Sentences with phrase «aid a lawyer instead»

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Instead, if they choose to eat with the lawyer at a more down - scale joint and spend $ 15 or less each, the firm will donate the difference ($ 45 per person) to a nonprofit legal group like Legal Aid.

The Prisons and Courts Bill would instead give judges the power to appoint a legal aid lawyer to carry out the questioning.

What is being published about the consequences of the problem is very negative: （ 1 ） the legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; （ 2 ） young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, （ 3 ） the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help them.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW was producing legal opinions for lawyers in private practice at the rate of 5,000 per year — because those lawyers could make more money using LAO LAW instead of billing Legal Aid for their own legal research hours.