Sentences with phrase «education of young lawyers»

In addition to the existence of numerous clinics across the country, the recognition that Legal Clinics have an important role to play in the education of young lawyers in Canada can be seen by the recent establishment of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education.

The Young Lawyers Section (YLS) has as its primary goals the promotion of justice, the encouragement of public service, and the promotion of diversity and education of young lawyers and newly admitted practitioners.

The goals of the YLS are to promote justice, encourage public service, and promote diversity and education of young lawyers and newly admitted practitioners.

Not exact matches

These are essential skills and areas of knowledge that may have formerly been learned on the job as a young associate, but now that so many recent graduates are hanging out their own shingles immediately after graduation and firms are seeking young lawyers who need less training and can hit the ground running, law schools need to pick up the slack and provide this education.

I think we need to step back and look at legal practice, legal education and the career development of young lawyers.

Young legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cYoung legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cyoung legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cases.

«We mainly agree what's wrong with contemporary American legal education: It's all about training hundreds of thousands of brilliant young people to be wildly successful nineteenth - century lawyers.

Regardless of their reasons for choosing a legal education, today's young lawyers can expect that their experiences practising law will be different from depictions of the profession they witnessed growing up.

«Over-reliance on (expensive, hourly) lawyers, lack of education for young lawyers re: discussing fees and billing,» are problems, added another Halifax lawyer, Amy Sakalauskas.

The Letter reflects many of the ideas that we have been saying legal education should be about, but doesn't necessarily address all of the concerns the profession may have, for example, the shortage of articling positions and jobs for young lawyers.

If a purpose of law school is to educate young lawyers then how can this not be part of the education.

The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

As part of the program, Attorney Wisneski helped expand the classroom visits in some schools to include a new curriculum designed by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division called «Bullyproof,» a comprehensive initiative that provides education and resources to empower parents, educators, students, and lawyers to finally abolish buLawyers Division called «Bullyproof,» a comprehensive initiative that provides education and resources to empower parents, educators, students, and lawyers to finally abolish bulawyers to finally abolish bullying.

We were even more taken with Susskind's list of supplemental education possibilities that young lawyers could undertake to make themselves more valuable to a potential employer (law firms and other entities), from understanding legal technology, mastering legal project management, performing systems analysis, etc..

But in fairness, one must acknowledge that LSUC's TAG is part of the parade, i.e., young lawyers and law students commendably doing TAG's «technology and access to justice» work, but which can not possibly compensate their very expensive legal education with more than a severely financially depressed career.

Attorney Wolf is also a member of the American Bar Association, Milford Bar Association, West Haven Bar Association, and Connecticut Bar Association, including Family Law, Estates and Probate and Young Lawyers Sections, as well as serving as co-chair for the Children in the Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee and the National Academy of Jurisprudence Family Law Trial Attorneys Association Kristen Wolf is also a participating attorney for the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and serves as Assigned Counsel for the Office of the Chief Public Defender at the Bristol and Hartford Geographical Area (GA) courts and he Hartford Juvenile court for child protection and delinquency matters, as well as guardian ad litem in the Meriden and Middlesex Judicial Districts.

And the Department of Education is refusing to accept any responsibility for its failures in administering the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and its role in putting all these young lawyers and maybe others at financial risk.

Online TN Justice was one of the programs featured in the TBA's Young Lawyers Division Tennessee Library Education Project.

While this «case method» provides skills that are essential to the practice of law, and has effectively conveyed essential domain knowledge to a century of young lawyers, it does not constitute a complete legal education.

And in the meantime if these young lawyers were given assurances by this FedLoan Servicing that their employment qualified for the Loan Forgiveness Program, the Department of Education says these assurances mean absolutely nothing.

First, there's Gary Muldoon's «The Education of a Lawyer,» which is targeted toward law students and young lawyers.

Using the scientific approach whilst excluding practical knowledge in law schools, as Nadia Chiesa points out, does not prepare students for practice: «In his 1935 indictment of legal education, Karl Llewellyn denounces the law schools of his time as factories pulling in immature, unprepared young men and, three years later, churning out young lawyers who are not significantly better prepared to deal with the realities of the legal profession.»