Sentences with phrase «about access to a lawyer»

I can't answer the questions about access to a lawyer and about how to prove your personal claims.

Not exact matches

The firms that do it well give access to the lawyers — with a link to the experience database on their intranets, access to reporting features, even the ability to enter in details about a new matter.

We must then support the lawyers and the human rights defenders that allow us to access information, to make conscious decisions about our future, that guarantee us redress.

It is not about restricting people's access to the law school that will churn out quality lawyers in Ghana.

Secondly, the other comments were about the front «access» page, which ahd a lot more to do with (A) corporate lawyers and (B) the legal minefield that is internation liquor laws... both which IMHO they addressed upfront in this comment section, and with candor.

Clients now wield more power in the relationship with their lawyer, as they have benefited from greater access to information about cost, greater ability to unbundle services and an expanding array of alternative law firms from which to source work.

But the public can't enjoy the benefits of the Court's Web site unless they know how to use it, so the Justices are encouraging lawyers to show their clients how to access the site and learn more about the court process.

Not all the technology that may lead to open access to the law need to come from lawyers, and so it's quite likely that not all the ideas about open access to the law need to come from lawyers.

The conversations that lawyers should be having about access to justice should be about the law itself — the stuff that other people don't understand and can't work with.

We should be looking at how to sell a story about access to justice, judicial independence, or the Rule of Law in a way that does not just reaffirm lawyers» self image, but actually alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

So asks the Wired GC, riffing on my recent post about Yahoo's decision to give Chinese authorities access to user e-mails and news that Russia has shown «contempt for the rule of law by seeking the expulsion of Canadian lawyer Robert Amsterdam.»

Lawyers have to talk amongst themselves about it; they need a forum to offer up innovative and (dare we say) disruptive ideas about the path the industry needs to take — not just to protect its entitlements, but to better serve the people who need access to its services.

Having his own firm gave Nixon access to deep - pocketed clients, allowed him to travel internationally and burnish his foreign policy credentials and, most importantly, helped build a formidable staff of top - notch lawyers, researchers and writers — a staff that did just about everything for him when it came time to ramp up for the 1968 campaign.

The Access to Justice Alliance and Young Legal Aid Lawyers are also asking legal advisors to tell us about their experiences.

Further, personal injury lawyers have access to a network of accident reconstruction professionals and engineers that they can hire to give an expert opinion about the cause of the accident.

Alternative structures and ending the lawyer monopoly on legal services are fundamentally about access to justice and equal protection of the law.

If you're on the road you've got everything on your computer but you need Internet access, you hear all the stories about or even in a coffee shop, people being able to look at what information, what sites you're visiting, if you're using an unsecured provider and that ought to scare the heck out of all the lawyers because you just can't afford to have your confidential data be compromised in any way.

Lawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive anaLawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analytics.

Staff were particularly concerned about the likelihood of clients accessing sufficient legal assistance through free or low - cost programs; staff and clients indicated that they are not satisfied with the legal assistance options available due to stringent eligibility guidelines, long application processing timelines and possibly with lawyer - client compatibility.

«If one of us is doing a case about one issue, we can upload that information onto a wiki so that other lawyers across the province have access to the cases and legal work that's been done so we're not reinventing the wheel 77 times,» says Abramowicz.

Jurbid will relentlessly raise awareness about certain issues affecting Americans and will ensure everyone has access to a lawyer, is represented, and is effectively heard in a Court of Law.

But what about taking actions that affect lawyers in our daily practices and that address the need to expand access to law in our own country?

The site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

And in the LAO blog issue for Jan. 22, 2014, see Dr. MacFarlane's photo and article, «Fire in the hole: Why every lawyer needs to care about access to Justice.»

«# 1,000 an hour lawyers restrict access to justice `, Law firms accused of rigging the market through lack of transparency about their fees «scream headlines in The Times and the Daily Mail.

Once your employees are enrolled into the program, they'll gain access to legal support so they can talk to a traffic lawyer about their speeding ticket or even speak to an estate planning specialist that can help complete their will.

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

I say «business» advisedly because it costs money to hire the lawyers necessary to know what the words might actually mean, and this sets up an «access to justice» problem with which we're all familiar and about which we seem to be floundering right now.

The new site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

People speak about access to justice as a reason, but it's incorrect to think that swarming the market with new lawyers would facilitate that.

He says the whole issue also falls into the context of access to justice and a concern about small companies using lawyers who «dabble» when they actually need specialized expertise.

The debate about how to improve access to justice most often discusses what lawyers and court institutions can do.

The Committee then offered the following very broadly - worded proposition, which was not limited to employment matters: «A lawyer sending or receiving substantive communications with a client via e-mail or other electronic means ordinarily must warn the client about the risk of sending or receiving electronic communications using a computer or other device, or e-mail account, to which a third party may gain access.

Seeing students, lawyers, business people, and others get excited about the possibilities in the current legal market and about improving the quality of legal services and access to justice is very satisfying.

93 One of our fundamental beliefs is that lawyers generally — not just constitutional advocates before the United States Supreme Court — need access to the scope of arguments available through a global approach.94 Consequently, we think the advocacy component of the traditional LRW course may be the best place to think about incorporating a global legal issue.

A recent decision that ruled a reader had violated new provisions of the Copyright Act when he bypassed a publication's paywall to access an article raises questions about technological neutrality, as similar facts in the analog world would yield a different result, Toronto business lawyer Bill Northcote tells Law Times.

I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your legal problem or your life problem with legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice problems are access to lawyer problems.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

For this inaugural issue of our Lawyers We Love series, we sat down with Tiffany Graves at the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission for a quick chat about justice.

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

A client needs to load a minimum credit of about USD10.00 in order to access the Lawyer's List and select a lawyer.

You can also read about our pre-election debate on access to justice, featuring lawyer - politician representatives of the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, on our website and on The Justice Gap.

It also provides an accessible space for lawyers and the public to join the conversations about the Society's strategic priorities to enhance access to legal services for all Nova Scotians, and to transform regulation and governance in the public interest.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) welcomes the final report of the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, published today (22 September 2017), as a vital contribution to the public debate about access to justice and legaAccess to Justice, published today (22 September 2017), as a vital contribution to the public debate about access to justice and legaaccess to justice and legal aid.

The only thing lawyers and legal associations talk about more than access to legal services is lawyers starving to get a job as a lawyer.

In my view, micromanaging lawyer activities by blocking access to Facebook (a practice about which Steve Matthews is gathering more information at Stem Legal) doesn't seem like a great idea.

As defined by patent attorney Brett Trout in this post on his BlawgIT blog, the real - time Web incorporates tools such as Twitter to enable lawyers (and the rest of the world) to obtain instantaneous access to information about something that just happened, or about something that is constantly changing.

While definitely not immune, lawyers who web - publish to promote their legal services are often in direct control of the content most frequently accessed about them.

They have «Access to Justice» committees, and they express «concern» about the problem, but nothing has happened during all the decades during which this problem has been inflicting more damage in one day than have all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers in the whole history of Canada, coast to coast to coast.

If we're serious about access to justice, then our focus should be on reducing all of the inherent inefficiencies in the litigation process — not to mention societal inequities generally — and not on producing more lawyers who can't even afford their own services.