Sentences with phrase «magic circle lawyer»
Seeking work experience in every field she possibly could, a taste of magic circle lawyer life at Freshfields got her hooked.
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German carmaker embroiled in emissions scandal brings in magic circle lawyer as it battles with lawsuits
Some of the UK's biggest banks are seeking teams of up to 60 magic circle lawyers as they grapple with new ringfencing regulations that will force them to split their investment and retail banking operations.
Chippy people who aren't in the magic circle et al. suffer from cognitive dissonance and say «well, at least I earn decent money and don't work 36 hour days like those magic circle lawyers.».
Not exact matches
Fellow magic circle firm Linklaters announced a deal with rival technology company RAVN in May, allowing its lawyers to use RAVN's services for a number of automated tasks.
Magic circle firm hires investigations lawyer Wynne Mok from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission
Magic circle duo introduce new flexible working regimes for London lawyers with two years» PQE and above
The magic circle firm's annual corporate responsibility report values the time invested in pro bono work at # 19.2 m. Lawyers at the firm spent a total of 55,348 hours on pro bono matters during 2012 - 13, up from 50,324 hours in the previous year.
Magic circle firm appoints competition partners to lead 40 - strong group of lawyers around the world
The magic circle firm's latest partner promotions, announced last week, included City competition lawyer Kerry O'Connell, who will move from London to Brussels before the end of the year.
The magic circle firm has recruited three external coaches, known as «black belts» in efficiency, to lead training workshops to help the firm's lawyers identify inefficiencies in the way they work, mimicking cost - cutting initiatives developed for the manufacturing industry.
Contrast these comments with what one GC says, witheringly, of the firm he has used most often: «This is a magic circle law firm with great lawyers.
The firm, which last month became the first of the magic circle to file its gender pay gap report, revealing a pay gap of 23 % for non-partner employees, has now announced that when including partners, the overall gender pay gap for all employees and lawyers rises to 60.3 %.
Allen & Overy has made up 21 lawyers in this year's partnership round, including six in the magic circle firm's London headquarters.
The rise in NQ salaries makes it the magic circle firm with the highest base salary for NQ lawyers of the three that have so far announced their salaries for 2016 - 17.
The magic circle firm is expected to open in the city in September with an initial team of five lawyers, but this figure is set to increase to 10 within a year.
Clifford Chance (CC) has made up 24 lawyers to its partnership around the world, including six in the magic circle firm's City headquarters.
Allen & Overy (A&O) has made up 24 lawyers in this year's global partnership promotion round, including ten in the magic circle firm's London headquarters.
As a lawyer at one of the «magic circle» of leading corporate legal firms, Matthew Courtney was expected to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
Magic circle firm hires lawyers from White & Case, Proskauer Rose and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Magic circle firm hands bulk of promotions to lawyers in continental Europe and makes up five in London
He is instructed by solicitors ranging from magic circle firms to sole practitioners, as well as in house lawyers and trades unions.
I am a multi-jurisdictional capital markets and corporate lawyer with magic circle and investment banking experience looking to transition from the voluntary sector back to fuller employment in the legal field.
Magic circle firm ups associate salaries, increases holidays and allows all lawyers to work from home once a week
A quartet of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Tokyo lawyers have left to form a new Japanese boutique, which will become part of the magic circle firm's global relationship firms network.
A&O is set to retain 38 of its 53 newly - qualified lawyers (NQs), giving the magic circle firm a retention rate of 72 %, after 39 offers were made, marking a decrease on the firm's spring round this year when 88 % of trainees were kept on.
Magic circle firm makes the latest in a string of hires in the US as it picks up former government lawyer
Magic circle firms Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won leading roles on Barclays» first contract lawyer roster as the bank prepares to brief firms ahead of a wider global panel review next year, Legal Week can reveal.
The phrase «value for money» appears more frequently: «Very good value for money if you know the right individuals»; «Better value than magic circle»; «They add exceptional value at every stage in the process»; and from one very happy client about his advisers: «They are the best firm in the City: they are extremely good technical lawyers, they know my business and are extremely good value for money.»
Obelisk, which was founded in 2010 by former Linklaters lawyer Dana Denis - Smith (pictured above), has a 1,000 - strong pool of flexible lawyers drawn from magic circle and other City law firms.
As one partner at a large northern practice admits: «There is an acute shortage of good commercial lawyers and the northern magic circle is very resource - constrained.
Whilst a 12 - 15 % bonus would not have been untypical for a mid-level associate in a magic circle law firm, this would have been dwarfed by a typical 40 - 60 % bonus paid by a bulge bracket investment bank to an equivalent level lawyer.
Clifford Chance followed the lead of magic circle rivals Linklaters and Allen & Overy by rolling in base pay and bonuses for junior lawyers to create a package that, while on the face of it is only # 1,000 more than the maximum available last year, guarantees virtually all of its NQ lawyers a salary of # 85,000.
Magic circle - style backstabbing is said to be notably absent among the trainees, and senior lawyers maintaining the most open of open door policies.
Magic circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has barred its lawyers from using the term «Dear Sirs» in emails and legal documents.
The report further states the magic circle firm's US lawyers — based in Washington and New York — will, from now on, use the gender - neutral opening «Dear Ladies and Gentlemen» * insert Mambo No. 5 gag here *.
I think it is a fair point that most lawyers doing publicly funded law will earn considerably less than the magic circle firms will pay newly qualified solicitors but can have a good work - life balance if they regularly work a 40 hour week and have a sufficient income to provide a comfortable living.
The group of 18 new partners — an increase of two on last year — features six London lawyers, including structured finance senior associate Richard Hart, whose promotion comes after the recent review of the magic circle firm's finance offering.
On 8th January, Clifford Chance the world's largest law firm announced the redundancy consultation period for up to 80 of their London office lawyers and, yesterday Allen & Overy, another magic circle firm, announced the likely redundancy of up to 10 lawyers from their Hong Kong office.
All the leading Magic and Silver circle firms will employ specialist legal search and recruitment businesses to headhunt and secure the talent they require across a range of different levels, from paralegals or new qualified lawyers to partners or board level appointments.