Sentences with phrase «life at the firm»

Based in Kent with her husband and three children, Claire started life at the firm 15 years ago, after graduating in Visual Communication from the Kent Institute of Art & Design, and has since worked her way up the ranks.

To learn more about associate life at the firm in the US, read our Inside View on Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

It all added up to giving a real sense of working life at the firm.

So you leave law school, begin life at a firm, and as a junior attorney, are usually expected to coordinate federal filings.

You can not rely on the graduate website: look into trainee profiles and «days in the life of» to decipher culture and the reality of life at the firm; look at transactions and news stories to ensure you're up to date with the latest work and awards the firm is involved in and also pay attention to some facts and figures — don't name drop these but get them right, as it's embarrassing to get the basics wrong with any names or dates you might wish to mention!

My firm was rather direct in its expectations: work, but don't live at the firm.

The annual evaluation sessions also provide an opportunity to review individual career development issues, assignments, and associates» concerns about any aspect of life at the firm.

Frankly, you'd be foolish to enter the profession without trying out life at a firm for size: it's the best way to prove to yourself as well as recruiters that the profession is for you.

Make the most of the chance to talk to them and find out about life at that firm; it will be evident that you are enthusiastic about the programme and the opportunities on offer.

Not exact matches

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

The asset management firm Standard Life is looking at Ireland as its European base for when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, its CEO told CNBC Tuesday.

Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses like nursing home care, at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research firm.

For instance, «someone has to pay for a mover and cough up the security deposit because you're not necessarily going to get it back from the original apartment if the other person is staying,» says Wynne Whitman, attorney at the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP and coauthor of Shacking Up: The Smart Girl's Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned.

Aberdeen - headquartered energy services firm Wood Group PSN has won a contract with Woodside to provide engineering and construction management services at its Karratha Gas Plant Life Extension program, for an undisclosed amount.

«My group and firm management are committed to ensuring that I deliver excellent client service at all times, but they are also very committed to making sure associates like me have a healthy work - life balance.

The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade - long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.

Healthcare and financial services firms were particularly heavily targeted, and 3.5 % of respondents to the survey said lives had been at stake.

On a late - afternoon call with a life - sciences analyst at a major investment firm, Reynolds walks a fine line between caution and conviction.

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Video Europe, declined to comment at the dinner event when asked if the firm had plans to operate a live TV channel or bid for sports rights.

Life and health insurance firms paid out at approximately the same level.

Joining a big firm is a better life for an angel investor because, well, you do fewer deals at larger dollar amounts.

But she and Beck knew there had to be a market, particularly after calling high - powered businesswomen (Sapone, who grew up in Copenhagen and Paris, had previously done a two - year stint at consulting firm McKinsey) and discovering almost all had live - in nannies or housekeepers.

I lived through the dot - com boom, bust and revival, first as a corporate lawyer at a firm that was pumping out IPOs in the late 1990s, then at a series of consumer Web companies including Excite, MySpace and eHarmony.

Ahead of the release of the Principles book later this month, consider a taste of what life is like at the Westport, Connecticut, investment firm:

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

The five shareholders who demanded Mr. Kalanick's resignation include some of the technology industry's most prestigious venture capital firms, which invested in Uber at an early stage of the company's life, as well as a mutual fund firm.

Having returned with his family to live in Perth, Tim was employed at the well established and highly regarded Perth based funds management firm, Packer & Co, in a business development and client services role.

Gilmartin has spent nearly her entire private - sector professional life at Forest City, joining the firm in 1994 after a post-college stint working for New York City's economic development agency.

Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.

«With everyone focused on the super hot Silicon Alley office market, astute multifamily investors have started thinking about where the people who work at those firms live,» Silverman told The Real Deal.

Thomas Stringer, a site - selection manager at professional services firm BDO, said D.C. can satisfy much of Amazon's wish list, from quality of life to access to mass transit.

Given the prices being paid for companies, investors» returns over the life of the fund are likely to drop into the low to mid-teens, said Hugh H. MacArthur, head of global private equity at the consulting firm Bain & Company, which used to be affiliated with Bain Capital, the private equity firm.

More specifically, the self - assessed valuation of this firm sits at $ 8bn A lofty amount, but living up to this standard will require some serious work.

«Because the government isn't paying your interest, it accrues and is added to your balance,» explains Katie Brewer, a Certified Financial Planner at advisory firm Your Richest Life.

Saxo Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with financial technology firm Phoenix Finance to form a white - label partnership, expected to go live at the beginning of 2017.

While the law does not require that companies provide retirement plans, health plans, dental or vision plans, life insurance plans, or paid vacation time, many firms still provide these benefits and many candidates have come to expect at least some of these benefits, especially as they progress to the higher management positions,» said Andrew Challenger, vice president of global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc..

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

I lived and worked at British firm in Middleeast for six years.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

Dillard's first two prose works, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper & Row, 1974) and Holy the Firm (Harper & Row, 1977), are reflections on the natural environment and on the qualities of human life engendered by living close to and listening to the natural order.

Slowly: out of that sleep that numbs the knife edge, I come home to a various world, to faces and voices, To a blur of angels at this keep, awaiting.Vague prophecies of life somewhat lasting, A testing of steadying heartbeat, of firm susperation.Such is the welcomed review of my waking, I, who long....

First, it would be very rare, indeed, for a couple to want to stay with the purpose of trying to as you say in a past post: ``... at one point be a witness in that broader group,» the church, when it was sooooo clear that the church and pastor were firm in their stance that the couple were living in sin.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

The design of Fish at The Cove, by Spanish firm Capella Garcia, is meant to give guests the impression that they are diving into an underwater world — immersed in the marine life, the rocks, the sand and the flora and fauna that inhabit the ocean.

It has a long shelf life, which is great for keeping on hand, but what makes it truly special is its unique texture — very firm and chewy, holding great shape when cooked and excellent at absorbing all kinds of delicious marinades.

We're going to discuss this at length once I do the one year recap post on life as an ex-long distance runner turned heavy weight lifter (because I'm a firm believer that the shift in my training regimen is what sparked the shift in my diet), but for now you should know that not much is going to change around these parts.

At the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program, DuPont granted top honors to U.K. - based design firm pi global for AidPod, which delivers life - saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages.