Sentences with phrase «conduct than lawyers»

Judges are held to an even higher standard of conduct than lawyers.

Not exact matches

Since 1991 we have conducted public and in - house seminars for more than 120,000 lawyers and judges across the country and abroad — from London and Geneva to Osaka and Bangkok.

Queen's Counsel have traditionally been selected from barristers, rather than from lawyers in general, because they were counsel appointed to conduct court work on behalf of the monarchy.

Yet while the law of solicitor - client privilege and litigation privilege has significantly evolved, the conduct rules have not changed in response other than to add a transferring lawyer rule [ii].

But there is advantage in clarity so that lawyers are guided by the conduct rules rather than the conduct rules being a trap for the unwary.

«This study highlights more than 20 factors encountered in dispute resolution unique to Asia, and provides perspectives from leading lawyers regarding the conduct of e-discovery in this complex region.»

A just - released survey of 650 lawyers commissioned by legal industry giant LexisNexis Martindale - Hubbell and conducted by Leader Networks reveals that almost 50 percent of attorneys already belong to online social networks, and more than 40 percent want to join online networks.

According to an announcement issued today by Martindale - Hubbell, a survey conducted by an independent research firm concluded that lawyer use of the Martindale.com Web legal directory more than doubled since 2000.

By saying that AI will soon eliminate the need for lawyers to conduct research, we're pretty close to saying that the law never changes and that the law is not influenced by anything other than what's already been said in past cases.

The SEC is conducting examinations of private funds at an accelerated pace and we are fortunate to have a deep regulatory group of more than 20 lawyers to help clients structure their operations to comply with SEC rules.

The Committee on Attorney Advertising says in Opinion 39 that ads trumpeting a lawyer's inclusion in the two rankings violate the rule of professional conduct against suggestions that one lawyer is better than another.

In Opinion 820, the Committee held that a lawyer «may use an e-mail service provider that conducts computer scans of e-mails to generate computer advertising, where the e-mails are not reviewed by or provided to human beings other than the sender and recipient.»

At the same time, I don't see how Yoo acted any differently than either (1) the way that we train lawyers to think in law school (i.e., to cleverly create arguments like «torture is self - defense») or (2) the way that some of us want lawyers to conduct themselves — as hired guns, rather than naysayers who are too willing to put the kibosh on new ideas.

The ONCA upheld the decision but, unless the lawyer was instructed by the client to act as the lawyer did, then I doubt very much the lawyer's conduct «cost... [the lawyer's] client a $ 100,000 deposit» or anything else other than, perhaps, wasted legal fees.

The survey — conducted in December of lawyers in firms of no more than 20 lawyers — found that 39.4 % of small - firm lawyers are already using the cloud for legal - related work.

However, the regulatory context of lawyers engaging in this type of conduct is markedly different than the application of civil liability.

Not being a criminal lawyer, I can't use my own experiences to square those two accounts (and, admittedly, my exposure to crowns is Toronto - centric, experiences may vary elsewhere — based on recent events, I'd have concerns about the Alberta courts), but the fact that certain proponents of the critical narrative characterized Marie Henein's masterful conduct of the Ghomeshi trial as a case of «whacking» the accused (rather than the complainant's «whacking» the crown) did nothing to enhance the credibility of that narrative (and, if nothing else, suggests that your construction of the «critical narrative» is not at all a straw man).

Echoing the sentiments of criminal defence lawyer Brian Greenspan from a day earlier, Fisher said the focus of Felderhof's counsel was to resume the trial in front of Hryn rather than directly deal with all of the accusations the OSC leveled against Groia's conduct from the first 70 days of the trial.

Indeed, one of the main motives for a lawyer to withdraw other than not getting paid, is that the client's conduct makes it impossible for the lawyer to represent the client in a manner that doesn't harm the lawyer's reputation.

As a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Mr. Hueston is among less than 1 percent of active lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.Lawyers, Mr. Hueston is among less than 1 percent of active lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.»

The examples of England and Wales and of Australia demonstrate that, in adopting a new regulatory framework that governs legal services rather than simply lawyers, it is possible to put in place a system to govern the ethical conduct of all legal service providers, including alternative structures and those associated with them.

While punting issues to the membership may be appropriate where the decision involves matters of policy (say, in establishing a rule on how many hours of CPD time lawyers are required to obtain or in approving new rules of professional conduct or bylaws) rather than administrative decisins involving a weighing of Charter values, in these sort of circumstances, it's hard to see how the decision in BC or NB can survive judicial scrutiny (even if one doesn't believe that the earlier SCC decisionin TWU doesn't govern).

