Sentences with phrase «junior lawyers often»

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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.

The most frequent argument in support of ghostblogging is that senior lawyers routinely enlist the services of juniors to write memos, documents, CLE papers and the like, and then place their own names on the resulting product (often, but not always, with a front - page footnote thanking the junior for his or her «assistance.»)

In traditional firms, the team is divided among fee - earners and non-fee-earners, and there is often a strong hierarchy among the lawyers, from junior associates up to senior partners.

The simplest thing for a small firm or solo practitioner is not to take on an articling student or very junior lawyer, and the statistics bear out this is what happens more often than not.

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

``... lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research.»

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This is nothing new; more junior (and cheaper) lawyers often do the leg work on a file while more expensive partners set the strategy and handle the thorny problems.

When coming through the ranks, Martin said it was often assumed that she was the secretary and, as a junior lawyer going into meetings with a male junior lawyer present, she was the one expected to make the tea.

In this Prawfs post a few months ago, I speculated that green (i.e., young / junior) lawyers may have a uniquely important role to play in the emerging marijuana «green rush» industry: not only may veteran lawyers be cautious and concerned about representing persons actively involved in state marijuana business, but marijuana reform often seems a «young man's game» for which junior lawyers may be uniquely positioned to be of service to persons needing legal help in this arena.

Sheena MacAskill, a Toronto coach, has worked with, among others, senior lawyers who were perfectionists and often berated the students, juniors and secretaries producing work for them.

Very junior and very senior lawyers often object to stating their year of call in a profile and will argue that it doesn't matter.

Moreover, because marijuana reform movements seem often to be a «young man's game» in many ways, junior lawyers may be uniquely positioned to be of service to persons needing legal help in this arena.

Some firms want strong pro bono programs as a way to recruit and retain top law students and junior lawyers, who are often more eager than their predecessors to do pro bono work.

Meetings were strained, bills were often paid late, and the junior lawyers in particular began to hate working on the account.

Historically, junior lawyers were employed by law firms, at formidable hourly rates, to plow through vast bodies of documents, often just to index or classify them.

Corporate clients often are no longer willing to pay high hourly rates to law firms for junior lawyers to do routine work.