Sentences with phrase «about alternative business structures»

Pro and con arguments about alternative business structures and ownership of law practices by people other than lawyers are, in our view, secondary questions.

[i] See this statement on LSUC's website: «The Law Society released Alternative Business Structures and the Legal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion Paper on September 24, 2014, to seek input from lawyers, paralegals, stakeholders and the public about Alternative Business Structures (ABS).»

I've spent a lot of time over recent months thinking about alternative business structures and how to think about regulatory liberalization.

«Does the UK Know Something We Don't About Alternative Business Structures?»

Recently, the ABA Journal published an article entitled, Does the UK Know Something We Don't About Alternative Business Structures?

In 2015, all the noise is about alternative business structures.

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The modules Thompson Rivers students will work on include drawing up a memo on an alternative business structure for their company, as well as blogging about activities and using cloud - based practice management systems.

The Canadian legal profession is currently engaged in a much - needed debate about the future of legal services in general and whether to allow the use of so - called alternative business structures (ABSs) more particularly.

Much has been written about the new competition solicitors will face from alternative business structures (ABSs).

The Law Society of Upper Canada's (LSUC's) «alternative business structures» proposal (the ABS proposal in its Discussion Paper)[i] will bring about a critically important and worrying change to the practice of law in Canada.

Looking at current initiatives like the Nova Scotia's Barristers» Society's Transforming Regulation consultation and the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business structures, it is apparent that right now there is significant «big picture» thinking going on at Canadian law societies about how to innovate and modernize lawyer regulation.

There is plenty of discussion about the future of the profession, including the CBA Futures Report and debates over Alternative Business Structures (ABS).

In Canada, the discussion about legal innovation has lately become bogged down in the debate over alternative business structures (ABS).

Last year, the University of St. Mary's School of Law selected Jayne Reardon, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, to write a piece about the possibility of lawyers practicing in an alternative business structure (ABS) for the school's law review.

From the outset, the Commission has been transparent about the broad array of issues it is studying and evaluating, including those legal services developments that are viewed by some as controversial, threatening, or undesirable (e.g., alternative business structures).

Instead, the Commission recommends that the Entity Regulation / Alternative Business Structures Working Group develop a White Paper on how to «help lawyers and law firms think more systematically about how to better serve clients.»

And in the UK, non-lawyer Alternative Business Structure (ABS) firms are about to start incorporating businesses in the back of supermarkets and drugstores.

Especially if you insist on repeating the same argument about evils of alternative business structures and legal advice services that will destroy the profession ad nauseam.

Natalie, Peter, and Mitch talk candidly about law firm financing, outside expertise, Alternative Business Structures, regulatory requirements, technology, and legal education in Canada.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

While the question of alternative business structures dominated the recent Law Society of Upper Canada bencher elections, there's another major issue about to take centre stage: the decision to accredit or not Trinity Western University's planned law school.