Sentences with phrase «leave for other firms»

Kirkland's London office is to see seven partners leave for other firms, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer adding a finance partner to a six - partner team heading to Sidley Austin.

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On the other hand, if the province decided not to become involved in the firm shipping market, they would distort the signals received by the regulators in terms of the demand for shipping services, leaving the system short of capacity and lowering the value of Canadian oil in the process.

«I think it's helpful for the government to look at mandating a paid benefit that would be truly beneficial for our country,» says Shiloh Butterworth, the director of employee experience at 210 - person PAE, a Portland, Oregon - based engineering firm that just introduced six weeks of fully paid leave for its employees to care for themselves or others.

The only way to go up was if someone left a position, and even then, you weren't guaranteed the position,» said Salas, who now works as an assistant account executive at Hollywood PR in Boston, where the entire firm comes together every other week for strategy brainstorming sessions.

They also report lower intention to leave the firm for another job, but consistent with the idea that the context matters, the favorable effects appear to depend on the presence of other supportive workplace policies.

Ingredients (serve 2) 2 small carrots, cut into julienne 2 bok choy bunch, cut each leaf along the length in half or thirds 100 g [3.5 oz] enoki mushrooms, separated into small clumps (or other mushrooms of choice, sliced) 80 g [3 oz] firm tofu, thinly sliced 150 g [5 oz, more to appetite] homemade ramen noodles (or rice noodles, or we recommend these soba noodles) 1 tablespoon chickpea flour (or gram flour — besan) 1/2 tablespoon curry powder (of choice) 1 teaspoon turmeric powder 200 ml coconut milk 2 teaspoons coconut oil Few dashes soy sauce (optional) Salt to taste 4 — 6 chayote / daikon radish dumplings (optional) Chopped scallions or spring onions for garnish

Ingredients 3/4 pound (about 3) beefsteak or other large firm tomato, cut into 1 / 2 - inch slices 1 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1 cup fresh whole wheat bread crumbs * 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves, plus more stalks for garnish 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley (optional)

Things I changed: - cut the sugar by about half, using mostly dark brown sugar for the molasses kick - scratched the nutmeg and allspice but added about 1/3 extra of all of the other spices and also added nearly a tsp of ground cardamon - replaced the veggie oil with melted leaf lard - scratched the raisins - baked it on a deep sheet for only ~ 20 minutes - just barely until firm to the touch - then cut that sheet into three layers - replaced the icing with my own 16 ounce cream cheese, 8 ounce butter, ~ 6 ounce heavy cream, ~ 5 ounce honey, 1 tsp vanilla combo - toasted the coconut before dressing the cake.

It made the final few moments interesting as the visitors pushed for another, but they left it too late as Mansfield's defence stood firm and the forward players ran the clock down at the other end of the pitch.

An engineering firm has been hired with the few dollars left in the district's Capital Improvement Fund to pinpoint a cost for parking lot repairs and other high priority projects.

For years consumers have eagerly awaited the public launch of the firm's self - driving cars: autonomous pods that will leave us free to read, watch TV or work on tasks other than driving.

eHarmony is leaving their current Pasadena location for the roomier location and a closer proximity to other technology firms.

Of course, such is the Kindle's lead in the e-reader market that, as Nook UK MD Jim Hilt admits, his firm is primarily fighting Amazon's other rivals for the bigger company's leavings.

Widener University had put him on paid leave in April after it was reported that his consulting firm, Key West Higher Education Associates, had received payments from Student Loan Xpress and other lenders for sponsorship of the school as lender conferences.

Lou Mongello is former attorney and owner of an IT consulting firm who left the practice of law to move with his family to Florida, pursue his passion, and share his love for Disney with others.

For various reasons, some of the remaining firms may switch fuel to natural gas, and others may never switch regardless of fuel costs, leaving a wide range of dependencies on natural gas prices (see Tables 10.15 and 10.21 from EIA's Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey).

After the win, several partners left the firm and filed suit for a larger cut of the fee, arguing that Heins and other lawyers on the firm letterhead had retained a disproportionate cut of the winnings.

Some leave their law firms for in - house positions while others decide to start their own law firms.

And left for greener pastures at other firms.

It is now up to law firms, other legal employers, and the lawyers who work for them to implement mutually beneficial parental leave policies.

But this is not always the case, as when lawyer with carriage of the file suddenly leaves the firm (but leaves the file behind) or becomes unavailable for health or other reasons.

After thinking about it for a couple of months and then also talking to colleagues who had left big firm jobs and started their own solo practices or small firms and also honestly reading things like Lawyerist, reading articles that were on there and looking at... Listening to stories of other people who had done it, I became more and more confident that this was viable for me.

