Sentences with phrase «which junior lawyers»

In this Prawfs post a few months ago, I speculated that green (i.e., young / junior) lawyers may have a uniquely important role to play in the emerging marijuana «green rush» industry: not only may veteran lawyers be cautious and concerned about representing persons actively involved in state marijuana business, but marijuana reform often seems a «young man's game» for which junior lawyers may be uniquely positioned to be of service to persons needing legal help in this arena.

This was the onset of the dire condition known as YOLO — Young Obsessive Lawyer Overreacting syndrome — which junior lawyers with their first file are prone to.

An alternative hypothesis is that firms that spend less than $ 500k are retaining firms for low stakes matters on which junior lawyers do most of the work.

Not exact matches

Point being, often firms put a grayhaired elder partner up to present an argument that was crafted by young junior lawyers who have become intimately familiar with the details of the argument, which the elder partner may not fully understand.

And a junior lawyer at one firm typically drafts complaints or motion papers into which are inserted the names of senior attorneys at multiple other law firms serving as co-counsel on the relevant case.

Another area that has been flagged by a number of junior lawyers as a concern, which was not covered in the survey, is the lack of transparency about why some associates on the partnership track do not make it at the end.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

We are also concerned that changes to the way in which the fund is administered do not have negative consequences for junior lawyers, particularly in terms of ensuring that sponsored training contracts and other mechanisms designed to ensure quality supervision and career progression for legal aid lawyers do not fall by the way side.

To conclude, while not a legally - focused report, it's still fascinating, as paralegals and junior lawyers are not the only ones in the legal world facing the forces of the industrialisation of cognition, which is growing everyday.

This follows a review by the Law Society's Junior Lawyers Division, which represents students and solicitors with five years post qualifying experience.

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The firm also stressed how using AI systems would allow the firm's junior lawyers and paralegals to focus on more complex work, though this does perhaps undermine the original reason for having the Manchester process centre, which became a flagship element of the firm's business strategy.

The move, which was announced by Akin Gump earlier today (17 September), is set to come into effect «over the coming weeks», and is also likely to include additional junior lawyers from the offices.

Talwar says technology will undoubtedly replace work done by junior lawyers, which is why he says we'll have to rethink how many lawyers we need and how they should be trained.

I had the opportunity to go in - house, but I was hesitant to do that because I think that once you go in - house, you become so commercially focused on «getting it done, getting it done» that you don't necessarily get to build on your technical skills, which as a junior lawyer I wanted to continue to develop.

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

Research undertaken by Legal Cheek shows Linklaters» London trainees and junior lawyers arrive at the office on average at 9:14 am and leave at 8:23 pm, which is in line with other top firms across the City.

Summer associates receive the same type of work assignments as our junior associates, on actual client matters, and work with as many lawyers as possible over the course of the program, which runs during the first half of the summer.

I hope that has come across in how I have and continue to develop my team; I have mentored several junior lawyers over the years who have gone on to a mix of great next jobs, which is what you want.

More importantly, senior lawyers usually dictate to juniors which way they should vote for benchers.

After a thorough introduction to the matter of expertise and its acquisition, they discuss the results of a project in which fifteen senior Canadian lawyers (in three focus groups) talked about the legal writing of junior lawyers.

She works closely with our junior lawyers on professional development initiatives to ensure ongoing quality in English language transactions and those matters which interact with common law principles.

The results — which are derived from the Legal Cheek survey of over 1,500 trainees and junior lawyers at 56 leading firms — broadly correspond to time spent in the office, but also contain some surprises, suggesting that employees» perceptions of work / life balance can be as important as the reality.

The professor - student relationship parallels the senior - junior attorney hierarchy in which young lawyers will be writing.88 The ability to explore ideas outside this hierarchy helps build the confidence of new legal writers, who are exploring an area of legal discourse for the first time.

As such, if you really want to improve public access to justice in Surrey, the solution is not to flood the Lower Mainland (a market in which law students already have a very difficult time finding articles - yes, even in Surrey) with junior lawyers but to build a new courthouse on the Surrey side of the river.

Best of all, though, it invited a student recruiter (who is one of the best around, in my judgment), as well as an articling student (who was an NCA candidate, which has become Canada's largest law school) and junior lawyers in both public and private practice.

The decision, which will apply to firms appointed as a result of Deutsche's current panel review, represents a first major move by a bank on this side of the Atlantic not to pay for junior lawyers, a practice known to be more commonplace in the US.

These include a formal mentoring programme which partners up junior lawyers with senior mentors, an academic mentoring scheme which encourages participation in legal mooting competitions and the financial support for LOVILL lawyers to pursue funded further education.

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.

The latest to go is London giant Linklaters, which has nudged up its base rate for junior lawyers by # 1,000, handing newly - qualified (NQ) solicitors # 82,000.

Having begun as an Office Junior, learning about clients and their stories which were very touching as well as fascinating, I developed a genuine interest and passion for this work so wanted to qualify as a Clinical Negligence lawyer.

«The Legal Cheek Awards follows the enormous success of our inaugural trainee and junior lawyer survey of 56 leading UK corporate law firms, which saw over 1,500 millennial lawyers rate their firms on everything from quality of training to partner approachability to perks.

It is perhaps more comparable to the firm's usage fees for legal research facilities such as Westlaw, which would naturally still demand a junior lawyer to pore over what the search engine could find, read through it and isolate the key issues in the text.

Huq also questioned Truss on diversity in the legal profession, referring to research by YLAL about the salaries of junior legal aid lawyers and asking if the Lord Chancellor would consider reinstating the training contract grant scheme which was abolished by the Coalition government in 2010.

An arm of The Law Society is the Junior Lawyers Division which, again, operates on both a national and local level.

They wield their influence to further a junior's lawyers career by calling in favors, bringing attention to the associate's successes, and helping them cultivate important relationships with other influential lawyers and clients — all of which are absolutely essential in law firms.

This challenges existing status structures, which may make junior lawyers overly bold and rankle partners.

And by that I mean the end of large - scale leverage, i.e. the practice of using several junior lawyers to every equity partner and through which some law firms have been able to become incredibly profitable.

was written in the early summer of 2009, shortly after the completion of FutureFirm 1.0 — a «collaborative competition» in which teams of law firm partners, in - house lawyers, and junior associates competed with one another to create a law firm that would survive and thrive over the next 20 years.

(We see junior lawyers with less than four years of experience claiming expertise in two or three fields, which typically means that they have researched an issue or two in each, at most.)

For law firms which have built their profitability around hordes of junior lawyers furiously billing, retooling their firms means plotting the obsolescence of what now provides their sizeable incomes.

An essential claim in the article is that the decline of traditional lawyers will impact the business model of law schools — and, indeed, will put largely out of business those schools who aspire to become junior - varsity Yales, that is, who don't prepare their students for a marketplace in which machine learning and big data pushes traditional legal services to the curb and, with it, thousands of newly - minted lawyers.

At the end of your response, you make the point that ``... the law societies should be doing more to support junior lawyers entering independent practice, which is the last remaining step from law school to being able to do something about access to justice.»

Of course, as a junior lawyer, there would have been no place for me in this business model, which is a little disheartening.

And LSUC's TAG (The Action Group), i.e., law students and junior lawyers organizing TAG's «technology and access to justice» work (most recently its «Access to Justice Week,» October 23 - 27, 2017), which can not possibly compensate their very expensive legal education with anything more than a severely financially depressed career.

She brought in work that was above her level of expertise, which is unexpected for a junior lawyer.