Sentences with phrase «aid lawyers sat»
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».
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With legal aid persistently on the verge of collapse, few young lawyers have had the opportunity to cut their teeth sitting second chair on complex trials.
Social mobility in the legal profession, commissioned by the legal communications specialist Byfield Consultancy, draws on interviews with lawyers at all stages of their careers from those starting out such as Subashini Nathan, presently a paralegal for a legal aid firm, through to Lady Justice Hallett, the fifth woman to sit as an Appeal judge.
They sit in the middle ground between those who can afford legal aid, and the very few who can actually afford a lawyer.
I am also a Deputy Judge in the Ontario Superior Court (Small Claims Court) for the past 20 years, I am a mediator and offer those services, I am a member of the Office of the Children's Lawyers Panel and have been for 25 years, and I sit on various committees at Legal Aid Ontario, and the Welland County Law Association.