Sentences with phrase «not elite law firm»

This is certainly not law firm lawyer work, not elite law firm lawyer work.

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The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

For example, global law firm Clifford Chance, which Chambers ranks as an «elite» firm in the UK for commercial disputes, does not make it into the Premonition top 10 based on public win rate data for the Commercial Court.

And like it or not, most prominent firms will favor minority graduates from elite law schools over those who attended lower - tiered schools.

TC: We categorize our firm as an elite international one, and what that means for us is to look to cover not everything within the law but a selection of core areas.

The «elite» lawyers may consider lawyers in solo or small - firm practice to be second - tier, but I don't know many solos or small - firm lawyers — some who are practicing law at the highest levels — who think of themselves that way.

At the same time there were new disruptive entrants to market such as Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law, Signature Litigation, Enyo, etc. whose strategy was to provide a «conflict free» litigation service, enabling them to act for individuals, private equity houses and hedge funds in major pieces of litigation against the banks, work that the established elite firms in London could not touch.

The small and middle - size firm will prosper because they don't charge egregious bills, they don't have to sustain outrageous partner draws and they aren't governed by the graduates of the so - called «elite» law schools.

To the extent that large law firms are no longer able to offer their lawyers meaningful opportunities to exercise and develop practical wisdom and professional judgment, that is, insofar as they are not able to sustain a credible promise to produce high quality work and provide quality training and mentorship to their associates, and as the number of large law firms continues to grow, decreasing the ability of each individual firm to represent a high number of elite clients, the large firms may find themselves unable to sustain a credible claim to elite professional status.

That said, there may well be a global elite of law firms, around 20 in number today (but likely to merge into a smaller cadre in the coming decade), who feel that they do not need to change.

To the contrary, those about to embark upon that journey confront: (1) the daunting cost of law school; (2) an average of $ 120K debt for attending; (3) a job market where, nationally, close to half of all graduates do not have Bar - required employment nine months after graduation; (4) a widespread market perception that law school graduates — even those from elite schools — lack «practice ready» skills; (5) cut - backs in hiring newly minted lawyers — even among many stalwart law firms; (6) an erosion of mentorship due in part to pressure on senior lawyers to «produce» more (7) the unlikelihood of making (equity) partner; (8) instability of law firms; (9) global competition; (10) technology companies creating products that replace services; and (11) a blizzard of negative press trumpeting the glum prospects for the profession; and (12) alternative career choices — finance, accounting, technology, etc. — that portend greener pastures and do not require the same time and financial commitment to prepare for entry.