Sentences with phrase «practising lawyers know»
«Every practising lawyer knows dozens of guys who are the senior lawyer with kids in private schools, they have paid for university educations for their kids and take nice trips and really can't afford to retire because they've consumed all their capital as they've gone along and have not properly planned.»
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Colin Myler, the last News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, a former lawyer at News International, had claimed Mr Murdoch was wrong to deny he knew about an email proving the practise went beyond «one rogue reporter».
I know the names of the kids of lawyers I practise «against.
I was somewhat surprised and disappointed, having asked a practising lawyer that I know to describe what he thought to be key quality standards from legal publishers who serve his needs.
Legal publishing in jurisdictions like Victoria — or Canadian provinces for that matter — relies on legal academics or practising lawyers who work hard to write a book, which their publishers will know have very limited sales potential.
Val has been practising for 20 years and is one of Scotland's best known claimant lawyers.
We need people who know that history, to help guide policy and maintain the collective memory, but most of them will not be practising lawyers, I suspect.
Even where lawyers found coverage, smallmistakes leading to a large claim might, he predicted, impact a solicitor's premiums so substantially that he or she would no longer be able to practise law.
Remarkably, the bromide about knowing the applicable law that one practises on a daily basis applies to lawyers, too; even more so when one's duty is supposed to be to see that justice is done, not that one's side wins.
Why shouldn't my search engine on CANLII know — and remember — that I'm a lawyer, in Ontario, practising in a big national firm with interests in a number of specific subject areas?
For judges, and for lawyers practising in areas like «child protection or criminal law — although no one is immune no matter the practice — they can see unimaginable abuse,» Gold says.
Founded in 1989, the ILA provides a forum for lawyers practising in the fields of insolvency law and restructuring practice to co-operate on matters of professional interest, to network, to share know - how, and to represent the ILA's view to Government and to other professional bodies having an interest in insolvency law and restructuring practice.
Our model was created when almost all lawyers practised alone; that is no longer the case.
Don't let you guard down because it is a referral from another Ontario lawyer: Two Ontario lawyers that don't practice family law indicated that they forwarded the initial contact message to lawyers they knew practised family law.
• in - house corporate counsel • government lawyers, educators and others not in active private practice • retired lawyers, estate trustees, emeritus lawyers, judges and others no longer practising law • legal aid clinic lawyers (not directly employed by Legal Aid Ontario) • lawyers who engage in only occasional practice in Ontario and are resident in a Canadian jurisdiction other than Ontario The standard Run - Off coverage
Written by well - known academic and practising economists and lawyers from both developed and developing countries.
In this digital information age, I don't think our «public» law libraries (law school and law society libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published law reporters and law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.
(a) knowing general legal principles and procedures and the substantive law and procedure for the areas of law in which the lawyer practises,
in - house corporate counsel government lawyers, educators and others not in active private practice retired lawyers, estate trustees, emeritus lawyers, judges and others no longer practising law legal aid clinic lawyers (not directly employed by Legal Aid Ontario) lawyers who engage in only occasional practice in Ontario and are resident in a Canadian jurisdiction other than... Read More»
The new code states that a lawyer should know «general legal principles and procedures and the substantive law and procedure for the areas in which the lawyer practises» (Rule 2.01 (1)(a)-RRB-, but does not provide the 1995 code's explanation of what that means:
That same study showed that, by 2002, 11 % of men and 13 % of women from the original group of lawyers from 1990 were no longer practising law.
The better a firm's name is known, the better it is for the individual lawyers who practise at that firm.
«We have a very high volume — having the students helps us, but also from a long - term strategy, we're also creating a new breed of lawyers who are sensitive to the issues of violence against women; they know how to practise with clients in a trauma - informed way,» she says.
Each candidate is assigned a small group, known as a firm, of between three and five candidates and each of these is assigned a mentor who is a practising lawyer that regularly meets with their firm to discuss assigned work and conduct professional development training.
The downside of the CRT, as Chang sees it, is that there is a potential for decisions to be made by the CRT that do not result from «the fulsome submissions» from lawyers that have practised in this area and who know the law.
«You're still a lawyer, but you need to start acting more like a business person and you can't practise the Dr. No strategy.
«What we've tried to do is when we were developing the program we asked practising lawyers who are experts in their area to tell us what every lawyer in their first five years of practice needs to know to be a successful lawyer in that field, and that's what we're teaching,» explains Leveque.
A lawyer who sometimes practises injury law may not be certain if such experts are needed, know which experts to use, or even have the financial resources to pay for them.