Sentences with phrase «lateral hires over»

Chambers Associate: Cozen has taken on a number of lateral hires over the past year, including the acquisition of a fifteen - strong group from Miami - based IP boutique Feldman Gale.

Lateral hires over 2017 include Allen & Overy arbitration partner Jeffrey Sullivan and Herbert Smith Freehills energy partner Anna Howell.

Not exact matches

This can be done in part by hiring people for qualities over skills, and more importantly, by those in leadership positions exhibiting a spirit of cooperation and collaboration, not only to those who are on a lateral plane but also to their subordinates.

With that in mind, I have undertaken a further, small, piece of research looking at how various lateral hiring policies have affected law firm financial variables over time, and the results are quite intriguing.

The length of time that a firm remains in one of the above governance cycles depends, to a greater or lesser degree, upon: the firm's economics; its culture; the traditional method of admitting partners - through the firm's career development program, lateral hires or combination; the method of allocating profits to the partners and how the system is administered; the personal characteristics, the rainmaking and professional skills of partners whose practice areas are profitable over an extended period of time; and how certain of the more influential partners are perceived by other influential partners.

Briefly, I compared the results, and lateral hiring programmes, of six pairs of UK law firms over the five year period of my first research.

The results reflect a year of significant expansion by the firm, which has opened offices in Cambridge and Southampton already over the past 12 months and made 26 lateral partner hires.

In a statement, Ben Knowles, co-chair of the global arbitration group, singled out the firm's focus on oil and gas, as well as the overall arbitral capabilities, which have been enhanced over recent years with a range of lateral hires, recent partner promotions including this year's round, and law firm mergers, not least in the United States.

What you missed: A snapshot of the lateral hiring, relocations and promotions at law firms in Asia over the December - January period.

Firms that excel at lateral partner hiring have a tremendous competitive advantage over those that do not.

This reflects investments the firm has made in the business over the last year, including opening new offices in Perth, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil, the latter of which opened as part of the firm's recruitment of the former BLG Aerospace team in October 2011; and a number of other lateral hires in support of the firm's core sectors of focus, including in International Arbitration, World Trade, Natural Resources, Insurance (corporate) and Shipping.

The CEE Legal Matters website, which registers well over 40,000 unique visitors a day, carries daily updates of deals, disputes, and other client matters across CEE, as well as news about senior promotions, lateral hires, and other developments inside the 24 legal markets themselves.

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By now, firms have significant experience with lateral partner hiring and their own ability to assess how they have done over the years.