Sentences with phrase «lawyers in private practice at»

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW was producing legal opinions for lawyers in private practice at the rate of 5,000 per year — because those lawyers could make more money using LAO LAW instead of billing Legal Aid for their own legal research hours.

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I am a lawyer in private practice in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and also an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Law and at the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.

Enrico Schaefer suggests hooking up with an attorney who's got a block of business and solid client relationships, while Jordan Furlong at Law21 recommends heading over to the LegalOn Ramp website where the fast growing online community of corporate counsel and private practice lawyers is extending invitations right now to young lawyers who find themselves in dire straits.

I developed these methods as part of the technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare model).

By 1988, LAO LAW was producing legal opinions at a rate of more than 5,000 per year for legal aid lawyers (lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases).

To ensure the cost - effective delivery of legal services, a lawyer in private practice needs to: (1) operate in a skilled and efficient manner; (2) keep accurate records of time and costs; (3) maintain communication with the client as the matter progresses; (4) inform the client is there is a need for change in the arrangements concerning the scope of the work or fees and expenses; (5) bill clients monthly or quarterly, or as arranged, but promptly in accordance with the arrangement; and (6) maintain an internal rate schedule justifiable to the consumer, and review it at least annually.

The rankings are distributed to 30,000 general counsel and in digital format to 58,000 private practice lawyers worldwide; the rankings in their entirety are posted online at http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com.

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Jointly hosted by Legal Week and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Middle East Chapter, and supported by Legal Week's sister title, The American Lawyer, the awards took place at the Ritz - Carlton in Dubai on 11 May and were attended by nearly 400 lawyers from private practice and in - house legal departments.

With an array of legal experience and varied sector backgrounds, from being an M&A lawyer in private practice, to a senior officer at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), our guest talks to Lawyer Monthly about the personal and professional rewards of being an Investment Funds lawyer and teaching this subject at Harvard Law School.

A practising labour and employment lawyer and at one time the national leader of practices and people at McCarthy's, Boniferro says he hopes some of the experience he has had in the private sector in a management role can be leveraged in the MAG's office.

Paul has approximately 1,850 lawyers in 30 offices around the world and is the global leader of the private equity fund formation practice at Morgan Lewis.

Lawyers in private - practice can not both sustain a business and give away their services for free or at affordable rates.

The Law Society of British Columbia today is launching its Justicia Project aimed at increasing the number of women lawyers in private practice.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

Prior to returning to private practice, Richard was General Counsel at EDS Canada for 18 years where he headed a team of lawyers and contract professionals with responsibility for the legal aspects of EDS» business in Canada.

Headon heads the in - house labour and employment law team at Air Canada and brings a unique perspective to the association, traditionally led by private practice lawyers.

Nancy Jones has worked as a PSL for over 15 years in a number of private practice firms and for the last five years as sole in - house PSL at Sky UK Ltd supporting their team of over 110 in - house lawyers.

Since going in - house may be too overwhelming and difficult directly after qualification, the great majority of in - house positions are aimed at lawyers with 2 - 6 years PQE, the general consensus being that an in - house career should only be followed after having gained at least a couple of years of private practice experience.

Despite this, for 77 % of in - house lawyers a return to private practice was either not very or not at all likely.

The awards, which took place at the Ritz - Carlton in Dubai on Thursday (11 May), were attended by nearly 400 lawyers from private practice and in - house legal departments, and saw an array of international and regional law firms recognised for their legal work alongside leading legal departments, including Pepsi - Cola International, which was named Legal Department of the Year (Large Team).

Tara Kole and Theane Evangelis are first - year associates at two of L.A.'s most elite talent boutiques — Kole at Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown in Beverly Hills and Evangelis at Ziffren Brittenham Branca Fischer Gilbert - Lurie Stiffelman Cook Johnson Lande & Wolf in Century City — firms with client rosters among the most enviable in the business that rarely take on young associates, much less lawyers who are new to private practice.

First, there are far too many lawyers (a situation worsening every Spring) for all of them to make a decent living in private practice anyway (I can hear the howls over that, but it is true, thanks to the law schools graduating students at a rate five times greater than population growth for years now, and never failing anyone they admit to first year.

In this video, senior in - house lawyers at the recent Corporate Counsel Forum discuss how the role of general counsel is evolving, tackling questions on subjects including leadership, learning and what private practice advisers could do differentlIn this video, senior in - house lawyers at the recent Corporate Counsel Forum discuss how the role of general counsel is evolving, tackling questions on subjects including leadership, learning and what private practice advisers could do differentlin - house lawyers at the recent Corporate Counsel Forum discuss how the role of general counsel is evolving, tackling questions on subjects including leadership, learning and what private practice advisers could do differently.

A quick review of the options: In Ontario there are nearly 25,000 lawyers in private practice (i.e. lawyers who work at a firm serving clientsIn Ontario there are nearly 25,000 lawyers in private practice (i.e. lawyers who work at a firm serving clientsin private practice (i.e. lawyers who work at a firm serving clients).

