Sentences with phrase «of junior lawyers»

No longer will firms aspire to building large teams of junior lawyers as the basis of their profitability.

Recently, one of the Associate's in my team returned to work three days per week and we supported her with the addition of a junior lawyer in her team.

Alongside this, you have the frustration of junior lawyers and associates facing a longer wait for partnership, and evidence that many firms are shrinking the relative size of their equity partnerships.

It helps students to positively demonstrate those qualities law firms look for in their recruitment and performance criteria of junior lawyers.

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.

The firm has a large team of partners, and an expanding base of junior lawyers and trainees.

Another area that has been flagged by a number of junior lawyers as a concern, which was not covered in the survey, is the lack of transparency about why some associates on the partnership track do not make it at the end.

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We could also see «process bots» acting as a triage system to help law firms better understand what their potential clients are looking for, while not spending many hours of junior lawyer time talking to people on the phone, or stuck in email conversations.

It's also worth noting that Burges Salmon has among the lowest commute times, with a higher proportion of its junior lawyers walking to work than any other major UK law firm.

Burges Salmon also boasts among the lowest commute times of any major UK outfit — a higher proportion of its junior lawyers walking to work than any other.

We say that... work can be done differently: that just one senior lawyer can be involved, and that the repetitive tasks of the junior lawyers can be replaced in whole or in part by technology and by the work of nonlawyers.

Many of their senior lawyers are not ready to phase down their practice and many of the junior lawyers are not prepared to become the next generation of rainmakers.»

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.

Adele Edwin - Lamerton, chair of the Junior Lawyers Division, said: «The Law Society recommended minimum salary is an important component of access to the profession.

Whilst there is no such thing as a «typical day» our diary entries from our current trainees and newly qualified solicitors will provide you with a valuable insight into a day in the life of a junior lawyer.

In connection with the summit the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society are seeking the views of junior lawyers on issues affecting women lawyers.

The investigation had produced more than 30 million documents, including emails, spreadsheets and other materials, that had to be reviewed and sorted into privileged and non-privileged information, a task that would take a team of junior lawyers months to complete and potentially be prone to human error and inconsistencies.

After a thorough introduction to the matter of expertise and its acquisition, they discuss the results of a project in which fifteen senior Canadian lawyers (in three focus groups) talked about the legal writing of junior lawyers.

That's not surprising when you consider that the cost of a junior lawyer in Canada can be as high as $ 150,000 per year; and the cost of an experienced law clerk can be as high as $ 100,000 per year.

Foges cites an example of junior lawyers analysing 1,000 sales agreements, only to discover that they are all identical.

She is also committed to the professional development of junior lawyers and has mentored trainees at the company and trainees on secondment at MetLife.

While the rates of the junior lawyers are lower, this reduces quality and increases the room for error — any cost savings are taken up by supervision and rendered wholly irrelevant if the senior lawyers can themselves offer rates comparable to junior lawyers at the bigger firms.

«[P] ermanent equity can encourage law firm partners to adopt a longer - term perspective and become more attuned to the best interests of junior lawyers and clients.»

Similarly, a British survey by Legal Business of lawyers in large US and UK firms found that some firms are losing up to 30 % of their lawyers each year, and that fewer than 20 % of junior lawyers expect to be in their current jobs in five years.

Kam is a member of the Junior Lawyers Division and is fluent in Punjabi and Hindi.

For law firms which have built their profitability around hordes of junior lawyers furiously billing, retooling their firms means plotting the obsolescence of what now provides their sizeable incomes.

As someone who has long argued that too - early specialization limits the ability of junior lawyers to fully appreciate, understand and address the diverse aspects of legal issue and client needs, I welcome the move to more broad - based experience for junior associates and hope the practice spreads.

In the coming years, firms will need to revisit their property strategies, because high rentals in expensive cities will be a costly indulgence in an increasingly networked world with pervasive video links; and the labour costs of large numbers of junior lawyers will also be excessive, largely because of the availability of alternative sourcing in lower costs regions or countries.

RAVN's AI system can help law firms sift through large and complex amounts of document data, a job that would traditionally need to be carried out manually by teams of junior lawyers.

«One way in which firms are understanding that is they are writing off the hours of junior lawyers, because clients don't want to pay to the same degree to train junior lawyers,» says Cristie Ford, associate professor and director of the Centre for Business Law at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law.

We say that this work can be done differently: that just one senior lawyer can be involved, and that the repetitive tasks of the junior lawyers can be replaced in whole or in part by technology and by the work of nonlawyers.

As achieving partnership gets ever harder, it seems firms may actually start to find that the problem is not the overflow of those up for the job, but the number of junior lawyers that aren't prepared to make the sacrifices anymore — or, as one survey respondent puts it: «If you compare the costs in terms of work / life balance and the actual, tangible rewards of being a partner, it is clear that partnership is not worth setting as your career goal.»

COTRONEO: I think some of my external counsel's advantage has been in training some of my junior lawyers or training new executives.

To all of those junior lawyers who have come to me with questions as to what role they can play within the profession and how they can get their foot in the door, I would point you to the sage advice of Verschuren and encourage you to attend events such as the Emerging Legal Technology Forum and become involved with groups such as MaRS LegalX.

Predictive coding yields greater consistency than large teams of junior lawyers, each applying their own interpretation of the coding protocol;

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.