Sentences with phrase «made head of the firm»

Alex joined Lewis Silkin in 2013, and was made head of the firm's sports business group in 2014.

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«This incident has really contributed to changing the strategic environment in which these key pipeline infrastructure decisions are going to be made,» says Mark McClelland, head of North American research for risk - analysis firm Maplecroft.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

Mr. Penn has spoken before diverse audiences ranging from executives of major venture capital firms, to state Departments of Education heads, to aspiring college students looking to make their mark on the world.

The suit says that after Ms. Pao filed a formal complaint about Mr. Nazre with Mr. Schlein, Mr. Lane and Mr. Doerr, the partners promoted Mr. Nazre to be the head of the firm's green technology unit, making him her direct boss, and moved him to an office directly across from hers.

WASHINGTON — President Obama pressured the heads of the nation's biggest banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large bank to make more loans and vaguer assurances from others.

Without the ideal location and ideal tenant, many of those investors «will not get the kind of money they need to make returns,» said office and retail broker Norman Bobrow, who heads his own Madison Avenue - based firm.

And US moves to stifle Chinese tech companies, such as a recent ban on selling American - made parts to smartphone maker ZTE, are only likely to confirm Beijing's view that it needs to do more to bolster its domestic industries, according to Louis Kuijs, head of Asia for research firm Oxford Economics.

You have to make sure it's pesticide free,» said Fabien Robert, Nestle's head of quality for the Americas, adding that the new facility could enable the firm to do more testing for pesticides and genetically modified organisms.

To make this happen, put something firm underneath the head of the baby's mattress.

But if he starts to lose his hair in areas with cradle cap, or if his head becomes firm, warm, red or has areas of drainage, which could indicate an infection, make an appointment with his pediatrician.

The firm is co-owned by Michael Caputo, who heads its Buffalo office and personally handles much of the authority's interaction with reporters, including requests made under the state Freedom of Information Law.

Insurance firm AXA UK's head of underwriting David Williams commented: «A simple and comprehensive insurance solution is a crucial milestone in making autonomous vehicles on our roads a reality.

Cuomo appoints the head of the state housing agency that gave the firms housing bonds, and he nominated four of the board members of the MTA — including its CEO — who made the decision to direct the transportation bond work to the three firms.

loosing muscle in the face can make wrinkles worse, I do facial exercises for the face and it keeps my face firm and younger looking, try this one, tilt your head back onto your shoulders so that you are looking up at the ceiling or sky, then try to get your bottom lip over your top lip and hold it there for a count of ten, also with the same head position try and kiss the ceiling, with both of these you should get a firmness around your jaw line up to your ears, do about 50 at a time twice a day.

Fortunately, Chandor has a stellar ensemble cast of actors at his disposal, most of whom are at the top of their game here — particularly Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons as the steely head of the firm, and Paul Bettany in a dynamic performance that makes you wonder why he's been wasting his time making genre films for the past few years.

After being asked by the head of the gun lobby to conduct a campaign that makes guns more palatable to the female voter, Sloane abandons her conservative lobbying firm to join a small band of lobbyists pushing for a stricter gun control bill.

Noting that NOBL is one of the firm's most popular smart beta ETFs, ProShares head of capital markets Steve Sachs says, «The idea is you're looking for S&P exposure but you like the concept of dividend growth because we know over the long term dividends make up a lot of the return.»

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.

ETF experts Matt Hougan, CEO of ETF.com, a leading ETF research firm and Matthew Peron, head of Global Equity at giant wealth management firm, Northern Trust provide the answers you need to make the best investment decisions on this tenth season premiere.

And while the JRPG genre — nay, the Japanese development scene in general — scurries around trying to make itself more relevant or rides the coattails of greatness, Square Enix demonstrates exactly how it got into its respected position — the firm keeps a cool head, returns to a tattered blueprint and approaches it from a fresh direction to create one of the most adept, alluring and downright addictive RPG experiences in recent memory.

Horvath, Dewey's former European M&A practice head and member of its European Council, was made executive partner as the firm began to experience financial difficulty last year, before it was eventually wound up.

Charles Landgraf, the former head of the defunct US firm's Washington DC office, has also alleged the lender made misrepresentations at the time of the loan.

RPC head of insurance and reinsurance James Miller on what makes the firm a Best Legal Adviser for 2016 - 17

As the UK's new Apprenticeship Levy came into force last week, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, reveals to Lawyer Monthly she is sceptical that firms will have the motivation to overcome the bureaucratic and cultural hurdles required to make new apprentices a staple of the white - collar workforce in the UK.

«Engineering Firm Aims to Head Off Sewage Overflows «Crain's Detroit BusinessMarch 7, 2011 — Brooks Kushman client, Applied Engineering Technologies, Inc. was featured in the «Focus: Innovations: Patents» section of the March 7, 2011 issue of Crain's Detroit Business for creating a patented method to make sewer treatment systems more environmentally friendly.

