Sentences with phrase «afford legal services when»

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If we give people the option of hiring a lawyer for just some of a legal problem instead of all of it, we let them choose the legal services they want, when they want, at a price they can afford.

Municipalities have passed laws to encourage such enforcement by allowing attorneys to be paid when they successfully help tenants who could not otherwise afford legal services.

When this situation is declared unconstitutional, that will provide the basis for making law societies pay for the legal services that people can not afford (except for Legal Aid's very limited availabillegal services that people can not afford (except for Legal Aid's very limited availabilLegal Aid's very limited availability).

Now, that isn't the same number we're talking about, although people use that, now that isn't the same number we're talking, although people use that number, when we're talking about the gap between people who can qualify for legal aid and get service and the people who can afford legal services.

It follows that one of the most crucial steps when planning to use a third - party service provider is to ensure it is clear where data will be stored, and that the jurisdiction in which it will reside has a legal and regulatory framework that provides the same degree of protection as that afforded to individuals in the jurisdiction from which the data originates.

They provide legal forms or forms packets and instructions that help people deal with legal problems when they either can't find a lawyer who handles their type of legal matter or who can't afford legal services.

And how can they be deployed to advance individual rights at a time when a majority of Canadians can not afford to retain a lawyer for anything more than a brief period of full representation (and references to overstretched pro bono services doesn't fill the implementation gap here — in any case, why should the protection of legal rights be relegated to charity?)

Unbundling of legal services lets clients pay for some assistance depending on when they want help and what they can afford.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

The opportunity is that corporate legal departments now operate in a buyer's market, affording them sourcing strategies that were unavailable when law firms had a virtual monopoly on the delivery of legal services.

Broadly speaking, this is when an individual's capacity to seek legal assistance is restricted because they can not afford to pay for legal services.