Sentences with phrase «lateral associates»

We work to ease the transition of lateral associates into the firm by assigning each associate a peer adviser who acts as a guide during the lateral's first year.

Hence, for many mid-size law firms, the trend is toward reliance on hiring lateral associates who are already trained.

This new initiative will require that at least 20 % of candidates interviewed for an open lateral associate position are diverse.

The firm has also hired multiple lateral associates in the past year.

They are just now starting to look seriously for lateral associates.

The evidence is clear — law firms with strong name recognition achieve significantly better on - campus recruiting results, and later attract higher - quality lateral associates.

Summer, first - year and lateral associates alike have the opportunity to participate in training and mentoring programs at our firm.

Designed as our own spin on the NFL's «Rooney Rule», we're implementing a new initiative to increase our recruitment of diverse lateral associates.

Attracting the best possible lateral associates is critical to a law firm's ability to maintain its competitive edge, financial leverage, internal succession and future success when candidates approach our firm about a lateral move, they all tend to ask a variation of the following questions: which firm is the best for me?

Even if it is true, however, that poor performance, and not LIFO, is the real threat to one's status as a new lateral associate during a recovery, what is the incentive to considering a lateral move?

«A part of this is due to the weather — as lush and beautiful as the region is, a number of recruiting coordinators I have met with from Portland and Seattle firms have stories of lateral associates departing within a year or two after discovering the weather did not agree with them.»

Orientation pairs are established when a new or lateral associate joins the firm and the pairings remain active for one year.

In a few years, when you're looking to recruit the best third - or fifth - year lateral associates, you'll find that they don't return the calls of firms they've never heard of.

That is, if your firm helps top law students launch their careers, they'll enthusiastically sign up for your on - campus interviews (OCI) and remember you later when you want to hire them as lateral associates.

Another hiring development that has not been seen since the winter of 2011 is the noticeable absence of a slow down of lateral associate hiring activity during the Christmas season.

Lateral Associate hires are sought out as our business continues to grow.

Angela was a lateral associate with a sterling academic background who had spent her first two years in practice working in another excellent law firm.

New York associates particularly noticed the firm «bringing in more laterals, both shareholders and lateral associates.»

At the top firms, studies show that associates who join right out of law school have a 10 % chance of making partner at their firm; lateral associates have a 17 % chance.

The Building Bridges mentoring program establishes two types of mentoring pairs: Orientation Mentee / Mentor pairs for new and lateral associates, and Bridge pairs for current associates.

To make sure that our firm remains a special place to work, we strive to create and maintain an environment where our people feel included and supported from the moment they start (whether as a summer associate, first - year associate, or lateral associate), through their time with us, and beyond.

During their first weeks at the firm, each lateral associate also meets the lawyers and departments that will support them.