Sentences with phrase «junior lawyers»

There are separate resume templates for junior lawyers as well.

No longer will firms aspire to building large teams of junior lawyers as the basis of their profitability.

As they work together, the senior partners can transmit their wisdom while observing and advising the more junior lawyers in leadership techniques.

As junior lawyers provide the analysis of Canadian legal data, that is reviewed by senior lawyers.

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

The system boosts efficiency by allowing more work to be undertaken by more junior lawyers.

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

«It's really the hire - backs, and how many junior lawyers firms [we] will be looking to keep,» he says.

This allowed even the most junior lawyers to come up with ideas for problem - solving with the safety net of a manager's experience and perspective.

One client is using it to help junior lawyers realize that everyone is living the same challenges, and to share the great messages for young women.

Essentially we offer informal mentorship and support to other junior lawyers, even though we are all young lawyers ourselves.

The law societies, law schools and the profession in general should absolutely be doing more to support junior lawyers entering independent practice.

There are very few junior lawyer positions out there.

The lack of proper support to these new junior lawyers is precisely my concern.

This will result in fewer junior lawyers in traditional law firms.

It also means junior lawyers and students get direct exposure to clients and other lawyers earlier on.

Most lawyers, even junior lawyers, are typically responsible for managing staff as part of their legal practice.

Turn to lateral hires in areas of need, reduce hiring, speed reviews, and terminate under - performing junior lawyers.

Once again, this is what lawyers (particularly junior lawyers) do.

As such, I meet with students and junior lawyers regularly to discuss health law and how to get into the field.

That «open - door» attitude extended even to junior lawyers such as me.

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.

Most trainees and junior lawyers barely exceed nine hours on a typical day, arriving just after nine and leaving just after six (see average arrive and leave times below).

It will not only help junior lawyers prepare drafts, but also prevent senior lawyers from overlooking what's been left out.

A process checklist can aid junior lawyers in performing a particular type of task for a matter, and can also serve as a master roadmap for the matter.

How will junior lawyers ever receive training, especially on complex files, if these trends continue?

She provides top - notch junior lawyer services in contentious trusts and estates matters.

You are used to seeing senior - level newcomers work to «make their mark» by actively speaking up, and even challenging junior lawyers in early meetings.

As departments add lawyers, however, some of the more junior lawyers report to one of the direct reports.

As a result, junior lawyers often must look elsewhere for training in business development.

I further predict that the law firm structure will eventually shift from a pyramid structure to having a couple junior lawyers supporting each senior lawyer.

This presents yet another opportunity for junior lawyers as they seek out new career paths within the legal world.

The firm has a large team of partners, and an expanding base of junior lawyers and trainees.

Most work is often handled by case managers, and hearings can be attended by junior lawyers.

Many junior lawyers are faced with the grim reality that not everybody strikes it rich straight out of law school.

As a result, most junior lawyers and their families face a very negative economic future, and do so at a time when people have never needed lawyers more.

This may even be the case if the work could be done by more junior lawyers.

I'm proud to currently hold the position of Vice Chair of Merseyside Junior Lawyers Division and have participated in several half marathons for Sands Neonatal Charity.

Linklaters has launched a reverse mentoring pilot, with junior lawyers assigned to mentor the firm's more senior partners.

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.

Our second workshop was run by YLAL co-chairs, Rachel and Oliver, and Alison Leivesley (a partner at TV Edwards), who gave tips and advice to junior lawyers on getting into the profession.

According to Kelly Frye Barnett, a litigation associate and long - time volunteer, the fact that the «program helps junior lawyers get experience examining witnesses, offering evidence, and making an argument to a judge makes it all the better.»»

Instead, the approach needs to be longer term — senior lawyers must be appropriately incentivised for spending time on training junior lawyers as they come through.

I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»

A growing fear among junior lawyers in the UK is that English law will cease to maintain its primacy as the

If junior lawyers will no longer be required to conduct due diligence and document review (because the work will be sent offshore), or to take a first crack at drafting certain documents (because clients themselves will draft such documents using software tools), the question then is, what roles will be left for «tomorrow's lawyers?»

Further to this point, when asked what I look for when hiring junior lawyers, articling students or summer students, my response is always the same: I expect competency, but I look at how candidates interact with the rest of the team during the interview and I look for a good personality.

This was the onset of the dire condition known as YOLO — Young Obsessive Lawyer Overreacting syndrome — which junior lawyers with their first file are prone to.