Sentences with phrase «new job as a lawyer»

Today we hear from Andrea Hall, Founder and Principle of US based The Hall Law Office, LLC, on the crucial steps to take when you first walk in to your new job as a lawyer.

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As a result, a new job has risen to the top this year: lawyer.

I was a lawyer before joining ING Direct, as Tangerine was called then, and when I started my new job at the bank, I was trying to be something I thought I was supposed to be.

I started this blog, Gluten - Free on a Shoestring, in March 2009, after I was laid off from my job as a senior practicing lawyer in a large law firm in New York.

«Our concern is that [Harris] can't devote her full - time attention to her job as deputy mayor,» said Gene Russianoff, a senior lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

-- Alicia Glen's «Power Move» — Alicia Glen, to New York Magazine: «Years ago, I left my job as a lawyer to work for city government.

«As a lawyer, lawmaker and activist, Eric has never wavered in his commitment to protecting consumers, working for quality jobs and taking on tough fights on behalf of the women and men of New York,» Ward continued in a statement released by Schneiderman's campaign.

I juggle a part - time job as lawyer, and the other half of my days are spent blogging (all of that is mixed in with my favorite job (s): new mama and wife).

In November of 2007, the Department of Education formed a new group, the Teacher Performance Unit (TPU); a team of five lawyers and consultants who were tasked with the job removing teachers that the department identified as «bad».

Freshly retired from his day job as a successful Harvard and Yale - educated lawyer, Whit Conrad began to take classes at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture; what started out as a lark became a passion.

As new research reveals lawyers are finding their jobs more stressful than ever, Georgina Stanley asks whether law firms are doing enough to combat work - based anxiety and other mental health issues Statistics on mental illness speak for themselves.

The two major U.S. legal research companies, West and LexisNexis, both separately announced new initiatives and new Web sites to help laid off lawyers as they make the transition to new jobs.

As it turned out I moved to New York from California for my first job as a lawyer and I discovered that even though I could still go on that path I actually really liked practicing laAs it turned out I moved to New York from California for my first job as a lawyer and I discovered that even though I could still go on that path I actually really liked practicing laas a lawyer and I discovered that even though I could still go on that path I actually really liked practicing law.

Just a few months into his new job as managing partner of Holland & Knight, Steven Sonberg had already started putting his stamp on the 1,100 - lawyer firm, the National Law Journal reported last month.

As the fight against terrorism moves from criminal prosecution to longer - term investigation and policy making, many job opportunities for national security are focused in D.C.. It's great to see that so many new, qualified lawyers have found an outlet for their skills in a practice area that impacts all of our daily lives.

The American Lawyer interviews Laurel Edgeworth, a lawyer and creator of a new Web site that's bound to be a hit with recently unemployed lawyers as well as new grads who can't find jobs: Law Clerk Connection.

In fact, the US has the most lawyers per capita in the world and, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are twice as many new lawyers as there are jobs.

If Caroline Kennedy had wanted to get a job as a partner at a New York law firm, no doubt she would have had an edge over a lawyer like Whitney Hoffman or any female lawyer who took time off, if only because Kennedy could attract business for the firm by dint of her name and connections.

But for those lawyers who view Second Life as an outlet for imagination that is wasted in a day job or as an underutilized way to attract new business, more power to them.

Onyejekwe is a 26 - year - old New York lawyer who graduated from New York University School of Law in 2006 and took a job as a corporate associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

Today's WSJ Law Blog features laid - off lawyer Dan Zoloth Dorfman, who's part of a new WSJ blog project entitled Laid Off and Looking, which follows out - of - work professionals as they look for new jobs.

As Law.com reported yesterday, it was Gadre's departure that resulted in the job - search feeding frenzy that landed Ullyot his new gig — what one legal recruiter described as one of the most competitive searches he had ever handled, with hundreds of high - level lawyers sending in resumeAs Law.com reported yesterday, it was Gadre's departure that resulted in the job - search feeding frenzy that landed Ullyot his new gig — what one legal recruiter described as one of the most competitive searches he had ever handled, with hundreds of high - level lawyers sending in resumeas one of the most competitive searches he had ever handled, with hundreds of high - level lawyers sending in resumes.

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).

Role IP / Brands lawyer, International firm, Singapore, 3 + PQE Location Singapore Job Description To handle global IP portfolio management and branding strategies Prior relevant experience required as the new hire...

Because once you have that job (and aren't you lucky)-- whether as an associate in a sizable firm, as the new guy at the three - lawyer practice over on Main, or as a solo practitioner — there are things to be done now to lay the groundwork for a successful practice later on.

This is new lawyer starting out as a solo because they didn't get a job at a firm, or someone leaving a firm to continue a practice on their own.

I realize that retraining as a nurse may sound far - fetched, but after reading this New York Times article on the role of that nurses play in the criminal justice system, it seems that a lawyer - turned - nurse would have some terrific job possibilities.

As new lawyers, ask for technology when you arrive on the job.

None of the lawyers — partners and associates — saw getting business as part of their job and several refused to have anything to do with finding new files.

Meanwhile, speaking about his new job at the legal AI company after a career as a corporate lawyer at Slaughter and May, Eastell said: «I am very excited to be joining Eigen.

Together, they share exciting new developments in legal software and how it's developed as well as how it can create jobs for lawyers rather than take them away.

New law school graduates like the informality of the job - one new lawyer turned landman noted that «she can wear blue jeans to work instead of suits and high heels, the hours are pretty good despite the travel, and she doesn't have to bill in six - minute intervals like her friends working as associates at firms.&raqNew law school graduates like the informality of the job - one new lawyer turned landman noted that «she can wear blue jeans to work instead of suits and high heels, the hours are pretty good despite the travel, and she doesn't have to bill in six - minute intervals like her friends working as associates at firms.&raqnew lawyer turned landman noted that «she can wear blue jeans to work instead of suits and high heels, the hours are pretty good despite the travel, and she doesn't have to bill in six - minute intervals like her friends working as associates at firms.»

Denis, whose current role consists of managing the department's strategic plan, budget and outsourcing strategies as well as finding ways to better enable the corporation's legal counsel through the addition of new technologies and processes improvement, says he's noticed a lot of legal ops people are not lawyers — large corporations have moved to procurement - background types for the job, which he calls unfortunate.

Fold articling and bar admission courses into law school curricula + add a 4th year to law school for specialization: (1) because the great shortage of jobs compels more new lawyers to become sole practitioners earlier than they should have to, given the present law school course content and purpose; and, (2) because of the need to specialize earlier so as to increase the efficacy of their qualifications earlier; (3) articling jobs are now scarce, and increasing shortages of clients is causing law firms to more frequently and thoroughly use articling law students as a source of cheap labour.

As easy as it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law joAs easy as it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law joas it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law job.