Sentences with phrase «client for law students»

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An investigator for a non-profit law firm told us he enrolled in Saving Schools to better understand his clients: «I am most interested in learning about the forces in American education that... graduate significantly underperforming students that too often end up serving adult hard time, or losing their lives, in correctional facilities».

Diemer's modest means, however, didn't stop BLG from charging the rates it always charges corporate clients: an average hourly rate of $ 643.75, ranging from $ 195 per hour for a student to $ 950 per hour for a senior lawyer and $ 330 for a law clerk.

Already, law schools are the subject of much criticism for failing to provide students with practical experience in counseling clients or running a practice.

«For lawyers, effective use of technology means new clients, stronger work product, and more efficient use of time; for law students it means better job prospects and a smoother transition into practiFor lawyers, effective use of technology means new clients, stronger work product, and more efficient use of time; for law students it means better job prospects and a smoother transition into practifor law students it means better job prospects and a smoother transition into practice.

In theory, allowing students to take the bar exam and become licensed after completing only two years (60 credits) law school instruction would save students money and afford them the opportunity to take lower paying jobs to help provide for the legal needs of financially strapped clients.

When Douglas J. Sylvester, dean of the law school at Arizona State University, was visiting the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota a couple of years ago he mentioned the shifting job market for his students — far fewer offers and a new demand for graduates already able to draft documents and interact with clients.

Often, law and technology projects are not just novel for students — they are novel for clients too.

This means that although we are a leading full - service law firm, our students and lawyers work on a wide range of high - profile matters for a diverse client base, and we maintain the qualities and family atmosphere of a smaller firm.

As NSU explains, «This course provides hands - on experience for students on a number of key operational aspects of the practice of law, including the business foundation of successful law firm management; security and confidentiality of client information; marketing, public relations, advertising and social media; duties of technological competence under ABA «Ethics 20/20» amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility; predictive coding and other eDiscovery issues; client intake and case management; and issues related to the scope and composition of representation, including the unauthorized practice of law and unbundled legal services.»

Examples include a lawyer providing early family law advice in a Watford branch of Tesco Extra, the dramatic increase in the use of student - led law centres and non-legal charities such as Mencap and Together for Short Lives, which provide tailored legal services for their clients.

This site contains resources for pro bono & legal services attorneys, law professionals, and law students to assist in your representation of low - income or disadvantaged clients.

[123] In law firms policies that explicitly or implicitly provide messages about what is valued by the institution include, for example, various orientation information provided to students and new associates, website and other recruitment materials, policies regarding client recruitment and processes (including conflicts searches).

The article notes that summer associate time has increasingly been written off over the past several years, either at the insistence of clients, or because no partner in his right mind would let his client see a bill purporting to charge over $ 1,200 for a law student to «review class outline.»

Despite these questionable publishing practices and the diminishing integrity of the products, we — law librarians and other legal information professionals — continue to buy them for our libraries and to promote them to our students and clients.

It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the lawyers who give the students work far too often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.

During our orientations, I always remind the students that law firms are businesses and that we compete not only in the courtroom, but for clients as well.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

And here's a bunch of law students who are making demands that might make it even harder for big firms to remain competitive without ever once considering whether these changes will make BigLaw so prohibitively expensive that firms will lose even more clients to boutiques.

«It has come to the attention of your anonymous Editor that some lawyers, law students, and law professors would like to be contributors to Blawg Review, but are worried about losing clients, getting hard - marked, or jeopardizing tenure... To enable everyone to be a contributor to Blawg Review, without fear or favor, there is now a convenient submission form created by blogcarnival.com for Blawg Review, so you don't have to use your regular email, if you like the new form.

The SRLP attorney is responsible for providing legal assistance to eligible clients, drafting and revising TexasLawHelp free legal content, coordinating law student volunteers and interns, and various other program activities.

The SRLP attorney is responsible for providing legal assistance to eligible clients, drafting and revising TexasLawHelp free legal content in English and Spanish, coordinating law student volunteers and interns, and various other program activities.

No Legal Services or Attorney - Client Relationship The www.militaryprobono.org site is for lawyers, other legal professionals and law students.

The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.

But they know NOTHING about how to file documents in court, using forms and precedents, how to address clients, writing for business (considering in law school all students do is write essays, this is no surprise), how to provide advice to clients, how to organize, etc..

Further, thanks to the irresponsible spewing out of virtually every single accepted first year student from bloated up law schools, those very hordes and swarms plus the existing lawyers are going to have fewer clients per lawyer, even with the hoped - for increase in demand, such that the only way to pay those debts, overheads, and incomes is to charge correspondingly more per reduced number of files.