Post-engagement interviews can provide additional insight, particularly when conducted by a senior lawyer other than the relationship partner.

I argue this because the regime [7] offers the best means to engage with law firms about their ethical infrastructures — their management systems, their governance arrangements, their workplace cultures... We do this with the knowledge that a firm's ethical infrastructure is just as if not more important than a lawyer's character in shaping their conduct.

A study conducted by the National Consumer Law Center discovered that New York small firm lawyers with 3 to 5 years of experience, on average, charge $ 59.00 an hour more than their New Jersey counterparts.

Mr. Stack has over 34 years experience as a lawyer and has conducted trials to verdict in more than 40 cases.

When they do appear in court, hearings are inevitably far longer than they would be if they were conducted by lawyers.

NP: I think that lawyers can make better use of digital assistants to conduct searches rather than using the on screen keyboards of their device.

A second alternative theory is that more - skilled advocates also write better, so what really influences the outcome is the lawyer's skill in developing legal theories, conducting discovery, and marshaling facts, rather than the readability of the lawyer's writing.

I think very practically we see a lot of law firm lawyers encourage their junior associates to volunteer with us because we will give them an opportunity to get hands - on experience, working directly with clients, conducting interviews, gathering facts and then presenting them both in briefing and in oral argument to a court, much faster than a typical defense side large law firm context might provide.

«Effective» suggests that as long as there are systems and procedures in place that work to maintain acceptable standards of conduct and activity by non-lawyers, the lawyer need not concern himself or herself with more than the normal supervisory process applied to trusted colleagues of any description.

Rather than lawyers and law firms producing video coverage of themselves, YouTube represents an opportunity for lawyers to be included in independent video coverage conducted and produced by third parties.

3) the misconduct involves a violation of Rule 8.4 (b)(criminal activity that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer, i.e., crimes involving moral turpitude or fraud) or Rule 8.4 (c)(conduct involving or conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, i.e., intentional deception, rather than negligent misrepresentation).

your claim was filed more than three years after you knew of the dishonest conduct or more than one year after the lawyer was disciplined or died, whichever is later;

A lawyer who knows of conduct involving a violation of Rules other than Rule 8.4 (b) or (c) is not required to report such conduct.

These and similar operations are really safety nets for the client in case of poor conduct, rather than assurances of the quality or integrity of the lawyers themselves or a signal of lawyers» inherent trustworthiness.

Almost three times as many U.S. adults today turn to the Internet to get advice and information about legal matters, aside from asking a lawyer, than they did six years ago (27 % in 2006 versus 10 % in 2000), according to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive.

The effort of lawyers to expand their monopoly on real estate closing services if, of course, a longstanding one and as the FTC reports in its submission, empirical evidence indicates that consumer real estate closings costs substantially more in states where lawyers are required to conduct the closing than in states that allow «lay closings,» with no discernible change in quality.

This raises an issue that may be more troubling than sleazy lawyers who would engage in such offensive conduct.

Designed by lawyers for lawyers and staff, rather than by IT experts and back office specialists, MetaJure leverages automation to enable law firms and other companies to locate and retrieve stored documents from multiple devices with the same ease as conducting a Google search.

According to a survey conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), more than fifty percent of its members have experienced significant growth in clients who see them about getting a postnuptial agreement.

In the conduct and presentation of the case and the giving of evidence, the judge might show more leniency for default to the LIP than would be extended to a lawyer.

This reveals perhaps the deeper point that more than any other area, the lawyer's obligation of confidentiality and privilege puts values in conflict, the legal systemic values protected by lawyer confidentiality as against the public values of preventing or punishing serious and willful criminal conduct.

More than half of lawyers believe the profession has a duty to provide pro bono services, according to a survey of readers across the country conducted by Canadian Lawyer.

However, most practicing lawyers grew up in generations that emphasized a certain formality of one's conduct, and law has always been a more conservative profession than most.

Since 1991 we have conducted public and in - house seminars for more than 120,000 lawyers and judges across the country and abroad — from London and Geneva to Osaka and Bangkok.

Unless your family lawyer is well - versed in adoption law and a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA), he / she may need to conduct extensive research into laws impacting on your adoption and thus may in the end cost you more than an attorney who is an expert in adoption.

Jim had conducted approximately 20 or so divorce mediations before I first met him, and he often stated that the reason mediation is so important is that people in conflict do better when they are encouraged to find their own answers, rather than being told or forced to do something by the court or their lawyers, or, for that matter, by their mediators.

Since 1991 we have conducted public and in - house seminars for more than 120,000 lawyers and judges across the country and abroad — from London and Geneva to Osaka and Bangkok.