Sentences with phrase «demands of the legal profession»

We understand the demands of the legal profession, and we know the advertising restrictions placed on attorneys.

Kaufman first examines how the profession has changed over the last five year, then offers philosophical approaches, practical examples, and valuable exercises to help lawyers reconcile their goals and expectations with the realities and demands of the legal profession.

Navigating an evolving legal system, advances in technology, vast bodies of case law and the demands of the legal profession creates a stimulating intellectual environment for the legal professional.

Not exact matches

That's demand generation, and that's a very intriguing concept for a legal profession looking for new sources of business.

As the legal profession evolves to meet the changing demands of the marketplace, freelance lawyers have a new angle on the practice of law, and their numbers have been growing in the largest U.S. legal markets over the past several years.

Based on the demands of the marketplace and the evolving changes in the legal profession, freelance attorneys are here to stay.

«Dedicated to the demands and desires of solos and small law firms, the clients we serve and others in the legal profession who use our services or dream of going out on their own.»

The legal profession is a demanding one, and, unless we take conscious action toward maintaining and feeding our most intimate relationships, they run the risk of withering and dying as we pound away trying to make partner.

However, with the economy in a deep recession and the legal profession reeling from layoffs and structural changes to the law firm business model, is it realistic for lawyers to expect employer assistance in navigating the seemingly competing demands of their personal and professional lives?

He is in great demand as a lecturer and regularly presents seminars on a wide variety of family law subjects to the legal profession, including pensions and cohabitation.

«Many of the challenges facing the legal profession can be reduced to supply and demand: too many lawyers chasing too little work, which itself results from too many people going to law school.

If the reality for the legal profession is one of a «flat legal services demand [and] over capacity» how is that most Canadians must tackle their legal issues on their own?

The recent news that Deutsche Bank will no longer pay panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers has provoked a strong reaction across the legal profession, with a Legal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonlegal profession, with a Legal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonLegal Week survey finding almost 60 % of partners think the demands are unreasonable.

While fear of failure certainly isn't unique to lawyers, the legal profession is a demanding one, and the stakes are higher when mistakes are made.

CLOC believes passionately that innovation, technology, collaboration and legal process management can make the legal profession more efficient and answerable to business demands So while CLOC attendees might worry and be concerned over the severe access to justice (A2J) problem we have in this country, its not necessarily the mission of the organization.

Legal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanLegal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanlegal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demand it.

Rebeiro will also give a keynote talk about the changing demands of clients and future business models as technological disruption creates a perfect storm for the legal profession.

Over the past decade, the legal profession has seen a number of challenges, from increased competition to pressure on prices and rising regulatory demands for client information security.

Ideally, the speed - related demands that technology has enabled would motivate the legal profession to seriously reconsider some of its ways of doing things.

The legal profession isn't the only sector feeling the effects of struggling global and local economies, a chronic lack of resources and the relentless demands of ever - changing technology; all parts of our society are having to change the way they live and work.

The LSB's proposal to encourage comparison websites will be certain to ruffle feathers but Matthew Briggs, founder of The Law Superstore told Legal IT Insider: «By the year 2020, it is estimated that 50 % of the global workforce will be millennials — digital natives who will know no other way of operating — so the LSB report needs to examine ways in which the profession can respond appropriately to these changing demands.

These men are complaining about many of the same conditions that women have been dealing with since women came into the legal profession en masse, including unreasonable work demands that consume their lives but provide little fulfillment.

The challenge facing much of Canada's legal profession — in both its practical and academic guises — is how to modify and adapt institutional narratives which, like that of my old firm, grew and developed organically in one century, to meet the demands of another.

If the trust accounting piece of this can be addressed within the profession, it would open the door to the industry meeting public demand for better access to legal services.

Ann Swain, chief executive of APSCo, commented on the report saying: «The legal sector continues to show positive signs of strength, but as these figures demonstrate, organisational structures within the profession are shifting, and this is having a notable impact on demand for talent.»

But, while the actual practice of law may become more complex and demanding — thanks to public scrutiny and technological changes — the importance of the legal profession will only continue to grow for those same reasons.

The legal education and judicial institutions have neglected the demands of the profession.

As demand continues to grow for increasingly sophisticated and timely information by the legal profession, we look forward to capitalising on the many opportunities ahead with the support of our new partner.»

Advances in technology, the changing landscape of the legal profession, and the rise of the on - demand economy have created the need and opportunity for a faster, more efficient way for attorneys to delegate legal tasks to law students eager to gain experience.

An insightful analyst of the legal profession for 15 years — first as Editor - in - Chief of the Canadian Bar Association's National magazine and now via his award - winning blog, Law21: Dispatches from a Legal Profession on the Edge — he is in demand as a compelling speaker and consultant on the subject of innovation and the future of the profeslegal profession for 15 years — first as Editor - in - Chief of the Canadian Bar Association's National magazine and now via his award - winning blog, Law21: Dispatches from a Legal Profession on the Edge — he is in demand as a compelling speaker and consultant on the subject of innovation and the future of the profesLegal Profession on the Edge — he is in demand as a compelling speaker and consultant on the subject of innovation and the future of the profession.

With over 1,300,000 lawyers practicing in the United States as of 2016, the legal profession is beginning to look less traditional as supply and demand needs shift.

What is clear from these contrasting views of the legal profession is that, while the future of law may turn out to be as predicted in the CBA report, the legal market can not be driven entirely by the so - called demand - side «value proposition.»

The demanding nature of the legal profession can result in burnout, depression, alcohol or drug dependency, family problems, and other difficulties that can affect your performance and judgment and destroy your reputation and practice.

Finally, it's almost certain cheaper legal services will only stimulate demand, leading to growth of the industry and profession.

The story of the two executives prevailing over their mercurial leader applies to our profession because of the mismatch of supply and demand in the legal marketplace.

... the digital revolution and the modern social and economic forces it has unleashed are creating new modes of delivery of traditional legal services, creating new demands and expectations for meaningful access to justice, and eroding the fundamental assumptions upon which the legal profession of the past was built.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

Yet, without breaking out of old moulds, without trying something new from time to time, without accepting that trying and failing is a necessary step to growth, the legal profession and justice system as a whole can not effectively move past the current challenges with respect to access to justice, homogeneity of the profession, technological innovation and consumer demand for change.

Prompted by the list of injunction demands from a recent lawsuit against Uber, I'm curious whether or not it's legal in California, Texas and elsewhere to discriminate on a profession such as a barber...

The legal industry has enormous demand for new applicants and is one of the oldest professions in the world.

The legal profession has never done an adequate job of policing its ethical rules — and that is especially true of the demand that lawyers practice with competence and diligence.

All the different players in the legal industry may not always agree, but the dialogues that are happening now are rich and need to continue, to help everyone understand how we can build on the best values of the profession and innovate our services to meet the demands of justice consumers today.

Since 2008, many people, not just those in the legal profession, now demand that their work is sufficiently balanced such that when the next Black Swan swoops in, what is left after all remnants of normality have been looted, is the kind of personal satisfaction and feeling of worth necessary to endure the stress points.

Since jobs in the legal profession are so in - demand, there are dozens if not hundreds of applicants for each open position.