Sentences with phrase «with junior lawyers»

Many BC litigation firms with junior lawyers will confirm they handle small claims files all the time.

Amy is a full member of the Employment Lawyers Association, the Law Society, and is fully involved with the Junior Lawyers Division.

These include regular seminars on a variety of topics, arranged in conjunction with junior lawyers organisations such as the Birmingham Solicitors» Group, the Birmingham Trainee Solicitors» Society, the Wolverhampton and Black Country JLD, The London Young Lawyers Group and the Leeds JLD.

Buy - side institutions such as asset managers and private equity / hedge funds have also deviated slightly by focusing on building their teams with junior lawyers, instead of the typical practice of taking on experienced hires at the mid-senior levels.

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.

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.

Linklaters has launched a reverse mentoring pilot, with junior lawyers assigned to mentor the firm's more senior partners.

Of course, out of context, this sounds absurd, but Jack goes on to write that «getting the new norm to be «we fill out our data forms after every matter» requires firm leaders to proselytize their practice group heads, requires those heads to lobby the partners and senior associates in their groups, and requires those lawyers to set the expectation with the junior lawyers that those forms must be completed.»

Perhaps if the junior lawyer gets too good, the client might believe they can get the same work at lower cost and form the relationship with the junior lawyer?

Not exact matches

It was a real treat for me as a junior lawyer to work with him and learn from him,» Smith said in an interview.

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.

He agreed, but only on the condition that the junior lawyer continue with the assignment of arguing the motions.

This had the effect of placing the email addresses in a fairly random order, with a key client tacked on to the end of the email addresses and some junior lawyers before more senior lawyers.

The most frequent argument in support of ghostblogging is that senior lawyers routinely enlist the services of juniors to write memos, documents, CLE papers and the like, and then place their own names on the resulting product (often, but not always, with a front - page footnote thanking the junior for his or her «assistance.»)

Alternatively, if the junior lawyer builds relationships and expertise, they may leave and set up on their own, possibly taking clients with them.

Their investment in junior lawyers is enormous, with extensive training and a culture of mentorship, allowing trainees to realise their potential.

Technology that enables a savvy junior lawyer of five years» experience to go toe - to - toe with a long - toothed practitioner.

James has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners in recent years as a leading junior for commercial chancery disputes, where he is described as a «great lawyer with a fine intellect, who is very hard - working», who has «continued to enhance his growing reputation by acting in high - stakes cases.»

The directories describe him variously as «a very able lawyer and a junior with a stellar career ahead of him», «a rising star» who is «delightful to work with and charming with clients», «A great lawyer with a fine intellect, who is very hard - working» and ««Extremely bright, practical, clear and a great team player».

This allowed even the most junior lawyers to come up with ideas for problem - solving with the safety net of a manager's experience and perspective.

PSLs are well - respected attorneys, usually with several years of practice experience, who draft or gather high - quality precedent documents, research and summarize legal developments for internal and client use, help billable attorneys find expert colleagues, and train junior lawyers.

The consultation closes on 4 March 2016 and YLAL will be submitting a response to provide the SRA with views from junior and aspiring legal aid lawyers.

Ollie discussed the issue of «paralegalisation», with paralegal experience now seen by many as a prerequisite to getting a training contract, and said that the aspiration for junior legal aid lawyers sat the moment «is limited to being able to survive and sustain a career».

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

Formalize mentoring programs so that junior lawyers have scheduled «face time» with their mentors.

Meeting took place between my lawyer and his legal team including senior and junior Counsel who met with the Prosthetists who were providing me with the arm from Dorset Orthopaedic.

Together with his Para-Legal Meena Babin with over 21 years family law experience, and his junior associate Celina Meghji who's hourly rates are much lower than that of a senior trial lawyer, Zukerman Law Group can help you find an economically viable approach to resolving your dispute without destroying your family's financial situation.

«Now, with data, even junior lawyers — or potentially even clients — can determine the odds of success in a particular matter.

We have all had the experience in meetings with colleagues, mentors, senior and junior lawyers, of not being heard.

The recent news that Deutsche Bank will no longer pay panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers has provoked a strong reaction across the legal profession, with a Legal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonable.

Working with a talented team who are good fun and witnessing (and helping) more junior fee earners develop as lawyers and businesspeople.

After an associate joins a firm, the firm should pair the associate with another lawyer — usually a senior associate or junior partner — who is an experienced legal writer.

Whilst there is no such thing as a «typical day» our diary entries from our current trainees and newly qualified solicitors will provide you with a valuable insight into a day in the life of a junior lawyer.

Email us with your thoughts on how YLAL can help junior lawyers tackle problems facing entry into the legal aid profession: [email protected].

The long hours worked by junior lawyers, and the considerable billings associated with them, seem to have little connection to the salary packages on offer.

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But our culture is collaborative, with a lot of transfer of knowledge from the senior lawyers to the junior lawyers.

Presented with results from the Initiative's own survey of client expectations, some lawyers present were a bit taken aback by the idea that clients wanted to do more of the work themselves in order to lower costs — because it seemed to contrast with their own experience of clients asking that junior lawyers not be put on their files in order to save time and money.

A lawyer hires a junior lawyer to help with the workload of her practice.

But I am in the legal education field and what I think about with LPO is this — what will happen to our law students and junior lawyers if we outsource everything?

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has finalised a deal to take on the bulk of the remaining junior lawyers in Bingham McCutchen's London office this week, as a vote on Bingham's potential merger with Morgan Lewis & Bockius draws nearer.

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.

Saying that, since an international trend nowadays appears to be that clients are becoming «increasingly keen to consider more junior level lawyers, with the prime time for a first in - house move being around 18 months PQE», it's definitely worth doing your research and putting the feelers out early.

If you are an aspiring or junior legal aid lawyer (up to 10 years PQE / call), please complete our Social Mobility Survey and, once you have done so, share it with your friends and colleagues.

Rather, the lawyer should be involved in a junior or supporting role in the case or, if acting as senior counsel, should ensure that there is supportive expertise provided by someone with the knowledge and competence the lawyer acts.

Conceptualizing organizational culture in this way underscores, for instance, that a lawyer's decision about whether to expose the firm to risk, by deliberately ignoring a potential conflict, may depend on whether the firm offers junior lawyers meaningful professional training opportunities, and whether it provides income partners with guidance on how to engage in business development.

As a junior lawyer with a keen interest in the future of lawyering, I decided to give the book a read.

• Greater opportunities for students and junior lawyers to get involved with clients and large files earlier in their careers.

UK firm's new initiative adds multiple clients in just over five months with some won by staff and junior lawyers