Sentences with phrase «who left firms»

For example, minorities comprised approximately 21 percent of all lawyers who left firms in 2009, despite only representing 13 percent of the overall law firm attorney population, as reported by a Minority Corporate Council Association survey.

As this story, «Law Firms Opening Up to the Idea of Attorney Re-Entry» reports, some women who left their firms to raise children are now discovering that they can return to the fold, even after as much as a decade of absence.

Mr Puri, who left the firm on 28 February, has worked closely with the JLL India and Asia Pacific leadership teams to complete the acquisition of Jones Lang LaSalle Residential Private Ltd (JLLR) and will lead a team of 200...

Indeed, the whole project was considered in doubt at one point, because it had been seen as a pet project of former Renault chief operating officer Carlos Tavares, who left the firm in 2013 before taking over at PSA Peugeot Citroën.

German economics daily Handelsblatt says RWE's predicament is not its current CEO's fault (Peter Terium), but the fault of the previous one, Jürgen Großmann, who left the firm a «dinosaur.»

Several of its attorneys have gone on to positions in government, including Madeline Haikala, who now serves as a U.S. district judge; Jim Hughey who is now a Jefferson County circuit judge; and Gray Borden who left the firm to take a position as an assistant U.S. attorney and went on to serve as a U.S. magistrate judge.

RoosLegal was set up earlier this year by SJ Berwin's Frankfurt corporate head Michael Roos, who left the firm in May.

For those who did not leave on the best of terms, such as Alicia, an attorney who left her firm to strike out as a solo practitioner in the same field as her BigLaw employer, the lack of a relationship with her prior firm has not been hugely problematic:

Shao has held the Asia managing partner role since May this year, when he was voted in as a replacement for Giles White, who left the firm to become general counsel at Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine Matheson.

An Australian court has ruled on a dispute between Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and eight of its former partners who left the firm to launch White &...

After this recent flurry of stories on involuntary law firm departures and subsequent law suits, it's refreshing to learn about one lawyer who left his firm and took the rap for it... quite literally!

An Australian court has ruled on a dispute between Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and eight of its former partners who left the firm to launch White & Case's Australia offering.

And the efforts are even reaching women who leave firms not for other jobs, but for motherhood: According to the article, Skadden, Arps has launched a maternity leave contact program.

For those lawyers, schooled under Cohen v. Lord Day & Lord, 75 N.Y. 2d 95 (1989), the prohibition appears absolute: lawyers may not enter into agreements with their law partners that require those who leave the firm to forfeit earned compensation or other benefits if they compete with the firm.

The eight former Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) who left the firm last year to launch an Australia practice for White & Case have instructed Seyfarth Shaw to represent them in the case brought against them by their former firm, which could see them blocked from working until September.

A law firm's partnership agreement that penalizes partners who leave the firm by canceling their entitlement to partnership income credits has been upheld by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

* Much like what happened with Traci Ribeiro's case against Sedgwick, Winston & Strawn is trying to push Constance Ramos, a partner who left the firm amid allegations of gender bias and discrimination, into arbitration.

It described him as a «part - time contractor» who left the firm in July 2014 after less than a year working there.

He replaces Sotheby's founder and former CEO Ross McCredie, who left the firm last July.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

So it was left to Heenan, who was chairman for almost all of the firm's history, to serve as its backbone.

«Any new entrant's going to have a tough go, so you've got to bring something in that's highly differentiated and highly value added,» says Jonathan Wellum, who has since left AIC to start his own investing firm.

There's a war for talent on Wall Street for dealmakers who work with the likes of Kraft and Unilever — and some firms will be left out in the cold.

Anthony Armstrong, who was a managing director and head of technology in the Americas, left the firm for Morgan Stanley last year, as first reported by The New York Times.

«This was not Stanford, not Silicon Valley, where leaving (a prestigious university or a good job) to start your own company is a badge of honor,» said Technology Crossover Ventures partner Woody Marshall, who led his firm's early investments in Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb.

All four people left the firm, handing Kedl the daunting task of filling those jobs with qualified leaders who had knowledge of the region.

Mobius, 81, who is regarded as a pioneer of emerging market investing, left Franklin Templeton earlier this year after over 30 years with the firm.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

And while Goldman (GS) itself appears to be off the hook, Manhattan prosecutors are going after one of its former employees, who allegedly copied Goldman programs before leaving the firm.

The first miracle is that our daughter, who has one more semester of law school left, has actually received an employment offer from a well - respected law firm.

The former chief executive of human resources software firm Zenefits, Parker Conrad, on Tuesday made public a new startup that will compete with his old company, marking a comeback by the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who left Zenefits under a cloud.

The only way to go up was if someone left a position, and even then, you weren't guaranteed the position,» said Salas, who now works as an assistant account executive at Hollywood PR in Boston, where the entire firm comes together every other week for strategy brainstorming sessions.

Designing these applications to be attractive to women is also just good business, says Meltem Demirors, who recently left her post as a vice president at Digital Currency Group, a cryptocurrency - and blockchain - focused investment firm that she helped launch in 2015.

Though Jurvetson left DFJ as he was being investigated by the firm for harassment, the one person who had complained about DFJ publicly, at least, a founder named Keri Kukral, later made clear that her relationship to the firm was not in a professional context.

Mr. Leissner, who is married to the American fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons, left Goldman in January after the firm found a letter that Mr. Leissner wrote, on Goldman letterhead, vouching for Jho Low, a close associate of the Malaysian prime minister and a central target of various government investigations.

Similarly, Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz, who heads Admission Possible, a college admissions consulting firm based in La Jolla, Calif., starts preparing her five employees one to two months before she leaves.

«Now, instead of 80 percent of its efforts being unenlightened, just 20 percent are unenlightened,» said Mr. Flora, who recently left Microsoft to form his own design firm in Seattle.

That wasn't a surprise to longtime venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who spent nearly 13 years with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers before leaving in 2012 to start her own seed - stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures.

To negotiate the details on the immigration bill, Mr. Rubio hired Enrique Gonzalez, who took a leave from a law firm that handles H - 1B visa applications for many technology companies.

First, David Bach — advisor - turned - motivational speaker and bestselling author — who joined as a partner and vice chairman in June 2014, left the firm in August 2015.

An email to the banker, who was instrumental in building the Wall Street firm's operations in Malaysia, returned an out of office reply saying: «I am currently out of the office on personal leave with no access to emails».

But I have found in my years of experience working across industries and sectors, that firms who embrace NPS are often leaving tremendous sources of wealth creation on the table.

Birkenfeld said he is angry that Downing later left the government and took a job at a law firm where he is defending many of the Americans who had secret accounts.

Menlo — whose 2011 investment was led by a Kalanick ally, Shervin Pishevar, who has since left the firm — is likely to sell at least some of its holdings, sources said.

Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.

Pension and institutional Emerging Managers Programs focus on fund managers — mostly men — who leave the big firms with their $ 100 million plus portfolios and track records, according to Brand.

Rob Olan and Ted Huber, partners at Deerfield Management who are on leave, were convicted of counts including wire fraud, securities fraud and conversion of government property, as was David Blaszczak, founder of political consulting firm Precipio Health Strategies.

HubSpot and many other firms have developed analytics and accompanying metrics to predict who is going to leave.

These drops in the number of advisors, the average number per firm and the advisors remaining who actually help clients plan for retirement, ultimately leaves consumers with less access to advice.

Mr. Hathaway replaces Francois D. Sicart, who is leaving the firm to pursue other interests.