Sentences with phrase «lawyer at a big firm»

Lawyers at big firms had online research accounts and solos went to the law library to use the books.

It doesn't take much research skill to find the key lawyers at the bigger firms; the real art is sniffing out the hidden gems in the nooks and crannies of the legal market.

Recently I've had discussions with several lawyers at big firms and at litigation boutiques, all of whom have a clear understanding of their obligations and their clients» obligations to preserve, review and produce electronic documents, but all of whom seem to be stymied by the apparently uncontrollable, even irrational costs of ediscovery.

Exclusing Heenan Blaikie again, we see a small decrease in total number of lawyers at the big firms in Toronto and Ottawa (53 fewer lawyers in total).

The number of lawyers at the big firms is a relatively small percentage of the number of lawyers practising across the country, so I wouldn't read too much into what these numbers might mean.

I'm a lawyer at a big firm and I make as much as my wife's mother who is a nurse.

Not exact matches

ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

Thankfully, at the time, I was a consultant for one of the «Big Four» accounting firms who could afford lawyers for the work visa process.

He's a corporate lawyer at a big white - shoe Manhattan firm; a son - in - law of Richard Nixon; and a descendant of four of the country's oldest Wasp families.

Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.

«[N] obody at Success worked as hard as big - firm lawyers or investment bankers,» Moskowitz asserts.

(Even though I'm under 30, I'm a lawyer at a big law firm, so I'm in an unusual situation financially for someone my age.)

Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith Esq. thinks so, but Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle thinks the fallout from NALP's war with big firms will most hurt students and new lawyers.

In his Above the Law column entitled Small Firms, Big Lawyers, Jay Shepherd noted that while at the 2011 ABA TechShow, lawyers exchanged Twitter handles as opposed to businessLawyers, Jay Shepherd noted that while at the 2011 ABA TechShow, lawyers exchanged Twitter handles as opposed to businesslawyers exchanged Twitter handles as opposed to business cards.

Many of the young lawyers tried to stay busy with pro bono projects, but Jobless Lawyer says he soon found that «every other young associate at the firm had the same idea, and I'd venture to guess that many others at similarly situated Big Law firms did too.»

While many small firm lawyers scoff at Chesler's recent advocacy of a policy they've used for years, the dire economic situation we're in right now might finally be the act of creative destruction big firms need to reform.

He is currently a lecturer in Private International Law at the Private Law Department of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor / professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firms.

Calling him «Eric Holden,» Spence says that when a lawyer works long enough for big corporations, as Holder did as partner at a corporate law firm, «the human psyche begins to dry up and one day will fall out on the carpet of the boardroom floor... like a dried up old prune.»

The bigger the firm, the more likely a lawyer is to telecommute, with 84 percent of lawyers at firms of 500 or more saying they telecommute.

Lawyers at big law firms like to boast about «bet the company» matters, but smaller and mid-sized matters can be just as complex, even more so — it's just that the numbers on paper are smaller.

Speaking of graduation, the incubator should last at least one year, but perhaps as long as three — about the time it takes a lawyer to become a useful junior associate at a big firm.

The poll included responses from more than 150 lawyers at big law firms and corporations in Canada.

Set up in the UAE last year, The Bench is able to offer cheaper rates to clients because it is free from high overheads such as offices, meaning clients pay roughly half the price for senior lawyers than they would at a big law firm.

I may not work at a big firm, but the concept of «hitting your billable hours» is well - known to law students, lawyers, and fans of John Grisham novels.

Because one possible reason for an incubator to exist is to replace the existing associate system at big firms, the clients of which are no longer particularly enthusiastic about paying for new - lawyer training at six - figure salaries.

Pascale Pageau, a lawyer who founded Delegatus in Montreal in 2005 and is the mother of four children said: «Although my hours vary a lot, I generally work 30 - 35 hours per week now, instead of the 40 - 50 hours per week that I worked when I was at a big firm.»

Jay Michi, a third - year student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, says law schools are oriented toward producing lawyers for big law firms — an orientation that needs to change in order to improve access.

What the survey actually did ascertain was which skills might best well serve young lawyers once they land a job at a big law firm that mostly deals with corporate clients.

In larger cities where big firms prevail, many lawyers are leaving to start their own firms — a trend that I frequently document at my home blog, My Shingle.

Posts cover business law, legal practice management, big deals, suits and real estate in Canada, and other legal news of interest to Canadian business law lawyers, both in - house and at firms.

Worse yet, many of us have fallen prey to this prejudice, letting ourselves be intimidated by high - priced lawyers at big - name firms.

If we consider the biggest security risk for any law firm is the people they employ; along with the handful of high - profile cases that have the potential to become the focus of public outrage — it's not inconceivable that lawyer - client communications will be at greater risk.

Ask a lawyer, especially a young one, what's the biggest headache to working at a firm, and the answer may well be the pressure from above to rack up 2,000 billable hours in the course of a year.

While smaller firms and solo practitioners may not have the extensive resources or global footprint as bigger law firms may have, lawyers at smaller firms or with solo practices are often more resourceful in identifying ways to handle matters which yield the same outcome.

Attorneys at The Donahey Law Firm provide the attentive service you expect from a small - town lawyer, but our Columbus personal injury lawyers have the success and resources of a big - city law fFirm provide the attentive service you expect from a small - town lawyer, but our Columbus personal injury lawyers have the success and resources of a big - city law firmfirm.

Jordan Furlong tells a story of sitting on a client meeting at a big firm, where the client had managed to outsource a bunch of their discovery work and some of their IP work to non lawyer, non firm providers.

I know at the beginning of the book, Jordan, in the introduction, you say, «Big firm lawyers are going to get more out of it.»

Both are lawyers, but the solo practitioner can actually live out his / her dream and not have to work at a big corporate firm just to pay back his / her student loans.

Sam Glover: I guess, I'm curious about what both of you think about this, but there's been a lot of talk about the movement at big firms and I think smaller firms are starting to try to do this too, where you do build the firm up as a brand that guarantees a kind of service and a level of service and institutional knowledge and technology competency, to try and encourage companies and clients of all kinds to hire the firm, not the lawyer and so that the firm can say to the lawyer, «Go ahead and leave.

The average lawyer — even at a big firm — is pretty darned average.

You might get to meet with an attorney at a big firm, but you could get passed off to lawyers or support staff who don't really have the experience to handle your case effectively.

This tip was inspired by a young mother I know, a senior associate at a big firm, who shared with me her recipe for handling the challenging tension between mom - time and lawyer time: the early escape.

The difference, suggests a 2004 post from the trial lawyer who writes The Uncivil Litigator, may lie in the fact that «most civil litigators at big firms have no opportunities for trial experience.»

As if the firms of the Am Law 100 are not large enough, a new ethics ruling may let them grow even bigger — one lawyer at a time.

This approach ignores so - called lifestyle issues that transcend gender lines and bar lawyers from achieving success on unconventional paths, at least at big firms.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Over at the [non] billable hour, Matt Homann's fit to be tied that small - firm lawyers are once again slipping below the media radar while big - firm donations make headlines.

I'm a tax lawyer at a big law firm.

The biggest challenge at the time was that lawyers were not willing either to establish firms or to move to rural areas.