While there is likely some decrease in the number of private
practice lawyers serving government and business from private practice since 2008, I doubt that is material to the broader picture.
Not exact matches
Before starting her own employment law
practice, Ms. Kow
practiced employment law and litigation at leading California and national law firms, and
served as the sole employment
lawyer and Senior Counsel at a Silicon Valley based company with 75 locations worldwide.
Susan Lerner, director of Common Cause, the watchdog group that's criticized de Blasio's envelope - pushing fund - raising
practices, said de Blasio's use of the loophole — as well as having a campaign treasurer also
serve as his campaign - funded
lawyer — is both a dodge and a conflict of interest.
The Moreland Commission asked members of the legislature who are
lawyers to disclose more details about the clients they
serve in their private
practices.
Portland, ME About Blog As a
lawyer practicing environmental and land use law with a healthy
serving of farm and food producer clients.
The borough was named after a prominent Scottish
lawyer who
practiced in Philadelphia and
served as a district court judge appointed by Thomas Jefferson in 1801.
Portland, ME About Blog As a
lawyer practicing environmental and land use law with a healthy
serving of farm and food producer clients.
«On the consumer side, we can
serve more consumers across the spectrum and help more
lawyers market their
practices.»
It's a nice thought, but the problem is that LPP participants won't necessarily be any more interested in
serving those
practice areas and communities than existing
lawyers are.
If memory
serves, the young
lawyer has not yet been
practicing a decade.
She has
served as Secretary of State (2009 - 2013), Senator from New York (2001 - 2009), First Lady of the United States (1993 - 2001), First Lady of Arkansas (1979 - 1981 and 1983 - 1992), a
practicing lawyer and law professor, and the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Needed are career - oriented experienced legal research
lawyers, specialized in each area of the
practice of law, working in a national legal research unit
serving all
lawyers and judges in Canada — a national service provided by an upgraded CanLII.
In addition, the
lawyer you shadow or
practice you intern at can
serve as an excellent resource for answering questions you may have about your potential career options.
In communities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View, there are lots of attorneys
serving the most the common
practice areas, as well as numerous
lawyers that specialize in areas that
serve the tech giants and other area technology companies.
While
lawyers need to adopt safer
practices for securing data, they still need to be able to
serve their clients.
Litigator and legal industry pioneer Chad Burton, who
serves on ABA Law
Practice Division's Council, is chair of the Division's Futures Initiative, and is on the governing board for the new ABA Center for Innovation, explains how the ABA and other like - minded organizations and individuals are engaged in initiatives to help
lawyers run better
practices and improve the legal profession.
It is truly a collaborative learning opportunity that in the end, can only help all personal injury
lawyers better understand and
practice a kind of law that has such a personal and deep impact on the client's we
serve.»
By Hilary CampbellHilary Campbell, a 3L at Duke University School of Law,
served as the 2012 — 2013 Client Counseling Competition National Student Director.As a
lawyer, you'll be expected to have a certain level of
practice area - specific knowledge readily available.
We exclusively
practice immigration law and our experienced
lawyers rank amongst the best immigration
lawyers in the markets they
serve.
We hope that the 2016 edition of the DFCC will continue to
serve as an extensive
practice guide for new federal criminal
lawyers.
Approximately 650
lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global
practices,
serving clients around the world.
Some large firms, primarily in the U.K. and Australia, hire many experienced
lawyers (professional /
practice support
lawyers, or PSLs) to
serve as the primary collectors and creators of KM resources.
This project will leverage several innovative components — including a robust
practice management platform, video conferencing, and built - in document assembly — to more effectively
serve rural clients throughout the state and provide volunteer
lawyers with a more convenient opportunity to assist New Mexicans in need.
Today, Brad
practices with George Sink P.A. Injury
Lawyers where he
serves clients in the areas of personal injury, automobile accidents and workers» compensation.
Our Tokyo consultants
serve private
practice, corporate and financial services clients while offering career advice and representing individual
lawyers in their search.
