Not exact matches
eHarmony's
legal counsel, Lanny Davis (who spun the media for President Bill Clinton during his «relationship
problems» with Monica Lewinsky), last week
asked NBC and People magazine to stop running Chemistry.com's current ads, or at least insist on some fine - print qualifiers
about what «1 million rejected» really means.
Rendleman posits a hypothetical case involving a lawyer who's also a rancher: If an employee cowpoke happens to know the rancher is a lawyer and
asks to come in to the rancher's law office to talk
about a
legal problem, that's ethical.
Yes, the firm offers free initial consultations to all clients when they contact the firm to
ask about their particular
legal question or
problem.
When is the last time that you interviewed for a position with a law firm and the hiring attorney grilled you on the finer points of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 or
asked you to draft a short memo resolving a hypothetical
legal problem or even required you to explain how you might go
about researching a particular issue?
Ask him
about two things: building a successful litigation practice from scratch and solving
legal problems with technology.
Are overly concerned
about the fee,
ask about the fee before you discuss their
legal problem, won't talk to you
about their budget or don't know what it is
Behind the scenes, this programmed with a series of questions, there's a logic tree, so depending on what the person's
legal problem is, it'll
ask a series of questions and those are all vetted with
legal aid lawyers, and also
ask questions
about their income and where they live, which they can answer not, but answering those questions will, at the end of that, I don't know if you followed it out to the end, but it produces a little customized page of, «These are resources you should be looking at.
The first question one should
ask potential clients is
about how much justice they can afford, especially in light of the serious
problems facing economically disadvantaged litigants as reported recently in a Toronto Star article («
Legal Aid facing «troubling cuts»»):
If you are within the guidelines, you will be
asked about the type of
legal problem that you have.
For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying ethical
problems in
legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most important or urgent ethical
problems in
legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3)
asking questions
about the definition of «scholarship» or «
legal scholarship,» what counts as
legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific ethical norms for
legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or code of the ethics of
legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical,
about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.
This question is being
asked more broadly in Law Schools as
legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and how people access
legal education, where and how people learn
about law, and where and how people solve the
problems that matter most in their lives.
You'll be
asked general questions
about your
legal problem and your income and savings.
-- You have a
legal problem — You go to Lawdingo and enter your phone number — A Lawdingo staff member calls you back quickly — They
ask you for more details
about your case — Lawdingo (behind the scenes) uses its technology to forward your case details to relevant lawyers — Those lawyers decide whether to pick up the lead — A lawyer contacts you, and you're off
More than 7000 households randomly chosen throughout the country will be called over the course of the survey and people will be
asked about the types of
legal problems they may have had, what services they used, and if they did not access
legal services why not.
See N.Y. State 1049 (2015)(where a potential client posts a message on a website
asking to be contacted by a lawyer
about a
legal problem, a lawyer may respond in the manner invited by the client); N.Y. State 1014 (2014)(where detainee communicates through another detainee that he desires to be contacted by a particular lawyer, the lawyer's response is not a solicitation, because the communication was initiated by the prospective client).