Sentences with phrase «up junior associates»

Other firms prize work / life balance, and seek to recoup the cost of training up junior associates by having them stay long term.

Not exact matches

Among the confessions were a junior associate who failed to include a timeline in a contract he was working on, which wound up killing the deal.

Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing tiny «nanomaterials» using a «bottom - up» approach called «molecular self - assembly.»

Consequently, as these junior associates rise up in the firm, they are left scrambling to learn client development skills — on top of a rapidly growing workload.

Slaughter and May has announced that it will hand out end - of - year associate bonuses of up to 16 %, alongside an increase in pay rates for junior lawyers and trainees.

In traditional firms, the team is divided among fee - earners and non-fee-earners, and there is often a strong hierarchy among the lawyers, from junior associates up to senior partners.

What really happens when you hire an assistant or junior associate is that you spend your freed - up time on management, not billable lawyering.

The most junior associates at CC are now set to receive # 85,000 a year in base pay plus a fixed bonus as long as they meet their development goals, up from a maximum of # 84,000 last year if they received their full discretionary bonus.

Law.com: More Law Firms Boost Pay for Associates A Key Factor for Associate Raises: Location, Location, Location Sullivan & Cromwell Boosts Associates» Pay Hogan & Hartson and Dickstein Shapiro Raise First - Year Associate Pay Drinker Biddle to Add More Salary Partners Keker Matches Associate Salary Hikes More Law Firms Match Regional Salary Hikes DLA Piper Raises First - Year Pay to $ 125K Large Miami Firms Boost Associate Pay by Nearly 10 Percent Latham Boosts Associate Salaries Wilson Sonsini Follows the Trend and Raises Salaries L.A. Firms Lift Associate Salaries Gibson Dunn Bumps Up First - Year Pay to $ 135,000 Finnegan Raises Salaries for Junior, Midlevel Associates Cravath Reveals Bonus Figures, While Kenyon Raises Associate Salaries

Whether you are a law student, articling student or a junior associate, it is easy to be trapped in the mindset that you don't measure up.

No sooner had some of the UK's largest law firms narrowed the UK / US pay gap for junior lawyers by upping combined pay and bonus for NQs to around # 85,000, than New York ushered in its first associate pay rises in nearly 10 years.

Legal Week: Wall Street giant breaks pay stand - off with salary hikes Simpson Thacher matches $ 20k pay hikes Starting salaries predicted to rise as US pay round looms Freshfields salary hike trumps A&O Partners slam A&O salary hikes amid fears of renewed pay war Freshfields to hike City pay rates Skadden sets new pay benchmark as regions brought in line with NY Weil Gotshal increases associate pay by 3 % CC raises junior lawyer pay White & Case ups UK NQ salary stakes

Firm raises basic junior rates and boosts trainee pay by up to 15.4 % but associate salary will remain stagnant

Junior associates especially can be involved in writing up summaries of the implications of new legislation for various client sectors.

CC, meanwhile, has brought its junior lawyers» base rate pay up to match the UK's 2.7 % jump in inflation, which for a newly - qualified base rate of # 85,000 would suggest increases of over # 2,000 for junior associates.

Many new junior associates join litigation and a sizable chunk ends up in corporate, and finance.

At the time of our calls junior associates were based in Chicago, LA, Houston, LA, New York, Philadelphia (where most juniors end up), Seattle and Washington, DC.

And if it's true that nine in ten of the junior associates from big law end up leaving to work for themselves or in small to middle sized firms, then that's hardly shoring up the eroding foundation of big law firms either.

We end up back at the hotel, and the summer associates and some other junior associates go to someone's suite, and we're playing cards, drinking, and socializing.

For decades, firms used essentially the same model: charging increasingly higher rates for relatively routine work done by junior associates, whose entry - level salaries in major markets have now been bid up to $ 160,000 (plus bonus, of course), a sum reported by the big law schools.

Fed up with the rising cost of outsourcing work to inexperienced junior associates at BigLaw firms — whose average hourly rate is approaching $ 300 — a growing number of companies are opting for the more cost - effective route of hiring their own lawyers fresh out of law school and training them in - house.

Junior Associate 2006 — 2008 Hollis, Merner & Wills Richmond, VA — Consulted with start - ups and assisted in drafting incorporating documents.

Carolina Health Specialist (Myrtle Beach, SC) 09/1998 — 03/2000 Insurance Coordinator / Supervisor • Manage the billing of commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid claims to insurance carriers • Perform research, follow up, and appeals on unprocessed claims for payment adjudication • Serve as team trainer instructing junior associates in corporate policies and industry best practices • Create audit reports, manage time cards, and monitor weekly logs for team productivity • Oversee talent recruitment ensuring a highly qualified and effective team

Professional Experience Connexus Corporation (El Segundo, CA) 2008 — Present Senior Account Executive / Account Manager • Directed entire sales process from prospect generation to sale closure • Trained and oversaw junior sales associates ensuring profitable operations • Routinely exceeded company sales goals closing accounts valued up to $ 100,000 • Assisted finance department with month end accounting and collection efforts