Sentences with word «bencher»
A "bencher" is a term used to refer to a senior or experienced member within a professional or academic organization, especially in the legal field. They often hold influential positions and provide guidance or leadership to others. Full definition
Every candidate during the LSUC bencher election of the spring of 2011 cited this problem as a serious one in their campaign materials sent to the membership.
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There were 39 candidates who stood for election and the following, including Eamon, were elected as benchers for a three - year term commencing Feb. 5, 2015:
When I ran for bencher in 2011 I campaigned to change the name to the Law Society of Ontario.
Because nothing is perfect, we sometimes have a couple of benchers who do not understand that, but they have no influence in Convocation.
Wyatt's heritage includes Yamatji, Wangai and Nyoongar and Wongi ancestry, and he now becomes the first Indigenous person to occupy a Commonwealth Ministry, having been the first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives in 2010, and the first front bencher with his appointment as Assistant Minister, Health and Aged Care in 2015.
If the law societies do not make this a priority, it is imperative that the rest of us as a profession ensure that they do by electing benchers who recognize the full implications of the current crisis.
However, I wonder whether we have ever had such a Bill, because it has attracted not a single voice of support from Back Benchers on Second Reading.
The appearance of failure is inconsistent with a «populist» style of leadership — the kind of leadership produced by bencher elections that are merely popularity contests without debate or substantive analysis of issues such as the cause and consequences of the access to justice problem.
In response, law society benchers said new rules must replace the current «open - ended» ones.
In addition to providing back benchers with an additional 1.5 inches of legroom, headroom in the aft quarters is up by 0.6 inch and shoulder room grows by 1.8 inches in all locations.
[ii] Ross Gower, The History of Lay Benchers at The Law Society of Upper Canada: Marking 40 years of Public Representation
A Superior Court judge has thrown out a Weston, Ont., lawyer's claim against several other lawyers and a Law Society of Upper Canada bencher on the basis that it is «utterly unmeritorious.»
Benmor, a candidate in the April 30 LSUC bencher elections, would prefer a system that sets some sort of standard for when a lawyer can list a particular practice area.
Law society benchers do not have the expertise necessary to solve the problem.
The main thrust of the Bill appears to provide more equitable representation of paralegals within the law society, increasing the number of benchers at Convocation from two to five.
«The work we've done leads us to conclude that the contingency arrangement is not well understood by clients, is overly complicated, doesn't align interests and may not have sufficient checks and balances to ensure reasonable fees,» says Bencher Malcolm Mercer, chairman of the working group.
Law Society of Upper Canada benchers voted by a large margin on Thursday to limit parental leave benefits to lawyers with to low - net practice income.
Lawyers who want good benchers chosen by lawyers can specialise — by leaving the voting to those with the time and inclination to inform themselves.
If it were up to me, I would appoint more lay benchers from sectors of society who are under - or not represented in Convocation, and fewer from the 1 %, splendid though they are.
Until the posturing of bencher candidates makes the daily front - pages of newspapers, lawyers will have to go out of their way to inform themselves.
There was a time when Convocation Room was the place where professional discipline was decided by lawyer benchers based on their collective judgment.
Certainly, the public statements by the Treasurer and other benchers since this new requirement was announced suggests that they think the obligation to «promote equity, diversity and inclusion» is simply a rehash of existing obligations which, would be great, if the description of the obligation actually tracked that of our existing obligations.
Marian is an Elected Paralegal Bencher for the Law Society of Upper Canada and the founder of Lippa Legal Services in Toronto.
Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.
Following the McRuer Inquiry into Civil Rights and informal innovation by the Law Society under the leadership of the great Sydney Robins, the Law Society Act was amended in 1973 so that four (now eight) non-lawyers appointed by government became benchers.
William Kaplan has been appointed as the Law Society of Upper Canada's newest bencher at today's Convocation.
Which Benchers besides the ones named also argued against imposing this Statement of Principles?
A majority of LSO benchers approved a recommendation at their February meeting to endorse Ryerson's proposal, which gained preliminary approval by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada at the end of 2017.
In the end, I think the issue of how many benchers there should be is mostly in - side baseball.
The number of directors that would effectively direct a corporation is probably not the correct reference point because being directors is not mostly what benchers mostly do.
That was when benchers of the LSO committed to the creation a special licence for paralegals to offer limited services in family law, including process navigation, form completion and uncontested divorces.
During November's heated debate, law society benchers agreed to increase LSUC members» fees to help cover the costs of the pilot project.
There are only 2 exclusive options for selecting benchers: voting, or appointing.
At its monthly meeting of benchers last week, the Law Society of Upper Canada released an overview of the submissions it had received in response to its working paper on alternative business structures.
Bryant also has experience as a special advisor to Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and a commercial litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, and he is a former bencher at the Law Society of Ontario.