He truly
wants everyone in the firm to make it a better place.
Not exact matches
At least
in Austin this week, it seems
everyone wants in to funding from his 500 Startups
firm.
«The Marines Corps allowed us to make sure we could understand the worst - and best - case scenarios, take care of
everyone else first, and accomplish the mission with minimum casualties,» says James Warren, founder of the Warren Financial Group, an investment - advisory
firm in Kansas City, Mo. «Those are the same principles we consider when doing investment planning: How can we accomplish what we
want to do with minimum risk
in relationship to the return?»
Is he smart for not getting involved
in NY - 23 or does it just expose him for who he is, someone who just
wants to make
everyone happy and doesn't really stand for any
firm principles...
«To do that we
want to understand the full scale of the problem and explore how
everyone — including government, social media companies, technology
firms, parents and others — can play their part
in tackling it.»
And while I honestly don't think
everyone needs professional help, what's wrong with being paid if you decide you do
want a professional on your side and I steer you
in the direction of a reputable
firm?
«For example, law
firms commonly undertake new lines of business and practice areas for all the wrong reasons — such as a client asking the
firm to open an office
in Cincinnati; because a lawyer
wants to retire
in Aspen, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, etc.; or because
everyone else seems to be opening offices
in Moscow.
«So, the bar
wants everyone to play its part
in realizing «justice for all» — and yet it refuses to acknowledge the efforts of solo and small -
firm attorneys who help bring about justice day by day, whether through performing pro bono outright or reducing rates to serve clients who could not otherwise afford legal services.
We
want to ensure
everyone can thrive
in our
firm and reach their true potential.
Does
everyone in your
firm understand the specific implications of globalization for the markets
in which you compete and the clients that you
want to serve?
Listening to
everyone at university bang on about commercial law
firms in London does turn your head slightly, but I decided to go for something I
wanted to do.
It scans each computer (except for any folders you tell it to ignore) for documents, copies them to MetaJure's secure server, OCRs and indexes all of them, and makes them available to
everyone in your
firm (except for anyone you don't
want to share with).
A managing partner may
want the ability to see the emails of
everyone else
in the
firm, while an associate or staffer may be restricted to only his or her own emails.
Every law
firm has them: partners who bring business
in the door but make
everyone else
want to bolt through it.
Gibson Dunn is everything you'd
want from a
firm, at least relative to its peers
in Biglaw:
everyone is really friendly and easy to work with, the work is interesting and substantive (I've been here 4 months and I've gotten to write 2 motions and a section of a brief), the quality of work here is excellent (you really can trust anyone here with anything), it's flexible
in terms of hours and working at home, and the pay is competitive (even starting associates got stub bonuses).
You
want your email to be fully integrated with your practice management software because it makes it so much easier to send email to specific client matter related contacts, keep track of time when drafting and organize emails by client matter so
everyone in the
firm is kept
in the loop.