The money will help provide technology and enhance the legal learning process for law students and clients, says Mills.

Once upon a time, lawyers, bred on a steady diet of the old, dense, and turgid legal opinions that law students today still must trudge through as some sort of right of passage, relied purely on logic to advocate for their clients.

I am happy to admit that they are important but the question is whether the concepts developed and explored in this book are useful guides to those who have, as students, to understand the law, or who, as practising lawyers, have to make the law work in a world where clients need to have things done for them and disputes resolved.

For lawyers, articling and students — and even law students — the process of networking is aimed at increasing your contacts with individuals who may be clients, know about career opportunities, help open doors, or provide support.

Historical timelines and background information about the process of creating laws are helpful for law students and potential clients, too.

A spokesperson for BC Law says this is the first law student blog that includes sanitized yet open discussions of client experiences in a sanctioned format such as thLaw says this is the first law student blog that includes sanitized yet open discussions of client experiences in a sanctioned format such as thlaw student blog that includes sanitized yet open discussions of client experiences in a sanctioned format such as this.

But having decided to represent detainees, law firms are obligated to follow through on their commitment, irrespective of client objections (or student objections, for that matter).

Some large law firms prefer that law schools train students in the kind of work currently being done for their clients.

(3) created a very negative economic future for the legal profession, at a time when people have never needed lawyers more, meaning that if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more than abundant work and clients, and graduate law students plenty of articling positions to choose from, on their way to becoming lawyers; and,

If law schools can accept the idea of limited focus and budget in order to better serve certain lawyers, it would probably be good for everyone, from law students to lawyers to clients.

By Heather Frattone — As we prepare our students for the «fall» recruiting season, we are increasingly focused on helping them to understand the transition from law student to client - service provider.

As a student at Williams HR Law, expect to be engaged in exciting and meaningful work across the employment law spectrum and for a diverse range of employer clienLaw, expect to be engaged in exciting and meaningful work across the employment law spectrum and for a diverse range of employer clienlaw spectrum and for a diverse range of employer clients.

This is a webinar that we delivered for a law school client to help students develop a deeper understanding of the practical context in which law operates.

Before starting my summer student position at Williams HR Law, I hoped to learn generally about the kinds of work management side labour and employment lawyers performed for their clients.

It is made by a series of events and activities such as the four Innotech Debates (two have taken place already, one on Client Experience in Law Firms and another on How to build apps for lawyers), a Forum on Justice and Open Data, this ideas competition for students and citizens, the hackathon, and the incubation of the resulting projects.

Phil discusses the efforts many firms have made — making financial contributions to organizations that promote diversity; funding scholarships for minority law students; retaining diversity consultants; using creative approaches to identify and recruit black and other minority law students; and for some, discussing diversity with their clients.

Despite the fact that law students consistently request (on those rare occasions when they are asked for their input on the curriculum) more skills - based training that will prepare them for legal practice and working with clients, law schools provide little, if any, classroom teaching directed at accomplishing actual tasks.

Under the supervision of three Florida - licensed attorneys, approximately 24 second and third year law students each year assume primary responsibility for all aspects of a client's case.

For lawyers, articling and LPP students — and even law students — the process of networking is aimed at increasing your contacts with individuals who may be clients, know about career opportunities, help open doors, or provide support.

The Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice is a fully functioning live - client legal clinic which allows third - year law students the opportunity to represent indigent clients under the supervision of experienced attorneLaw Clinic and Center for Social Justice is a fully functioning live - client legal clinic which allows third - year law students the opportunity to represent indigent clients under the supervision of experienced attornelaw students the opportunity to represent indigent clients under the supervision of experienced attorneys.

It's almost universally the case for law students and new lawyers, in fact, who have received almost no training to help turn their talents into skills with which they can serve clients and make a living.

Described as a «must - read» for lawyers and law students, the book offers step - by - step guidance in navigating the mediation process, including case and client assessment, how to choose an effective mediator, mediation preparation, ethical considerations, how to overcome barriers to settlement, and when to end mediation.

All law schools, large law firms and regulatory bodies are certainly handling technology and its integration into those institutions for the benefit of their clients (and students) differently and at different paces.

Students at the Windsor Clinical Law program have found that applying reflective practice to their work has helped them to be better advocates for their clients.

Prior to joining JMBM, Matthew worked for five years as an appellate attorney in the Environment & Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in the federal courts of appeals; for four years as an attorney at Paul Hastings, where he advised and represented corporate clients in environmental and real estate matters; for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and for two years as a supervising attorney and lecturer at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy mattelaw clerk to the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and for two years as a supervising attorney and lecturer at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matteLaw School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matteLaw Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy mattelaw and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matters.