Sentences with phrase «majority of my legal work»

For the vast majority of legal work, it's assumed that most law firms have the legal skills to do the work well enough.

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The statements, which were made public by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal work.

Ousted Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal work.

Although you will need to provide proof of debt and income, the majority of work falls back on the legal professional.

On the whole, when a vast majority of scientists from a wide variety of disciplines have moved on and only want to be allowed get on with their work, not argue with diehard dissidents, stubborn backsliders, and well - financed PR, along with misguided legal campaigns (Mann et al.), you may assume it's because they've satisfied themselves to the best of their ability that the facts are as stated.

The vast majority of partners believe law firms need to do more to make corporate networking activities more inclusive for both men and women, with 97 % of female respondents to a Legal Week survey saying work events are still too focused on traditionally male interests.

Dawn has been working as a Paralegal in the legal field for 19 years, with the majority of that time has been primarily in the law practices involved in personal injury litigation.

The majority of my work is for the Infrastructure Finance Team but I also step in wherever the legal team need extra support in advising lending services across the bank, including the network offices which the London legal team support.

Some of our own research, based on $ 18 billion in legal invoices, found the largest law firms are winning a majority of high value IP litigation work.

The majority of in - house lawyers have reservations about Deutsche Bank's plan to stop paying panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers, but believe the move is likely to start a trend, according to a new Legal Week survey of corporate counsel.

The overwhelming majority of partners at commercial law firms believe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to cut # 350m from its annual legal aid budget will lead to a «brain drain» of talented lawyers from publicly - funded work.

Large majorities of law firm leaders responding to the survey agree that greater price competition, practice efficiency, commoditization of legal work, competition from nontraditional service providers, and non-hourly billing are all permanent changes in the legal landscape.

The most informative result from the survey is that a substantial majority, 51 67.5 percent, of the respondents reported that they had worked on a legal matter that required them to know something about foreign and / or international law.52 This response (see Appendix C) supports our original thesis that international and comparative legal issues have become part of the general practice of law.

With only a few coveted training contracts floating about within the ocean of budding lawyers - to - be — of which the majority will be on track for a solid 2:1 degree plus have well - rounded commercial awareness and a catalogue of legal work experience — how can you intrigue graduate recruitment enough for them to swipe right on your application?

This required substantial legal work, since the laws in this Arab country required a majority shareholder ship of the local partner.

If you are within the legal industry, the majority of hires have gone to college, law school, then worked in law.

A significant majority of respondents (80 %) indicated that work experience (both paid and unpaid) had helped further their career in legal aid.

For the early majority some of the most exciting work in legal tech is around supervised machine learning and bringing e-discovery in house.

Understanding the level of our clients» sophistication, our Members handle most of the substantive work in the majority of our legal malpractice cases.

The LSUC ABS Working Group Report, submitted to Convocation in September, rejects majority outside ownership of legal firms.

Felicissimo is part of the majority of survey respondents who work in legal departments with less than five lawyers — 56.4 per cent — and perhaps carry a little less budget muscle than, say, the big five banks, which have been the primary drivers of AFAs including value billing.

The majority of the legal counsels and even the IP litigators I know do not have an academic or university degree in a technical field, let alone gained any working experience in such a field.

In a limited scope representation, the client handles the majority of the preparation (leg work) and the attorney handles the difficult legal aspects of the case.

The data shows that the majority of lawyers who self identify as members of an equity - seeking group have joined the legal profession since the inception of the Society's equity work.

The legal team at communications giant Sky, led in the UK and Ireland by GC Vicky Sandry, prides itself on keeping the majority of its work in - house.

What is being published about the consequences of the problem is very negative: （ 1 ） the legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; （ 2 ） young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, （ 3 ） the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; （ 2 ） young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, （ 3 ） the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help them.

A new survey of law firm leaders reveals that partners at a majority of the firms don't have enough work, and that demand for legal services is lagging behind pre-recession levels.

If the «vast majority» of legal work was customized, the Indian legal outsourcing industry would not be thriving to the extent it is now.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias is instructive for those who believe that large law firms will always have an unassailable stranglehold on the vast majority of corporate legal work:

He has spent the majority of his career working at the forefront of innovation in the legal industry.

And I also think as a legal industry unlike other industries where Artificial Intelligence is more of a threat, you look at transportation and I think there's going to be some real questions there as to what AI and its effects are, but in law, you have the majority of people, who need a lawyer not being able to afford it, and so I think there's this huge leading market and I actually think AI could end up allowing lawyers to do more work being more profitable as a law firm, and I think most importantly, helping further access to justice in that process.

According to the 2014 Law Firms in Transition Survey from Altman Weil, a large majority of law firm leaders report that greater pricing competition, practice efficiency, commoditization of legal work, competition from nontraditional legal service providers,... Read More»

According to the 2014 Law Firms in Transition Survey from Altman Weil, a large majority of law firm leaders report that greater pricing competition, practice efficiency, commoditization of legal work, competition from nontraditional legal service providers, and non-hourly billing arrangements are all permanent changes in the legal landscape.

Their work determines the reputation of the legal profession for the majority of society.

Indeed, it would be a grave mistake for practitioners to accept volume work on the basis that, across the board, the majority of consumer loans are capable of being written off, once the appropriate legal challenge is mounted.

A majority of law firms surveyed (71 %) report providing discounts or writing off legal work even before invoicing clients.

I'm not an immigration lawyer and the majority of the work I did would not constitute classic «legal» work.

But a strong majority of respondents oppose making pro bono work mandatory, and 60 per cent feel lawyers offering free legal services could discourage governments from providing sufficient legal aid funding.

I have the perfect job of being a lawyer with a plus, which is being a businessman and the majority of my work is not the practice of law but helping my management team make business decisions with the addition of a legal background that helps them make decisions about things they might not always think about.

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Of course some of them you see on screen, as Journalists and Presenters, but the majority are working hard behind the scenes - in Technology and Product Development, HR, Finance, Legal and Customer Service, to name but a feOf course some of them you see on screen, as Journalists and Presenters, but the majority are working hard behind the scenes - in Technology and Product Development, HR, Finance, Legal and Customer Service, to name but a feof them you see on screen, as Journalists and Presenters, but the majority are working hard behind the scenes - in Technology and Product Development, HR, Finance, Legal and Customer Service, to name but a few.

Mr. Rich discussed how legislative extremists and hardliners are working to ban abortion, despite the fact that a majority of people think the procedure should be legal.

It's unclear whether these substantial flaws are because of personal agendas (Hagen believes her own brother was falsely accused of sex abuse), because their initial works are about a decade old now and some things have changed (Dineen also hails from Canada which may trail behind the U.S. in psycho - legal trends), because neither of them considered what policies and practices move the big MHP divorce industry bucks, or because — hailing from the MHP community themselves — they have failed to see their own shared cultural biases with a majority of that community and how they themselves have been propagandized into a particular point of view.