Sentences with phrase «access to legal services become»

As affordability and access to legal services become easier, small businesses and consumers will start to recognise the need for legal services and protection.

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We are mostly capable users of the different illegal og legal services on the internet that provide access to digital content and we have big accumulated hard copy libraries that we don't use anymore because we have become used to fx.

Unbundling (or limited scope representation as it is commonly referred to in the U.S.) is becoming more recognized and highlighted as a key tool to increase access to justice, particularly for those who do not qualify for legal aid services but can not afford full representation (the CBA, NAC and Macfarlane reports for example).

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

A growing number of lawyers and access to justice advocates are becoming aware of those socio - legal discrepancies and are actively seeking socially conscious solutions that balance the fields of legal services irrespective of financial capabilities.

Unbundled legal services are one of the solutions to the complex issue of access to justice, and LAWPRO recognizes that the provision of unbundled legal services is occurring in Ontario at the present time and that they are likely to become more common.

Legal services become overpriced and difficult to access.

In January, I am slated to become president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the premier legal charity supporting access to justice and civil legal services in Massachusetts.

The problem with access to justice is a function of the existing regulatory framework, which ABS doesn't change — namely that legal services must be provided by lawyers who, in order to become lawyers, must be highly skilled people (in order to jump through the hoops to become lawyers), and who typically have high reservation wages (i.e., they don't need to be lawyers, they could get good jobs in other fields).

As legal services have become increasingly commoditized, the trend is toward unbundling legal services to make them easier and more affordable for clients to access.

They concluded that «the disruptive effect of machine intelligence will trigger the end of lawyers» monopoly and provide a benefit to society and clients as legal services become more transparent and affordable to consumers, and access to justice thereby becomes more widely available.»

That lag is making the process of seeking legal help more expensive, he said, which is causing problems in access to legal services for members of the middle class and large corporations, who are becoming increasingly less inclined to pay hefty legal fees.

The fellows will be well equipped to become agile legal innovators themselves, ready to contribute to the changing landscape of legal services in making access to justice a tangible reality.

Better resources are becoming available online, including the Family Law Nova Scotia website at nsfamilylaw.ca, and several new pro bono initiatives aim to fill gaps in legal services, such as Access Legal Help NS at www.legalinfolegal services, such as Access Legal Help NS at www.legalinfoLegal Help NS at www.legalinfo.org.

The Internet is not only making it easier for non-experts to gain access to the information they need; it is driving a gradual expansion of automation from low - cost, routine professional services to more bespoke services, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated (e.g., IBM Watson's applications to the healthcare and legal industries).

It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.

And it is — in a remarkably short time LegalStart has become the dominant player in the French «retail» legal and small and mid-sized business (SME) market, providing easy - to - access, agile, transparent, «legal touch appropriate,» and affordable legal services for customers otherwise priced out of the market.

In 2001, CanLII became a permanent, not - for - profit service to support the legal profession in the performance of its duties while providing the public with permanent open and free access to the legal heritage of all Canadian jurisdictions.

Finally, consumers should have access to innovative low - cost legal services that will become available as a result of clarifying the distinction.

The impact of these services on access to justice is significant for residents of rural Canada and will likely become even more important as providers of legal information and legal services seek new ways to serve rural communities that are increasingly losing lawyers in their communities to retirement.

Unbundling (or limited scope representation as it is commonly referred to in the U.S.) is becoming more recognized and highlighted as a key tool to increase access to justice, particularly for those who do not qualify for legal aid services but can not afford full representation (the CBA, NAC... [more]

Prof. Conduct 123 (2001)(subject to the operational structure and content described in the opinion, a lawyer may affiliate with an online legal services website); Nebraska Op. 07 - 05 (lawyer may participate in internet lawyer directory which identifies itself as a directory, disclaims being a referral service and only lists basic information about lawyers without recommending specific lawyers and charges a reasonable, flat annual advertising fee); New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising Op. 36 (2006)(lawyer may pay flat fee to internet marketing company for exclusive website listing for particular county in specific practice area if listing includes prominent, unmistakable disclaimer stating the listings are paid advertisements and not endorsements or authorized referrals); North Carolina Op. 2004 - 1 (lawyer may participate in for - profit online service that is a hybrid referral service - legal directory, provided there is no fee - sharing with the service and communications are truthful); Oregon Op. 2007 - 180 (2007)(lawyer may pay nationwide internet referral service for listing if listing is not false or misleading and does not imply that the lawyer can represent clients outside jurisdictions of the lawyer's license, fee is not based on number of referrals, retained clients or revenue generated by listing and the service does not exercise discretion in matching clients with lawyers); Rhode Island 2005 - 01 (permitting website that enables lawyers to post information about their services and respond to anonymous requests for legal services in exchange for flat annual membership fee if website exercises no discretion over which requests lawyers may access); South Carolina 01 - 03 (lawyer may pay internet advertising service fee determined by the number of «hits» that the service produces for the lawyer provided that the service does not steer business to any particular lawyer and the payments are not based on whether user ultimately becomes a client); Texas Op. 573 (2006)(lawyer may participate in for - profit internet service that matches potential clients and lawyers if selection process is fully automated and performed by computers without the exercise of human discretion); Virginia Advertising Op.

CHICAGO — Prepaid legal service or legal expense insurance plans that provide businesses with access to legal services for a monthly fee are becoming more common, says Crain's Small Business.