Sentences with phrase «aid junior lawyers»
A process checklist can aid junior lawyers in performing a particular type of task for a matter, and can also serve as a master roadmap for the matter.
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YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.
has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.
We are also concerned that changes to the way in which the fund is administered do not have negative consequences for junior lawyers, particularly in terms of ensuring that sponsored training contracts and other mechanisms designed to ensure quality supervision and career progression for legal aid lawyers do not fall by the way side.
The consultation closes on 4 March 2016 and YLAL will be submitting a response to provide the SRA with views from junior and aspiring legal aid lawyers.
Ollie discussed the issue of «paralegalisation», with paralegal experience now seen by many as a prerequisite to getting a training contract, and said that the aspiration for junior legal aid lawyers sat the moment «is limited to being able to survive and sustain a career».
Panel Membership: Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA); founder member of Junior HLPA; former co-chair Young Legal Aid Lawyers.
Is a Legal - Aid - style support office cheaper because its people are paid less than junior lawyers and paralegals working for firms?
Being a junior lawyer I do a lot of legal aid files.
23 October 2009: Gwendolen Morgan, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP and founding member of Young Legal Aid Lawyers, was last night highly commended in the Junior Lawyer of the Year category of the Law Society Excellence Awards 2009.
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If you are an aspiring or junior legal aid lawyer (up to 10 years PQE / call), please complete our Social Mobility Survey and, once you have done so, share it with your friends and colleagues.
The consultation closed on 4 March 2016 and YLAL submitted this response to provide the SRA with views from junior and aspiring legal aid lawyers.
We do not wish to duplicate work or efforts made by such groups, but we believe it is crucial for junior lawyers working in (and wanting to work in) the legal aid sector to have their own voice.
To promote the interests of new entrants and junior lawyers and provide a network for likeminded people beginning their careers in the legal aid sector.
Huq also questioned Truss on diversity in the legal profession, referring to research by YLAL about the salaries of junior legal aid lawyers and asking if the Lord Chancellor would consider reinstating the training contract grant scheme which was abolished by the Coalition government in 2010.
In Ontario, one mid-size firm has found a compromise solution by taking on legal aid clients, mainly to be handled by more junior lawyers.