Of class - of - 2013 law graduates working in private practice about nine months after graduation, 20.6 % landed a job at a firm with more than 500 lawyers, according to the National Association for Law Placement.

At the launch of the Report, a panel of distinguished leading lawyers working both in house and in private practice recognised that increased diversity was in the interests of the law firms themselves, as well as the lawyers.

By 1988, my staff was producing legal opinions at the rate of 5,000 per year for lawyers in private practice who did legal aid cases.

But neither is Quebec, where we learn from the Barreau du Quebec that at the end of 2014, only 39.8 % of lawyers are in private practice.

Ditto in government, where the pressures to tell the client what it wants to hear can be at least as great as in private practice, in part because most government lawyers are employees with just the one client.

To wit, the rate at which lawyers are being hired in - house by corporations is outstripping the rate at which lawyers are going into private practice where they could, were it not for the regulatory blanket, provide innovative services to equalize the power gradient.

On October 15, I will moderate a panel on advancing the careers of women lawyers in both private practice and corporate law departments at the Dorsey & Whitney Corporate Counsel Seminar in Minneapolis.

Axiom hires only lawyers with at least five years experience, and charges 50 - 70 percent less than the cost of hiring a comparable lawyer in private practice, according to Harris.

We have the experience in providing Expert Opinions for courts in other jurisdictions, consulates in China, overseas organizations in the international civil cases, our lawyers were interviewed by Reuters, China Radio International (CRI), Outlook Weekly, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Evening Post and other world famous media on hot legal topics, were invited by European Union Member States (EUMS) to make special report on Chinese law for consular officers from nearly 20 European countries, make presentation at international conferences and provided legal training for newly practicing lawyers and made many professional speeches at legal conferences, such as International Private Law Conference, Civil Procedural Conference, Lawasia conference.

We have the experience inproviding Expert Opinions for courts in other jurisdictions, consulates in China, overseas orgnizations in the international civil cases, our lawyers were interviewed by Reuters, China Radio International (CRI), Outlook Weekly, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Evening Post and other world famous media on hot legal topics, were invited by European Union Member States (EUMS) to make special reporton Chinese law for consular officers from nearly 20 European countries, make presentation at international conferences and provided legal training for newly practicing lawyers and made many professional speeches at legal conferences, such as International Private Law Conference, Civil Procedural Conference, Lawasia conference.

Held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Happy Valley clubhouse and sponsored by Axiom and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the event was attended by in - house counsel and private practice lawyers from across the region.

They should also ensure that associates interact with partners who love being lawyers and can explain to associates why a career in private practice - and at this firm in particular - is fulfilling and worthwhile.

Eligibility: Provided at no charge to all lawyer members of the Law Society who are not in active private practice who qualify for exemption ¹ from payment of insurance premiums and levies.

Getting the Deal Through - Labour & Employment is aimed at all employment and labour law practitioners, including lawyers working in the public and private sectors and those working in - house and in private legal practice.

She qualified as a Family and Private Client lawyer at a top West End practice in 2010 and moved to Vardags to specialise in family law in January 2013.

Charlotte is also an experienced and practising commercial and corporate lawyer, having previously worked in - house at the BBC and Cambridge Assessment, and in private practice at the law firms Allen & Overy (the Netherlands) and Chapman Tripp (New Zealand) where she specialised in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and general commercial and contract law.

Our cover story looks at lawyers who opted out of private practice and are following a career in public service.

(4) LAO LAW at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), is a centralized legal research service for Ontario lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

We will get to you in five hours (at which time you will (a) probably catch the flu from someone else waiting, and (b) get a lousy will from a harried, distracted lawyer who would see you as an intrusion into her day rather than as the life - blood of her private practice).

Comparing the 10 years starting in 1989 and the subsequent 15 year period starting in 1998, the number of private practice lawyers increased more rapidly in the later 15 year period at 2.1 % annually compared to 1.4 % during the earlier 10 year period.

The concept of «good enough means good enough» was discussed — the idea that in - house lawyers often do not have the time to do a «Rolls Royce» document review, and that there was a need for lawyers moving from private practice to become comfortable with the idea that it was better for them to spend 15 minutes looking at a document to highlight the key issues before a meeting, than either (a) for no - one to look at it at all; or (b) to wait for enough time to do a «proper job», only to find that the business couldn't wait for the advice and has gone ahead without any advice at all.

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW, the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for Ontario lawyers in private practice to service legal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor people).

Christine A. Amalfe, President of the NAWL Foundation and Director at Gibbons P.C. in Newark, NJ, described the survey as «the only national study of the nation's 200 largest law firms, which annually tracks the progress of women lawyers at all levels of private practice, including the most senior positions, and collects data on firms as a whole rather than from a subset of individual lawyers.»

Having spent over a decade working in international legal recruitment, Tom has wide - ranging experience of recruiting lawyers at all levels into private practice and in - house roles.

He later moved into legal recruitment where he worked for an international PLC placing lawyers at all levels into private practice and in - house roles.