Sentences with phrase «of fee earners»

The big - box firms have always had a relatively small percentage of their fee earners in litigation.

Time to meet with one of the fee earners who has passed me some work to do this week.

We follow the progress of our fee earners closely and give support when necessary.

Vacation scheme participants spend time in at least one department of their choice, working under the guidance of our fee earners.

The new Dublin practice will focus on financial services and technology, and will be run by three partners, bringing its total number of fee earners in the island of Ireland to 12 partners and more than 50 lawyers.

One element of the dialogue between Lord Dyson and the Committee that may be missed by practitioners is the rejection of the recommendation for the creation of a fifth grade of fee earner for paralegals out of the current bottom rate for trainees and paralegals.

James has an established record in managing teams of fee earners handling personal injury claims of all values in a proactive and commercial manner.

The vast majority of fee earners surveyed by YLAL said that as a maximum a supervisor should supervise no more than two trainees.

Similarly, other firms focus on a particular client base, for example, corporate law firms often promote their high value deals and household name clients, therefore illustrating the expertise of their fee earners, and the trust of big - name companies.

When they do, it is the job of the fee earner (or whoever else first realises the change is necessary) to change all appropriate records.

A report released today (19 March) by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) argues that the legal profession is over-resourced in the face of a «permanent structural change in market forces in the UK» and has the «opportunity» to remove 5 % of the fee earner base.

Imagine what that does to the psyche of a fee earner who has been trained their entire career to define themselves by that magic number.

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The survey revealed a median fee income per equity partner of # 455,650, down from # 469,666 in 2009, and a fall of 8.4 % in the median cost of a fee earner from # 43,938 to # 40,240.

Junior Legal Secretary # 19,000 - # 22,000 My client is looking to recruit a junior legal secretary to work for a number of Fee Earners within their Corporate department.

The Costs Committee of the Civil Justice Council has called for evidence on the GHR, which are used to calculate recoverable hourly rates in litigation for different grades of fee earners in law firms in different parts of England and Wales.

The firm's Law in the Regions report, is based on interviews with members of top UK law firms, and analysis of factors such as number of fee earners, total office floor - space per city occupied by top 100 firms and rent per fee earner.

There are separate cells for each grade of fee earner and for each stage.

Of the fee earners, 16 are solicitors and ten are paralegals.

Increases in numbers of fee earners have also hit profits.

Every year Legal Week Intelligence sets out to identify the law firms that have the most satisfied fee earners by publishing the results of our annual Employee Satisfaction Survey — a comprehensive, profession - wide survey of fee earners.

Yet, the solution is simply to look at the file, the nature of the work done, the account of the time spent, and attempt to work out whether that time was reasonably spent at the appropriate level by the right number of fee earners.