Sentences with phrase «actual practicing lawyers»

If the submission process is opened up and anonymized, we might see more submissions from actual practicing lawyers instead of the numerous tech consultants that appear on TechShow's panels.

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The foundation's report — «Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law» — studied 16 U.S. and Canadian schools and observed that most law schools give only casual attention to teaching students how to use legal thinking in the complexity of actual law practice.

I'd venture a guess that, like me, they'd rather spend their days, afternoons, and occasional evenings and weekends being an actual, practicing lawyer.

Few lawyers who've taken the LSAT can identify any connection between the exam's largely theoretical questions and the actual practice of law.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

From my review of the list, I found only one lawyer there who who made his name not by virtue of political or business achievements, but through the actual practice of law.

2 - 23.2 (1) A lawyer must not practise law in an MDP unless (a) the lawyer and all members of the MDP are in compliance with Rules 2 - 23.1 to 2 - 23.12 and the Professional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct or competence.

During my career female lawyers have been over represented in relation to their actual numbers within the practice of family law, for reasons both good (women are typically more interested than men in issues regarding family) and bad (family law is often wrongly perceived of as an unimportant, unserious or disreputable practice area that the power structure — i.e. men — don't mind woman dominating).

Though most lawyers rely on law school training, the discipline of actual practice and intuition as the instruments to guide and hone their rhetorical skills, some might wish to think directly about the art of persuasion itself.

Disturbing practice trends — such as lawyers abandoning practice to non-lawyers who are not supervised; or lawyers who (perhaps unthinkingly) deal with an intermediary rather than with the actual client and who are surprised when the client ends up unhappy and sues the lawyer (or worse still, the intermediary turns out to be a fraudster).

They've grown into actual practice management tools lawyers find business value in.

«The advent of AI means that technology teams will effectively become another pillar of legal service delivery in the practice, and computer scientists will find themselves working alongside lawyers and partners on actual transactions and disputes.

Leadership often falls to the lawyer with either the largest book of business or the strongest reputation — but the actual position of Practice Group Leader doesn't normally confer much real power on a partner who didn't already possess it.

The objective of these proposed requirements and recommendations, as explained in the California State Bar report, is to ensure that new lawyers «enter the profession oriented to the actual experience of practice and the values of ethics and professionalism, so that when they begin to absorb that experience as practicing lawyers, they all have a proper foundation for growth.»

A broad vision for how just a few lawyers who share actual numbers on their profitability from unbundled legal services will gradually turn the tide on the number of attorneys introducing these options in their practice, and the impact this has on access to justice nationwide

The solo lawyer has to handle not only the actual practice of law but also all of the details from filing to computer troubleshooting to accounting.