Sentences with phrase «conservative legal profession»

This is a scary statement for the historically conservative legal profession.

If you've been following along, the major themes should be familiar by now: globalization of business, along with a weak economy, rapidly evolving technology, empowered clients with new expectations, and competition from legal service providers both inside and outside of the industry are combining to create a huge pressure on the too - often conservative legal profession to change the way it operates.

Not exact matches

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

Most law students believe the legal profession will be resistant to change during their careers, according to research that suggests the next generation of lawyers may be significantly more conservative than many commentators are predicting.

Adding another layer to the issue is the fact that the Ontario Bar Association — the body traditionally associated with having an advocacy mandate to advance the interests of the legal profession in Ontario — is also reported to have made donations («$ 8,100 to the Liberals, $ 7,700 to the Conservatives, and about $ 4,300 to the NDP»).

Yesterday's release of the Conservative government's proposed omnibus crime bill, relatively benignly named the safe streets & communities act, wasn't exactly met with resounding approval by either the legal profession or the Canadian public in general.

The Conservative government made more than 700 judicial appointments during its nearly 10 years in power and what surveys have been done suggest that the majority of them came from not only a narrow segment of the Canadian population but also a narrow segment of the legal profession.

The legal profession is so conservative and we look to see what's happened before, what the precedent is in the legal world.

Digital disruption is here and it's happening — even within the seemingly conservative and traditional judicial element of the legal profession.

The legal profession is usually considered conservative on many fronts, but it's a sector as ripe for digital disruption as any.

Maybe the hesitancy is simply the conservative nature of the legal profession generally.

As a recent and unfortunate example, we recently observed a number of lawyers, i.e. the five Conservative federal MPs who are lawyers in Ontario, along with Liberal MP Gagan Sikand, fail in their duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusiveness in their public life by voting against or abstaining from voting in favour of M - 103, a a non-binding parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia and religious discrimination, thereby undermining public trust and confidence in the legal profession.

With quite a few privacy, security and consequential ethical issues before them, it is not surprising that the more conservative members of the legal profession will not be rushing to the cloud.

This tends to happen more in conservative industry sectors like the legal profession, jobs in childhood education, in the building trades, and on federal job postings.