Sentences with phrase «years of my legal career»

Angela McGraw has spent all 16 years of her legal career as a plaintiff's personal injury attorney.

2016: The Intake Bridge Is Bruised 2017: Add ICE Having focused the last 6 years of my legal career on the Intake process, and the last two as an Intake Consultant for law firms throughout the country, I learned one tremendous lesson and many smaller ones.

Thomas Graves had an extensive background in the operation of companies, having spent the first fifteen years of his legal career as in - house counsel for three different exploration and production companies, giving him first - hand understanding of how businesses work.

For the first 18 years of his legal career, Mr. Levy was a pioneer in providing legal assistance to low income persons, in Providence, Rhode Island as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow for the first three years, then as Director of the Charlottesville - Albemarle Legal Aid Society, Civil Director at the National Legal Aid And Defender Association, and then Executive Director of the Virginia Legal Aid Society, headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia.

One takeaway is solace: If you felt overmatched and out of place during the opening months and years of your legal career, you were far from alone.

Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive in the technology industry (Dell Corporation), a partner in private practice, and dedicated many years of her legal career to public service, including serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Washington (1988 - 1994) and in various capacities as a U.S. Army officer assigned to the Pentagon and White House Office of Legal Counsel.

For women lawyers, who often have young children during the early building years of a legal career, the traditional law firm «up or out» promotion system may not work out well.

Young, Smart & Legal: «Embrace Your Ambition» is the tagline for Toronto lawyer Valarie Matthews» blog about navigating your way through the first years of your legal career.

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Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

Andrew Cohen (D)- D11 - Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, Norwood, and parts of Bedford Park, Wakefield, and Bronx Park East - Cohen, a Riverdale attorney, has had a long career in law, including several years as a court attorney to a Bronx Supreme Court Justice, legal counsel to State Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, and a stint as an assistant adjunct at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

NSBA is working with federal policy makers, legal scholars, opinion leaders, members of the education community, business leaders, and the media to shape public education so students graduating this year and in the future, are ready for college, career, and life.

Throughout her more than twenty - year legal career, Romney has represented and advised clients in numerous industries on a wide range of matters, including: acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, commercial transactions and corporate governance.

Mr. Maher began his legal career at the law firm of Nourse and Bowles and later became a principal at several firms including The Law Office of John T. Maher, P.C. where he practiced for many years.

Years of grad school could result in a promising legal career, one rife with intrigue, romance, and the eternal search for the perfect cup of hot dark coffee.

Based on that data, ALM Intelligence plans to create new kinds of career - focused analytics in Legal Compass that could show, as an example, that a lawyer who graduates from X law school typically takes X years to make partner.

Having attended way too many legal - technology trade shows over the course of my career, I can state with certainty that there are only two each year you really should attend if you care about keeping current with the field — LegalTech New York in January and ABA TechShow in April.

Rodrigue told Legal Feeds she will be at the Montreal office two days a week and will continue to commute to Toronto as she has for the past seven years as the former co-chair of the national class actions team at Norton Rose and its predecessor Ogilvy Renault, where she began her career as a stagiare 22 years ago.

Partnership has for years been the career incentive above all others in law — the long - term goal that underpins the business model of the legal profession.

These values have guided the firm's success and defined the legal career of its founder for nearly twenty years.

Nelligan O'Brien Payne also participates in many charitable and social activities throughout the year, emphasizing early on in our students» legal career the importance of staying active in the community.

As the principal of Newman ADR, Justice Sandra Schultz Newman developed her mediation skills early on in her career, spending nearly 20 years in a private legal practice.

With the support of the RCBA Board and the Barristers, the planning committee created a three - part program for its inaugural year that includes: (1) Legal Careers Day; (2) a mock preliminary hearing argued by a District Attorney and criminal defense attorney before Judge Bernard Schwartz; and (3) a «teach the class» series where guest attorney / judge lecturers will help prepare students for the AP Government exam by hosting discussions on various constitutional law issues.

From career advice to legal news, we've curated a list of the best blogs for paralegals on the net this year.

No one is certain what the future will bring, and there is much speculation, but we thought — as you prepared for your Christmas break and pause for reflection after the usual frantic combination of parties and end of the year closings — we would give you our thoughts on what Brexit might mean for the UK legal sector; and your career.

Alison Goodwin was born and brought up around horses having ridden at National level in both Eventing and Dressage and having spent a number of years working in an international event yard before embarking upon her legal career.

