Sentences with phrase «someone at a big firm»

ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.

I knew that my archrivals at bigger firms were probably offering her the world, and that the only way I had a shot was to simply gang up on her.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Generally speaking, the culture at boutiques works more in favour of clients than the big firms, but there are some terrific funds at the big firms — ultimately you need to study each fund in turn and decide on their individual merits.

I agree with others that not every firm is exactly the same, but many of the issues you describe will be present at every big firm.

The hero is Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson), a former cop who, ten years ago, moved on to sell life insurance policies at a big firm in New York City.

Or work with a big adviser at a big firm, including the bank - owned brokerages.

Many attorneys at big firms have the luxury of having a secretary, a paralegal, and other support staff to them through their day.

As the remuneration at some big firms has jumped significantly during the past year, fuelled by a surge in the salaries offered by several leading Wall Street firms, the increasing divide between what the elite international players can offer and the rest has not gone unnoticed by survey respondents.

Working at a big firm can lead to habits that are bad for a small or solo practice.

For me, I was also still working at a big firm at the time, so the idea of a large upside versus another paycheck was quite alluring.

Whether you work at a big firm or have a solo law practice, there are always times when things are slow and staying productive can be tricky.

Unfortunately, as noted, at bigger firms, mass layoffs have been the tactic of choice to cut costs.

Lawyers at big firms had online research accounts and solos went to the law library to use the books.

If you work at a bigger firm, consider writing an article.

When I was practicing at the big firm I used to be jealous of my compatriots who did a lot of travel and took depositions, because their hours billed sitting on an airplane, reading a magazine were just as good as my hours billed reading cases on Westlaw and actually drafting, and I did a lot more that kind of thing and it's hard to achieve the same level of billable hours doing what I do than it is in other areas like just regular litigation.

There's downsizing at big firms, a rapidly expanding group of new solos, and pressure to cut costs across the board.

It doesn't take much research skill to find the key lawyers at the bigger firms; the real art is sniffing out the hidden gems in the nooks and crannies of the legal market.

Speaking of graduation, the incubator should last at least one year, but perhaps as long as three — about the time it takes a lawyer to become a useful junior associate at a big firm.

I happen to know a fair number of individuals that currently work at big firms as a fallback to their own failed attempt at starting a solo practice.

I know plenty of solo attorneys that just as much, and more, than partners at big firms.

I may not work at a big firm, but the concept of «hitting your billable hours» is well - known to law students, lawyers, and fans of John Grisham novels.

There are plenty of positives and negatives about running your own practice — just like there are plenty of ups and downs about working at a big firm.

Dig a little deeper, however, and you'll discover that many people at big firms and awesome clerkships have outright respect (and perhaps some level of jealously) for attorneys who run their own firms.

Because one possible reason for an incubator to exist is to replace the existing associate system at big firms, the clients of which are no longer particularly enthusiastic about paying for new - lawyer training at six - figure salaries.

Pascale Pageau, a lawyer who founded Delegatus in Montreal in 2005 and is the mother of four children said: «Although my hours vary a lot, I generally work 30 - 35 hours per week now, instead of the 40 - 50 hours per week that I worked when I was at a big firm.»

Others have come out of law school intent on setting up their own practice and never having to deal with life at a big firm.

«Those interested in working at a big firm will do that and if it takes seven or eight years to be partner that's just what they're going to do,» he says.

Talk to senior associates or partners at big firms and many of them understand just how tough it is to keep a successful solo practice running.

I never worked at a big firm, so I never had the experience of charging clients $ 350 an hour, and then taking home maybe 15 — 25 % of that.

Many of my friends who work at big firms do tons of pro bono work on the side, many times in an area of law that they do not normally practice.

Major layoffs at big firms have become regular news items.

«At big firms, the clients are often larger institutions.

According to a recent article, more attorneys are choosing public interest work over a gig at a big firm.

I know some people have experienced that at a big firm, but for the most part, if you have a bleeding heart, public interest work can be very rewarding.

I just wrote a post about whether the solo - small realm is better than working at a big firm.

While it's true that demand for junior associates has waned, particularly at big firms, the outlook is getting better.

For those people at bigger firms it's not as hard because people are coming to us, in a lot of instances, because they need our specialty, our expertise, our connections.

Sam Glover: I suppose if you're at a big firm and you're a big corporate client, you probably have the partner who you have a relationship with who sort of functions as that concierge, but there's nobody like that for small companies and individual consumers.

Jordan Furlong tells a story of sitting on a client meeting at a big firm, where the client had managed to outsource a bunch of their discovery work and some of their IP work to non lawyer, non firm providers.

If you think that every law student with good grades gets a job at a big firm, you are dead wrong.

Back when I had my own firm, the woman who answered my phones was a highly skilled legal assistant who couldn't find a job at a big firm that let her do what she wanted to do, which was stay at home until her kids were both in school.

Sam Glover: I guess, I'm curious about what both of you think about this, but there's been a lot of talk about the movement at big firms and I think smaller firms are starting to try to do this too, where you do build the firm up as a brand that guarantees a kind of service and a level of service and institutional knowledge and technology competency, to try and encourage companies and clients of all kinds to hire the firm, not the lawyer and so that the firm can say to the lawyer, «Go ahead and leave.

The average lawyer — even at a big firm — is pretty darned average.

You might get to meet with an attorney at a big firm, but you could get passed off to lawyers or support staff who don't really have the experience to handle your case effectively.

«It is a constant struggle for me to market myself,» he told one friend at a bigger firm.

This tip was inspired by a young mother I know, a senior associate at a big firm, who shared with me her recipe for handling the challenging tension between mom - time and lawyer time: the early escape.

Employment law attorneys at a big firm will have a different perspective than solo or small firm attorneys.

The difference, suggests a 2004 post from the trial lawyer who writes The Uncivil Litigator, may lie in the fact that «most civil litigators at big firms have no opportunities for trial experience.»

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you're an associate at a big firm, there's a pretty good chance your career will rise and fall with your annual billable hours.