Sentences with phrase «access costs legal»

Blue Hill's prior Analyst Insight Balancing the Cost of Legal Research explored the labor and access costs legal research creates for a law firm.

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Legal costs from the lawsuit by Phills against Saloner and Stanford, and from the intervention of Saloner and Stanford in the divorce case between Phills and Gruenfeld, have surely exceeded $ 2 million by now, and neither case shows any signs of wrapping up soon (in fact, Stanford and Saloner have launched a lawsuit - within - a-lawsuit against Phills over Phills» accessing of his wife's communications with Saloner.).

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The proposals, which look to increase the small claims limit for personal injury claims from # 1,000 to # 5,000 for all those involved in road traffic incidents, would mean that thousands of injured cyclists would be unable to recover their legal costs and therefore be denied access to justice.

Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.

«Public information belongs to the public, and it shouldn't cost thousands of dollars in legal fees to access it,» said Bruce Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

But the decision means the public has no access to clear information about how much May's various legal battles are costing the taxpayer, not just in terms of legal fees but also including compensation paid out after unsuccessful cases.

Labour does not offer a great deal more, focused primarily on low - cost initiatives and on changing mindsets, although the party does also offer a National Refuge Fund and wider access to Legal Aid for victims of domestic violence.

With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system.

Those who can afford the private clinic fee and travel costs to England will be able to access a safe, legal abortion, but might have to significantly rearrange work and childcare to do so.

Eight protesters were arrested after they blocked access to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office while calling on the state to cover the cost of legal services for the poor.

«With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system,» he said.

But while previous presidential campaigns have used these funds to pay for routine legal matters such as ballot access disputes and compliance requirements, Trump would be the first president in the modern campaign finance era to use such funds to cover the costs of defending himself in a criminal probe, said election law experts.

It offers expert, bespoke and cost - effective support to educational establishments and ensures employment contracts are fully compliant, investigations and disciplinary processes are carried out correctly and, in the unlikely event that a school is faced with a claim, provides a membership scheme where clients can access legal representation at a heavily discounted rate.

And, by allowing private placement without the cost of a legal struggle, it increases access to private placement for lower - income families.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network submitted a letter to the members of the Connecticut General Assembly urging them to support H.B. 7000: An Act Equalizing Access to Student - Generated Financial Aid, as well as S.B. 17: An Act Assisting Students Without Legal Immigration Status With The Cost Of College.

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In addition to Golden Financial Services negotiating and settling clients» debt, and matching them with a state attorney, clients also gain access to the following legal services at no extra cost:

All that has been written and said in relation to the «access to justice» problem — that is, the fact that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost — fails to contain the necessary solution.

Susskind organized his keynote around two concepts he believes will lower the cost of legal services and increase access to justice: the commoditization of legal services and the development of disruptive technologies.

At its core, BriefMine aims to provide a cost - effective and efficient way for attorneys to access legal documents online.

More recently, Emery Lee [10] published a journal article in the University of Miami Law Review entitled «Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services» [11]

I was excited by the new (to me) thought that apparent increases in legal costs and resulting diminution in access to justice could be explained in part by increased productivity in other sectors and the limited productivity increases in law.

Perhaps having more baseline practical skills could enable them to do more low level legal work earlier, resulting in their ability to handle more legal tasks at lower cost to a firm — lower costs for minor tasks is a key practical reality in access to justice discussions.

For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.

While it could be argued that wholesale distribution of law will create more retail (free or low cost) legal information distribution points and thus increase access to justice — indeed, it would solve many of the closed problems of legal information that I listed above — I'm now not entirely convinced that this is the only way to go for state government publication efforts.

(2) the population's views and desires as to this evolution in the use of the legal profession's monopoly over the provision of legal services to impose a «cutting costs by cutting competence» limitation upon people's ability to access justice;

«People want access to legal advice online and they want that to be offered with complete transparency on cost and scope of service.

Where generating demand for dispute resolutions demands is concerned, those services come at an immeasurably great societal cost (the legal costs themselves, stress - related reductions in workplace productivity and access to medical care, frayed family and social relationships).

«With the growing divide between consumers that need access to affordable legal help and the high cost of attorney fees, we knew the time was right to make legal insurance available to all consumers,» David Murray, ARAG president and CEO, said in announcing the plan.

Necessary principles of database management would include: (1) database capture of all finished work - product to maximize its re-use so as to maximize cost - efficiency; (2) indexing all finished legal opinions and memoranda of law for quick and accurate access and review for selection, electronically; and, (3) purging the database of all texts superseded by the creation of new legal opinions and memoranda.

Its proposals are set out in a consultation paper published last week and due to end on 15 June, «Protecting the users of legal services: balancing cost and access to legal services».

I don't have a prescription for narrowing the gap or getting rich with new business models that lower the cost of legal services to serve those currently in the access - to - justice gap.

It knows as both the legal aid funder of clinical negligence litigation and as the defendant compensator (as it is in the vast majority of clinical negligence cases) that access to justice is extremely costly to it in costs and damages, and that by attacking access to justice its outlay in both regards will be reduced substantially.

The legal aid system plays a crucial role in promoting access to justice at proportionate costs in key areas.

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thLegal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal services in the US.

We also help you to manage risk by offering access to training and fixed - cost helpline services, which enable trustees and leadership teams to understand the legal frameworks within which academies operate.

Despite the fact that civil cases can cost people their home, health care, custody of their children or even their sense of personal safety, the majority of civil litigants who can not afford an attorney have no access to legal help.

Helping control costs while providing access to expertise over internal legal operations is a key component to Agile Legal's service mlegal operations is a key component to Agile Legal's service mLegal's service model.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

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.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

Cost and easy access are the two primary forces driving the creation of unregulated legal service providers, the commission's report indicates.

Beyond cost savings, legal process outsourcing offers many advantages including access to outside talent, round - the - clock availability, and the ability to quickly scale up or cut back operations.

Within the Washington State Bar Association, some have argued that ABSs (alternative business structures) will decrease the cost of legal services and thereby increase access to justice.

Many people are hesitant to pursue justice because they are worried about the cost of an attorney, but at Morgan & Morgan, we believe all people should have access to high - quality legal representation.

The widening income inequality across Central Texas coupled with the high cost of legal services makes access to justice impossible for the most vulnerable in our communities.

This is why the European Union has adopted its regulation (EU) no 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009 / 22 / EC (Regulation on consumer ODR, and why mandatory ODR, no matter how it could be perceived by detractors, needs to be looked at seriously as a way of giving access to justice to those who, for now, can't turn to the courts since the costs associated with the legal process are simply prohibitive...

While AI - based technologies can be used to offer legal information and services in new and cost effective ways on websites or smart phone apps, it must be recognized that some people may not be able to access web - based services due to cultural, language, or disability barriers, or the simple fact that they don't have access to a computer or smart phone.

The trend in research is towards lower cost services and more open access to legal materials.