - in - class build quality, and the kind of interior appeal one has come to associate with Audi.

For any Cremaster Fanatics out there who happen to be «Junior Associates» of MOMA, there will be a private screening on May 10.

Consequently, as these junior associates rise up in the firm, they are left scrambling to learn client development skills — on top of a rapidly growing workload.

What many junior associates often overlook is that the future decision makers of a big client also start out low on the corporate ladder.

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.

However, one junior lawyer responding to the poll rejects this seemingly negative review, suggesting that it is more important for associates to focus on the here and now.

The students, young scholars and junior associates currently drafting their submissions come from all over the world with an emphasis on North America, Asia and Europe.

Of course, out of context, this sounds absurd, but Jack goes on to write that «getting the new norm to be «we fill out our data forms after every matter» requires firm leaders to proselytize their practice group heads, requires those heads to lobby the partners and senior associates in their groups, and requires those lawyers to set the expectation with the junior lawyers that those forms must be completed.»

Juniors in civil lit and international arbitration must hone their drafting skills while on the move: «Our associates travel early and travel often.»

Juniors regularly fill out an email utilization survey so management can «gauge who has availability,» but rookies mainly tend to communicate directly with partners and associates to become staffed on cases.

Diligen enables junior associates to focus on higher billable tasks without compromising the speed or quality of critical contract review work.

PH: I manage deal teams, which usually consist of one or two junior associates, maybe a mid-level associate and a partner, depending on the size of the transaction.

I began my legal career like many lawyers do, first as a trainee, then a junior, an associate and so on; but this is a risky and competitive market, and in order to attract clientele a supportive system is crucial.

But four senior lawyers from Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP and a junior associate found out that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Jessica Zita, associate with Hicks Adams and junior counsel on George Cooke's appeal, says the concession and the ultimate decision came in response to their factum, as Matthew Cooke's counsel argued their appeal on different grounds, but the co-appellants both suffered from the same jury charge and, therefore, both had their convictions overturned.

Others say they feel the best intel on what the associate experience is like comes from junior associates.

Senior and junior advisors are assigned during each rotation and, depending on the group, summer associates may attend client meetings, court hearings, depositions, or business trips.

One litigator outlined: «My first year and a half was spent typically doing junior associate tasks like case management, discovery related work and heavy research but in the last half a year I've taken on a substantial amount of drafting, taken control of briefs and second chaired depositions.»

The long hours worked by junior lawyers, and the considerable billings associated with them, seem to have little connection to the salary packages on offer.

One associate told us about «a relationship with Junior Achievement which does outreach to middle schools doing programs on business and finance.»

Summer associates receive real work assignments on behalf of real clients — the same types of assignments our junior associates receive throughout the year.

CC and A&O have laid out a scale for associate bonuses that matches the rates revealed by US firm Cravath Swaine & Moore on Monday (27 November), meaning the trio will both pay out $ 15,000 (# 11,000) to its most junior associates and $ 100,000 (# 74,000) to those who joined in 2009 and 2010.

We wrote off a large portion of our time on this matter because we utilized a large staff of junior associates for one thorny due diligence area, rather than suggesting that the client engage a consulting firm that specializes in this area.

Summer associates receive the same type of work assignments as our junior associates, on actual client matters, and work with as many lawyers as possible over the course of the program, which runs during the first half of the summer.

What really happens when you hire an assistant or junior associate is that you spend your freed - up time on management, not billable lawyering.

18 years ago it finally dawned on me that, for example, 3 highly experienced partners will always do a much higher quality job than 20 associates, 4 junior partners, chief trial lawyer, etc WHY?

Partners may give associates shadowing credit for any activity that constitutes an important on - the - job learning opportunity (e.g., attending depositions, deal meetings or trials) when a client would not normally expect or pay for a junior lawyer to participate in the activity.

There won't be any change to the free - market system because it works so well, but there will be more focus and attention on the junior associates to make sure they are getting the support and guidance their development needs.

Junior associates have a lot of client interaction and work on really interesting projects.

He might also get help from associated people such as paralegals, junior lawyers and judges, depending on the situation.

The following statements were incorporated into the Partners» Understanding of Compensation Arrangements: For the continuity and betterment of the firm: (1) Mid-level partners are encouraged to, on an ongoing basis, consult, work together with and train all junior partners and associates and involve the junior partners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior partners.

One interviewee recounted: «Before the holiday season the senior associates spent the leftovers of their marketing budget on a group dinner for us juniors.»

On the flip side, though, I don't see anything wrong with large firms considering juniors for partnership — and in fact, I'd guess that if there were a first - year associate out there generating gazillions in revenue, a firm would find a way to promote.

Within two years, about half of those junior associates will prove themselves and hop on the gravy train of the top scale.

Thus far, law firms have, apparently, been willing to honor requests by corporate clients to preclude junior associates from working on certain matters.

Clients of Palermo Law appreciate the fact that they receive personal, one - on - one attention from a highly experienced personal injury attorney and are never passed on to junior associates.