Sentences with phrase «many major law firms»

King & Wood Mallesons has broken with tradition and become the first major law firm in Perth with a fully open - plan office.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

He now pitches himself to companies in transition — like the major law firm where he works today — and has a more fulfilling career managing organizational change.

«For example, if I hack into a major law firm and then realize that this law firm has direct communication channels with the Fortune 50, then I can leapfrog from this law firm into all of those entities,» said Tom Kellermann, chief security officer at cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro.

Slowly but steadily, major law firms embracing flexible work are helping transform the landscape.

A former corporate lawyer, Barbara graduated from Stanford Law School and practiced securities litigation at a major law firm in New York City.

Ian Stock's career spans thirty - plus years in the US and Europe, working at major law firms and independently.

It's increasingly impossible to be the leader of a major corporation or to get a job at a major law firm.

«Harvey Newkirk, an attorney with a major law firm with an obligation and responsibility to practice law in good faith, instead violated the law by lying and defrauding lenders out of millions of dollars in an attempt to help his client purchase Maxim Magazine,» said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

In a culture in which it can almost seem eccentric not to be «of counsel» to a major law firm that represents clients with state business, say, or to have a beef with the practice of steering pork, tax breaks or other public benefit to political donors, this sets significant precedent.

ALBANY — On Friday, Republican and Democratic leaders of the Assembly and Senate, along with two major law firms that employ some of their members, legally challenged subpoenas by the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

Woo Lee - kyung worked at a major law firm as a secretary when she fell head - over-heels in love with Byun - hyuk, a rising star attorney in the firm.

In fact, over a decade ago my situation was reversed — I supported my husband quite well (I was a corporate attorney at a major law firm) for four years while he went back to school and completed an electrical engineering degree.

Squire Patton Boggs has become the latest major law firm to pull out of Ukraine, having closed its office in Kiev as part of a restructuring in the region.

A few major law firms are getting the message.

A lawyer at a major law firm accidentally copied a Wall Street Journal reporter on an email transmitting privileged client information.

The decision represents the second time the deadline for signing up to the plan — which if passed will be the quickest settlement ever reached in a major law firm bankruptcy — has been pushed back.

You also notice that Jim is now a partner at a major law firm.

Two leading advisors to major law firms predicted a declining demand for legal services, a 15 % drop in net income from 2008, the inability to raise rates, additional layoffs, salary freezes and cost cutting, heavier fee discounting, expenses rising faster than revenues — and a long wait for better times.

Graphics tend to be more visually appealing than HTML text (even when formatted with bolding, colors, etc.), so it's no wonder many graphic designers like to deliver major law firm announcements via email using a single, large, snazzy graphic.

CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with many major law firms in Québec that make their legal commentary freely available on the organization's website.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the first major law firm to post retention rates for its spring 2014 intake, with the firm set to keep on 84 % of its newly - qualified (NQ) lawyers.

Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.

Instead, his first task would be to help his client, a major law firm, attract victims of the toxic dumping.

The venture is backed by major law firms, as well as leading universities UCL and The University of Liverpool.

In para 3.2 of his latest speech at the Costs Law and Practice Conference on 30 September, he reported that the Chairman of the Dispute Resolution Committee of Birmingham Law Society had been told by the heads of litigation of six or seven of major law firms that costs management and costs management were positively viewed and regarded as «helpful».

An interesting quirk in the CLOC Institute exhibit hall was the number of major law firms that had a booth.

PRIME, the ground - breaking social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms earlier this month, looks set to be expanded to include the London offices of several leading US firms, with White & Case and Shearman & Sterling among those lining up to get involved.

We have done this for litigators from all major law firms on more than 10,000 cases.

Celebrating its best rankings in this year's prestigious «Legal 500» listing of the major law firms in England and Wales, Harrison Clark Rickerbys has not only received more top - level accolades than ever before but also firmly established its position at the legal top table in the area.

As the market matures and expands then we'd expect most major law firms to be offering legal advice with respect to smart contracts.

A number of major law firms have formed multidisciplinary practice groups to help clients manage financial difficulties in response to the turbulence in the financial markets.

Ms. Nava practiced law in Mexico from 1989 to 1996 and since 1996 has practiced in the US with major law firms until joining Sheppard Mullin in 2017.

Like it or not, the truth facing any major law firm looking to float is that the vagaries of the recruitment market will play havoc with a share price.

She has over 20 years of experience in senior administrative roles in major law firms, including Cleary and Debevoise.

Another consideration about the strength or weakness of the case: while I've seen major law firms represent dubious cases, the statistical likelihood of a complaint being at least somewhat serious is increased by the involvement of a large and reputable law firm.

Prior to the official start of LegalTech New York 2015 this morning, a few dozen legal professionals from large corporate law departments and major law firms gathered at the «LTNY 2015 Kick - Off Breakfast» to discuss the keys to success... Read More»

Christina is a M&A and corporate lawyer with background in major law firms and as an in - house counsel.

(* For legal market observers outside of the UK it can be the case that London usually gets all the limelight, but Leeds for example, which is 25 miles from York, is regarded as an important regional legal centre with major law firms such as DLA Piper and Squire Patton Boggs having offices there.)

Before that, she spent seven years at major law firms in Wisconsin and Ohio practicing commercial civil litigation.

Every major law firm and corporate legal department lives daily under the looming threat of an imminent cybersecurity crisis.

Whereas a major law firm may go to trial perhaps a dozen or two dozen times per year and a single litigator may go to trial every few years, a single litigation consultant at A2L will be involved in at least a dozen trials and often several dozen trials or more, every single year.

Nowadays, most major law firms consider 2000 billable hours a year a minimum threshold.

In addition, almost every website for a major law firm and corporation has a page devoted to recruiting and hiring needs, so check specific employers you wish to target.

Of course, this report was prepared before major law firm cutbacks, at a time when women actually could leave and find options at other firms.

At least, that's the thrust of this article, «Lawyers, Fun & Money: Brain Drain Hits Major Law Firms,» by Saira Rao, New York Post (12/31/06).

More and more, that DC legal story — particularly as it relates to the major law firms, courts and legislative branch — is really a national story.

Until then, I wonder: Are major law firms in the U.S. slashing billable rates, as well?

Since New York, and specifically the First Department covering Manhattan, involves essentially every major law firm in the United States, the implications of this decision are staggering for the future of blogging.

Coudert isn't the first major law firm to file for bankruptcy.