During his 21 - year legal career, Mr. Goldberg has litigated hundreds of cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving claims of retaliation, discrimination, wrongful termination, fraud, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract, as well as commercial contract disputes, civil RICO, ERISA, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, corporate governance disputes, minority shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, Madoff counseling and defense, advancement and indemnification proceedings, whistleblower actions (SOX and CEPA), executive compensation counseling, litigation, and arbitration, international litigation and arbitration, antitrust litigation and arbitration, products liability litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, and securities fraud.

A Russell Group law degree, a magic circle training contract and years of experience at the commercial law coalface, it seems a safe bet Bilal Mahmood has a prosperous legal career ahead of him.

I am a few years into my legal career and I can see how each of these points has been and continues to be an important part of the development of my career.

Lee's legal career encompasses 24 years of experience with criminal, family, and civil litigation, as well as real estate, personal injury, and builders» lien litigation.

While I was at law school, I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»

But for the last 5 years I've carved out a career as a professional legal educator dedicated to helping aspiring and practicing attorneys survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession.

I have been in legal journalism for more than 10 years, but I am very excited to begin a new phase in my career at the helm of Canadian Lawyer.

From a legal perspective I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked with exceptional partners from an early stage of my career at Eversheds (Ian Richardson, David Gray) through to carrying Squire Signy's bags at Clifford Chance for the best part of seven years!

Reason probably tells you to continue legal services the way you learned out of school, the way you have for the past 20 years, and the way that has led you to success at this point in your career.

There has been a slew of cases over the last few years on whether legal representation should be allowed in disciplinaries where the outcome could be career ending rather than limiting.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

Many of the students in the Cohen study, like many first - year legal writing students, remarked that they were impressed by the rigor of the criticism and that seldom in their college careers had a teacher or professor taken their efforts so seriously.245 Consistent with this, the researchers noted that many effective teachers and programs «do not hesitate to call attention to the gap between students» current performance and the level that they could achieve with unstinting effort.»

The objective of the Edward F. Hennessey Professionalism Award is to recognize and honor a member of the Connecticut Bar whose career has manifested a dedication to the highest ideals and standards of the legal profession, so as to provide inspiration to other members of the bar and to honor the memory of Edward F. Hennessey, a lawyer at Robinson + Cole and close friend of Mr. Wade's, whose 41 years at the bar exemplified the criteria of the award.

Over the course of her more than 27 - year career, Ms. Scott has been recognized as a legal leader.

Shauna Bryce Shauna C. Bryce is a graduate of Harvard Law School with 20 years in law and legal careers.

WIN began her legal career as an assistant lecturer at the University of Yangon on international and corporate & commercial laws before joining Russin & Vecchi (later changed to Myanmar Thanlwin Legal Services Ltd) in 1997, where she practiced for 15 ylegal career as an assistant lecturer at the University of Yangon on international and corporate & commercial laws before joining Russin & Vecchi (later changed to Myanmar Thanlwin Legal Services Ltd) in 1997, where she practiced for 15 yLegal Services Ltd) in 1997, where she practiced for 15 years.

Manage first year by meeting classmates, embracing the challenges of legal research and writing, and engaging in some career development.

There are lots of exceptionally successful and inspirational people working in the legal industry and the most valuable thing I did in the very early years of my career was never shying away from asking lots of questions.

Commenting on the results of the data, Lynn Sedgwick, Managing Director at Clayton Legal said: «Almost a year has passed since the UK decided to leave the EU and while we have certainly seen lawyers being less committed to a career move, the hiring picture as a whole remains generally healthy.

Do you mean «happy» right now as I write footnote 17 on this brief for Acme Investments or «happy» during the course of my ten - year legal career?

Becoming a solicitor has never been an easy process, but this year's Law Student Report reveals the number of students opting to pursue a career outside the legal sector has hit a record high.

According to Legal Week Intelligence's eighth Law Student Report (LSR), the number of students wanting to pursue a career in law has seen a steady decline over the past three years.

My legal career for more than 10 years has been focused primarily in the area of family law.

Founder of Legal Talk Network in 2005, Lu Ann's career spanned 20 years as a two - time Emmy Award - winning Television Executive Producer turned entrepreneur, developing online media and marketing strategies for target audiences.

Over his 30 + year legal career, Sandy has developed an acknowledged expertise in all facets of condominium law, including both residential and commercial condominium development, operation, and financing.