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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"law firms"”.
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Occupational Nepotism Among Law Firms: A Study of Nepotism Beyond Anecdotal Evidence
… attorneys in a Midwestern metropolitan area. Lawyers were chosen for this study due to the findings of prevalence of nepotism within this population. Scales in the survey measured work satisfaction, selfdetermination in choosing a career, and workplace nepotism. Data from the returned …
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Law Firm Mergers Among Canadian Law Firms: The Effect on Lawyer Retention
… experienced a surge in mergers of local law firms to form law firms with a national presence. More recently, instances of law firm mergers once again increased, this time on an international basis. Notwithstanding these trends, the general effect of law firm mergers on lawyer retention is …
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Restructuring in corporate law firms : implications of a changing division of labor for organizational inequality
… a recent wave of restructuring among corporate law firm associateships. Drawing from an interview study in the Boston and New York legal markets, I argue that restructuring the division of labor in this context generates nuanced, textured forms of inequality that reach beyond compensation. Such …
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Unraveling the effects of workforce diversity on firm performance: The role of HRM practices in large U.S. corporate law firms
… were examined in the context of U.S. law firms. Moderating influences of HRM practices in this relationship were also tested and these practices include: 1) a compensation structure (hierarchical versus compressed pay dispersion within an organization), 2) a promotion policy (reliance …
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Fairness, trust and motivation in Profit Sharing Systems within German law firms. A qualitative analysis of law firm partner needs in a peer-to-peer context
… systems are in use today in otherwise comparable firms. The understanding of a “fair share” and how to motivate best varies con-siderably. Existing literature on professional service firms rarely discusses in which circumstances the different PSS types are adequate; non-economic per-spectives are …
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The Breakdown of Norms as Institutional Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Decline of the 'No -Lateral -Hiring' Norm Among Large Corporate Law Firms, 1974--1990
… the 'no-lateral-hiring' norm in the corporate law field and its subsequent breakdown. I am particularly concerned with understanding the endogenous sources and dynamics of its breakdown. I document the emergence and the subsequent breakdown of the no-lateral-hiring norm. I then propose a …
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To what extent has research conducted by the GaWC Research Network aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography?
… explores whether a specific group of large EU law firms exhibited multiple common behaviours regarding their EU geographies between 1998 and 2009. These potentially common behaviours included their preferences for trading in certain EU locations, their usage of law firm alliances, and the …
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The psychological contract of solicitors and the impact of promotion to partnership
… to partnership. Context is important as law firms have a different ownership structure to other commercial organisations and employ professionals. The legal profession is changing (Empson, 2007a) due to the increasing size of firms and the changing aspirations of those entering the …
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Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession
The organization of professional work-that of lawyers, doctors, and accountants, among others-is undergoing change. One of the most notable changes is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into component tasks and their allocation to different sources of labor. The legal …
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From the frying pan to the fire : lateral movement and the lack of women equity partners
… in equity partnership positions in law firms. In Massachusetts, only 17% of equity partners in the 100 largest firms are women even though half of law school graduates and first-year associates are women (MIT Workplace Center Survey, 2005). Restricting the sample to years in which …
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Diversity In Am Law 200 Firms
… done on the factors contributing to more diverse law firms. The intent of this paper is an empirical investigation of those variables that have caused increases in diversity at both the associate and partner level. My research suggests leverage, the ratio of associates to partners, may be the most …
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Free, civil legal aid: an examination of client access to free, civil legal services in Tennessee
Nonprofit law firms and legal aid societies provide free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals who have a civil, legal need and who qualify for the services. However, the provision of such services is not straightforward nor without challenges and barriers. This research study examined …
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Shifting Terrains: Upsetting the Balance Between Public Good and Private Interest in the Takings Debate
… emergence of corporate funded public interest law firms and umbrella organizations established to promote a free enterprise approach to constitutional law. Unless planners are willing to look at the political and judicial changes which have given rise to the reinterpretation of the Takings …
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980
… initial skepticism and mounting costs, these lawyers and technologists managed to launch a working service by 1969. The service – also named OBAR – was available through remote consoles placed in law firms, libraries, and government offices. By 1973, an improved system was relaunched as Lexis, …
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Marketing legal services to medium-sized companies
… of strategic marketing initiatives in law firms. Taking the standpoint of medium-sized companies as corporate buyers of legal services, the thesis also examines purchasing behaviour in the different stages of the organisational buying process. The empirical research considers both …
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Three essays on the human capital augmentation strategies of building and acquiring
This dissertation examines firms’ human capital (HC) augmentation strategies and under what conditions firms can generate competitive advantages from these strategies. I investigate the two main ways firms augment their HC: building and acquiring. I seek to advance this important, but understudied, …
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Investigating mothballed brownfield properties : understanding the causes and potential solutions
… organizations, regulatory agencies, and law firms was performed to determine the barriers to redeveloping brownfield properties and the proposed policies that might reduce the likelihood of mothballing properties. Based on these interviews, two overarching factors leading to mothballing …
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Machine learning in predictive analytics on judicial decision-making
… with legal technology providers with many major law firms encouraging research and development through formal legal technology incubator programs. Experienced legal professionals are expected to become technologically astute as part of their response to the ‘more for less' challenge, while legal …
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Local-global geographies of tacit knowledge production in London and New York's advertising and law professional service firms
… in the employees of global advertising and law professional service firms operating in London and New York City. It begins by critically engaging with theories of knowledge, learning and their geographies to develop a spatially sensitive approach to examine learning. Such an analysis is then …
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Impact of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Code of Conduct on medical device physician-industry collaboration
… the Delivery of Quality Health Care. The state law requires pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to comply with a marketing code of conduct, obey specific compliance activities, and disclose payments to Massachusetts-licensed healthcare providers with a value of $50 or more in …
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