Sentences with phrase «by practising lawyers»

Edited by students and offering student articles for the most part, the Review will also publish in each issue articles on law or policy by practising lawyers or academics.

Regulatory changes in the UK now mean that the role of Risk Officer must be held by a practising lawyer and partner.

Not exact matches

Is the BC initiative directed at paralegals employed by lawyers, or is it anticipated that there would be paralegals who practise on their own and offer services directly to the public?

This time the target was firmly trained on employment lawyers, with an article in The Times on 4 January 2011 by Helen Giles, an HR director, which was excoriating in its account of the «legal extortion» practised by employment tribunals and the «parasitical» lawyers bringing claims therein.

Last year, the Canadian Bar Association released its Futures report, which boldly proposed: «Lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.Lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.»

By stating that they are not practising law or providing legal advice, legal service providers shrewdly aim to take themselves out of the current legal services regulatory scheme and nicely avoid all the education, admission, ethics and insurance obligations that lawyers must fulfill.

By mid-April, only nine of B.C.'s more than 10,300 practising lawyers were still under suspension for failing to log the required number of hours for the past year.

In this they're backed up by the British Indian Lawyers Association, which represents Indian lawyers practising in the United Kingdom and which argues that such a change should be reciprocal, happening only when the U.K. allows Indian fiLawyers Association, which represents Indian lawyers practising in the United Kingdom and which argues that such a change should be reciprocal, happening only when the U.K. allows Indian filawyers practising in the United Kingdom and which argues that such a change should be reciprocal, happening only when the U.K. allows Indian firms in.

In 2007, the London, Ont., lawyer, who practises at McKenzie Lake Lawyers, led a team of experts commissioned by the Ministry of the Attorney General in an evaluation of the province's Family Court.

This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's) legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.

those services that support or supplement the practice of law by the MDP, and under the supervision of a practising lawyer (Rule 2 - 23.3 (2)(a)-RRB-

«The most striking aspect of the report to me was the description of how our legal aid tariff rate has declined by 27 per cent since 1991, and how the number of practising lawyers taking legal aid referrals has nearly halved in the past decade,» said Maclaren.

Lawyers practising in this area need to be extremely cautious and should be careful to protect themselves by documenting advice to their clients in writing.

The trial, which is set to begin on Nov. 17, centres around whether or not the plaintiffs, a pair of lawyers who practised together but were not partners, are owed legal fees by the defendants, their former clients.

With a small investment of time and energy, lawyers who practise alone can mitigate all of these risks by building a support network.

Ontario lawyers practising law in other jurisdictions by providing legal services on the Internet should respect and uphold the law of the other jurisdiction, and not engage in the unauthorized practice of law.

Stinson J. was not swayed by the defendants» reliance on the words «practising in association» on the firm letterhead, because he was not convinced that the clients understood this to mean the lawyers were not partners.

As of 2016, however, mentoring services provided by lawyers while exempt will be deemed to be professional services provided by the lawyer while still a practising lawyer insured under the program, for the purposes of run - off coverage.

The combined team of more than 45 lawyers is led by partners who have practised for decades in the region and are fluent in English, Russian, Kazakh and a variety of other languages.

The moves were triggered by fears UK lawyers would find it more difficult to practise EU law in the event of Brexit if they were not registered in an EU country.

This, she reflected, was something on which she had previously spoken to them: «When I last had the pleasure of addressing the Employment Lawyers» Association, in November 2008, my subject was discrimination in the House of Lords — not, of course the discrimination practised by the House of Lords but its jurisprudence.»

How many North American law firms would sponsor poetry readings in their offices, and have them attended by goodly numbers of practising lawyers.

Under the proposals, if a lawyer goes on to practice in one of the six reserved areas then they need a separate «endorsement» to their practising certificate earned by demonstrating competence on the job.

Most controversial among these is the proposal that «lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals,» in other words, alternative business structures.

This month sees the debut of two columns: the monthly Human Rights... Here and There, helmed by professor Lucie Lamarche, Gordon F. Henderson Human Rights Chair at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; and Craig's Reviews, a bimonthly review of law - related fiction from Craig Paterson, a former law prof and lawyer who has been practising for 33 years.

