Sentences with phrase «legal reference services»

Also Anna L. Endter has just published an article analyzing the social justice applications of UELMA: Authentication of Online State Primary Legal Resources as a Social Justice Issue: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act and How It Can Benefit Pro Se Litigants, in 31 Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 293 - 311 (2012).

Providing legal reference services and government document reference services to employees, clients, and others.

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 15 (2): 73 - 78 (Spring 1996).

forthcoming in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

J. 575, 578 (2011)(suggesting that «law librarians with recent practice experience» can «draw on their experience in a contemporary legal research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-RRB-.

Among other EJC and pre-conference programs, there is one for Access to Justice (A2J) professionals, public law librarians, and those who are interested public law library or public library legal reference services and A2J (access to justice) issues:

The service, Legal Reference Services Inc., began a six - week pilot Feb. 10 with five law firms in New York City.

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Rodríguez also referenced efforts to expand legal services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid Soclegal services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid SocLegal Services and Legal Aid Services and Legal Aid SocLegal Aid Society.

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

The Committee's Report makes no reference to the impact of the unaffordable legal services problem upon the court system and its unacceptable levels of delay.

The report makes reference to various groups such as mediators and commissioners but ultimately concludes that ``... consideration of the regulation of other legal service providers should be deferred for now.»

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

She also provides legal research services to patrons, both at the reference desk in the Law Library Reading Room and via the Law Library's Ask a Librarian service.

Shawn G. Nevers teaches legal research and is head of reference services at the Howard W. Hunter Law Library at Brigham Young University.

Taken from the above - referenced LAWPRO Magazine article, here are several steps you can take to reduce your exposure to a claim when providing legal services on a limited scope basis:

Arguably worse than contradicting the existing master services agreement are statements of work that actually reference the «wrong» underlying legal contract and incorporate capitalized terms or business concepts from other legal contracts.

Over at Legal Sanity, Arnie Herz references posts by David Maister and Dick Richards that can guide firms in creating, what Richards terms, «a mythology of client service.»

According to reference and electronic services librarian Bonnie Shucha, the blog will report on new Web research resources and technologies, legal research news, announcements of local workshops and events, and more.

There are distributed throughout the document references to the commoditisation and standardisation of legal services.

By s 58 (2)(b) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (CLSA 1990) the lawfulness of the percentage increase in a standard conditional fee agreement (CFA) is measured not by the «costs at risk» but by reference to the costs which would be incurred if the agreement were not a CFA.

she asked, referencing the revolution around value - based billing, alternative fee arrangements, and disaggregation of legal services.

Among the resources available to our members are those provided through ALA: ALA Management Solutions Reference Service ALA Management Connections Career Center Foundation of the Association of Legal Administrators (FALA) Charitable Foundation ALA Bookstore — Management Resources Reference Desk Peer Consulting Legal Management Resource Center (LMRC)

This is unfortunate because the RTA is usually used by non-lawyers who often rely on explanations of the statute that are provided by Service Alberta (e.g., RTA Handbook and Quick Reference Guide) or non-profit organizations such as the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (e.g., Renting 101: A Guide to Renting in Alberta).

Here are the legal services industry timelines we created for five regions, with below the charts descriptions of the types of legal services providers referenced.

The above arguments are based upon the constitutional law doctrine of «structural argumentation» (see: Robin M. Elliott, «References, Structural Argumentation and the Organizing Principles of Canada's Constitution» (2000), 80 Canadian Bar Review 67, and decisions such as the, Reference Re Manitoba Language Rights, [1985] 1 S.C.R. 721, [1985] S.C.J. No. 36, the, Reference Re Secession of Québec, [1999] S.C.J. No. 4, [1998] 2 SCR 217, and the, Reference re Remuneration of Judges, [1997] S.C.J. No. 75, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, to argue that the need for access to the rule of law, and to constitutional rights and freedoms, dictate that law societies in Canada can not enforce a monopoly over the provision of legal services that enables their members to charge fees of whatever size they see fit.

Total Client - Service → gives references to other secondary materials such as legal encyclopedias and law review articles.

Shawn Nevers Shawn G. Nevers teaches legal research and is head of reference services and research instruction at the Howard W. Hunter Law Library at Brigham Young University.

Mon Jun 5, 2:30 - 3:30 pm 602 — Basic metrics for every law department Elevate Services with ACC Legal Ops Metrics & Analysis Interest Group Topic: Discovery, Metrics Audience: Early Stage Format: Expert - led Roundtable This provides a baseline reference to law departments that are early stage on tracking specific metrics and providing their leadership information that enables fact based decision making.

The Report specifically references ROSS stating, «Artificial intelligence is impacting the way legal services are delivered and will continue to do so as technology advances.

But as a reference, total spend on legal services by corporations alone is in the $ 400B range per year (some reports are closer to $ 600B).

The EAT has considered for the first time whether the references to «a client» and «the client» in the TUPE Regulations (which defines a service provision change) cover «clients» in the plural or only a single legal entity.

And how can they be deployed to advance individual rights at a time when a majority of Canadians can not afford to retain a lawyer for anything more than a brief period of full representation (and references to overstretched pro bono services doesn't fill the implementation gap here — in any case, why should the protection of legal rights be relegated to charity?)

Reference is made to Mitch Kowalski's «highly readable book» Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century «for a detailed fictitious version of a remade BigLaw firm».

Consensus is not and does not intend to provide legal services, be a lawyer or an incorporated law firm, with reference section 21 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.

The firm will strengthen the presence of our global alliance in the region and will provide an important reference for legal services to all the GGI members worldwide.

For the tax deferral and other benefits they confer, many Ontario lawyers have incorporated a professional corporation [Note, by definition, professional corporations are called «law corporations» in the LawPRO policy, and are referenced the same way in the Law Society's bylaws](«PC»), which effectively become the lawyer's employer and the entity providing legal services.

A government - appointed Legal Services Board was established to oversee regulation by reference to eight «regulatory objectives» which were, confusingly given equal priority (the public interest, supporting the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting consumers, promoting competition, encouraging a strong independent legal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principLegal Services Board was established to oversee regulation by reference to eight «regulatory objectives» which were, confusingly given equal priority (the public interest, supporting the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting consumers, promoting competition, encouraging a strong independent legal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principlegal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principles).

The underlying rationale for the platform is to enable lawyers to measure their own development as legal experts and to help clients needing to prequalify outside counsel with reference to objective, quantitative metrics, making it the perfect complement to traditional lawyer rating services and ranking directories that rely mostly or solely on qualitative research.

McLEAN, Va., November 17, 2014 — LDiscovery, LLC, a leading provider of eDiscovery services, today announced its merger with Renew Data Corp, a legal consulting and technology company, based in Austin, TX, with solutions that address the full spectrum of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).

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Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

It will be interesting to see to what extent this rule may be used in the future and to exactly what organizations it refers to, as the commentary specifically references legal aid, community legal services and pro bono work.

My reference to law students in particular was based on feedback that I received from university law librarians and legal research instructors that it was difficult to encourage law students to use CanLII when they have free access to the commercial services.

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The following is a guest post by Margaret Wood, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Directorate.

Response: We agree that this provision was confusing and have replaced it with a broader reference to conducting or arranging for legal services generally.