Sentences with phrase «litigation at a big firm»

Not exact matches

When I was practicing at the big firm I used to be jealous of my compatriots who did a lot of travel and took depositions, because their hours billed sitting on an airplane, reading a magazine were just as good as my hours billed reading cases on Westlaw and actually drafting, and I did a lot more that kind of thing and it's hard to achieve the same level of billable hours doing what I do than it is in other areas like just regular litigation.

«We've hired some laterals and promoted some talented associates, but we're still under - sized in comparison to the M&A powerhouses and big litigation teams at other New York firms.»

For Thomson Reuters, the big news at LegalTech was the announcement of its new «legal solutions» product strategy and its release of three products tied to that strategy: Concourse, a suite of tools for corporate and government legal professionals; Firm Central, a practice management platform for small firms; and Hosted Practice Technology, a suite of litigation - related tools.

Many of this year's Top 10 litigation boutiques have acted for some of Canada's biggest banks, energy firms, and telecommunications companies securing wins at every level of court.

James Ferguson, partner and head of family at Boodle Hatfield, whose main departments are property, private client and tax, corporate, family and litigation, said: «Emily joins the family team at an exciting time — the demand for high quality, international family law is growing — and her appointment will further enhance the firm's domestic and international reputation in advising on big ticket and complex family breakdowns.»

A survey released by one of the big players claims that 70 per cent of litigation partners at the country's leading law firms reckon that clients are showing an increasing interest in turning to commercial funders.

Recently I've had discussions with several lawyers at big firms and at litigation boutiques, all of whom have a clear understanding of their obligations and their clients» obligations to preserve, review and produce electronic documents, but all of whom seem to be stymied by the apparently uncontrollable, even irrational costs of ediscovery.

When a big case is on its way to trial, the large firm develops its own litigation graphics, and the law firm bills the client for in - house graphics in the same way (albeit at a lower rate) that lawyers are billed out.

His career spans 25 years, and in that time Chuck has served as a top eDiscovery consultant, an operations director for a Big Eight consulting firm, and as a litigation and practice support manager at an AMLAW 50 law firm.

These well - informed sources, as well as courthouse data, tell me that case filings are down and that litigation at big law firms is down.

They hire us because they know that — unlike the «litigation departments» at most big firms — we try cases.