Sentences with phrase «junior partners by»

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

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

In the event of a coalition government after the next election, voters would prefer the Liberal Democrats to Ukip as the junior partner by 42 % compared to 35 %.

Not exact matches

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.

(It is also facing a sexual harassment suit by a former junior partner.)

A new coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel still seemed the most likely outcome, although negotiations between the various parties looked set to take some time, mainly due to the difficulties of accommodating the opposing views of the junior partners in the proposed coalition, the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens.

Publicly - funded institutional investors may be able to leverage private capital on as much as a 10:1 basis by accepting a 10 % first - loss for being the junior equity partner in a stacked capital deal.140 The evidence suggests that pooling risks across institutional investors and developing expertise within one facility can lead to cost savings.

Publicly funded institutional investors may be able to leverage private capital on a multiple of 4 to 5 for even smallholder investments basis by accepting as low as a 20 — 25 % first loss for being the junior equity partner in a stacked capital deal.

This was the same as a buyout proposal lodged by KKR and its junior partner Rhone Capital a week earlier.

The party was pushed back into fourth place by Ukip, which almost trebled the votes of the coalition's junior partner.

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.

Left - wing voters are going to punish the junior coalition partner in Lib Dem - Labour marginals, probably by more than the 12 % predicted by the Ashcroft polling.

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.

That reduction is proportionately much greater for Nick Clegg's party and was only accepted by the junior coalition partners in return for the referendum on AV.

When asked about the general outlook for hiring in patent law, all of the «associates» (junior lawyers in a firm) and «partners» (senior lawyers in a firm) interviewed by Next Wave for this feature gave upbeat answers.

Spacewatch 1.8 - meter telescope The larger Spacewatch facility, completed just five years ago, follows up on interesting objects spotted by its junior partner.

She saves Kate's vulnerability, what little there is, for heart - to - hearts initiated by her junior partner (Daniel Kaluuya), who tells her the truth about needing to groom her eyebrows and put herself out there romantically.

For a good bit of the time Schlondorff seems like the junior partner in a trio of directors headed by Hoffman and Miller; as executive producers, they often appear to be running the show.

Film Stars is based on the 1987 memoir by British actor Peter Turner, who was several decades Grahame's junior, and who became her romantic partner and caretaker in the final years of her life.

And the uglier is the situation that stand alone Junior schools are in when they are royally stitched up by their «partner» / feeder infants school.

Following months of undercover investigation by Virginia Partners for Animal Welfare and Support, («VA PAWS») http://www.vapaws.org/, and Humane Society of the United States, of a puppy mill operated by Lanzie («Junior») Horton, Jr. and his family, in Hillsville, Virginia, authorities raided the place on November 1, 2007.

Arts in Bushwick's Community Team, headed by co-team leaders Lauren Smith and Megan Trevino, is partnering with the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, the Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership and professional muralist and Bushwick resident, Miriam Castillo to develop a public mural project for junior high I.S. 291 students in Bushwick.

Arts in Bushwick's Community Team, headed by co-team leaders Lauren Smith and Megan Trevino, is partnering with the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, the Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership and professional muralist and Bushwick resident, Miriam Castillo to develop a public mural project for junior high I

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.

Yesterday's decision in Clyde & Co LLP and another (Respondents) v Bates van Winklehof (Appellant)[2014] UKSC 32 held that a junior partner (unhelpfully called an Equity Partner) in a London firm was protected by the whistle - blowing protections of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

At top firms, junior partners are earning up to $ 250,000 before bonuses, and some firms have increased salaries by 200 percent.

By the same token, at the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country, junior associates generally research and write briefs and law journal articles for senior partners.

Juniors meet with their assigned career development partner and the head of their practice group to discuss their annual reviews, which consist of feedback provided by colleagues.

James is recommended as an up - and - coming junior for civil fraud by Chambers & Partners.

Siddharth is consistently recommended as a Leading Junior for International Arbitration; and for Energy and Natural Resources, by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

He is recognised as a top - tier junior for International Arbitration by Chambers and Partners, and in 2015 was awarded International Arbitration Junior of the Year at the UK Bar Awards, having previously been nominated for the same award injunior for International Arbitration by Chambers and Partners, and in 2015 was awarded International Arbitration Junior of the Year at the UK Bar Awards, having previously been nominated for the same award inJunior of the Year at the UK Bar Awards, having previously been nominated for the same award in 2014.

He was awarded International Arbitration Junior of the Year in 2015 by Chambers & Partners, having been nominated for the same award the previous year (as one of three).

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.»

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.

Matters are coordinated by two pro bono partners «who are very committed and do a ton of great work,» juniors told us.

In October 2015, Tim was named Chancery Junior of the Year by Chambers and Partners.

Traditionally, law firms have adopted a «pyramid» model for hiring, with a small number of partners at the top followed by a larger number of senior associates and a still larger proportion of juniors at the bottom.

The platform would assign a flag, for example, when it identifies a more - senior lawyer doing work typically done by junior lawyers, or when it finds partners unnecessarily billing to review associates» work.

The recent news that Deutsche Bank will no longer pay panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers has provoked a strong reaction across the legal profession, with a Legal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonable.

As you can see from last year's write - up by Alison Frankel, one can learn a lot about the varying stripes of partner compensation in American BigLaw (equity, nonequity, junior, senior, etc.).

(See my post «How the Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)

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.

Conceptualizing organizational culture in this way underscores, for instance, that a lawyer's decision about whether to expose the firm to risk, by deliberately ignoring a potential conflict, may depend on whether the firm offers junior lawyers meaningful professional training opportunities, and whether it provides income partners with guidance on how to engage in business development.

With a diverse group of lawyers ranging from senior partners to junior associates — with significant experience in workouts, restructurings, enforcement of remedies and bankruptcy matters — as well as related real estate transactional matters of all kinds — the Sheppard Mullin CMBS default practice provides a full service approach to the challenges faced by its special servicer clients.

He is a highly recommended junior by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

The following statements were incorporated into the Partners» Understanding of Compensation Arrangements: For the continuity and betterment of the firm: (1) Mid-level partners are encouraged to, on an ongoing basis, consult, work together with and train all junior partners and associates and involve the junior partners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior pPartners» Understanding of Compensation Arrangements: For the continuity and betterment of the firm: (1) Mid-level partners are encouraged to, on an ongoing basis, consult, work together with and train all junior partners and associates and involve the junior partners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners are encouraged to, on an ongoing basis, consult, work together with and train all junior partners and associates and involve the junior partners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners and associates and involve the junior partners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners and associates on the work of the clients of the mid-level partners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners to the extent necessary to cause, assist and enable the junior partners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners and associates to be able to satisfy such clients, that junior partners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners and associates are competent and able to perform the work of such clients and to represent such clients on significant matters, and (2) Senior partners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners are encouraged, for the benefit of all members of the firm, to consult and work together with the mid-level partners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners and the junior partners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners to agree upon and take steps reasonably deemed necessary by all such parties to retain clients of the senior partners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior ppartners as clients of the firm upon the cessation of the practice of law by the senior partnerspartners.

suggest that the chair's protégé, a star junior partner who frequently works with the chair and is trusted by him, be invited to assist with many of the chair's duties as group chair;

Law.com: More Law Firms Boost Pay for Associates A Key Factor for Associate Raises: Location, Location, Location Sullivan & Cromwell Boosts Associates» Pay Hogan & Hartson and Dickstein Shapiro Raise First - Year Associate Pay Drinker Biddle to Add More Salary Partners Keker Matches Associate Salary Hikes More Law Firms Match Regional Salary Hikes DLA Piper Raises First - Year Pay to $ 125K Large Miami Firms Boost Associate Pay by Nearly 10 Percent Latham Boosts Associate Salaries Wilson Sonsini Follows the Trend and Raises Salaries L.A. Firms Lift Associate Salaries Gibson Dunn Bumps Up First - Year Pay to $ 135,000 Finnegan Raises Salaries for Junior, Midlevel Associates Cravath Reveals Bonus Figures, While Kenyon Raises Associate Salaries

Legal Week: Wall Street giant breaks pay stand - off with salary hikes Simpson Thacher matches $ 20k pay hikes Starting salaries predicted to rise as US pay round looms Freshfields salary hike trumps A&O Partners slam A&O salary hikes amid fears of renewed pay war Freshfields to hike City pay rates Skadden sets new pay benchmark as regions brought in line with NY Weil Gotshal increases associate pay by 3 % CC raises junior lawyer pay White & Case ups UK NQ salary stakes

He is recommended by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading junior, described in recent years as «a superstar on all fronts.