Sentences with phrase «consumers of legal services»

The Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) is a co-working space and the first legal tech incubator with a focus on building better legal solutions for the consumers of legal services.

He correctly acknowledges that such content is more likely to be built by consumers of legal services rather than lawyers.

According to LIZ, it is «a co-working space and the first legal tech incubator with a focus on building better legal solutions for the consumers of legal services.

Corporate clients, large consumers of legal services, call the shots.

A strict conservative interpretation of legal ethics rules so as to hide the ball from consumers of legal services is misguided.

By setting fees at the outset, Lerman observes, consumers of legal services can win important negotiating leverage should a billing dispute arise.

Ownership — We believe that all information yielded by work done on behalf of consumers of legal services is owned by those consumers, and as such should be deployed for the benefit of those consumers.

Sounds archaic not to allow consumers of legal services to comment on the service of a lawyer they may have used.

LODA's Mission: The Legal Open Data Alliance is a global community of attorneys, technologists, entrepreneurs, scholars, designers, engineers, policymakers, and corporate leaders, united to develop and promote sustainable standards and best practices relating to the ethical and secure collection, exchange, storage, and analysis of legal data in order to better serve consumers of legal services and their attorneys.

Richard also has been pressing for liberalization of the regulation of the legal profession, especially in unauthorized practice of law and nonlawyer investment in law firms, as means to better serve middle - class consumers of legal services.

Toronto, ON — September 27, 2017 — Last night, the Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) at Ryerson University, in partnership with the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG), announced the Ontario AI Legal Challenge, which includes $ 80,000 in seed funding to advance the use of artificial intelligence in technology solutions for the consumers of legal services.

While directories are rarely the biggest factor that influences buyer behavior, numerous surveys show that consumers of legal services read directories, and that directories play a role in helping them to decide which law firm to select.

Always on the side of consumers of legal services, Avvo often had to fend off lawsuits from lawyers aggrieved at its ranking system.

In conjunction with this role, he assisted in carrying out a brief survey of Access to Justice efforts and the extent to which they include the voice of actual consumers of legal services in responding to the difficulties of accessing justice in Canada.

LIZ is a co-working space and Canada's first incubator focused on building better legal solutions for the consumers of legal services.

Law students are graduating from law school unprepared for the demands of the consumers of legal services, assuming even law firms are.

Nicole has designed applications for both consumers of legal services and suppliers of legal services.

(Insurance companies, the most savvy consumers of legal services in most instances, employ entire firms to «monitor» cases they would not do so if the overall cost were not reduced through monitoring.)

Crispin Passmore, Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority (in book): Passmore explains how the SRA inherited a «traditional and old - fashioned» regulatory system driven by the needs of the legal profession, and the SRA's ongoing journey to transform the system to one focused on consumers of legal services.

These objectives include: protecting and promoting the public interest, supporting the constitutional principle of the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting the interests of consumers of legal services, and promoting competition in the provision of legal services.

Elisabeth Davies, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel: Davies explains why it is important that the Legal Services Act requires the establishment of the Panel and the vital contributions the Panel makes towards an understanding the needs of consumers of legal services.

This is true for both providers and consumers of legal services.

The Panel is mandated to represent the interests of a variety of consumers of legal services, including not only individuals, but also businesses and not - for - profit organizations.

While some information problems are difficult to overcome in the legal services market - a client may never know whether she achieved a good result in a case because she had a good lawyer, or whethe she won because any doofus could have won a case that straightforward - here's a website that tries to provide some useful information to consumers of legal services: Solicitors From Hell.

Consumers of legal services have significant input regarding how they are represented.

But it will require protests from outside the legal community — from the consumers of legal services — to effect any meaningful change.

See lawpro.ca for details on exemption eligibility) This is a matter of public policy based on the desire to protect the consumers of legal services.

The Society strives to remain abreast of changes in the legal services marketplace that may impact the profession and consumers in Nova Scotia; be aware of the expectations of consumers of legal services; demonstrate commitment to educating and assisting lawyers in achieving the goals of competent and ethical practice; and adopt clear and transparent means for enforcing adherence to these standards.

Consumers of legal services in Nova Scotia represent a rich and diverse fabric of cultures, races and backgrounds.

Revolution or Evolution — The Every Changing Landscape of Client Engagement and Expectations With the fast pace of technology, consumers of legal services are coming to expect to be able to get information fast and conveniently.

Nathan Anderson: Michelle points out a very good point: consumers of legal services at more techno - savvy than ever.

Our experience suggests that nonlawyer ownership (provided it is properly regulated) is more likely to benefit consumers of legal services than not — it is more likely to make justice more accessible and affordable.

Because of the cost of legal services, all consumers of legal services, from legal aid organizations to corporate legal departments, are using data and artificial intelligence to improve legal - service delivery.

Are there tell - tale signs that sophisticated consumers of legal services look for?

And of course, it's their business and they're entitled to run it as they see fit and given our access to justice problem, anything that results in more efficient legal services and lower prices to consumers of legal services can be seen as a win.

Certainly some of the comments attempt to address other interests (in particular, Responsive Law attempts to address the interests of consumers of legal services) but the fact remains that nearly all of the comments were submitted by lawyers.

The Panel has a remit to represent the interests of the many different consumers of legal services, including small businesses and charities, and with a priority for vulnerable groups of consumers.

Some ABS pushers seem to think that a group of profit - motivated global corporations is going to treat the Ontario consumers of legal services better than the group of Ontario lawyers does.

Ultimately, Doing Law Differently is about doing it better — better for you, better for those you work with and for, and most of all, better for the consumers of legal services.

The Panel has a remit to represent the interests of the many different consumers of legal services, including small businesses and charities.

The biggest consumers of legal services are the financial, insurance and pensions sector (17 %) followed by construction, IT services, and trade.

But even then, not all consumers of legal services turn to Ontario lawyers to meet those needs — and in future, fewer consumers will do so.

These different approaches shift risk between suppliers and consumers of legal services.

The author concluded that, these days, the consumers of legal services expect law firms to also be proficient at:

The first disruptor is consumers of legal services, because the internet has changed everything.

So in addition to the kind of inward facing, how are lawyers doing and how productive are our lawyers and where do they need help in in getting the most out of their day, this year, we also looked outward and did a consumer survey of over 2,000 consumers and tried to understand two things, from consumers of legal services.

One is that of course, tremendous economic pressure on the consumers of legal services of all kinds and this, I think especially for solo and small firm lawyers who serve the consumer market.

A website for consumers of legal services is to be launched in the autumn by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as part of a two - year «action plan».

As explained at the program, the Commission listened and viewed the evidence through the lens of consumers of legal services.

Jay: Frankly, I think consumers of legal services want that.