«That completely flips on its head when the firm is on an AFA for a matter, their incentive then is to be as efficient as they possibly can because they can then make more money as a result of that, not necessarily more in terms of the total amount that is delivered to the firm but more money on an hourly basis.»

However, elsewhere the firm has made a number of high profile hires including, in March, CC's London competition partner Alastair Mordaunt, who relocated to Freshfields» Hong Kong office to head up the competition practice there.

Led by the firm's head of real estate Andrew Bembridge, the deal was made even more challenging by the fact it was a share sale transaction and there were no warranties on the underlying environmental state of the properties, requiring extensive due diligence procedures from all parties (including ensuring that representations made at interviews between the buyer and seller on environmental issues were not binding).

One of the country's Big Five firms, Bowman Gilfillan made additions to its corporate practices in October last year, enticing John Bellew away from Johannesburg - headquartered rival Webber Wentzel to be its head of private equity, bringing with him partner James Westgate and senior associate Timothy McDougall.

As the firm's Managing Attorney, and the head of their Trusts, Appellate, and Surrogate's Court practice teams, Rob is a frequent point of contact for all of the firm's clients, and he is always available to answer their questions, doing so in a way that makes even the most complex issues easy to understand.

This means if I make no money for the first six months of owning a law firm, I will be able to pay my bills, eat, and keep a roof over my head.

The recent Supreme Court decision in R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor that makes employment tribunal fees unlawful raises important questions for affected claimants and employers, says Andrew Masters, a Partner and Head of Employment at UK law firm Furley Page.

It's necessary at times, for the livelihood and success of the firm, to pop your head up, see what's going on in the marketplace, and see whether your firm needs to make some changes.»

But of this rare corporate humour, he wonders, «if that is reflected in the client experience — in fact, I wonder if any of these and many other claims are really in the DNA of the firms making them, given the contrary, individualistic, pig - headed nature of many lawyers.

The firm made two laterals in 2017, bringing in tax disputes specialist Liesl Fichardt from Clifford Chance and Hastings, Addleshaw Goddard's former head of civil fraud.

By the end of 2017, eight law firms among the top 100 had partnerships making up less than 25 percent of their head count: Paul Weiss (14.8 %), Cravath (15 %), DavisPolk (15.03 %), Cleary Gottlieb (15.62 %), Ropes & Gray (21.08 %), Shearman (21.77 %), Covington (24.49 %) and WilmerHale (24.75 %).

Nikki Leatherland, Head of HR at Peters & Peters, a leading commercial litigation and business crime boutique, talks to us about her HR career, the choices she's made, working flexibly and the benefits of working for both large law firms and boutiques.

As a brain and head injury law firm, we help make sense of the situation, ask the right questions, and connect you with skilled medical or support professionals.

The Glenn Law Firm is committed to aggressively pursuing drivers who cause head - on collisions and will make sure that surviving victims receive compensation for their injuries as well as any medical treatments or debts incurred as a result of the accident.

Openly declaring his managerial ambitions while still at a relatively junior stage in his career, he made partner in 1999 and within three years had been appointed as head of the firm's Asia practice.

A blow to the head may cause serious and lasting injury, making it one of the primary focuses of our firm.

Designed to increase the firm's presence in the Asia - Pacific region, the addition of 700 antipodean lawyers will mean that DLA will comprise more than 4,000 lawyers globally, making it the world's largest firm by head count.

The good news is that as the head of the Advertising Technology & Media group, my experiment was an easy one to sell and, in fairness, once the rationale was provided and the decision to go was taken, the firm has been bending over backwards to make it successful.

Jim Bob Bowie, head of the firm's venerable Insurance Defense section, said the higher rates and overhead at the London - based Jones & Smith did not make sense for his group.

But as of early afternoon Tuesday, neither Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg nor his high - profile chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, had made public comments about the mushrooming crisis, which now involves a reported Federal Trade Commission probe, demands by Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill for testimony by Zuckerberg, and the release of an undercover video by a British television station that appears to show the head of the data analytics firm talking about bribes and traps to sway elections.

Given property is often the second biggest cost of a law firm behind head count, I wonder what the impact would be of scaling back prestigious offices and reinvesting some of the capital in technology that would make a real difference for clients.

• The shared vision of where the firm is headed is only shared among a few — lack of transparency in decisions made; lack of consultation with partners; historic partnership versus a centrally managed one; etc..

Mark Dunn, head of risk and compliance at LexisNexis, says: «The regulatory authorities are likely to clamp down hard on law firms that do not adhere to the new regulations so companies need to make sure that they don't run the risk of being penalised.»

Bruce MacEwen makes an impassioned case for a course on firm economics as a service for associates» customers — BigLaw — and points to a handful of schools that he thinks are headed in the right direction.