Sentences with phrase «time job as lawyer»

I juggle a part - time job as lawyer, and the other half of my days are spent blogging (all of that is mixed in with my favorite job (s): new mama and wife).

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Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

«The last time we had a hearing, Google and Twitter and Facebook sent their lawyers, which undoubtedly were expensive because they did a damn fine job of dodging and bobbing and weaving and they didn't say a damn thing — which is what they were paid to do, or not to do, as the case may be,» Republican Senator John Kennedy told Politico.

I went from a city lawyer to a baby massage instructor and through my successful business practice I have been able to completely love my job, find my passion in life and spend time with my three children as they have grown up.

At the same time as he held those two government jobs, he was the lawyer for the Industrial Development Agency (whose leadership was appointed by Mangano) and worked for Mangano's former law firm.

«Our concern is that [Harris] can't devote her full - time attention to her job as deputy mayor,» said Gene Russianoff, a senior lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair of the Independence Party Marsha Coopersmith, is now going to the law firm of Sparaco's close friend and lawyer Jay Savino, albeit at about half the price and on an annual per diem basis.

For one thing, lawmakers are allowed to hold part - time jobs, and a number of them work as lawyers, an arrangement that has prompted concerns about possible conflicts of interest.

Service in the state Assembly and Senate is technically a part - time job, and the state's 211 lawmakers hold a variety of outside occupations — as pharmacists or lawyers, actors or landlords.

And once in law, there is a great deal of flexibility — unlike scientists, lawyers usually do not have as much time and emotional investment in a career - long project, so if a certain situation is not right, lawyers can typically change jobs more easily than researchers.

Who We Are... All volunteers... Lowcountry Lab Rescue is run completely by volunteers with full - time jobs doing something else, such as teacher, lawyer, «mom», sales rep, system engineer, nurse or business owner.

How Badia had too much time on her hands, then started traveling, then moved from casual hosting to it as a full time job, then a hosting coaching career (in part due to her lawyer)

Smith says he is not surprised, as he believes «lawyers at some U.S. firms do not have time to conduct or participate in similar training, and are either too busy or under too much cost pressure to take the time to do a perfect or near - perfect job.»

The statistics are staggering: Lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people in other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study found that 28 percent of licensed, employed lawyers suffer with deprLawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people in other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study found that 28 percent of licensed, employed lawyers suffer with deprlawyers suffer with depression.

As for the former AG's job search, one Washington lawyer whose own firm passed on him commented to the NYT: «Maybe the passage of time will provide some opportunity for him.»

At that time, all these strengthened my confidence to engage in a legal career, so I quit the secured job and dedicated myself to a life as a lawyer.

If Caroline Kennedy had wanted to get a job as a partner at a New York law firm, no doubt she would have had an edge over a lawyer like Whitney Hoffman or any female lawyer who took time off, if only because Kennedy could attract business for the firm by dint of her name and connections.

The Seattle Times reports that Washington allows candidates with a bachelor's degree and a full - time job to become lawyers by, essentially, working as an apprentice under a sponsoring attorney.

According to the Times, up to 2,000 partners at London's top law firms — more than 10 percent of the 11, 726 partners in the U.K.'s top 100 firms — stand at risk of losing their jobs this year, as firms force these lawyers to accept a reduced share of profits or leave.

This asymmetry is owed to the great demands on time and energy that the law profession features as it clings to the old adage that being a lawyer is not a job, it's a life.

If you know you want to work part time as a lawyer, which fields of law or types of jobs are best for you?

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).

Most of the time when it comes to poetry — as this particularly appalling ditty is designed to demonstrate — we lawyers should stick to the day job.

Route1 recently surveyed 130 junior lawyers and found that a large majority distrusted recruiters, describing recruiters as a «necessary evil» because lawyers do not have the time to wade through various employers» websites or vague job boards to identify opportunities and make applications for them (see box «Route1»).

A Wall Street Journal analysis earlier this year found that members of the 2011 law school class had little better than a 50 - 50 shot (actually, only about 55 %) of landing a full - time, long - term job as a lawyer within nine months of receiving their degress.

Even as the economy has driven many lawyers out of full - time jobs and into freelance lawyering, all 50 state bars and the ABA have now addressed the ethics of using freelance lawyers.

I realize that retraining as a nurse may sound far - fetched, but after reading this New York Times article on the role of that nurses play in the criminal justice system, it seems that a lawyer - turned - nurse would have some terrific job possibilities.

The company offers its staff a number of options such as part - time working, job sharing and home working with 28 % of female lawyers working part - time.

Bramwell, a veteran lawyer of more than 30 years, including time as GC at mobile operator O2, is enjoying his longest - ever stint in the same job after becoming BAE GC in 2007.

We have I think over a million cases in the database now across a number of different verticals, as we will discuss I am sure, and combining that data and finding patterns that can be helpful to attorneys, patterns of behavior, again, about opposition, about judges, about timing, about any number of things that can help lawyers do their job better.

Special thanks to Stephen Seckler at the Counsel to Counsel blog for drawing our attention to a recent article by flextime consultant Deborah Epstein Henry that explores job sharing as an arrangement that can help lawyers gain greater work / life satisfaction while meeting the demands of law firms (and their clients) for full time availability.

By the end of the seminar, Josh had lined up an interview with this lawyer and three weeks later started a part - time job as a law clerk at the lawyer's firm, the Consumer Law Group.

As a lawyer, there will be times when you are expected to work long hours in high stress environments and with demanding clients who want the job done yesterday.

notes that, «A Johns Hopkins University study of more than 100 professions revealed that lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people with other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association (ABA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study determined that 28 % of licensed, employed lawyers suffer depression.

The first article in the series notes that, «A Johns Hopkins University study of more than 100 professions revealed that lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people with other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association (ABA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study determined that 28 % of licensed, employed lawyers suffer depression.

It's not quite fair to expect that his lawyers, with his and their limited time resources, would have done as thorough a job of mounting an empirical case as an interest group pursuing a constitutional challenge on its own terms.

And clients are increasingly unwilling to pay for legal research time and costs perceived as on - the - job training for younger lawyers.

As legal tech continues to evolve and improve, lawyers must let technology do its job so lawyers can practice more and better law at less cost and in less time.

Whether you're looking for a professional job as a lawyer or accountant, a corporate management position, a healthcare position as a respiratory therapist, or even an administrative position like a dental assistant, it can be difficult to find employers who are openly recruiting during difficult economic times.

Looking for a job as a criminal lawyer which gives me a chance to utilize my deduction, research and argumentative skills to work on cases and at the same time gives me an opportunity to further advance in my career

Finally, I interviewed Trevor Shane, author of Children of Paranoia, on how he manages a demanding day job as lawyer to a hedge fund with being a first - time published author.

Parenting is an Extremely Difficult Full Time Job If your lawyer finds that you are not a competent, qualified parent, she may not remain as your attorney.