Sentences with phrase «benefit of a law degree»

Most people in the purportedly shrinking middle class who can afford to drop $ 1500 or more up - front to get a lawyer to start work on a typical case are probably smart enough to understand that there are lots of people out there who know a lot about a particular area of law and could offer good advice without the benefit of a law degree.

Not exact matches

My father's father worked his way up from a messenger boy to partner in a brokerage firm and earned a law degree and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, with only the benefit of an eighth - grade education (you could do that back then).

These 2 - year terminal programs for students who already have a bachelor's degree do not generally provide the fellowships or assistantships that pay most people's way through traditional, Ph.D. - focused grad programs, but enhanced GI benefits could cover those costs if the bill becomes law, as it may within the next couple of weeks.

In this kind of situation the legislation of this kind of bill should be included in future parliamentary laws that are intended to benefit the individual, even though their freedom of choice is taken away to some degree for a period of their life.

Western countries, for all their difficulties, benefit from established civil society, functioning democracy, the rule of law, relatively high levels of trust in political institutions, and some degree of equality between the sexes, it suggests.

Mr Laws said independent schools benefited from being at a «greater degree of distance» from the constant upheavals in the state sector.

These benefits could be key in undoing the enormous weight of national student loan debt, especially for those with expensive law degrees.

Think about the field you are now in, and make a list of ways that having a law degree can be a benefit, you will surprise yourself.

María Jesús González - Espejo, founding member of the Instituto de Innovación Legal along with Laura Fauqueur, made several requests to the Minister: the review and modernization of law degree studies so that new lawyers can meet the technological challenges; more investment in technology that will benefit both legal professionals and citizens; more support for initiatives such as #HackTheJustice; the promotion of partnerships between public and private sector; more transparency and open data from institutions and finally, policies that promote greater diversity and in particular an increased presence of women in the governing bodies of organizations and companies in the legal industry.

RV accidents involve a degree of car accident claim law and accident benefit law.

An added benefit is that it could take some of the snobbery and pretentiousness out of law school and the legal profession generally because at two years the JD would become a Master's degree, plain and simple.

This is not a fact that law schools, especially those in the upper half of the rankings, want advertised: their reputations (and their concomitant financial benefits) rest on the unspoken assumption that the quality of their degree is better.

Instead, it's part of the overall value that you offer, just like being an Excel whiz, or well - connected in your field, or having a law degree in a position that doesn't require it but will benefit from it.

Each of these approaches has the benefit of providing a degree of certainty and predictability by drawing upon a well developed body of law.

The benefits of family law and divorce mediation are many, including cost savings, time savings, increased satisfaction with the outcome, and a much greater degree of privacy.