Sentences with phrase «practice law firms seem»

Not exact matches

As the New York Times noted earlier this week, Silver seems to have begun practicing law outside of the firm in recent years, according to a close reading of his financial disclosure forms.

In a culture in which it can almost seem eccentric not to be «of counsel» to a major law firm that represents clients with state business, say, or to have a beef with the practice of steering pork, tax breaks or other public benefit to political donors, this sets significant precedent.

Paul Vallone, Jr. (D)- D19 - College Point, Auburndale - Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, Douglaston, and Little Neck - Leaving his practice at Queens law firm Vallone and Vallone to take a seat on the City Council, Vallone seems to be leaving onefamily business for another.

«For example, law firms commonly undertake new lines of business and practice areas for all the wrong reasons — such as a client asking the firm to open an office in Cincinnati; because a lawyer wants to retire in Aspen, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, etc.; or because everyone else seems to be opening offices in Moscow.

Speaking from an introvert's point of view, it seems to me that private practice partnerships are geared towards extroverts, who are fuelled by interactions with people (whether clients or their law firm colleagues).

Law firms across the country seem to have picked up on the same pattern, with outfits of varying sizes, both regional and national, putting together practice groups and special packages aimed specifically at serving startup clients.

Next month in San Francisco, the College of Law Practice Management will meet to consider some interesting empirical studies on why law firms — especially in North America — seem so slow to innovaLaw Practice Management will meet to consider some interesting empirical studies on why law firms — especially in North America — seem so slow to innovalaw firms — especially in North America — seem so slow to innovate.

The feasible responses seem to be (i) move into higher - end work, often of an advisory or highly specialist nature: Jeremy Robinson, aviation and competition law partner at Gates and Partners, solicitors, believes that the competition in his practice area does not come, and is unlikely to come, from PLFs or ABSs anytime soon; (ii) form collaborations short of ABSs or multi-disciplinary practices with complementary non-solicitor businesses (Martyn Taylor, MD of respected solicitors agency, Ashley Taylors, has noticed a huge increase in the number of solicitors» firms looking to work on litigation - related joint projects with Ashley Taylors; (iii) to the extent possible adopt the practices of more successful competitors; (iv) innovate.

Of course, it might also be hard to isolate race or gender as the determinative or motivating factor leading to the hiring of a given minority or female candidate in a specific instance and it would seem that both pattern and practice and disparate impact claims are not ideally suited for situations where males and whites still make up the majority of law firm employees.

It seems like the East Coasters, like Aderant, LexisNexis and Thomson see Microsoft Dynamics as the future of law firm CRM and large firm practice management.

Two years ago, when the sky seemed like the only limit on the practice of law, the heart of Windstrom & Crusher's trial team broke away to start one of the most aggressive commercial litigation firms in town: Strickland, Michaelman & Fox.

In today's market it almost seems like the lawyer graduating from one of the more inexpensive schools (it's all relative) and offering competent legal services for less than the large law firms may be able to pay off their debts, and create a profitable practice, before their peers who beeline directly to Big Law for their temporary stint thelaw firms may be able to pay off their debts, and create a profitable practice, before their peers who beeline directly to Big Law for their temporary stint theLaw for their temporary stint there.

The product of a 2013 merger between sensible corporate outfit Howard Kennedy and the slightly quirky media law - slanted Finers Stephens Innocent, the combined firm initially seemed an unlikely jumble of practice areas and personalities.

But, unlike the way most businesses address size (annual revenue), law firms seem to define size as the number of lawyers practicing at a firm.

There seems to be merit in the possibility of lawyers, who might have been in practice for many years, and contributed as much as (if not more than) many solicitors to a law firm, to be invited into the ownership of that firm.