We are recent BigLaw defectors who grappled with these questions, and we asked other BigLaw alums about their experiences with leaving BigLaw for solo or small - firm practice, and life after the leap.

For example, I anticipate that it will be a long, slow battle to get law firms to finally ditch fully justified text in favour of left - justified («ragged right») text, despite countless readability studies that show that fully - justified text that is not professionally typeset (in other words, that is generated by word processing software) is much more difficult to read than left - justified text.

In terms of choosing external counsel, Chang said in some cases they are lawyers he worked with at two previous law firms he was employed at, while for other matters he sticks with a corporate - commercial lawyer who left a large firm and is now at a boutique offering «Bay Street services at less than Bay Street rates.»

And the efforts are even reaching women who leave firms not for other jobs, but for motherhood: According to the article, Skadden, Arps has launched a maternity leave contact program.

Her conclusion is that woman can adapt as much as possible to the demands of their career and their family but ultimately until law firms change, women — and increasingly men — will chose to leave for other more flexible options.

A trend has been noticed where top Cravath Swaine & Moore lawyers are leaving for other top law firms like Kirkland & Ellis.

For those lawyers, schooled under Cohen v. Lord Day & Lord, 75 N.Y. 2d 95 (1989), the prohibition appears absolute: lawyers may not enter into agreements with their law partners that require those who leave the firm to forfeit earned compensation or other benefits if they compete with the firm.

Most associates at large law firms know that they want to leave for other opportunities after 3 - 5 years of training.

Lat questions why firms pay out these huge bonuses; as he points out, Supreme Court litigation is a narrow niche, it's not all that profitable and ethics rules bar Supreme Court clerks from appearing before the court for two years, by which time they may have left the law firm for other employment (most commonly, academia).

In other words, rather than falling into the DIY trap, any free time that is left over would be much better spent networking in the community or working on business develop for the firm.

The firm has tried and / or arbitrated cases involving claims for wrongful termination, age discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, national origin discrimination, racial discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour violations, ERISA violations, sexual harassment, breach of contract, trade secret theft, defamation, violation of family leave laws, whistleblower (including Sarbanes - Oxley Act and Dodd - Frank Act) and many other claims.

At a time when many firms did not have maternity leave policies, Cathy was a resource person for other lawyers in Toronto.

I had left private practice and gone to work for a company in - house BskyB, a media company and I was an in - house lawyer and that exposed me to the world of business in a much more immediate way and I could just see so many ways that law firms could be run efficiently if there were other people other than lawyers kind of, as part of the decision making process and you pool enough skills.

Even those who essentially leave the firm to focus full - time on finding a new job will get to keep their profiles on Howrey's Web site for an undetermined period of time while seeking a new professional home, according to Ruyak and two other sources we've spoken with.

Perhaps the most common reason for leaves of absence involves female lawyers taking time off to care for newborn or other very young children, Above the Law recently reported the results of a survey of law firms offering paid paternity leave.

Partners can remove barriers such as understanding and talking about the unconscious biases around women's readiness for partnership; assisting women to bridge between maternity leave and returning to full - time practice; experimenting with flexible work arrangements for both men and women that do not reduce profitability and many other workplace initiatives that will assist women to stay in the law and help firms become more profitable.

Thomas Dominic: Just like every other firm in the country, mine trumpeted the fact that it had paternal leave as well as maternal leave for when you have a child and you should take it and all of that.

What has the legal profession's upper ranks abuzz is that for decades partners almost never left Cravath voluntarily — not for other law firms, at least, let alone for a firm like Kirkland, which is in some ways Cravath's polar opposite.

On the other hand, as you are leaving you will maintain the same firm handshake, direct eye contact, smile, and say something like, «I have thoroughly enjoyed discussing the internship position with you and I know my knowledge, skills, and previous academic and work experiences would make me an excellent candidate for the job.»

For example, the rapid expansion of enterprises such as SpaceX, renewable energy firms and all manner of private schools may not be currently present in the region, yet once situated, would leave the would - be developers in the dust of others who foresaw the needs that would attend such a radical new regional influx.

Technology start - ups swallowed up most of the available large blocks of office space in downtown San Francisco in the first quarter of this year, pushing up rents at class - A buildings and leaving little space for other firms, even with about three...

Technology start - ups swallowed up most of the available large blocks of office space in downtown San Francisco in the first quarter of this year, pushing up rents at class - A buildings and leaving little space for other firms, even with about three million sq. ft. of new construction now in the pipeline.