Sentences with phrase «junior lawyer who»

Not only will this support a junior lawyer who may feel timid about asking a possible new client to lunch but it may lead to the client coming to the firm.

Is it when we have finally hired a support staff or junior lawyer who can float our practice for six to nine months?

Custodian interviews are not always pro forma work that can be delegated to the lowest - cost junior lawyer who knows nothing about the facts or the law.

Bennett was a junior lawyer who joined Cunningham, a sole practitioner.

I was a relatively junior lawyer who had been engaged to make an argument before the Ontario Securities Commission for a new client for whom Blakes had not previously acted.

Point being, often firms put a grayhaired elder partner up to present an argument that was crafted by young junior lawyers who have become intimately familiar with the details of the argument, which the elder partner may not fully understand.

«It's a pleasure, and also rewarding, to receive these nominations as it's our junior lawyers who have concluded that we offer the best training contract and have put me forward as best training principal.

To all of those junior lawyers who have come to me with questions as to what role they can play within the profession and how they can get their foot in the door, I would point you to the sage advice of Verschuren and encourage you to attend events such as the Emerging Legal Technology Forum and become involved with groups such as MaRS LegalX.

And realistically, it's the junior lawyers who are «in the trenches» who are most likely to have their finger on the pulse of the procedures in the courthouse and can be the most helpful.

And an ex-BigLaw partner has left his firm to form a bankruptcy boutique that uses artificial intelligence - powered legal research from ROSS Intelligence to replace junior lawyers who use law libraries for such support in traditional firms (like the one he left).

In our experience, we sit across the table from many junior lawyers who end up unknowingly limiting their clients» legal entitlements and rights.

Not exact matches

The family of a Montclair High School football player who died two days after collapsing in a 2008 junior varsity game agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against the school and the township's Board of Education for $ 2.8 million, the family's lawyer said.

The Junior League raised the necessary matching funds, though league President Beth Hanigan, who brought a lawyer to the finance meeting, told a reporter she couldn't cite general figures off the top of her head.

Take Robert Kennedy junior, an environmental lawyer who helped to clean up New York's Hudson River.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

James has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners in recent years as a leading junior for commercial chancery disputes, where he is described as a «great lawyer with a fine intellect, who is very hard - working», who has «continued to enhance his growing reputation by acting in high - stakes cases.»

The directories describe him variously as «a very able lawyer and a junior with a stellar career ahead of him», «a rising star» who is «delightful to work with and charming with clients», «A great lawyer with a fine intellect, who is very hard - working» and ««Extremely bright, practical, clear and a great team player».

PSLs are well - respected attorneys, usually with several years of practice experience, who draft or gather high - quality precedent documents, research and summarize legal developments for internal and client use, help billable attorneys find expert colleagues, and train junior lawyers.

Meeting took place between my lawyer and his legal team including senior and junior Counsel who met with the Prosthetists who were providing me with the arm from Dorset Orthopaedic.

Together with his Para-Legal Meena Babin with over 21 years family law experience, and his junior associate Celina Meghji who's hourly rates are much lower than that of a senior trial lawyer, Zukerman Law Group can help you find an economically viable approach to resolving your dispute without destroying your family's financial situation.

The lowest paid on the law firm payroll who would kill for the salaries demanded by junior lawyers.

«A lot of the ideas and processes that we implement are driven by junior lawyers and paralegal teams who are digitally savvy and are first adopters of some of the new technologies and new ways of doing things,» she says.

Working with a talented team who are good fun and witnessing (and helping) more junior fee earners develop as lawyers and businesspeople.

That, however, simply means that a lawyer who is arguing the case, or the junior, will do the research.

After an associate joins a firm, the firm should pair the associate with another lawyer — usually a senior associate or junior partner — who is an experienced legal writer.

A top clinical negligence lawyer, who is also a qualified doctor, Mala Sidebottom of Moore Blatch solicitors says that the recent recommendations by Monitor to allow junior medical staff to do more is a positive step forward.

