Sentences with phrase «lawyer job positions»

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

But this opportunity will be missed if the lawyer does not ask appropriate questions and listen, if he (or she) does not consider the support of marriage a part of his job description, if he takes the position that a client seeking to keep her marriage together is in the wrong place, if he believes that lawyers who encourage reconciliation appear weak, or if he tries to shunt the whole problem off to the mental health professionals.

The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair of the Independence Party Marsha Coopersmith, is now going to the law firm of Sparaco's close friend and lawyer Jay Savino, albeit at about half the price and on an annual per diem basis.

My first job was with a NYC - based internet startup, where I provided performance - based digital marketing solutions to local businesses (including lawyers) throughout the U.S.. From there, I held positions where I developed, sold, and managed digital marketing solutions for multi-national corporations.

«I spoke to some of my colleagues who graduated with me who went to big law firms or other government jobs and, compared to their articling positions, while some of them got really great opportunities, some said their job was just following a lawyer around doing photocopying, research and they never had the experience I did.»

The Letter reflects many of the ideas that we have been saying legal education should be about, but doesn't necessarily address all of the concerns the profession may have, for example, the shortage of articling positions and jobs for young lawyers.

When Trinity Western University first suggested it should have a law school, I emphasized here all the market reasons they should not; there are enough law schools already, not enough articling positions, and too much job competition for junior lawyers.

«We know — for example, from the 2010 Ornstein report — that racialized women have a harder time than any other category of lawyers: they have access to fewer articling positions, struggle to find full - time jobs and end up in lower - earning practice areas.

This page focuses on lawyer jobs, but if you are a legal assistant or paralegal you may still apply for a position through this page.

To have the mandatory four - year B.A. requirement under the current conditions where a law degree is a degree with more limited job prospects than in the past is the biggest contributor to the crisis of law students and young lawyers who can not find articling positions and entry level jobs.

Thirty year olds can no longer bear the possibility of unemployment or underemployment as lawyers in the era of $ 30,000 per year tuition at law school without sufficient articling positions and law jobs.

The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.

As an aside, notwithstanding that I agree with the substance of their proposal, it takes some mighty big cajones for the professors at the University of Ottawa to float the proposal that lawyers should pay for training their graduates who can't get articling positions (roughly, last I checked, 20 % of the UofO graduating class), since their school's increased enrolment (done to preserve the cushy jobs of said professors) is largely responsible for the problem.

The report features profiles on 26 pioneers of the #NewLaw movement (one is my colleague Audrey Jun @AudreyyJun), and identifies emerging «new legal careers» along with the skills new lawyers will need to forge a life for themselves beyond the crumbling «old system» of equity partnership track positions, mentorship, associate positions or, well, to put it bluntly... any kind of full - time «lawyer job».

With respect to the Washington State model, why on earth would anyone think the right solution is to create some new quasi-legal position when there are so many young lawyers who can't find jobs?!

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

Gain acceptance in administrative areas where high priced lawyers are used and the administrator can do the job, such as investing money, screening resumes of lawyers, arranging recruitment schedules, writing position description and hiring paralegals, and in some cases secretaries (this may be delegated in a large firm), even though the lawyer to whom the person is to be assigned may approve of the person before hiring.

My conclusion, after having spent way to much time in law firms, is if a firm has lawyers in leadership positions who respect their administrative leaders, lets them do the job they were hired to do, and broadcasts their respect for these leaders and the rest of their administrative and support staff to the firm, the rest of the lawyers in the firm (for the most part) will behave the same way.

With the increasing number of qualified lawyers on the job market, requirements for positions have also become more stringent.

61 % of all articling placements are in private practice firms with 11 or more lawyers, while Legal Aid positions account for only 1 % of the jobs available.

«Lawyers are applying for internship positions, which used to be just for law students,» said attorney Becky Bye, who recently landed a job with the U.S. Department of Energy in Denver.

In his job search, the young lawyer was analyzing every position from every angle, asking himself, «Is this going to be a repeat of what I just went through?»

«It's always easier when we can have someone move right from an articling job to a first - year lawyer position and quite frankly, know the client, the routine, and everything else.»

Jessica Sparacino was a student at Touro Law School when she got a job as a paralegal for Jackson Lewis in Melville, a position she held a year after graduation before landing a job as a lawyer.

Landing an articling position and subsequent job after law school may be even harder and some fine would - be lawyers crash and burn.

The job of the lawyer for each side is to push the client's position as much toward the range of likely outcomes as possible, after giving proper legal advice and making a good effort to reframe the client's perceptions of the situation, particularly where the client's position is irrational and lies well outside the range.

With layoffs and hiring freezes rampant in today's legal industry, many lawyers and legal professionals are scrambling to find new jobs or trying to hold on to their current positions.

A corporate paralegal is the individual whose job position requires him / her to help a lawyer in all the corporate legal proceedings or tasks.

Whether you're looking for a professional job as a lawyer or accountant, a corporate management position, a healthcare position as a respiratory therapist, or even an administrative position like a dental assistant, it can be difficult to find employers who are openly recruiting during difficult economic times.

A Connecticut - based lawyer, he moved to New York City and took a temporary position with the thought that soon he would land a full time job.

Legal professionals are very keen as to the selection of lawyers because such job positions deal with technical matters and issues.

This job candidate was well - versed as a freelancer lawyer, law clerk, and legal assistant looking to find a more lucrative and permanent position within a practice, which would eventually lead to a partnership after passing The Bar Exam.

The job responsibilities of an individual working in entry level legal position is to maintaining records of cases, doing legal clerical work, attending court sessions and also doing research in order to help the lawyer.

These job positions include attorney, lawyers, corporate lawyers, judges etc... Each different job position requires different qualifications and skills.

The lawyers» job is to advocate for their client's position.