Sentences with phrase «much of his legal career»

Mr. Herman is a seasoned lawyer who has spent much of his legal career representing large health insurers, plan administrators, and self - funded health plans in managed care disputes, often arising under the provisions of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

During much of his legal career, he served as primary outside counsel for Cassidy Turley.

Not exact matches

A career in law can be much more varied than the traditional long trek to partnership, says Matt Filkin, legal director of property firm Almacantar

«As much as I think we've moved the conversation importantly forward — and for a certain number of students it's been life - changing and will be career - altering — overall, I think it remains the most significant unfinished business maybe alongside decolonizing and indigenization of legal education.»

Having worked in law firms for much of her career, Emma is experienced in many of the online and information aspects of the legal business.

No one is certain what the future will bring, and there is much speculation, but we thought — as you prepared for your Christmas break and pause for reflection after the usual frantic combination of parties and end of the year closings — we would give you our thoughts on what Brexit might mean for the UK legal sector; and your career.

Emmerich: «One of the biggest changes in the legal world has been the tremendous mobility of partners — people take a much more transactional approach to their career paths.

While I was at law school, I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»

You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater diversity in a profession that remains too white, middle - class, and male to differing degrees in differing parts; you might be anxious about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed about the oversupply of graduates who never achieve legal careers; you might be concerned about preserving the unique identity of your profession (as many at the Bar are); or you might just want to ensure that new recruits in law firms have a basic grip of the fundamentals and can do something useful on day one.

A lot of skills necessary for a successful law career can be developed equally as much, if not more, with a non-law degree — for example, an English literature degree requires you to take complex pieces of writing and analyse them closely, much like you might be doing with legal documents and cases.

Setting aside the matter of relative public access to private practice lawyers over different time periods (and the related question of whether that degree is enough, too much or just right to meet public need), the inescapable conclusion from Malcolm's introduction to the conversation of the growth in the number of exempt lawyers in Ontario is that we should reexamine our notion of what a «typical» legal career looks like.

Moreover, not all of the law students will be planning to enter «Big Law» and too much of a focus on complex commercial applications of legal AI could be a turn off, at least at this early stage in their legal career trajectory.

It wasn't until much later in my legal career that I came to understand that the most effective trial lawyers didn't act like lawyers at all, especially in front of a jury.

For much of his 20 - year legal career, he practiced law with the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie, before moving to Aylesworth LLP, which later became... [more]

Much earlier in her career, Leduc spent a year — from the fall of 1999 to the fall of 2000 — in New Delhi, India, as a junior professional consultant in the legal unit of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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I have a family to support and I would lover to get into any type of legal services to learn as much as I can about my ideal career.