Sentences with phrase «at the lawyer monopoly»

But it would not be unreasonable to ask them to take a good, hard look at the lawyer monopoly on legal services.

These companies have begun to chip away at the lawyer monopoly on the delivery of legal services.

Not exact matches

A child could de-construct his arguments, while laughing at how a practicing lawyer is unable to grasp the definition of the word «monopoly.»

Rather like lawyers, opticians have enjoyed a charmed and protected life — at least until the 1980s when their monopoly came to an end with the introduction of a scheme allowing people to buy their glasses wherever they wanted with NHS vouchers.

Although (or perhaps because) the monopoly is wearing away at the edges, lawyers and their governing bodies continue to cling tightly to this pillar of the legal system as we know it.

Lawyers» monopoly over the provision of legal services should require either, (1) that they do all the legal work covered by that monopoly and do it at reasonable cost, or else, (2) that they lose exclusive control of that monopoly.

Although neither statute nor case law clearly articulates that the lawyer's monopoly over the provision of legal services depends upon the legal profession's performing all legal services covered by that monopoly at reasonable cost, I argue that such relationship is dictated by constitutional doctrine because:

It set out five reasons that the lawyer's monopoly over the provision of legal services depends upon the legal profession's performing all legal services covered by that monopoly at reasonable cost.

(12) In other words, the fact that this problem as to the «unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost» has been a serious one for decades, and is getting worse, puts the monopoly that lawyers have over the provision of legal services in need of a shared partnership with government - supported Legal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest document.

Certainly, many lawyers would suggest that this is indeed at their core professional ethos and I've become nauseated from being subject to years of righteous sounding regulators, ethicists, pundits and lawyers who think they hold a unique monopoly on dedication to clients.

Because line lawyers who started at law firms and who were brought in - house in order to oversee law firms are predisposed to treat ALSPs just like law firms (which, to return to the digression, is one reason why the law firm relationships are so hard to change; law firms do not have a monopoly on status quo bias).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.