Sentences with phrase «were at large firms»

Some of those lawyers were at large firms where on spend alone, I was far from a key client.

«I was at another large firm for 10 years and the partnership track takes a lot out of you.

Because we've rejected the «one stop shop» model, we're able to impartially connect clients with attorneys that are the best fit for their needs and budget, whether it be at a large firm, boutique, or solo practice.

Were you at a large firm and then went solo or did you and a partner — how did you start your firm to begin with?

Remember, if you're at a large firm, you are likely providing your services to a lot of in - house counsel — and some of them are reading blogs.

«Attorney Rohit Sabharwal, a Rick's regular, says he often takes clients of his small law firm with him and such entertaining was common when he was at a large firm, too.

I remember thinking when I was at a larger firm, like, «Oh, there's like $ 1200 sitting here every...» We don't do that.

E-discovery can also lead to cost savings, which can benefit new lawyers in their first job — be it at a large firm or if they're venturing out on their own.

I don't care if you are at a large firm, in - house, or a solo — every lawyer should have a blog.

Not exact matches

UPS is in talks with at least one U.S. trucking firm to launch an in - home delivery service for large, heavy goods such as couches and treadmills.

Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.

Older workers, in contrast, are paid about 10 to 25 percent less at young firms, because they are likely to be taking more senior positions that would be more highly compensated at larger firms in exchange for equity in a startup.

As we've noted before, VC firms are raising larger and larger funds, pumping capital into venture - backed companies at the various stages, and likely inflating already - inflated tech valuations.

«Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world,» Fink, the head of the largest asset management firm in the world, said at an Institute of International Finance meeting.

Prior to SineWave, Yanev was an investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the largest venture capitalist firm in the world.

Shanta Puchtler, co — chief investment officer at Man Numeric, a division of Man Group, one of the world's largest hedge fund firms, with $ 77 billion under management, says his team hasn't been able to glean actionable insights from social media.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

With the benefit of hindsight, Novolker points out that for a business - to - business firm like his, many larger potential customers in the States may balk at the prospect of being the first customer, even if the supplier has a solid reputation in Canada.

Performance of the different offerings was uneven; two large funds launched at the company's peak tumbled by 20 per cent at one point, damaging the nascent firm's reputation.

The small details of running a business, managing workplace culture and making large investment decisions were not in his purview, according to those who worked at the firm.

The research firm Dealogic says Twitter's IPO is set to be the third - largest U.S. - listed IPO so far this year, behind Plains GP Holdings at $ 2.9 billion and Zoetis» $ 2.6 billion.

iBwave knew the Canadian market wasn't large enough, so, in 2004, the firm's management decided to risk $ 15,000 on a booth at a small Miami trade show that drew mobile carriers and equipment suppliers.

One senior manager at a large accounting firm in Ottawa who asked not to be named recommends asking for drafts of reports being prepared by perfectionists.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.

As a Partner and Regional Business Tax Services Leader at EY, Belinda Pestana works with leadership on strategy for tax advisory and planning, and is the Global Tax Account Leader on one of the firm's largest clients, managing $ 50 million plus of tax revenue.

Google Creative Lab, an internal branding agency within the tech giant, has techniques that could be employed at any large or small tech firm.

Barbera knew that the clients he wanted, large financial - services firms, «needed to at least think that we were a «we.»»

According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

But social and mobile firms aren't as large or as lucrative as the console players — at least not yet.

Stock picker Steve Mandel's Lone Pine Capital had the largest gain of any hedge fund firm in 2017, at $ 5 billion, and is now ranked fourth overall.

That's because with larger acquisitions, «you start getting questions on national security... and overall stability and growth of the Chinese economy, so there's a lot more scrutiny over large, marquee deals,» said Benjamin Cavender, principal at consulting firm China Market Research.

Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to publish a report on Silvercorp and US Global should dump its stock.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

Security teams at large financial services firms and businesses were reviewing plans for defending against ransomware attacks, according to executives with private cyber security firms.

One explanation is that CEOs in larger firms have less of a direct impact on the company's performance — perhaps because they delegate more than CEOs at smaller firms.

I used to work for a large financial services consulting firm, and the goal for our business development people was always to reach the decision makers at the companies where we wanted to find new clients.

For starters, suggests Joel Evans, co-author of Retail Management: A Strategic Approachand the RMI Distinguished Professor of Business at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business in Hempstead, New York, entrepreneurs should track their sales and customer retention, and then look at the pricing activities of similarly sized companies in their geographical area - while being mildly alert to what larger firms are doing.

Call in a consultant — the largest accounting firms, he says, are generally quite skilled at helping small companies choose a computer system to meet their needs.

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

Joining a big firm is a better life for an angel investor because, well, you do fewer deals at larger dollar amounts.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

At Jaime's company, as within many large firms where people have put in time and climbed the ladder, married couples are commonplace.

Before joining HH in 2012, he was a Regional Director for AQR Capital Management in Scottsdale, marketing the firm's alternative investment mutual funds to large advisory teams at brokerage firms in the Western U.S. Prior to AQR, he served high net worth clients as a principal with a niche financial advisory firm in Phoenix.

He also spent 3 years at KTB network, which is the largest venture capital firm in Korea and invested more than USD 5M into media, contents, and IT companies.

Prior to that she was a general partner for 15 years at Accel; she left to co-found Aspect with the goal of bringing collaboration back to Series A companies and bridging the gap between angel investors and larger multi-stage VC firms.

In addition, Rush founded an online telecom firm, which was ultimately sold at a profit to a larger company.

Mr. Feinberg began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was actively involved in trading large pools of firm capital.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.