Sentences with phrase «junior associates working»

In the legal field, we see tasks that used to fall to junior associates working in those proverbial law firm basements — doing document review, for example — now being done more efficiently and cost - effectively through outsourcing, and not just from offshore locations like India and the Philippines, but onshore in the US and UK, or as a hybrid onshore / offshore model, or even onsite.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eoin also works as an Associate with the Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) Support Service.

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.

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

If this poll shows ambivalence among associates about partnership and concerns about how the process works, earlier research bears out that the remoteness of partners and tough demands made of senior lawyers are turning junior lawyers away from the traditional career goal.

Recently the NY Times reported in an article titled «Wall St. Shock: Take a Day off, Even a Sunday» that Bank of America Merrill Lynch has issued an internal memo to its junior analysts and associates that they should try to spend four weekend days away from the office each month as part of an effort to improve working conditions.

My primary motivation for applying to this group was the quality of work available, especially for junior associates.

that Bank of America Merrill Lynch has issued an internal memo to its junior analysts and associates that they should try to spend four weekend days away from the office each month as part of an effort to improve working conditions.

LegalMation does not create attorney work product, but creates first / preliminary drafts similar to that created by a junior associate or paralegal.

Other firms prize work / life balance, and seek to recoup the cost of training up junior associates by having them stay long term.

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.

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).

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

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.

In the next round, Waisberg only spot - checked DiligenceEngine's results, much as a senior associate might spot - check a junior associate's work.

An M&A may require review of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of contracts — plodding work that typically falls to junior associates in large corporate firms.

The platform would assign a flag, for example, when it identifies a more - senior lawyer doing work typically done by junior lawyers, or when it finds partners unnecessarily billing to review associates» work.

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.

The days of clients allowing junior associates to bill them for hours of work while they learn to be lawyers is gone.

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

As a more junior associate, try to pin down who you will be working for and which partners have a practice that really keeps associates busy.

With that said, not all firms have recovered equally, and many associates from a certain group of firms have indicated that they do not have much work, and a good deal of the work that they do get should be handled by a more junior associate or even a non-attorney.

For the firm advancing its paralegals some of this higher value work is more like the type of work the junior associates used to do.

This is somewhat misleading, as LONald is a software application that automates an aspect of legal work that was previously handled by junior associates or paralegals.

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.

We have also seen a small increase in opportunity for junior associate roles in the market with firms looking to work within the regulatory framework to hire junior talent.

When no new work comes in the door, continued employment prospects for law clerks, junior associates and non-equity partners are bleak.

Hwang said the legal department at Verizon refuses to pay for work done by first years, junior, or mid-level associates.

In this episode, Andy Park, a 2014 graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, discusses his work as a junior associate for a 23 - attorney business law firm in Philadelphia.

We want to ask junior associates questions like, «Have you thought about the opportunities to work with [this or that] lawyer?»

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.

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.»

In fact, $ 477 / hour sounds about right to me as a blended rate for a senior partner, a partner, a senior associate and a junior associate, with the proportion of work tilted downhill toward associates.

The senior partners used those junior partners and senior associates capable of performing the work and whose hourly rates were lower than mid-level partners.

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

To reinforce the importance of the transference of clients, it was recommended that the committee continue to determine partner compensation subjectively and that the following four criteria be added to the factors considered: (1) an assessment of the senior partners» transition of clients and client work to mid-level and junior partners; (2) an assessment of the mid-level partners» transition of clients and client work to junior partners and associates (when they possess the expertise to perform the work); (3) an assessment of the mid-level partners» training and development of the junior partners and associates; and (4) an assessment of the junior partners» personal and professional development.

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.

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

Juniors get assigned an associate and partner mentor, but we heard that «because of the free market system everyone starts to look to the people they work for instead.»

Shearman trainee solicitors report some of the highest satisfaction levels of any rookies in the capital in the Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey, with associates apparently making «a conscious effort to give trainees more interesting work».

This is particularly relevant at the junior end, where AI can be used to replace associates and paralegals conducting (often un-billable) commoditised work.