Sentences with phrase «top lawyer jobs»

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As a result, a new job has risen to the top this year: lawyer.

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Its current top lawyer, Salle Yoo — whom many internally have been critical of — has said to staff that she will be leaving the company, which has also been without a financial leader since its CFO left in 2015 and its finance head who was doing that job left in May.

Through a secretive shell company, Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was paid by major corporations and a law firm for help navigating Washington in the Trump era after being shut out of a hoped - for top job with the administration.

Terri Bright, the city's former top lawyer who ultimately lost her job because of a Destiny battle at city hall, said those who fought against the project were risking their political careers.

That should be the job of the state's top lawyer.

The former top lawyer for the city of Syracuse, Juanita Perez Williams, has landed a $ 101,000 - a-year job in the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state officials said Friday.

The Post exclusively revealed Kelly is in the running for a top security job at JPMorgan Chase, while he is also working on a book after The Post's Cindy Adams reported he sealed a deal with eminent DC lawyer and agent Bob Barnett, who has scored sizable deals for authors including Bill and Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush.

The top human rights lawyer was awarded the job in a major promotion that has seen her soar from non-member to shadow minister in just five months.

Defense lawyers argued that Percoco — assigned temporarily away from his top state job to serve as chairman of Cuomo's re-election campaign in 2014 — was not a government official during a period when some of the alleged bribery scheme occurred.

But according to U.S. News & World Report, each year more than 10 percent of graduates from the top 20 law schools (or more than 700 new lawyers) take jobs in the public sector that offer a median salary of $ 52,000.

With only 6 % of doctors, 12 % of CEOs, 12 % of journalists and 13 % of lawyers come from working - class backgrounds, the charity argues that the country's top jobs are unfairly being dominated by those from more advantaged backgrounds.

Ninety percent (55 out of 62) of newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at the UK's top firms in Hong Kong were offered jobs this September, all of whom accepted, according to research by Legal Week.

As part of our law school & careers content, Charles R. Toy, Associate Dean of Career and Professional Development, Western Michigan University - Cooley Law School, here lists 5 top tips for job hunting, whether you're a student who has just qualified, or a lawyer looking to take the leap to another line of work or firm.

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.

As many as 15 % of the 12,000 partners at the top firms — about 2,000 senior lawyers — could lose their jobs this year.

This claim is undermined by the existence of a non-lawyer in the top provincial legal job who (a) effectively instructs and oversees the conduct of the largest group of lawyers in the province; (b) has privileged status under Law Society regulations; and (c) is responsible for Law Society legislation.

Intellectual stimulation and job satisfaction was cited by more than half (52 %) of the respondents to the survey as the top perk people were currently enjoying or intended to enjoy as a lawyer, while just one in four (25.6 %) ranked financial rewards as the prime perk.

Aside from our own anecdotal observations (for example, many of us working in the legal industry know recent lawyers who didn't graduate from a top - 50 law school and still found good jobs), is there a credible case to be made that law school is still a good economic choice for college graduates?

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Through years of experience specializing in the placement of top lawyers with premier legal employers, we have developed extensive information systems, research materials, and referral networks enabling us not only to understand the history and workings of the legal profession but also to stay abreast of trends and changes affecting recruiting and job search strategies.

He found «an astonishingly small percentage» of lawyers among the top - paying jobs.

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.

Although it was expressed in different ways from various perspectives, some of the representative comments here included: «work overload [because of] lack of efficient management;» «total hands - off management style that causes chaos for associates and paralegals;» «lawyers who are managers thinking they can direct people;» lawyer managers finding / using time to actually do the management part of their job;» «poor quality of life for associates / poor management by partners;» «indecisiveness / inaction;» and finally, one that constitutes perhaps the cardinal sin, entitling the offender to immediate admission to Dante's innermost circle of Hell: «lack of vision from the top.»

Role US Securities Associate, US Law Firm, Singapore, 3 + years Location Singapore Job Description Top US firm is looking for a 3rd or 4th year US capital markets lawyer...

If you've been called to the bar and succeeded, you're not a far cry from the world of politics, say lawyers vying for the Liberal Party's top job.

In fact, many lawyers with jobs at firms volunteer and engage in public service on top of their long hours.

On top of that, they all have day jobs — some as lawyers and some within the legal tech industry.

Apart from suggesting that a corporate lawyer, with no experience of policing, let alone the more difficult and complex aspects of frontline operational policing, take over the top job at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)-- Ms May MP is on a roll with her latest stunt on providing guidelines to the judges.

Yet Hewlett also notes that professionals in «extreme» jobs can harm their health (poor eating habits, lack of sleep, etc.), and their personal relationships (the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says that preoccupation with work is one of the top four causes for divorce).

But at the top end, there are too many lawyers seeking a diminishing number of $ 160K jobs.

And in the recent recession, between 2008 and 2009, roughly 5,800 lawyers — or six per cent — at the top 250 law firms lost their jobs and nine per cent were Asian Americans.

It's not a fortune by the standards of top - drawer lawyers, and I think judges are underpaid for what they do, but remember, the job is «pretty sweet work» (a phrase used by Adam Liptak of The New York Times to describe what U.S. judges do).