Sentences with phrase «time lawyer job»

The well - famed John Grisham began his writing career by having a full - time lawyer job.

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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.

Some workers have started putting out feelers for new jobs, and Cohen has reduced his own trading to spend more time with lawyers, said the people.

I have great respect for stay - at - home parents, and I think it's fine if journalists or chefs or lawyers choose to work part time or quit their jobs altogether.

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.

Defense lawyers said the payments Percoco received, including $ 35,000 in cash and a $ 90,000 - per - year job for his wife, were legitimate fees for consulting work performed at a time when he was out of state government.

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.

CIVIC CENTER — Domestic violence victims will get paid time off from their jobs and city - funded lawyers to help them keep their homes under new initiatives unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray.

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.

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).

Im a lawyer, and its a job that takes up a lot of time, she says..

Since the JOBS Act of 2012, he has spent all of his time in the Crowdfunding space and today is one of the leading Crowdfunding and Fintech lawyers in the United States.

«This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school's] legal status.»

In addition, many authors have day jobs and full - time professions (doctor, lawyer, speaker, educator, and the like).

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.»

And I think that over time, through trial and error, many lawyers also find their way into a job that enables them to do well and do good, all at the same time.

This personal injury lawyer logs in a few times a week to share laughs at the day - to - day of his job and his own interpersonal missteps.

Epstein Harry writes that with job sharing, each lawyer could work part of the week, with a day of overlap and weekend time negotiated between the two lawyers sharing the job.

Most of the time family lawyers across the country do a good job canvassing financial circumstances.

For the first time since the president first picked his lawyer for the job, the righty spectrum of blawggers sound united in their compliments of Bush's second third nominee.

«For lawyers, effective use of technology means new clients, stronger work product, and more efficient use of time; for law students it means better job prospects and a smoother transition into practice.

Vicki Wentworth, Chief Customer and Strategy Officer at Wesleyan, said: «It is very hard for a busy lawyer, with all the pressures that come with the job, to free up the time to frequently review their plans for retirement.

But beyond that, the lawyers who participated (many who are long time friends) simply did an outstanding 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.

In tough economic times like these, some new lawyers may want to open their minds to a different type of risk and go west — or north, or south, or east — to find a job beyond their urban dreams.

This not only saves time and money, but also ensures client value and supports lawyers in doing their job better.»

But while Congress is spending its time on more pressing issues, like voting to «overturn» Obamacare (again, and again) or passing restrictive abortion bills, the non-elite schools will just keep cranking out lawyers with no lawyering skills and few job prospects.

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.»

Ken Jagger, CEO, AdventBalance: Jagger describes how, by working on a project basis, AdventBalance lawyers are able to take time off between projects without the fear of losing their jobs or being set back in their careers.

Being a lawyer and a parent are both full - time jobs.

It is a fact of life that most lawyers tend to be tough in evaluating business prospects, have more courage in billing top rates, and doing a better job in advising clients of the firm's billing practices ahead of time, if they have to account currently to a committee of peers.

It is a fact of life that most lawyers tend to be tough in evaluating business prospects, have more courage in billing top rates, and do a better job in advising clients of our billing practice ahead of time, if we have to account currently to a committee of peers.

Having said that, leading a firm is a full - time job: «The bulk of my time is spent on forging strategic partnerships with global firms, considering business expansion and growth, managing client relationships, laying the roadmap for the firm, staffing needs, being available for my lawyers and clients whenever they need me and at times taking certain hard decisions.»

Lawtendr is a new website which allows individuals to post a job and get bids from local lawyers, saving them time and providing them with competitive pricing.

It's that time of year when law students turn into lawyer - trainees, whether because of articling or summer jobs, and from everything I've heard most hiring law firms give their students a crash course in legal research.

Overseeing an ad campaign can be a full - time job that doesn't leave much time for lawyering.

In a time of economic uncertainty and loss of job security, young lawyers need guidance more than ever.

A: Among lawyers dissatisfied with their current occupation (hereinafter «Evil Day Job» or «EDJ»), it is a popular fantasy that it is a good idea to start a law practice in one's spare time.

Indeed, Carolyn did such a great job during her time here that lawyers from different continents penned poems in her honor when she announced her departure last week.

While many are predicting that AI and other tech tools will eliminate jobs for lawyers, Susskind, author of Tomorrow's Lawyers, An Introduction to Your Future, says the time is now to embrace technology and to find a future in the disruptivelawyers, Susskind, author of Tomorrow's Lawyers, An Introduction to Your Future, says the time is now to embrace technology and to find a future in the disruptiveLawyers, An Introduction to Your Future, says the time is now to embrace technology and to find a future in the disruptive areas.

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.

«We know — for example, from the 2010 Ornstein report — that racialized women have a harder time than any other category of lawyers: they have access to fewer articling positions, struggle to find full - time jobs and end up in lower - earning practice areas.

I've posted previously about the growing phenomenon of lawyers working for free, either to build their résumés in hopes of finding a new job or to bide their time while waiting for their law firms to call them back to work after a deferral period.