Sentences with phrase «more junior partners»

The data — some $ 18 billion in legal invoices — suggests the largest law firms have modified staffing models and reassigned IP litigation work to more junior partners in an effort at cost control.

The fact that the median rate is lower for the «Largest 50» firms than the median rate for «Large Enough» firms indicates a shift of work to more junior partners in the larger firms.

Looking more closely at billing rates for this firm size shows that this result is the effect of two factors: partners doing IP Litigation work have held their rates flat and that work has shifted to more junior partners from more senior partners (see Figure 6).

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Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.

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It's a compromise, and in a compromise, the junior partner has to move more For that compromise.

The junior coalition partners were predicted to lose around 50 seats but ended up ceding more than seven times that number.

It is also clear that this was the high point of their influence, and that the «junior partner» rationale is going to get heard more and more.

«Number 10 need to listen to their Conservative backbenchers and the Conservative Party grass roots more often, and to their minority and junior Coalition partners less often,» he said.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

Left - wing voters are going to punish the junior coalition partner in Lib Dem - Labour marginals, probably by more than the 12 % predicted by the Ashcroft polling.

Since the 1980s, the popularity of other parties has increased such that coalition governments are now typical and expected, with one of the two major parties being the «Senior» partner, and with one or more «Junior» partners ensuring that the coalition retains a majority in the Dáil.

I understand that the legislature thinks it should make itself more meaningful in the overall scheme of things, but after almost a decade of executive government the legislature has turned into a junior partner, reactive and indolent, an echo rather than a voice.

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The federal government is becoming less and less a junior partner, and more and more an equal partner, in the tripartite American method of funding schools.

A newlywed settling into a quaint coastal town, her husband establishing himself as a junior partner in a law firm — what more could she want?

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«Junior partners are not rewarded particularly well when compared to senior associates» salaries, while at the same time being under huge billing pressure without much support from more senior partners.»

The more experienced members often take on mentoring — or senior partner - style — responsibilities to junior members, as was the case with Rivera.

Although senior associates can help manage the work of junior associates and create profits, we believe that value added leveraging is something that will more likely occur at the income or junior partner levels.

Though «some partners micromanage more than others,» juniors got «a surprising amount of responsibility straight away; even when the stakes are higher and I have less I'm never shut out.»

Linklaters has launched a reverse mentoring pilot, with junior lawyers assigned to mentor the firm's more senior partners.

The platform would assign a flag, for example, when it identifies a more - senior lawyer doing work typically done by junior lawyers, or when it finds partners unnecessarily billing to review associates» work.

A common distinction between partners and more junior fee earners is the extent to which they consider the wider needs and ambitions of the business.

Some of the things we have done is ask that the senior partner be the only one who works on the file because of the depth of knowledge can tell us what we need to know in about 30 seconds as opposed to the junior who would spend a lot more time on it.

As a more junior associate, try to pin down who you will be working for and which partners have a practice that really keeps associates busy.

We can propose improvements to free partner non-billable time for billable work, enable junior lawyers to take on more senior work (greater leverage), improve lawyer efficiency to reduce soft write - offs and hard write - downs and improve efficiency of fixed - fee matters.

This is nothing new; more junior (and cheaper) lawyers often do the leg work on a file while more expensive partners set the strategy and handle the thorny problems.

As they work together, the senior partners can transmit their wisdom while observing and advising the more junior lawyers in leadership techniques.

(11) Evidence of a lack of adequate planning for transferring client responsibility from the more senior partners to mid-level and junior partners, which often reaches a head with a fall - off in business due to an unanticipated and unplanned - for client departure, or the end of a significant matter that has kept several attorneys and staff fully occupied but with no plans for how to replace that business.

Law.com: More Law Firms Boost Pay for Associates A Key Factor for Associate Raises: Location, Location, Location Sullivan & Cromwell Boosts Associates» Pay Hogan & Hartson and Dickstein Shapiro Raise First - Year Associate Pay Drinker Biddle to Add More Salary Partners Keker Matches Associate Salary Hikes More Law Firms Match Regional Salary Hikes DLA Piper Raises First - Year Pay to $ 125K Large Miami Firms Boost Associate Pay by Nearly 10 Percent Latham Boosts Associate Salaries Wilson Sonsini Follows the Trend and Raises Salaries L.A. Firms Lift Associate Salaries Gibson Dunn Bumps Up First - Year Pay to $ 135,000 Finnegan Raises Salaries for Junior, Midlevel Associates Cravath Reveals Bonus Figures, While Kenyon Raises Associate Salaries

«[P] ermanent equity can encourage law firm partners to adopt a longer - term perspective and become more attuned to the best interests of junior lawyers and clients.»

While it is unusual for law firm leaders to seek guidance or role models among younger, less experienced lawyers, junior partners and even associates have a lot to offer more senior lawyers with respect to these three leadership abilities.

Of course, one reason GCs may be willing to tolerate higher fees for senior partners and not for junior associates is the perception that the senior partners offer more bang for the buck in less time.

The importance of leading the local market on trainee and junior lawyer salaries will have to be balanced with the fact that Burges Salmon has been feeling a bit more pressure of late amid a small decline in revenue from # 87.4 million to # 87 million and a 16 % drop in profit per equity partner from # 523,000 to # 438,000 in what managing partner Peter Morris has described as a «challenging» financial year.

More and more the senior partners are now paid on their billings and mentorship is delegated to unwilling junior partners (who are also paid on billinMore and more the senior partners are now paid on their billings and mentorship is delegated to unwilling junior partners (who are also paid on billinmore the senior partners are now paid on their billings and mentorship is delegated to unwilling junior partners (who are also paid on billings).

In past years, the only BD training program offered by most law firms consisted of mentoring tips often presented ad - hoc by senior partners to more junior colleagues.

• The size of the typical files in Winnipeg provides junior lawyers with the opportunity to fill a higher - level role on files and work directly with the lead partner at a more junior career stage.

I find a great contrast here with the large accounting firms, where senior partners seem far more concerned about the prospects of their junior partners.

Each group — led by two influential partners and other lawyers — meets regularly, shares information, and enables junior and mid-level lawyers to gain valuable insight from more senior lawyers.

Nonetheless, home secretary Theresa May is annoyed at the Liberal Democrats, her Conservative Party's junior coalition partner, for blocking moves to reintroduce a repeatedly floated, and repeatedly shot - down, «Snooper's Charter» — more properly known as the Communications Data Bill.

First come the researchers who identify candidates, then come junior associates who qualify the candidates; and after that come the consultants and partners who do more in - depth interviews, assessments, and manage the engagement through its successful completion.

If you have an existing recruiting team, many executive search firms offer solutions whereby they can partner with your existing HR / Talent Acquisition departments to assist them with everything from creating an ideal talent profile, sourcing of those ideal talent, or training more junior level in - house recruiters how to headhunt for themselves.

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«Junior professionals» gain more exposure to top leaders and build confidence, says Minneapolis managing partner Jeff Cotton.