Come Saturday, some juniors here can be found hanging around the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, «interviewing people who need help.

A junior lawyer is overwhelmed: when a senior lawyer assigns responsibility for files to a junior who is overwhelmed, the junior may be too embarrassed or intimidated to speak up.

«I have an entire insurance department full of young lawyers who need trial experience and taking those [smaller] files away is going to cause a further loss of my juniors» ability to get the trial experience they so desperately need,» he says.

The pair, who met as junior lawyers at Eversheds in the late 1990s before coming together as private equity co-heads at Linklaters, had spent the last two years as global co-heads of private equity at White & Case.

The initiative was the brainchild of Dean Parnell, a partner at Sydney Mitchell and Chair of the Law Society's Dispute Resolution Committee, who said, «It is recognised by both our Committee and the local courts that junior lawyers are not getting as much regular court exposure as perhaps was the case ten years ago.

As one of my Partners (who happened to be in my office while I was «holy cowing» over your post reminded me, it was not just the judges who missed this statutory provision, but likely the lawyers on both sides, their students and or junior counsel.

I hope that has come across in how I have and continue to develop my team; I have mentored several junior lawyers over the years who have gone on to a mix of great next jobs, which is what you want.

Nothing will change if you have «a rocking chair mentality» toward the people who drive you nuts, Hickman told a full house of junior and senior lawyers, including Ontario ombudsman André Marin.

Somewhat ironically, Tomorrow's Lawyers is written for junior lawyers, those who have the least ability to effect the change described in thLawyers is written for junior lawyers, those who have the least ability to effect the change described in thlawyers, those who have the least ability to effect the change described in the book.

In case management, structured tasks such as billing and docketing have been automated, while unstructured tasks, such as monitoring junior lawyers» work and dealing with parties who fail to honour contractual obligations «require unstructured human interaction of a kind the computers can not replace.»

This idea was supported by trainee solicitor Mirwis who suggested in 2016 that junior lawyers would instead learn the business needs of clients earlier and be given greater responsibility in handling more complex tasks.

The professor - student relationship parallels the senior - junior attorney hierarchy in which young lawyers will be writing.88 The ability to explore ideas outside this hierarchy helps build the confidence of new legal writers, who are exploring an area of legal discourse for the first time.

Best of all, though, it invited a student recruiter (who is one of the best around, in my judgment), as well as an articling student (who was an NCA candidate, which has become Canada's largest law school) and junior lawyers in both public and private practice.

But today I'm going to blog about the 1980s, when AQW's most senior lawyers were budding young activists with shining ideals and great glasses - and AQW's most junior lawyer was a tot crammed somewhat unsafely into a single - kid stroller shared with her big sister, who was six years old and clearly capable of just walking.

Our mentoring scheme pairs junior members of your in - house legal team with experienced DAC Beachcroft lawyers who can advise, guide and help develop them in their careers within your business.

There are stories in every firm of partners or senior associates who ask for some vague thing, get back work product that they don't like and then just assume that the junior lawyer is an idiot and vow never to work with them again.

For generations, junior lawyers learned the practice of law from senior attorneys who, over time, gave them more responsibility and eventually direct access and exposure to clients.

Leading junior in Competition: «An extremely talented, approachable and diligent lawyer, who works well under pressure.»

Deanna Barbieri is a junior associate who is an excellent lawyer and contributor to the team.

(Do you want an injury lawyer who offloads your file to a junior at the 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.

«I think it's critical for lawyers to get involved in professional organizations to help them build skills, because every lawyer — from the most junior associate to the most seasoned senior partner — can improve and learn new things,» says Diamond, who, along with Feldman, are the newest partners at boutique law firm Bales Beall LLP.

Nor can it succeed without a supporting cast of highly trained, Ivy League educated associates and junior partners who enable the great trial lawyers to bring home jury verdicts in the $ 2 billion antitrust actions entrusted to us by our Fortune 50 client.