2 - 23.2 (1) A lawyer must not practise law in an MDP unless (a) the lawyer and all members of the MDP are in compliance with Rules 2 - 23.1 to 2 - 23.12 and the Professional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct or competence.

As first reported by Legal Week this June, lawyers at many top firms having begun applying to join the roll of solicitors in the Republic of Ireland to mitigate Brexit's impact on their ability to practise EU law.

(6) The benchers may make rules prohibiting lawyers from facilitating or participating in the practice of law by persons who are not authorized to practise law.

The deal, ratified first by the Law Society of Upper Canada in February, allows lawyers who are currently confined to civil law or common law jurisdictions broader access to practise law across the two systems.

Some of our lawyers have been admitted and practised law in foreign jurisdictions (including England, Bermuda and New York), have both foreign and local legal education, including in the U.S. and U.K. and a number of our lawyers and law clerks speak languages including French, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Cantonese.We are often consulted by those located in the United States, and in the past have been consulted by or retained in litigation by those (or matters located) in Alaska, California, Washington, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and Texas.

Practising lawyers are able pay the full amount of the Practising Fee by June 30 by credit card, provided they pay an administrative fee of $ 80 plus HST ($ 60 to NSBS; $ 20 to LIANS).

With the decision to penalise made by the Judicial Department of the Shandong province, Zhu has become the first ever lawyer to be forcefully stripped of his practising licence by administrative measure, not as a result of any professional misconduct but of exercising his civil right of expression.

«While new lawyers should polish their legal skills, their careers would be well served by learning and practising cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.

Lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professLawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professlawyers or other regulated legal professionals.

• in - house corporate counsel • government lawyers, educators and others not in active private practice • retired lawyers, estate trustees, emeritus lawyers, judges and others no longer practising law • legal aid clinic lawyers (not directly employed by Legal Aid Ontario) • lawyers who engage in only occasional practice in Ontario and are resident in a Canadian jurisdiction other than Ontario The standard Run - Off coverage

Any practising lawyer can help by volunteering as little as four days a year.

The authorities may also suspend the lawyer's practice by holding the licence for a prolonged period of time, hence stopping the lawyer from practising.

You might object that even the «worst lawyer out there» is good enough to practise — but would you be willing to test that theory by hiring that lawyer for your own legal problem?

The conduct of lawyers with regard to the preparation of witness testimony is often regulated by the rules of professional conduct of the jurisdiction in which that lawyer is admitted to practise.

Written by well - known academic and practising economists and lawyers from both developed and developing countries.

Its lawyers have long been sought after by firms in all corners of the world, and the last decade has seen a swathe of global firms launch local practises in competition with the well - regarded and established domestic firms.

From where we stand, a successful career is measured not only by revenue or by the effectiveness of the solutions lawyers craft for their clients, but also from practising safely.

Even more importantly, trust and professional commitment are the keys to lawyers» survival now that the traditional rules by which law has been practised are being blown apart.

So the eight or so exams following substantive law classes taught by lawyers who actually practised in the field was replaced with a five - week skills and responsibilities program with assignments and assessments, and two licensing exams.

By 1998, there were approximately 24,000 practising lawyers.

I might bemoan the prospect of a future of legal work being undertaken by increasingly capable systems but then I haven't been too impressed with the clunky and amateurish processes that I witnessed in my own last few client encounters with UK practising lawyers.

Overall, the number of practising lawyers increased by 561 lawyers [xiv] or 2.3 % annually during the 1990s.

Lawyers from reciprocating jurisdictions who are in good standing and entitled to practise in their home jurisdiction may apply to be licensed in Ontario under subsection 9 (2) of By - Law 4, based on the National Mobility Agreement or the Territorial Mobility Agreement.

During the first 10 year period from 1989 to 1998 [xv], the number of private practice lawyers increased by a total of only 14.9 % while the number of practising lawyers in other categories increased by 79.7 %.

In this digital information age, I don't think our «public» law libraries (law school and law society libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published law reporters and law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.