Sentences with phrase «junior lawyers get»

HL BaSE is a two day programme where our junior lawyers get the opportunity to speak to social entrepreneurs and business leaders, tackle business modelling using interactive tools, and get hands on experience dealing with real time client issues.

Tech means junior lawyers get more higher end work now than before and it's that, not the grunt work, that makes you a good lawyer.»

Helping articling students and junior lawyers get off to a good start is a bedrock ethical obligation of the profession.

Perhaps if the junior lawyer gets too good, the client might believe they can get the same work at lower cost and form the relationship with the junior lawyer?

Not exact matches

It's difficult for young lawyers to get that experience today, partly because fewer cases are going to trial and partly because some insurers don't want to pay for junior lawyers to sit second chair in the courtroom, says McCarthy, a partner at McCarthy Bouley Barry & Morgan in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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 use many junior lawyers and nonlawyer clerks, as well as IT, systems, and processes to get work through quickly and efficiently.

Ollie discussed the issue of «paralegalisation», with paralegal experience now seen by many as a prerequisite to getting a training contract, and said that the aspiration for junior legal aid lawyers sat the moment «is limited to being able to survive and sustain a career».

«You get junior lawyers to go and find all this,» Waisberg explained in a recent phone call.

Additionally, while a retail office might seem positively Dickensian if you are middle - aged lawyer currently occupying Class A office space downtown, it might well be much more attractive to a more junior lawyer anxious to get a foot in the door somewhere within the profession, or someone looking for part - time contract work outside of standard law firm business hours.

The senior lawyer fires the junior lawyer, and they then get into a wrongful dismissal battle.

«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.

I had the opportunity to go in - house, but I was hesitant to do that because I think that once you go in - house, you become so commercially focused on «getting it done, getting it done» that you don't necessarily get to build on your technical skills, which as a junior lawyer I wanted to continue to develop.

If you can... If I can figure out a way to do better quality work, if I can figure out a way to train junior lawyers to be better, if I can figure out a way to heighten my analysis and get better at quantifying risk and probability and stuff like that, I feel like there's no choice.

In [Paul Hasting LLP's] new midtown Manhattan space, junior lawyers won't get the offices many dream of in law school.

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.

• Greater opportunities for students and junior lawyers to get involved with clients and large files earlier in their careers.

An expectation that trainees and junior lawyers «manage your own workload» creates «flexibility if you need to get out at a particular time», report insiders.

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

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.

At the same time, it's very unlikely that the clients really think they're getting $ 400 an hour in value from a relatively junior lawyer poring over boilerplate at 2 am.

I think very practically we see a lot of law firm lawyers encourage their junior associates to volunteer with us because we will give them an opportunity to get hands - on experience, working directly with clients, conducting interviews, gathering facts and then presenting them both in briefing and in oral argument to a court, much faster than a typical defense side large law firm context might provide.

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.

You'll sit down with a lawyer, not a junior lawyer, to discuss your injuries, the care you need in the future and how to get the compensation you deserve.

You'll sit down with a lawyer, not a junior lawyer, to discuss your injury, the care you will need in the future and how to get the compensation you require.

«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.

Getting hired back is more difficult, and being able to make a name for yourself as a junior lawyer another beast in its own right.

I've come across my fair share of lawyers like this (especially the junior ones) who think they're all - that because they work «x hours» or get paid «y pounds».

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