Sentences with phrase «about legal services made»

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Now comes word of more legal woes: The cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles have sued the company over allegations that it overcharges consumers, as well as makes misleading claims about the safety of its service.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

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To make a complaint about the conduct of a lawyer or law firm, contact the relevant legal services commission in your state.

Whether it's your fault or not, you have legal rights that can help you to sort out problems or make complaints about your phone or mobile service provider.

Susskind did not talk about who would provide all the free legal services he envisions, or how they would make enough money to do it.

Most articles about Twitter in the legal market focus on helping lawyers make better use of the service for marketing and business development purposes, and that's all to the good.

Given that we all depend upon records of all types for all proper transactions, any one of which could become evidence related to a legal proceeding or service, or a decision made about any of us, there can not be a national standard of greater importance.

Consumers find it hard to make informed choices because there is very little transparency about price, service and quality... lack of transparency weakens competition between providers and means that some consumers do not obtain legal advice when they would benefit from it.

As a firm, their passion and dedication can be seen in the fact that firm founder Charles Sasser — after graduating from law school — worked at a legal services agency for 8 years while making about fourteen - thousand dollars in annual salary.

The Susskinds believe that professionals in general, and lawyers in particular, are beginning to see clients armed with more and more information, allowing them to make more intelligent decisions about legal service and spend.

The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (Modification of power to make rules about licensed conveyancers) Order 2008 (SI 2008/537) which burst into force on 6 April 2008 is more insidious than you could have imagined.

Daoust makes nine recommendations for improving legal aid services and goes into great detail about all of them in the heart of his 68 - page report «Foundation for change»:

At p. 3 he states: «Although comprehensive and reliable data about the cost of Canadian legal services is not available, the information that is available makes it clear that prices are high enough to deter many potential clients.

Don't get me wrong with what I'm about to write, because I applaud Miller and other online, virtual legal service pioneers for making divorce faster, cheaper and more accessible to the thousands of clients who otherwise could not afford the services of a lawyer.

Bar Foundation (of which I am a life member), the MBA is engaged in an extensive range of activities aimed at making legal services more available and at educating the public about legal rights and responsibilities.

Making the decision to hire a virtual worker or pay for legal process outsourcing can be as simple as hiring an independent contractor fresh out of law school to do easy tasks, but if you are serious about using virtual workers on a larger scale in your firm and really getting the most out of it, it is important be aware of ethics considerations; price benefits and initial investments; and intangible benefits and costs when weighing the options of paying for a full - time staff, hiring on - site independent contractors, using outsourced service providers or juggling all of the work on your own.

This is not Megaro's first run - in with the bar, which reprimanded him in 2015 for making false and misleading statements about legal services provided through an out - of - state law firm not licensed in North Carolina.

Industries that use and depend on legal services can make both quantitative and qualitative assessments about such things as the value added by outside counsel.

I hope that lawyers who are listening are starting to think about ways that they can bring that fifth of the country who is disabled in and help them find legal services and make them clients.

I thought it might be helpful to clarify, in her case where we're talking about legal aid there's a very well defined number and gap and need, and it's not the same thing that we talk about when we're talking about all the opportunities to make money by changing the way we package services.

Below I will describe everything you need to know about slipping and falling on a cruise ship, as well as the legal services we provide and how you can make the right choice.

Improving the delivery of legal services is about how lawyers work together and what makes them tick.

These on - line referral services, like Legal Match and Total Attorneys, invite prospective clients to submit information about their legal issues and then make that information available to lawyers who practice in the client's geographical Legal Match and Total Attorneys, invite prospective clients to submit information about their legal issues and then make that information available to lawyers who practice in the client's geographical legal issues and then make that information available to lawyers who practice in the client's geographical area.

Mitch Kowalski also wrote about the new service for the National Post: The YouTube of all things legal, LegalTube.ca makes Canadian law accessible and easy to understand (National Post, August 29, 2014).

I guess maybe what I'm thinking is that by opening up the window, by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and solving legal problems, and part of me thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop thinking about serving just one client's legal needs, and start thinking about solving that legal problem for anyone who comes to you.

Omar's thesis taps into the debate about the commoditization of legal services to make them more widely accessible — e.g., standardizing routine functions so that non-legal professionals can take care of them, with lawyers only called on to handle more complex cases.

One answer to this challenge is to make sure that your business development activities include things that focus on educating your clients, potential clients and target communities about things that you know will help them feel more confident and comfortable in making assessments about the need and value of legal services, rather than on persuading them to hire you.

At present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for trial.

This is a good deal kinder to practitioners than the blunt words of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012: «The lord chancellor may by regulations make provision about the payment of remuneration by the lord chancellor to persons who provide services under arrangements made for the purposes of this Part.»

[vii] That is to say, law societies asking that more money be taken from taxpayers so that those law societies would have fewer poor people to worry about providing legal services for, while making it more difficult for governments to take more money from taxpayers whom law societies had failed to provide affordable legal services for.

It also informed the applicant that his information was only shared internally to make decisions about what information, referrals, services and legal advice to provide him; that his information was not shared externally; and that it had not collected any personal information of the applicant from any source other than the applicant himself.

Though managing partners remain relatively upbeat about the demand for legal services, concerns about the health of the broader economy are making them a bit more pessimistic about their business than they were earlier in the year.

The industry will look very different and that is about as bold a prediction I could make other than the partnership model of law firms for the delivery of legal services will wane considerably.

While very little has been said so far about exactly what swung it for LexisNexis, the award recognises the contribution suppliers make to improving the delivery of legal services, and the judges were looking for «expertise and professionalism; innovation; value for money; customer care and satisfaction; and measurable success.»

This change, of course, will be welcomed by the market, giving it the transparency and predictability it long has sought, enabling it more readily to compare price among law firms, and otherwise enabling it to make better decisions about its legal service solutions.

In this episode, we're joined by Patrick Palace to talk about how we — as a profession — can help make legal services affordable to all consumers.

(6) The existence of the legal profession's monopoly over the provision of legal services removes the incentive to bring about the innovation necessary to make legal services available at reasonable cost.

As a legal concierge, outside counsel should make no bones about pampering the client by exploring ways to exceed expectations with legal support and services that go beyond the contemplation of the engagement letter.

Just like quartz technology, developments like AI, crowdfunding, and alternate litigation financing may be about to make legal services available to vast groups not previously able to use lawyers.

There is massive hype and conjecture about where technology is taking legal services, but I think we need to remind ourselves that technology alone isn't going to make the difference.

• Once you have met with a student clinician, we will make a determination about the type and level of assistance we are able to provide, from a referral to summary advice, to limited legal services, to full representation.

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Patrick Palace talks about how lawyers can help make legal services affordable to all consumers.

And if you think about all the other needs people have, saving for retirement or putting a kid through school or making a car note or paying off loans, if you have to choose between doing one of those things and paying for legal services, you are going to go without the legal services.

So, in the interests of both broadening our conception of pro bono services and galvinizing the potential of the Third Flank, the water cooler blog this week offers the three practical suggestions for small but important modifications you might consider making in your own legal practice if you care about A2J.

Andrew Baker and Amani Smathers, who help Seyfarth Shaw integrate data - driven decision - making into its client services model (which also integrates Six Sigma process - management techniques into legal services) spoke about «tiny data.»

It need not be this way, and the Industrial Revolution has given us some guideposts about how we might address this crisis, to make legal services abundant and more available to more people.

It's no defence to say, «Legal services today are as good as we can make them,» because (a) we don't know whether that's true, (b) we've never tried very hard to discover whether it's true, and (c) read the paragraph about Joseph Lister again.