Sentences with phrase «by routine legal services»

Note however, that the problem is caused by legal advice services, and not by routine legal services that are mostly routine paper - work, such as simple house sales, wills, incorporating small companies, and such.

But the problem of unaffordable legal services is caused by the high cost of legal advice services, not by routine legal services such as simple real estate deals, divorces, and incorporations.

Not exact matches

Such an institute could provide a single bargaining agency on behalf of all lawyers in Canada, by which to obtain the automation of routine legal services, and not have to endure ownership by a commercial investor to get it, as proposed by the ABS investors.

Those lawyers and investors who wish to have ABSs made legal are looking to make a return on investment by way of providing routine legal services in greater volume.

They could finance the automation for providing routine legal services, but such automation is something that the legal profession can provide for itself, better by itself without: (1) law offices having to be owned by investors; and, (2) the risk of the fiduciary duty owed to clients being suppressed by the resulting profit duty owed to investors.

Dundas & Wilson has launched a new paralegal - led Legal Services Unit (LSU) in Scotland, which is intended to cut costs for clients by taking on routine work often carried out by qualified lawyers.

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

They have three parts: (1) law firms can be invested in (owned — up to 49 % or 100 %) by non-lawyer people and entities; (2) legal services be enabled to be provided with related non-legal services; and, (3) routine legal services be automated by software applications.

Many of the services that law firms now provide, such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better, cheaper» than a full - service law firm.

As to financing such development by Canada's lawyers (instead of by commercial investors) of software for automating the delivery of routine legal services: more than $ 11 million could be raised if every lawyer in Canada paid an addition one - time $ 100 increase in annual law society fees.

With good law society leadership, the automating of routine legal services with software «apps» can be done by Canada's legal profession itself.

They can perhaps speed the adoption of innovations such as the «packaging» of those routine legal services that can be provided more cost - efficiently by software applications such as for writing simple wills and incorporating small companies.

Or, because of the commercial producers of legal services» eating into the routine legal services market of the general practitioner (e.g., LegalZoom, LegalX, RocketLawyer), as a profession we will shrink in size, purpose, and importance, and our law societies proportionately diminished by all such measures.

The solution, if there is one, is either to (i) provide greater public subsidies for legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «routine» legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).