Sentences with phrase «young associates»

As this piece points out, $ 200,000 isn't enough money to keep young associates at a law firm.

But for younger associates with families who don't yet have work experience or a client roster, it's not clear how helpful these new flex policies are in practice.

This puts enormous stress on younger associates who must make decisions often without the benefit of research, consultation or experience.

And many of them are unwilling to pay for young associates to get up to speed.

Many young associates find themselves working in a practice area where the firm had an opening but it was not an area of law that really interested them.

I love to see younger associates asking senior associates and young partners about business development and client service strategies.

He no longer enjoys his share of profits brought in by masses of keen, young associates working flat out 1,800 or 2,000 hours per year.

Could the opposite happen as well, with senior partners being pushed out by younger associates for not being productive enough?

Until then, he'd been happy to leave the training to larger firms and hire young associates instead, with mixed results.

The company will adjust and hire more young associates, he predicts.

Re: the candy bowl: When I was a very young associate, I had a crush on a senior associate.

Experienced attorneys who bring tremendous value through their interpersonal communication are hard pressed to articulate to younger associates what exactly makes them effective.

Often he works evenings and weekends to «catch up» and to try to stay ahead of several bright younger associates whom he fears will be promoted over him.

Younger associates spend most of their time being trained and do not provide any real training to other associates.

And frequently, we see young associates who have earned their stripes go on to start their own practices or join other firms.

My goal is to help law firms understand how to attract, motivate, and retain top young associates.

But proper attention to developing the necessary skills and experience can allow young associates to not only avoid these risks but also enjoy a real opportunity to stand out.

The hard truth is that the day of the billable young associate is drawing to a close anyway.

Back at the office, your new young associates now have a better idea about what real jury selection looks like.

The discussion explored strategies young associates can employ and special considerations for them to keep in mind during the process of creating professional development plans.

And do we really want to have a profession where younger associates feel intimidated about raising sensitive issues?

Instead of merely seeking «balance,» today's young associates expect their profession to be an important component of their lives.

That means young associates asking their older customers a lot of questions, operating with integrity, and holding each other accountable for honest interaction.

Hot topic: Younger associates tend to want to communicate with customers and colleagues by e-mail and voice mail.

While many younger associates might not be thinking about retirement, they can benefit the most from the compound growth of a retirement plan.

Clients have long complained about paying for young associates to learn to practice law «on their dime».

As their cost of doing business rose, firms compensated by increasing their billing rates and their hours, often by throwing hordes of young associates at a project and charging for the time of each.

One recent paper, Young Associates in Trouble, by David T. Zaring of Washington and Lee University School of Law and William D. Henderson of Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, considers two recent novels about unhappy associates at large law firms in light of available data and empirical studies.

That approach to legal reasoning is a classic rookie mistake that gets a lot of young associate attorneys doing legal research into trouble by overstating the confidence that they should have in their conclusions when there is no case right on point addressing a situation.

In fact, Steve Gluckman, senior director of professional development at Manatt, Phillips & Phelps, decided to hire an outside writing coach after fielding complaints from partners about younger associates» writing abilities.

Here are some of the «Do's and Don'ts of Successful Redesign,» contributed by Michael Stevenson, president of AAD, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Robert Young, CEO of Robert Young Associates, Dallas and San Francisco; and Michael Ratner, president of Richter & Ratner Contracting Co., Maspeth, N.Y.

That spring day in 1960, Hartigan knew that Price's star was also on the rise; a very young associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, he had been profiled by Life magazine on account of his research into vaccines for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial infections.

If you've got some years under your belt, this episode will help you guide and mentor younger associates so that they...

There are many sources of waste and error: pressures on young associates to bill large numbers of hours; billing time in inappropriate increments (the industry standard is 0.1 - hour increments, but some firms don't follow that); insufficient training; and simple carelessness, like not entering time until the end of the week and then having to piece things together from memory.

«The initiative is designed to increase Munsch Hardt's visibility among young associates and law students,» an announcement said.

Will there not be an incentive then for the law firms to gauge whether any senior partners» or even young associates» hold views that may put the firm at odds with these regulations?

As a result, an interesting phenomenon is occurring that few law schools and even fewer young associates talk about: the rise of the gypsy lawyer.

Of course, as noted, make sure the supervising attorney (s) you'll be working with seem to take an interest in mentoring younger associates.

Like many partners in law firms across the county, he was exasperated by the revolving door of talented young associates coming in and out of the firm.

As I wrote a few years ago when I first tackled the role of procurement: «A law firm that can demonstrate its prowess in managing to a budget through effective project management, that keeps the client fully informed of any changes to expectations, that staffs appropriately and doesn't «overwork» matters or expect clients to subsidize young associate training, is in a better position to present clear, quantifiable evidence of its higher rates.»

Deborah Glatter, Cassels Brock's director of professional development says, «Young associates deal with a combination of stressors.

The metaphors — strangers in the street, rambunctious kids — suggest lonely young associates who are alternately insecure and arrogant, unsure of how to take those first toddling steps out of seminary and onto a church staff.

North Coast Wine Challenge Adds Mentorship Program The 27 judges of the 2017 North Coast Wine Challenge were joined by nine young associate judges Tuesday at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel in a new program that allowed the judges to share their knowledge while tasting through the record - breaking 1,107 wines entered in this year's contest...

«Enough vitamin D when young associated with lower risk of diabetes - related autoimmunity.»

Sets and costume design, Mark Thompson; lighting, Bruno Poet; projection design, Jeff Sugg; sound, Nevin Steinberg; musical supervision, arrangements and additional music, Nicholas Skilbeck; wigs, hair and make - up, Campbell Young Associates; fight direction, Kate Waters.

Nick has been here only two years and already he has a corner office and two young associates assigned to him.