Sentences with phrase «position at a large law firm»

Although the number of women entering the legal profession has steadily increased over the years, more senior positions at larger law firms remain antiquated.

In a softening economy, competition for positions at large law firms is more intense than ever.

The exception is if you're still holding out for a position at a large law firm, or a large corporation.

Not exact matches

After graduating from law school, she spent several years in private practice at a mid-size law firm in Minneapolis before transitioning to in - house attorney positions at large publicly traded companies.

My husband attends TRU law and will begin his articling position at a large firm in May.

The proportion of women drops significantly from 45 % of associate positions at law firms being held by female associates, to women only comprising approximately 20 % of partners, 18 % of equity partners, and a mere 4 % of managing partners at the top 200 largest law firms in the United States.

Additionally, the firm is the only law firm participating in the national Challenge Detroit initiative, one of the largest urban revitalization projects in history which places 30 leaders in positions at the most innovative companies in Detroit.

In her more than 20 years in the legal industry, she has practiced and held key positions at other large law firms, often working on diversity initiatives.

«The move, by Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, reflects one of the largest efforts by a major US law firm to aggressively recruit more than a handful of minorities to the positions of partner or counsel at any one time.

The two officials named as defendants in the class action lawsuit — Esther Slate McDonald and Michael Elston — have since left the DOJ and now hold positions, respectively, as an associate and partner at large law firms.

Brooks Kushman is also the only law firm participating in the national Challenge Detroit initiative — one of the largest urban revitalization projects in history which places 30 leaders in positions at the most innovative companies in Detroit.

Prior to his position at Lighthouse, Joe was the Vice President of Discovery Solutions at Precision Discovery, Inc., where he was responsible for leading and developing the sales team, as well as growing and managing the largest individual sales book in the company, which included clients from both law firms and corporations.

To attract and retain these great attorneys — and do so through a model that greatly reduced client fees — we built the firm on a model that permits these attorneys to work from a position that support their life balance and from locations not possible in traditional practice settings and, at the same time, strips away overhead and fixed salaries that underpin a very large part of a traditional law firm's fee structure.

After practicing law for nine years as a litigation associate at a large New York City law firm, she moved back with her family to Arizona, and took a position as in - house counsel to the Make - A-Wish Foundation of America.

Christine A. Amalfe, President of the NAWL Foundation and Director at Gibbons P.C. in Newark, NJ, described the survey as «the only national study of the nation's 200 largest law firms, which annually tracks the progress of women lawyers at all levels of private practice, including the most senior positions, and collects data on firms as a whole rather than from a subset of individual lawyers.»

There is a strong sense in the legal community that a successful legal career means certain things, whether it's a partner track position at a prestigious boutique or large law firm, being corporate counsel, a professorship or becoming a judge.

I am reviewing law student applications for a summer internship / clerkship position at a large public law firm.

My recruiter tells me this scenario: They submit my resume for position XYZ at a very large law firm (100 - plus attorneys).