Sentences with phrase «articling crisis»

The existence of articling crisis in Ontario is not some kind of Jedi mind trick — it is a real and immediate issue created by a large - scale shift in the economics and globalization of the legal profession and schooling.

My Dean, Bruce Feldthusen, has written an article for Canadian Lawyer in response to criticisms in the legal profession about legal education and allegations that we are responsible for creating the perceived articling crisis in Ontario.

In the final of four videos from Canadian Lawyer's roundtable series law firm management, moderated by editorial director Gail J. Cohen and sponsored by the Phoenix Legal Group, our panel of lawyer and non-lawyer management gurus examine the growing articling crisis.

The ability to advocate on issues of importance to Black lawyers, such as the current articling crisis;

Much has been said about the ongoing articling crisis in Ontario, but what we aren't talking about enough is the impact the crisis is having on prospective licensees.

Despite the importance of the never - ending articling crisis, and despite the Treasurer's call for greater transparency, the PDCC did not record votes in connection with its decision to terminate the LPP.

Whatever articling crisis this solved, it just pushed the problem down the road.

I think a key problem at the root of the articling crisis and ongoing access to justice concerns is that law school, as wonderful as it is (I loved it), simply does not adequately train students with skills that can be applied in a constructive way to benefit clients.

Her knowledge of the issues facing the legal profession runs deep and she has been instrumental in finally addressing the articling crisis in Ontario with the first meaningful step of putting together a task force and really starting a dialogue within the profession on how to fix the issue.

I will not address the articling crisis, but as the legal profession opens its doors to a wider variety of law graduates, law societies are bound for change — to include a diverse mesh of Canadian and foreign trained lawyers, all perfectly qualified for the shaping of our future legal community.

Students interviewed by Heather Gardiner in Canadian Lawyer 4Students express concerns about an articling crisis developing in the Atlantic provinces.

This past year, it was the human stories of lawyers, members of the bench, and the articling crisis in Ontario that caught the attention of Law Times readers.

The first factor is very much dependent on the future of the LPP program, because without it we will only be accentuating the articling crisis further.

As it is, you have some Benchers using the term «articling crisis» and others saying its not their place to regulate the profession.

Its time to stop kidding ourselves that there is an «articling crisis» - there is just an ongoing articling reality for the last 10 - 15 years.

The articling crisis in Ontario is a supply - side program.

Some lawyers say the law society should do more to tackle the articling crisis before approving a new law school.

If Ryerson also incorporates enough practical training into the curriculum to eliminate the need for articling, as Lakehead has done, then they will not be accentuating the articling crisis as well.

Firstly, the Law Society of Ontario needs to decide whether or not there is an «articling crisis» or not, and act accordingly.

Law students awaited the release of the Law Society of Upper Canada task force report on the articling crisis with great anticipation because, after all, the problem directly and immediately affects us.

I am in no way absolving law schools for their role in «the articling crisis,» but if people really understood the pressures faced by law schools and law professors — that they often have no choice about increasing tuition or enrollment or focusing on research and publications — they may understand the issues a bit better.

Part of the solution to the articling crisis should be scaling back class sizes at law schools.

In Ontario, meanwhile, a ratio of 339 lawyers per 100,000 residents has already led to an articling crisis that has forced the Law Society of Upper Canada to accept academic substitutes.

In the meantime, law schools continue to admit more students, increase their tuition fees, and we, the debt - addled law students of this country, are the ones who must pay for the solution to the articling crisis.

«Ontario's law schools did not cause and can not cure the articling crisis.

As treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Tom Conway is overseeing a massive change in the profession, leading efforts to respond to the articling crisis in Ontario by proposing an alternative to articling through the introduction of the Law Practice Program.

«We are not facing the articling crisis in Quebec that we saw in Ontario,» says Larouche.

Ryerson was tasked with administering the LPP and providing a solution to the articling crisis.

Cut faculty salaries by 10 % or cut 10 % of current faculty members and cut 25 % of each entering class and the «articling crisis» goes away or returns to pre-2008 levels.

The LPP is the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)'s solution to «the articling crisis.»

While lawyers in Canada were debating whether licensed paralegals should have a limited role in family law, and before that contemplating entity - based regulation, alternative business structures, and the articling crisis, change was already happening

But that's not what the articling crisis was ever about.

While lawyers in Canada were debating whether licensed paralegals should have a limited role in family law, and before that contemplating entity - based regulation, alternative business structures, and the articling crisis, change was already happening without them.

The articling crisis and LPP Program, regulation of licensed paralegals, and the introduction of Alternative Business Structures (ABS), all have the potential to radically transform the future of law.

Students were anxious in my day a decade ago before the articling crisis.

The LPP program is intended to address the articling crisis, not necessarily access to justice.

If you prefer, the «articling crisis» just as easily refers to a crisis of Convocation in being completely ineffective at its first attempt at resolving this the last time around.

But most of all, students feel that their views remain unheard and when they are heard, deemed to be irrelevant — a frustrating, powerless feeling which is magnified by the fact that the articling crisis impacts only students and no one else in the profession.

The Canadian legal community has been grappling with an «articling crisis,» where the number of lawyers searching for articling positions has increased steadily over the last decade, while the number of positions available has remained static.

The articling crisis?

Not enough articling students to offset the articling crisis, in Sudbury or elsewhere, but enough to guarantee that enough 2008 - 2010 calls in Ontario have noted the lack of horizontal mobility and recently bottom - heavy structure of some firms.

Despite the articling crisis, Ontario law school admissions have been going up as law schools look for additional revenue.

Langille points to the law schools as a major cause of the articling crisis.

«We could close every law school in Ontario and still have an articling crisis,» he wrote.

Ontario's articling crisis is no secret.

While it may be being sold as a solution to the articling crisis, it's not going to fix the problem with the licensing process.