Sentences with phrase «lawyers at major firms»

Not exact matches

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

A former corporate lawyer, Barbara graduated from Stanford Law School and practiced securities litigation at a major law firm in New York City.

A lawyer at a major law firm accidentally copied a Wall Street Journal reporter on an email transmitting privileged client information.

But it is the only one where disputes are decided by lawyers «who've worked in litigation at major firms and are professors at major law schools,» Edelman tells David Frank at Massachusetts Lawyers lawyers «who've worked in litigation at major firms and are professors at major law schools,» Edelman tells David Frank at Massachusetts Lawyers Lawyers Weekly.

article) I was also pondering the comment of a good friend of mine, a senior equity partner at one of the major City firms, who admitted to me last week that lawyers in the City «are earning more money than we ever thought possible when we started in law», adding wryly «and quite a lot of us don't really believe we're worth it».

At its simplest level, lawyers from the same law firm can not take on opposing sides in the same case but they should also not act for the competitors of major clients of the firm.

At least, that's the thrust of this article, «Lawyers, Fun & Money: Brain Drain Hits Major Law Firms,» by Saira Rao, New York Post (12/31/06).

However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

Aaron Street: I think it's revealing that we just did our 2017 best law firm websites contest in the last couple of weeks, and one of the major criteria there for our panel of judges was the degree to which the sites revealed the personality and personal dynamics of the lawyers at the firm, regardless of what that personality was.

Introduced in beta at this year's ABA TECHSHOW conference in Chicago, the new Accounts Payable Module was a major point of interest with eager lawyers and other legal professionals concerned with the very specific challenges law firms face when managing accounts payable.

Among them: A lawyer at a major law firm accidentally copied a Wall Street Journal reporter on an email transmitting privileged client information.

One of his clients was the Association of Corporate Counsel, a Washington - based trade group for lawyers who work at major corporations — precisely the sort of paying customers that law firms covet.

She works at a major international law firm — Hogan Lovells is a serious power house — but is part of the next tech savvy, innovative generation focused on what her clients really want and are not restricted by historic client / lawyer models.

The survey data largely represents new partners at firms with more than 250 lawyers, mostly in major US legal markets like New York, Washington DC and Chicago.

The proven Atlanta employment lawyers at the Fain, Major & Brennan, P.C. law firm defend small businesses, insurance companies, and large corporations in labor and employment law matters.

Preventing precisely that sort of mishap is the purpose of ReplyToSome, a Microsoft Outlook add - in created by Peter Norman, a lawyer who, while working as an associate at a major law firm, often saw his colleagues make serious email mistakes, and who had a few close calls of his own.

All three of the company's founders have worked as corporate lawyers both in - house and at major law firms.

Nearly 35 percent of lawyers at major U.S. law firms are women, while about 15 percent are minorities, according to statistics released Friday by the National Association for Law Placement.

At 275 lawyers, Barclay Damon is the largest law firm in the Northeastern United States that is not centered in a major market.

There is careful planning of income and expense budgets; attention is given to the outside activities of lawyers, firm - wide management of recruiting, appraisal of gaps in legal organization at all levels, assessment of progression needs stemming from the aging process; a watchful eye is kept on new trends and legislation and what other major firms are doing.

Major Lindsey's response was to put together a flexible package offering to meet the talent management needs of their clients — which include both firms and individual lawyers — that can ultimately help facilitate the growth of legal teams, both in - house and at law firms, Frank said.

What these veteran lawyers share is a newfound professional satisfaction at smaller legal practices after leaving major Indianapolis law firms.

Before embarking upon his legal career as a Trial Attorney and Federal Prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 1996, Mr. Milanés worked at a major Washington, D.C. law firm and at the Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Wife, a former successful international banking and finance lawyer at a major law firm, claimed that during the marriage, husband, also a successful lawyer, hid marital assets worth millions of dollars.

Using this organizational model, Axiom is able to assign or «insource» their lawyers to these major companies at a significantly lower cost than that charged by the big corporate law firms.

I advise many firms that a major success is at the end of one year having one or two lawyers who know how to blog and use social media for successful business development.

Major Marketing at the Minors Law Firm Inc., 2003 Lawyers do «color commentary» and are a surprise big hit!

An award - winning tax lawyer with invaluable technical expertise and experience gained in Magic Circle law firms and at a major investment bank.

Recent instructions include: • Acting as Junior Counsel to Roddy Dunlop QC in a seven figure claim relating to failure by solicitors to obtain a standard security in relation to loan funds advanced by a commercial lender • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alistair Clark QC (as he then was) on behalf of the pursuers, a major commercial lender, in pursuing seven figure negligence claims against solicitors and surveyors relating to their advance of loan funds for the purchase of commercial property • Acting as Junior Counsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a health board

Flaherty said he is in «serious talks» with in - house lawyers at more than 30 major companies, many of which are considering including the test in future request - for - proposals for law firms.

The U.S. is presently the only country with enough lawyers, as well as journalists and sociologists who specialize in studying them, to have widely available data on salary structures at major law firms.

According to the National Association for Law Placement, a trade group that provides career counselling to lawyers and law students, only about 17 percent of the partners at major law firms nationwide [US] were women in 2005, a figure that has risen only slightly since 1995, when about 13 percent of partners were women.

Vidisha, who became one of the youngest lawyers in the country to run a major law firm when she was appointed as Hodge Jones & Allen's new managing partner in January this year, aged 38, was described by the judges at the awards as an «exemplary leader of an inspirational law firm.»

Indeed, at the time, one senior partner of a major city firm commented to a young lawyer: «Remember two things; lawyers are professionals so will never compete against each other and clients will never buy on the basis of price.»