Lawyers usually think that all the trappings of traditional firm office space are essential to
practicing law and
serving clients.
But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law
practice and small firm law
practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better
serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other
lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.
He
serves on the State Bar of Montana
Lawyers Fund for Client Protection; the State Bar of Montana Law
Practice Management Committee; and the Montana Justice Foundation Board.
Leading pensions
lawyer Anna Rogers, the current chairman of the Association of Pension
Lawyers and a former partner in the pensions
practice of Mayer Brown, and Chris Mullen, who spent 20 years in the industry as a pensions partner before most recently
serving as the...
Since graduating from Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago - Kent College of Law in 1987, Gene has worked in every kind of public and private legal
practice,
serving as a trial
lawyer and supervising other trial attorneys.
The firm plans to have four to five litigation and transactional
practice groups, each with five recent graduates
serving as associates for terms of up to three years, each overseen by a full - time, salaried supervising
lawyer.
The ABA says that a good rule of thumb for virtual practitioners is to
serve only clients who are residents of the states where they are authorized to
practice and clients whose matters are also venued in states where the
lawyer is licensed to
practice.
The extent to which members of the public are unserved, under -
served or inefficiently
served is a difficult issue for
lawyers being both a challenge to existing
practice and an opportunity for innovation.
Knowledge management is a logical tool for
lawyers to take advantage of to better
practice and
serve our clients — but its hard to get
lawyers to buy in to it.
New
lawyers are increasingly unable to consider work at affordable rates, or streams of
practice that directly
serve middle or lower - class clients.
When used to a
lawyer or law firm's best advantage, social media has the power to
serve as an effective public relations tool that has the power to increase awareness of a
lawyer's expertise, knowledge or experience in their
practice area.
Individuals and small businesses are overwhelmingly
served by
lawyers in sole
practice or in small firms.
Margaret often
serves as local counsel, assisting
lawyers from other jurisdictions in complying with local
practices and customs.
Presumably, most
lawyers practicing in the region
serve primarily local or regional clients with legal needs that are fairly typical of those in any large United States metropolitan area.
Alongside a stellar commercial
practice, Roberta has promoted the advancement of female
lawyers through
serving as the chair of numerous commissions on women in the profession.
She currently
serves on the firm's executive committee and as the firmwide hiring partner, and has previously chaired its tax, benefits, and planning
practice and
lawyer personnel committee, which handles compensation and career development for all nonpartner
lawyers.
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practice with or in the form of a professional corporation, association, or other business structure authorized to
practice law for a profit in which a
lawyer owns an interest or
serves as a corporate director or officer or occupies a position of similar responsibility.
Perhaps we're reacting defensively to all the
lawyer jokes and stereotypes about unethical attorneys, but no good is
served by barring qualified people who have fully rehabilitated themselves from
practicing law (often in ways aimed at helping others avoid their fates).
This panel will examine how these firms do business,
practice law, differentiate,
serve clients, and offer
lawyers a different work experience.
Joshua Lenon —
lawyer - in - residence at law
practice management software producer Clio — concluded that this confuses
lawyers about who they're meant to
serve and what they're meant to deliver:
Most
lawyers eventually narrow the focus of their
practice or notice that clients could be better
served by a different approach.
From a more practical standpoint, higher tuition fees and a more elite class of law graduate will likely translate into fewer
lawyers engaging in public interest
practice (unless a newly robust culture of noblesse oblige ascends), and fewer
lawyers willing or able to
serve in under -
served (i.e. rural, humble) home communities.
But Norm Pattis at the blog Crime & Federalism says that the story of Hilton's release after
serving just three days of a 45 - day sentence could have a very direct impact on the
practices of him and other criminal defense
lawyers: a frequently ringing phone.
While your marketing and business development support staff can help you with best
practices, it is impossible for them to
serve every
lawyer's online omnipresence!
He formed Lex Projex ™ in 2012 after resigning his partnership at a southwest regional law firm of 60
lawyers, where he had chaired the firm's Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Practice Group and
served on its management committee.