Sentences with phrase «broader access to legal services»
LegalRnD will relentlessly pursue advancement of the legal profession and public service by providing broader access to legal services.
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But as it relates to the public's entrusting them to ensure broader access to legal services, they've failed.
Not exact matches
Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.
Although many lawyers already provide «limited scope legal services,» new clarity and direction in the legal profession's rules of conduct should improve public access to a broader range of these services.
«Law firms, corporate legal departments and other legal service providers are invited to submit innovations from any practice area or business function to four broad sections: legal expertise, the business of law, and new sections looking at collaboration, and the rule of law and access to justice.»
These services include a broad range of governmental and non-governmental service providers providing access to legal information and assistance through self - help guides, drop - in centres, and web resources.
A broad vision for how just a few lawyers who share actual numbers on their profitability from unbundled legal services will gradually turn the tide on the number of attorneys introducing these options in their practice, and the impact this has on access to justice nationwide
Working with a broad range of state, community, and national civil legal assistance, civil rights, and community - based organizations to advance racial justice and leadership development as core values in the civil justice community and to help low - income people have meaningful access to a full range of legal assistance services
Unbundled legal service, also called limited scope representation, has emerged as a model to create more affordable services, increase access to justice, and provide a broader base of clients to practitioners.
It is engaged in a sweeping re-imagining of the way legal services are delivered in this country, focusing on three broad areas: access to justice, diversity, and the future of legal practice.
in the community as a way for citizens to obtain access to the kinds of information, resources and pathways that they need to address the broad spectrum of their needs and problems (sorting out legal problems from other challenges including financial, relationships, health, social services etc.).
While the LSI report focuses on LSA 2007, it's that other piece of landmark legal services legislation — LASPO — that should provide the impetus for (one hopes) a new and much broader discussion about the meaning of «access to justice».
The findings highlight the complexity of the debate around where pro bono services fit in in the quest to achieve greater access to justice, as well as raising broader questions around professional ethics in the legal industry.