And while we're holding the legal world honest, I'm also not crazy about senior lawyers who have
their junior associates write academic papers, only to alter authorship prior to publication.
# 1 - many of the arguments derived from the language in certain ethical rules could just as easily be leveled against judges who have clerks write their judicial opinions and senior partners who have
junior associates write their briefs or law journal articles.
Not exact matches
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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.
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.
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.»
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.
When we leave law school to become articling students and then
junior associates, we will likely spend the majority of our time researching and
writing memos.
Junior associates especially can be involved in
writing up summaries of the implications of new legislation for various client sectors.
As of this
writing Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott has 3.7 partners for each
associate — they've inverted the prevailing leverage model that multiplies
junior lawyers assigned to a case.
Assigning attorneys regularly evaluate the summer
associate's performance and
written product, in much the same way that a senior attorney reviews a
junior attorney's work.
Students
write objective legal memoranda of the type that a
junior associate or judicial clerk might be asked to
write.
The steady increase in
junior associate salaries and billing rates over the past 10 years has not been offset by a corresponding willingness to
write off their time or to manage their work more carefully.
was
written in the early summer of 2009, shortly after the completion of FutureFirm 1.0 — a «collaborative competition» in which teams of law firm partners, in - house lawyers, and
junior associates competed with one another to create a law firm that would survive and thrive over the next 20 years.
Good
writing skills are essential for
junior associates, as drafting is a big part of their staple diet.
That's true whether you're a
junior associate or you're
writing a marketing coordinator resume.
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