Sentences with phrase «access to the legal profession»

More importantly, both companies provide free access to students, law professors and the judiciary, and low cost access to the legal profession through law society libraries and law firms.

Initiatives include PRIME, an alliance of 80 law firms and legal departments across the UK that aims to broaden access to the legal profession by offering work experience to those from less privileged backgrounds.

«Widening access to the legal profession remains important to us and we work with organisations such as PRIME and Pathways to Law to ensures that we are doing all we can to give talented individuals great opportunities.

The increased fees, of course, restrict fair access to the legal profession — many students are forced to take out... [more]

The Racial Equity Committee monitors and provides advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

«The LSUC was not obliged to accredit a law school that effectively blocks access to the legal profession for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered / transsexual and queer («LGBTQ») people,» wrote the lawyers for the two organizations in their factum.

Hardwicke has also rolled out a corporate social responsibility programme that focuses on youth, education and access to the legal profession by encouraging those from less privileged backgrounds to consider a career in the law.

«There should be no glory in striving for diversity; it's about jointly improving access to the legal profession for the brightest and best irrespective of social advantage or other personal characteristics,» says Barry Matthews, director of legal affairs and third - party sales at ITV.

We are a member of PRIME, an alliance of law firms and legal departments across the UK who are committed to broadening access to the legal profession amongst school - age students from less advantaged backgrounds.

31:44 — You've commented in the past on the expense of law conversion courses — how do you think access to the legal profession could be improved?

Virtually all Law Society of Upper Canada benchers who spoke at a special Convocation this morning said Trinity Western University's Christian covenant includes discriminatory elements that will have impact on access to the legal profession.

The members of Essex Court Chambers are committed to the furtherance of equality and diversity and promoting access to the legal profession and to the bar in particular.

Public law schools are funded largely by Canadian taxpayers; and have been subjected to an avalanche of historic criticism; and have also been granted a monopoly to attract students who want access to the legal profession — not to «chart their own paths.»

For graduates, the high debt levels required to provide access to the legal profession exacerbate existing gender and race inequality.

TWU accreditation would provide preferential treatment to a specialized subset of a religious community to have access to the legal profession at a time when applications continue to be at an all - time high.

Conversely, accreditation of the law school's covenant means that LGBTQ2 students will be categorically excluded from attending Trinity Western University, and thus, will not be afforded equal access to the legal profession, or to their Charter rights.

The time is right for a consumer focussed legal service to allow people simple, friendly and timely access to the legal profession, through a brand they can trust; allowing customers to «try before they buy».

With the University of Oxford they run Pathways to Law, a programme designed to widen access to the legal profession; and the Oxford Pathways Programme, an initiative that aims to provide information, advice and guidance on higher education and Oxford to students in year 10, 11, 12 & 13.

Students and lawyers with disabilities: Increasing access to the legal profession (Law Society of Upper Canada)

We are part of the Legal Social Mobility Partnership, a collaboration of law firms, their partner clients and commercial organisations, who work together to provide school - aged students from less privileged backgrounds access to a Work Insight and Skills Programme (the «Programme») with the ultimate aim of broadening access to the legal profession and developing students» career aspirations.

DWF has supported this legal sector alliance to overcome the issue of restricted social mobility and access to the legal profession through meaningful work experience, since 2012.

As explained by the Divisional Court, at paras. 95 - 97, the LSUC over its long history has strived to remove discriminatory barriers to access to the legal profession:

Allen & Overy's David Morley discusses the groundbreaking initiative to widen access to the legal profession

A&O's David Morley discusses the groundbreaking initiative to widen access to the legal profession

Access to the legal profession is central to the work we do with schools so we felt it was important to include other aspects of law and provide important information about the various routes into the profession.

It doesn't reduce their access to the legal profession and, to the extent that students attend TWU who otherwise might have gone to UVic, UBC or some other Canadian law school, it might increase their opportunities at those schools.

In 2015 Stevens & Bolton joined PRIME, a national alliance of law firms across the UK committed to broadening access to the legal profession.

The Racial Equity Committee supports Council in the governance of the Society by monitoring and providing advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

The Legal Services Board has set out its commitment to broadening access to the legal profession.