Sentences with phrase «at alternative business structures»

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Sept. 6, 2017), at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2656464; and, (2) «Alternative Business Structures» «Charity Step» to Ending the General Practitioner» (SSRN, pdf.

Big firms and alternative business structures can scale to the point where they will be able to offer superior legal help at lower prices (even access - to - justice prices).

, at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811627; (2) «Alternative Business Structures» «Charity Step» to Ending the General Practitioner» (SSRN, pdf), at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020489; and, (3) my forthcoming post on Slaw for Tuesday, October 3rd, «' Apps» and the Waning of the Solicitor - Client Relationship.»

Why do you think that firm failed and did it have anything at all to do with being an alternative business structure in your judgment?

Paper presented at the Law Society of Upper Canada's symposium for the Alternative Business Structures, October 4, 2013.

However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

At this stage in the roll - out of alternative business structures, there «remained a role for the LSB», conceded Baroness Deech in a debate in the House of Lords last week kicked off by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) chair.

And that fascination developed into an in - depth analysis of alternative business structures and two very American businesses — Jacoby & Meyers and LegalZoom — that are trying their hands at ABS with plans to use what they learn both internationally and (when they can) back in the U.S.A..

She is at work on a book - length look at the effect of alternative business structures on legal practice in the U.K., Australia and the U.S., to be released by ABA Publishing.

This, the third in a series of videos in which law students put questions to Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg, looks at the impact of alternative business structures and the return of the big accounting firms to law on the legal market of the future.

The BMO report is somewhat timely as it comes just before the Canadian Bar Association is expected to release its much - anticipated Futures report at its annual meeting next month, which will address the issue of alternative business structures for law.

This, the third in a series of videos in which law students put questions to Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg, looks at the impact of alternative business structures on the legal market, and the ways in which big law firms are developing innovative ways of delivering value to their clients.

While the insights and innovations of the process are uncertain at this time, the CBA seems committed to considering matters of regulatory innovation and change, particularly in relation to the adoption of alternative business structures.

The CMA's study is also good news for newlaw providers and alternative business structures (ABSs), with the report saying: «Given that around 600 ABSs have now been licensed, the CMA considers that this is an appropriate time to look again at their impact.»

The relevant provisions of the Act entered into effect in 2011, and at the time this book went to press approximately 745 [35] «alternative business structures» (ABSs) were authorized to operate.

[12] For a general discussion of risk in the context of law firms, see Edward M. Iacobucci and Michael J. Trebilcock, «An Economic Analysis of Alternative Business Structures for the Practice of Law,» (paper presented at the Law Society of Upper Canada's symposium for the Alternative Business Structures, October 4, 2013), http://www.lsuc.on.ca/uploadedFiles/ABS-report-Iacobucci-Trebilcock-september-2014.pdf.

Looking at current initiatives like the Nova Scotia's Barristers» Society's Transforming Regulation consultation and the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business structures, it is apparent that right now there is significant «big picture» thinking going on at Canadian law societies about how to innovate and modernize lawyer regulation.

[i] Alternative Business Structures Working Group Report to Convocation (at Tab 4) of the Professional Regulation Committee Report, February 27, 2014 (Co-Chairs, Malcolm Mercer & Susan McGrath).

Several have working groups in place at the moment that are considering the permissibility of alternative business structures, and those groups contact us from time to time.

We should take a look at the «Alternative Business Structures» that English law now permits for investor ownership: high volume, high automation, low fun and low profits for the lawyers.

At the same time, the Working Group would «also move forward contemporaneously with its study and analysis of developments relating to alternative business structures.»

[53] «The following entities are registered with IPReg as at 30 May 2017,» IPReg, http://ipreg.org.uk/wp-content/files/2017/05/Registered-Bodies-List-170530.pdf; Bar Standards Board, «Entities, Including Alternative Business Structures,» accessed June 19, 2017, https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/regulatory-requirements/entities,-including-alternative-business-structures/.

He was the keynote speaker in 2012 at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada on Alternative Business Structures, and subsequently made presentations on ABS to Benchers at Law Society of British Columbia and Barreau du Québec, and three times to Benchers of Law Society of Upper Canada.

Our self - governing status at risk; see: «Alternative Business Structures Proposals or Solving the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» on the, «Access to Justice in Canada» blog, March 6, 2015: http://accesstojusticeincanada.blogspot.ca/

LSO dropped the investigation on the grounds that the regulator was at the time considering allowing alternative business structures (ABS), which would have permitted non-lawyers to own entities providing legal services.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

This second offering deals with the first practical opportunity for changing businesses under LSA 2007, namely legal disciplinary practices (LDPs); the third will look at the ultimate in opening up of the legal services market, alternative business structures (ABSs).

the Law Society of Upper Canada working group on alternative business structures issued a report advising that it «does not propose to further examine any majority or controlling non-licensee ownership models for traditional law firms in Ontario at this time» but it will continue to explore options for «more limited non-licensee ownership models.»

The maximum fine for alternative business structures (ABS) would be set at # 150m.

It's the jump - off point for a series of research papers on the future of the profession and looks at three key areas: education; innovation and alternative business structures; and ethics and regulatory issues.

The County of Carleton Law Association held a town hall meeting at the Ottawa Courthouse Wednesday night to discuss alternative business structures and answer questions its members have regarding the differing models as part of their survey process in preparing a report to the Law Society of Upper Canada.

For a summary of the responses to the ABS Discussion Paper, see the «Alternative Business Structures Working Group Report» at Tab 8.2 of the Report to Convocation, (pdf) February 26, 2015, of LSUC's Professional Regulation Committee.