Sentences with phrase «junior partner»

I found that experience to be invaluable to understand how the firm operates and to provide a voice for junior partners.

This problem may be amplified by junior partners who understand the nature of the business less than senior partners.

Does the firm provide the attorneys, particularly junior partners and associates, with adequate feedback?

For «traditional» law firms, there is resistance to change, but this is tempered by forward - looking junior partners.

She does a great job, so he encourages junior partners working on his matters to give her more work.

Changing the view, smart associates and junior partners quickly figure out that the firm is no longer creating opportunities and leave for healthier firms.

Even senior partners should mentor junior partners, albeit on admin, management and leadership issues.

The highest performing junior partners originated an average of $ 400,000 of new business during the program.

Today junior partners are all ears, consistently asking me the same set of questions, and are anxious to hear my views.

This group takes the legal identification as the limited or junior partners in the family limited partnership.

Does the firm provide the attorneys with adequate feedback, particularly junior partners and associates?

Many current shadow cabinet members would be unable to stomach serving as junior partners in the great Corbynite project.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, with junior partner Rhone Capital, got closest to an indicative $ 5.20 per share value in final proposals last Friday, but TPG Capital was some way lower.

As a result, many of today's best entrepreneurs are by - passing meetings with junior partners of established firms and seeking capital and advice from successful entrepreneurs - turned - venture - capitalists at newer firms managing smaller funds.

A former junior partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Pao lost a high - profile gender discrimination suit against the venture capital firm in March.

A recent gender - discrimination trial — in which Ellen Pao, a former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sued the firm — exposed elements of a male - dominated culture in which women are sorely underrepresented.

The fact that the median rate is lower for the «Largest 50» firms than the median rate for «Large Enough» firms indicates a shift of work to more junior partners in the larger firms.

These firms begin to train mid-level and junior partners by assigning short term, low risk management activities before entrusting them with key management jobs.

And what I've seen and heard is that in firms where a major salesperson has left, the firm's junior partners frequently move up into the departed partner's space, and the firm no longer feels like it's being held hostage by one of its partners.

Looking more closely at billing rates for this firm size shows that this result is the effect of two factors: partners doing IP Litigation work have held their rates flat and that work has shifted to more junior partners from more senior partners (see Figure 6).

Many firms develop successors to management by delegating to selected mid-level and junior partners short term management assignments and by rotating these partners through various management areas to develop their general management skills rather than developing particular lawyers as specialists in specific management areas.

We may experience that desire as coming from ourselves, which delights God and us, or we may become aware of resistance within ourself, which signals our need for spiritual growth — either way, we are just junior partners, agreeing with our will, while God leads in infinite wisdom.

«You have a few associates, a fair number at the senior associate junior partner level, and then a few senior partners, so you can envision a diamond.»

The mid-level or junior partner selected for training should receive administrative assignments and his or her performance should be evaluated accordingly.

Generation X legal professionals may hold junior partner, senior associate, mid-level paralegal and mid-level support staff positions in law firms.

Most junior partners are inheriting outdated, outmoded, low - tech businesses that will soon not be fit for purpose.

By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.

If the U.S. were to implement a border tax on Mexican imports to pay for Trump's wall, would it really be in Canada's interest to say nothing as the other junior partner in NAFTA was so abused?

Pao said she wrote a memo to the firm in 2012 saying that women were being treated differently after it seemed that three female junior partners were not going to be promoted.

[iv] Second, it is uncertain if either Greens or FDP are willing to make this the hill to die on and spent their limited political capital as junior partners on this issue.

Only their customarily high turnout and overrepresentation among GOP elites kept Mainliners from becoming distinctly junior partners in the Republican coalition.

KKR initially made an approach in May with a proposal pitched at $ 4.70 per share, but on August 4 lifted that to $ 5.20 per share after it enlisted junior partner Rhone Capital, a New York based private equity fund.

Government divisions over the future of control orders are being flagged up by the Liberal Democrats» «early warning system», politics.co.uk has learned, as the coalition's junior partner refuses to compromise with the Conservatives.

She's an appealing, culturally well - timed combination of gay, female, and middle class; and the city remains basically satisfied with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to whom Quinn has been a very loyal junior partner for seven years.

The problem is that while the Tories would want its make - up to reflect the share of the parties» seats in the Commons, the coalition's junior partners want it to reflect the share of the vote each party got in the last general election.

These referendum campaigns are not sideshows, as the lingering bitterness the coalition's junior partners feel about the way they were treated by the Tories in the electoral reform fiasco shows.

Mr Browne will counter that the polls prove his point: that by offering his party as the permanent junior partner, dependent on others for the ministerial cars and red boxes, Mr Clegg has erased its distinct identity, and the voters have punished him for it.

But Stevens shows that home schooling is a woman's enterprise, in which men are usually junior partners.

In a process that some are likening to a messy divorce, talks aimed at merging California's two main charter - support organizations have collapsed as the more junior partner bowed out and decided to form its own rival advocacy group.

As the new junior partner in Audi's sedan lineup, the A3 likely borrows enough design and technology from its corporate superiors to meet an enthusiastic reception from social - climbing brand fans.

Additionally, non-partners and junior partners received no real benefit from attracting profitable laterals.

After Matthew Farmer, a 42 - year old junior partner with the firm, suspected that his own hours on a trial for home builder Pinnacle Corp. had been inflated by the partner in charge of billing, 62 - year - old Edward Ryan, he blew the whistle on the firm.

«In response to the current economy and a clear shift to a buyer's market, firms are moving from the pyramid model of a few partners at the top and hordes of associates at the bottom to a diamond shape in which several senior associates and junior partners make up the bulk in the middle in an effort to maximize value for the client,» she writes.

They say they make more now than if they had stayed at King & Spalding and achieved junior partner.

As a result, your invoice will not come padded with junior associates, senior associates, and junior partners repeating the same tasks or re-reviewing the same documents.

While in law school, Brad was a second year staff member and third year managing editor of the Montana Law Review and also acted as one of the school's Junior Partners during his third year at the school.