Sentences with phrase «while volunteer lawyers»

While volunteer lawyers won't eliminate the access - to - justice gap on their own, the need is still great.

Not exact matches

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

I also continued to write while changing diapers, cleaning the house, driving car pool, grocery shopping, doing the laundry, volunteer work, being a cashier, being front desk help in a doctor's office, being the sole support for two lawyers in a law office, and even today as the sole clerical support and web mistress for a local union.

While this makes lawyers desirable as volunteers for many non-profit organizations, it also results in many lawyers feeling overburdened and sometimes, overwhelmed by all that they need to accomplish.

The Super Lawyers playbook Doing Good While Doing Well: A Road Map to Success with Pro Bono lays out a few simple steps to start a volunteer program at your firm.

While volunteer efforts won't cure this problem long term, training and utilizing currently unemployed lawyers on a volunteer basis to handle misdemeanor cases or ease the burden on lawyers forced to represent defendants at cut rates, might provide a stopgap measure to the crisis in criminal representation.

But while volunteers for the Philippines and Haiti initiative were between 10 and 25 in number, Duval says an unprecedented number of lawyers have made themselves available this time.

I've been fortunate to have been presented with a number of opportunities to volunteer and provide support to many worthwhile organizations and causes since I started practicing as a lawyer while I've actually never stopped to consider why I volunteer until now.

The project requires that one of the attorneys be an experienced collaborative lawyer, while the other can be newly trained, less experienced volunteer attorney.

While at law school, Melody volunteered her time to assist with free legal clinics, and researched international criminal law for Lawyers Without Borders.

While you will find some people who thought the BAC was a bit of a time waster, you're more likely to talk to lawyers who went through it and find they actually learned a lot about the realities of law practice by being taught, say real estate, by a lawyer (who volunteered his or her time) with hands - on experience.

While the profession lauds the high values of pro bono and volunteer work, new lawyers and students are faced with the choice of securing employment versus working in areas of social interest or relevance to them.

As a part - time freelance lawyer, frequent volunteer and full - time mother, I know what it is to juggle conflicting priorities, responsibilities and obligations while trying to do it all in way that demonstrates some degree of competence.