Duffy says clients are driving
change in the profession through the choices they're making around the kinds of firms they are hiring for particular work.
Not exact matches
«We remain publicly committed to addressing climate
change through sustainable design principles and are resolute
in helping to foster a more diverse and inclusive
profession.
«When people are functioning at a high level
in business and
in the
professions, they have jumped
through so many hoops to get where they are that if there's a
change along those lines, that all by itself can be something of concern,» says Dr. Boyd.
Gates of Heaven was a revelation, Vernon, Florida
changed my life, and it didn't occur to me until much later that the obsessive process of finding them and the unexpected rewards of that search were similar to this filmmaker's process was,
in fact, the
profession (private detective)
through which Morris made his living
in the seven years between Vernon, Florida and The Thin Blue Line.
What to watch: Various stakeholder groups
in Oklahoma expressed a desire to use federal funds on policy
changes to elevate the teaching
profession through recruitment; residency and mentoring; differentiated pay and other incentives; culturally relevant teaching; teacher leadership opportunities; and improvements to both the evaluation and licensure systems.
Recommendation 13: Create a continuously improving
profession through the provision high - quality professional learning for teachers; appropriate to their career stage, development needs and the
changes rapidly occurring
in society.
What has
changed is that
in New York, Governor Cuomo decided his reelection «mandated» was to charge like a mad bull
through teaching as a
profession, and nationwide, the Common Core aligned PARCC and Smarter Balance examinations are debuting — to not exactly glowing reviews.
Like the crocuses that push up
through the semi-frozen ground to herald the new season, dire economic reality appears to be the fertilizer for
change in the legal
profession.
This is the third and final article
in a series exploring the consequences for a
profession going
through rapid and radical
change where some 80 % of its work falls outside the protection of «reserved» legal work (see 160 NLJ 7444, p 1662 & NLJ, 7 January 2011, p 7).
We also,
through our interdisciplinary associations, have access to learning about
changes and innovations occurring
in different
professions and fields.
As treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Tom Conway is overseeing a massive
change in the
profession, leading efforts to respond to the articling crisis
in Ontario by proposing an alternative to articling
through the introduction of the Law Practice Program.
So whatever else the Federation envisages as it moves to put legs on the next step of the national mobility scheme, viz coming up with some sort of nationally common approach to Bar admission, it owes it to everyone — to the provincial Law Societies (for whom the Federation is an agent), to the law professors (who are doing their best to prepare students for the
profession of tomorrow), to the law deans (who often find themselves being the meat
in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the
profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being
changed part - way
through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law
in Canada — to move deliberately, but engagingly.
Through years of experience specializing
in the placement of top lawyers with premier legal employers, we have developed extensive information systems, research materials, and referral networks enabling us not only to understand the history and workings of the legal
profession but also to stay abreast of trends and
changes affecting recruiting and job search strategies.
In a 2015 speech, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin implored the legal
profession to «accept the idea of
change», including the reality that some tasks that have been traditionally carried out by lawyers can now be more effectively performed
through technological means.
It is not coincidence that a centuries - long history of dispute resolution
through trial
changed so rapidly once women entered the legal
profession in significant numbers.
The 13 - member N - Gen board, including senior
in - house counsel and experienced law firm partners, will «help MCCA drive the conversation to inspire
change in the legal
profession through programs, networking, and training.»
However, all lawyers and Law Societies
in Canada would be wise to heed the warnings
in the last paragraph of that report: «where benefits to the consumer can be attained with proper regulation to ensure that professional values are not lost, the Law Society must develop proper regulation to allow for
changes to the
profession through which improved access to legal services can be attained.»
Through our weekly blog posts and news items, our monthly e-newsletter, various video projects, and even our educational programming — like the Future is Now Conference or any of our
in - person and online CLEs — we provide the legal community with the tools needed to succeed
in this
changing profession.
The conference was exactly what I had expected and I walked away with the phrase «the more things
change, the more they stay the same» running
through my mind — both
in terms of the conference itself and
in terms of the legal
professions» collective attitude toward technology.
Through observation of the
changes, one can get a sense of the shifting priorities and areas of concern for the regulators of the legal
profession in Canada.
If you haven't yet had your fill of reading about the sea
change that's running
through the legal
profession, you should read «A Study
in Why Major Law Firms Are Shrinking» by Alan Feuer, published
in the June 5 edition of the NY Times.
All the industry pundits are saying that the accounting
profession is going
through a period of
change and we, as professionals
in the industry, need to adapt.
It asks questions such as whether blogs deserve to be considered among the media
through which legal scholarship can be communicated; their distinctiveness, if any, among such media; the way, if any,
in which blogs can meet the needs of the legal
profession or of others with whom it interacts
in one way or another; and of course the ways
in which blogs can or ought to
change for answers to these questions to become more satisfactory.
There has been no
change in the AAMA's position that the CMA (AAMA) remains the superior and unmatched way of demonstrating knowledge of, and competency
in, all facets of the medical assisting
profession,
through meeting these main requirements:
As Realtors we have been
through a lot of
change in the last 15 years, and I believe we will continue to evolve our
profession in terms of professional services offered, including CREA's proposed Code of Ethics & Standards of Business Practice.
The real estate appraisal
profession has gone
through a lot of
changes in the last 5 - 10 years.