Sentences with phrase «lowest tier firms»

The only area of equality found in the analysis is at the lowest tier firms, where neither gender is rewarded for tenure.

Not exact matches

Last year I just squeaked by with firm's «target» number of hours (under 1900), but didn't make the informal practice group target (less than 100 more) and received the low tier bonus for my year (no complaints, wasn't sure I'd get it given how close I was).

Only 4 percent of graduates of lower - tiered schools work in law firms, and many of these graduates work in small, solo practices or in state government jobs.

For now, there are a couple dozen firms in the mid-tier between the leaders and the lower tier.

Some mid-tier firms join the leaders and most fall into the lower tier.

The blog post observes that an alternative hypothesis may be that large firms, which often opt for the stability of size in exchange for lower PPEP, are more advanced in their use of a non-equity partner tier, and that the correlation of NEP tier with declining PPEP may be a red herring.

And like it or not, most prominent firms will favor minority graduates from elite law schools over those who attended lower - tiered schools.

Now, brace yourself for Henderson's highly counterintuitive findings: In his opinion, firms that have switched to two - tier structures that allow so - called «nonequity» partnerships are actually producing lower profits per partner (PPP) and have lower prestige.

For instance, Canadian firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, which is set to merge with Chinese domestic legal giant King & Wood, earned spots at the lower end of the global legal M&A tier.

For the exempted, the question is who is next and will the firm survive; for the «low tiered» they want to show they belong.