Somewhat ironically, Tomorrow's Lawyers is
written for junior lawyers, those who have the least ability to effect the change described in the book.
Not exact matches
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.»)
We can propose improvements to free partner non-billable time
for billable work, enable
junior lawyers to take on more senior work (greater leverage), improve
lawyer efficiency to reduce soft
write - offs and hard
write - downs and improve efficiency of fixed - fee matters.
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.
Juniors had worked on a variety of matters, including «working at an organization to help pensioners be able to access Medicare,» working
for Lawyers for the Creative Arts, tackling immigration cases,
writing appellate briefs and helping people learn election laws.
As of this
writing Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott has 3.7 partners
for each associate — they've inverted the prevailing leverage model that multiplies
junior lawyers assigned to a case.