Independently owned since 1980, we have succeeded in maintaining a small company feel
with big firm career planning and placement expertise.
«It's also easier to have creative billing arrangements with that person than it is
with a big firm that has compensation committees.
Ray Beckerman is a veteran commercial litigator,
with both big firm and small firm background, experienced in representing major corporations as well as small family businesses and startups.
Ava Krajniewski joins Guest Walker as a paralegal
with big firm experience having worked for Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds for two years.
While initially working
with a big firm attorney, he but wanted to avoid the super high costs while he was working on the everyday legal documents needed to maintain his businesses.
With his big firm training and experience Dominic has the skills, knowledge, and confidence to get results for his clients no matter who's on the other side of the table.
When I first started practicing law (at that time
with a big firm), I felt sheepish to even broach the topic with clients.
The big firm was a great place to hitch my wagon, but only a couple clients really cared about being associated
with a big firm name.
This is certainly apparent in the conversations we are having
with our big firm female colleagues about maternity leaves and prospects for advancement within their firms.
«Being an agent doesn't work
with big firm economics,» said Brandon Witkow [a sports agent lawyer].
For nearly 15 years, Garth Rustand worked as a stock broker
with a big firm in Vancouver, pulling down $ 125,000 annually and being wined and dined by mutual fund companies pushing their latest offerings.
My friend had a dinner
with a big firm and the recruiter told her all the hiring partners would be wearing suits.
A top tax lawyer
with a big firm said Morneau's consultation period was too short and his proposals too precise to invite a free - flowing discussion about other approaches.
Gazidis said that we can not compete, financially,
with the big firms in Europe (Well we already knew that and it is not only financially... Football wise we are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to those «big firms»), but what is the point of paying the most expensive ticket seat in the world if you can not bring world class players??
You can still make mistakes
with big firms, but the mistakes are less likely to be fatal because large companies tend to be more stable than smaller firms.
While a few smaller fry sneak in, we like to stick
with bigger firms.
With big firms shrinking to meet reduced market demands and trimming costs, her business had dried up.
I did not make those errors again, and I was very diligent to be a skeptic regarding the trades that I did
with the big firms.
Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith Esq. thinks so, but Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle thinks the fallout from NALP's war
with big firms will most hurt students and new lawyers.
Or would it subsidize second - rate students who couldn't get jobs
with big firms?
Innovative small law firms are using widely available technologies to compete
with bigger firms.
«It also represents an important win for businesses at the smaller end of the scale, and helps to preserve the web as a place where small firms can compete
with bigger firms on a more even basis.»
«Otherwise,
with a bigger firm they may lose clients over time because real estate and labour [and] employment clients are just never going to pay the rates of the new, bigger firm.»
Some have articled
with big firms, even spent a few years as associates there and decided they wanted something else.
«
With big firms, they don't just look at your merits; they want the young ones — people who can work for 35 years.
As a lawyer (
with big firms and small) turned startup founder (of Mootus), I experience this every day.
McKenna & Associates, P.C. offers clients a wide range of high - level legal experience, coupled with the personal attention you won't find
with bigger firms.
Sam Glover: Are you trying to compete
with big firms for clients?
The problem
with big firms is you need all these big firm solutions.
Getting these smaller firms to adopt technology will allow them to do more work and bill more hours in order to compete
with bigger firms.
Although McPhail started out working
with a bigger firm, what was then Blackwell Law in Toronto, it didn't take him long to realize he could explore his other interests if he went out on his own — he established McPhail Law in 1972.
With corporations calling, why should minorities share the wealth
with big firms?
I think the problem
with the big firms isn't the training they provide, but their business models.
They have found tremendous success
with big firms, claiming clients like: Latham and Watkins, Bryan Cave, and Baker Hostetler.
You see synergies
with the bigger firm's other practice areas.
He's dealt
with big firms that continue to demand top dollar even in an increasingly competitive market.
Twice in my time
with big firms, I learned through a client feedback process that major clients were unhappy with the firm and about to fire them.
«The advantage
with the bigger firms is if the issue crosses borders it has been easier to co-ordinate logistically when the firm has offices across more than one jurisdiction,» he says.
Association
with big firms or government.
Nimesh Patel: Before real estate, I was in IT and moved out to San Francisco to work
with some big firms in the area.
I have proposed, enacted and vetted many ideas to invest in ways that take all of these things into account through my work
with the big firms.
Not exact matches
ONE of Perth's newest, and smallest, law
firms is working
with some of the world's
biggest companies, capitalising on a niche area in which few other businesses in the Asia Pacific region have experti
With big repercussions, according to an analysis by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the largest law
firms in the US.
The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting
firms harder than the
big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month,
with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.
There has been a significant re-ranking of insolvency
firms in WA,
with some relatively new brands winning market share from the
big players.
Consulting
firm McKinsey and Co. estimates that the U.S. currently faces a shortage of up to 190,000 people
with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers
with the skills to understand and act on what
big data can reveal.
Most of the
big law
firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year,
with Ashurst experiencing the
biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller
firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.
Big accounting
firms don't appear to share the gloom engulfing much of the resources industry in Western Australia,
with the top players adding significant numbers to their partnership roll - calls.
The Hong Kong stock exchange has introduced new rules allowing companies
with dual - class shareholding structures and biotechnology
firms yet to generate revenue to apply for listings from April 30, as it races to stay ahead of competing bourses in Shanghai, New York and Singapore to attract
big technology
firms and become the world's largest stock exchange.
And its long enjoyed a «frenemy» sort of relationship
with the
biggest U.S. Internet
firms.