Sentences with phrase «rainmakers who»

The mentors are proven rainmakers who need support for their business development efforts; the associates want to become rainmakers but need guidance as well as exposure to potential clients.

The immovability of senior rainmakers who will not be managed and will certainly not be «transitioned» anywhere they don't want to go,

They believe that it is only those skilled rainmakers who will be called upon to generate the work needed to keep everyone else busy.

Law firms, which have been beneficiaries of an avalanche of legal work from sexual misconduct, must now look within and confront the dilemma of powerful rainmakers who...

The old paradigm of law firm attorney roles was «finders, minders, and grinders» — in other words, rainmakers who find and develop clients, attorneys who manage those clients» cases and transactions, and attorneys who do most of the actual work on those matters.

Neither Collins nor Bodine offer any explanation; I can only surmise that the rainmakers who benefit from perpetual origination credit prefer to retain this system, and have sufficient economic leverage to to do so successfully.

It is why in law firms the «rainmakers» are considered more valuable than any other attorney in the firm; it is the rainmakers who bring in the business by selling themselves and the firm.

In other words, they have to see you as a future rainmaker who will put more money in their pockets while they see a reflection of themselves in you while you do it.

Every successful law firm needs a rainmaker who attracts top - notch clients.

The cantankerous individual is after all a rainmaker who is supposedly contributing to growing the bottom line.

After all, do you believe our hiring authority really cares about the resume writing skill of a rainmaker who can bring home a $ 38 million account?

It's harder to find someone to write you a check when you walk away than it is to replace yourself with a rainmaker who will build on your business several years before you leave.

Not exact matches

We present the second annual Canadian Business Power 50 ranking of the rainmakers, string - pullers and master manipulators who truly make things happen in this country.

A chief technology officer, a visionary, a user design pro and a rainmaker are among the players who are critical for launching today's successful companies.

John Morgan, who leads the firm, is a long - time Democratic rainmaker but he's also given generously to Republicans, notes the Tampa Bay Times.

«Those of us who thought we were brilliant rainmakers during the boom and pieces of crap during the downturn have now decided we're neither,» he concludes.

Hopu is one of the longest - established private equity firms in China, founded in 2007 by Chinese rainmaker Fang Fenglei, who is also the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs» investment banking China joint venture, and Richard Ong, now head of RRJ Capital.

Kinsella would be seen in Liberal circles as the «rainmaker,» he said, the person who holds the keys to victory.»

Then a Columbia University doctor who specialized in the rare form of cancer that stems from exposure to asbestos, said he understood Silver's message to mean that he wanted to be a «rainmaker» at Weitz & Luxenberg, which was getting rich suing on behalf of mesothelioma victims.

Who would be in your cabinet and why?Youthful idealists, wily old codgers, dreamers, unmarried millionaires, playwrights, poets, practitioners of the native African Santeria religion, rainmakers, environmentalists, Will Self.

Cuomo was asked how this would apply to legislators who are of counsel, or work in a more ethereal «rainmaker» role at a firm.

Samwise: Dude, you do realize that the kid wasn't Joe at all; he was none other than the guy who was going to be The Rainmaker.

I'm pretty sure it was future Dale (the looper with the long black hair) who warns Old Joe about the rainmaker.

His escape, however, isn't merely to ensure his own livelihood, but rather to ensure the demise of a mysterious crime lord from the future, the Rainmaker, who, when preparing to send older Joe back, killed Joe's wife (Qing Xu) and now has plans to erase the existence of all loopers.

In a plot thread straight from The Terminator, Old Joe is intent on killing a child in the 2040s who will grow up in the 2070s to become the Rainmaker, a mysterious über - criminal intent on prematurely closing all loops.

Indeed the film slows down to a crawl midway through as Joe, Old Joe, and Abe are all chasing each other, hiding, or looking for a child who is destined to become «the Rainmaker», who is single - handedly taking over the 2072 crime syndicate.

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We will see many more charter operators pulling in $ 400,000 - 500,000 a year for their role, not as principals, but as «rainmakers» who build warm relationships with politicians and investors.

With an aggressive marketing strategy and the financial cushion provided by rainmakers like Tripathi's Shiva trilogy, it managed to get on board bestselling author Anuja Chauhan last year, who parted ways with HarperCollins India after eight years and three books.

Fixed an issue where players who disconnected just prior to starting a round of play would appear to be holding a Rainmaker - like weapon.

Ranked Battles work in rotation with three different match types: Splat Zones (essentially King of the Hill, where the team who can keep a designated spot their color the longest wins), Tower Control — where teams try to maintain control of a mobile tower to reach checkpoints — and Rainmaker, which is akin to capture the flag, and sees the team's fighting over the titular Rainmaker weapon to take it to the opposing team's base.

Bad websites don't stop lawyers and law firms who are rainmakers for a minute.

Ensure that senior or influential lawyers lead by example — you need champions (a managing partner, a practice group leader, a rising rainmaker) who consistently produce articles for a newsletter or posts for a blog to set the tone (and create expectations) for others.

Lack of control: those who do not become proficient rainmakers (that is, who have not succeeded in recruiting and retaining a critical mass of clients or business), work in deference to the rainmakers.

According to Dr. Larry Richard, who has examined thousands of lawyers with the Caliper test, «low sociability scores have broad implications for many aspect of law firm management — mentoring, teamwork,..., and rainmaking... rainmakers scored nearly three and a half times higher on Sociability than service partners!»

Personal production mut be recognized and rewarded: Successful rainmakers are ultimately only successful if they are supported by highly competent attorneys who can do the work, produce the results and keep the client happy.

In firms in which hourly rates are much higher for such work as labor or corporate transactional work, the firm may have the luxury of highly compensating partners who are primarily rainmakers.

Except for those fortuitous instances when highly profitable opportunities favor attorneys who just happen to be in the right place at the right time, the consistently successful rainmakers agree that marketing legal services requires the «right mind - set.»

Compensation solely favoring rainmakers creates dissatisfaction and turnover by partners who are actually handling the work and producing the results.

This blawg discusses all levels of law firm lawyer compensation, from associates to service partners, to rainmakers, to lawyer - managers, and senior lawyers who are phasing down in preparation for retirement.

First I thanks to IGNOU and Rainmaker Co. to offer this chance of improving the skills of lawyers who were prefered to give the quality produce from the LPO industry.

So, law firms looking to motivate their lawyer sales force — including those practitioners who typically avoid rainmaking at all costs — should celebrate and acknowledge rainmaking failures as well as successes -LSB-...] You can motivate existing rainmakers and encourage others to become rainmakers by creating a culture where it is not a failure to come home empty - handed if you hunted well.»

This is what I really want, because new business comes in person, or «belly to belly» as one rainmaker told me, who had the large belly to match his advice.

A liberalized structure allows for people who want to be pure legal technicians to be pure legal technicians, without needing to be rainmakers or to be business managers, and still enjoy share ownership.

Ryder, who joined Weil alongside fellow private equity rainmaker Harvey Eisenberg from O'Melveney & Myers in 2011, left Weil over the weekend.

Those who make the cut frequently get three years (sometimes with training) to become a rainmaker for consideration as an equity partner.

I consider partners who are the rainmakers to be special situations, where firm history, firm culture, and local conditions constitute that partner's theory of compensation.

My own guess is that «worker bee» partners who aren't really rainmakers benefit most from a move in - house: Not only are they freed from the task of bringing in business but, presumably, they earned less than their breadwinning colleagues at the law firm.

I've personally seen law firms where the partners» salaries were cut, nearly across the board, with the sole exceptions of those who had reputations as the firm's rainmakers.