Not exact matches
A review of approaches elsewhere shows that requiring
practising lawyers to buy professional indemnity insurance with minimum terms is popular
among many jurisdictions.
Most controversial
among these is the proposal that «
lawyers should be allowed to
practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than
lawyers or other regulated legal professionals,» in other words, alternative business structures.
Among many other challenges, it was identified that there was little opportunity for these potential new Canadian
lawyers to connect with the local legal profession in order to learn about the practical and procedural aspects of
practising law in Canada.
The Law Society has determined that racism is systemic in both legal professions, i.e.,
among the 50,000
lawyers and the 8,000 paralegals
practising in Ontario.
Nor do I believe, if access to justice is the real goal, that chief
among the culprits should be tax policy, rather than — to choose just two prominent examples — the number of
lawyers who choose to
practise in rural areas, or the funding of legal aid.