Sentences with phrase «most junior lawyers»

As a result, most junior lawyers and their families face a very negative economic future, and do so at a time when people have never needed lawyers more.

Last week we broke the news that Deutsche Bank is set to stop paying for panel firms» most junior lawyers.

Linklaters is set to trial a new scheme where some of the global outfit's most senior partners receive mentoring from its most junior lawyers.

This allowed even the most junior lawyers to come up with ideas for problem - solving with the safety net of a manager's experience and perspective.

But today I'm going to blog about the 1980s, when AQW's most senior lawyers were budding young activists with shining ideals and great glasses - and AQW's most junior lawyer was a tot crammed somewhat unsafely into a single - kid stroller shared with her big sister, who was six years old and clearly capable of just walking.

Not exact matches

For example, although most of a lawyer's job can not be automated — yet — AI applied to extract information and model topics has automated parts of junior lawyers» jobs, according to the Stanford study.

The most frequent argument in support of ghostblogging is that senior lawyers routinely enlist the services of juniors to write memos, documents, CLE papers and the like, and then place their own names on the resulting product (often, but not always, with a front - page footnote thanking the junior for his or her «assistance.»)

Most firms, especially US law firms, are keen to look for junior and mid-level lawyers to join.

Most trainees and junior lawyers barely exceed nine hours on a typical day, arriving just after nine and leaving just after six (see average arrive and leave times below).

Junior lawyers say being valued and the quality of work and clients are the most important things to them at work

Ask one or both of the following questions: «What qualities does your most valued junior lawyer have?»

Given most law firms run training programmes for juniors, there are not many opportunities as these firms prefer to retain their own trainees for newly qualified lawyer roles.

Most partners enjoy mentoring junior lawyers and fancy themselves good at it.

An alternative hypothesis is that firms that spend less than $ 500k are retaining firms for low stakes matters on which junior lawyers do most of the work.

That is a real shame (and perhaps a reason many elite junior lawyers are not adequately familiar with some of the most pressing modern criminal law issues).»

And realistically, it's the junior lawyers who are «in the trenches» who are most likely to have their finger on the pulse of the procedures in the courthouse and can be the most helpful.

Where appropriate, we attempt to have junior lawyers or law clerks involved, on a supervised basis, so that the most cost effective service can be provided.

The transfer of legal know - how and experience from the most senior female lawyers to the juniors has helped maintain a high percentage (39 %) of female attorneys.

But firms that recognize the importance of a long - term investment in talent are looking at how they can most effectively nurture the professional development and cultivate the loyalty of junior lawyers.

In order for junior lawyers to be most productive, lawyers tasked with managing projects and the performance of others can benefit from tailored workshops focused on the core skills necessary for competence as a manager and leader.

The direction of growth tends to be positive but the fact is that during the recession junior lawyers were the ones to suffer the most in terms of layoffs and they are disproportionately more diverse than their senior counterparts.

Most lawyers, even junior lawyers, are typically responsible for managing staff as part of their legal practice.

«I think it's critical for lawyers to get involved in professional organizations to help them build skills, because every lawyer — from the most junior associate to the most seasoned senior partner — can improve and learn new things,» says Diamond, who, along with Feldman, are the newest partners at boutique law firm Bales Beall LLP.

(We see junior lawyers with less than four years of experience claiming expertise in two or three fields, which typically means that they have researched an issue or two in each, at most.)

And LSUC's TAG (The Action Group), i.e., law students and junior lawyers organizing TAG's «technology and access to justice» work (most recently its «Access to Justice Week,» October 23 - 27, 2017), which can not possibly compensate their very expensive legal education with anything more than a severely financially depressed career.

Our Firm employs a dedicated research lawyer and has a very high number of junior lawyers and students who have done legal research and clerking at most levels of Court.

But the traditional small - town local lawyer is under the gun: many communities that size are declining, and the lawyers there are older, less likely to have juniors to whom to pass on the practice, and generally work in areas (real estate, wills, document creation) most vulnerable to new competitors from outside the profession.