Sentences with phrase «ethical legal practice»

Self - assessment Core to the new regulatory framework is the requirement that all firms have a management system for ethical legal practice in place.
This entity regulation will include removing barriers to fee sharing and will require lawyers and legal entities to implement management systems for ethical legal practice.
It is more responsive to a diverse and rapidly changing world, intended to enhance the quality of legal services offered by Nova Scotia lawyers, to encourage ethical legal practices, to facilitate innovation in legal services and to promote increased access to legal services.
These conversations allow the Society to work with new practices to ensure they have an effective management system for ethical legal practice in place and appreciate the complexities of running a law firm and their regulatory obligations.
Leeringly with lawyerly intent, Billy Bob Thornton steps in as a prosecutor with an axe to grind as a reminder of Palmer the Younger's not so ethical legal practice of representing the highest bidders.
Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, emphasized ethical legal practice before all else.
This purpose is achieved in large part through discussions between Society staff and the Designated Lawyer and other lawyers in a new practice about their regulatory obligations and their plans to build a management system for ethical legal practice through their practice infrastructure.
The NSBS explains this decision as allowing «us to work with new practices to ensure they have an effective management system for ethical legal practice in place and appreciate the complexities of running a law firm and their regulatory obligations.»
This will allow us to work with new practices to ensure they have an effective management system for ethical legal practice in place and appreciate the complexities of running a law firm and their regulatory obligations.
Again here, the stated purpose of the program (in new subregulation 4.9.2) is dual in nature: to assist law firms and sole practitioners in maintaining and enhancing their management system for ethical legal practice, and to assist the Society in its engagement with law firms and sole practitioners.
Law firm self - assessment Core to the Society's framework for regulating legal services is the requirement that firms have a management system for ethical legal practice.
The Society designed and tested a Management System for Ethical Legal Practice (MSELP), which includes 10 elements based on existing ethical rules, as well as tools and resources to support enhanced quality of practice.
establish and maintain a management system that promotes competent and ethical legal practice; and
In identifying the ten principles, we were greatly inspired by Nova Scotia's Management Systems for Ethical Legal Practice.
Since November, the Society has engaged in an extensive consultation process with the profession about our legal services regulation work in general and specifically, entity regulation and the Management System for Ethical Legal Practice (MSELP).
Our approach is this: all the work that lawyers do will be subject to a set of standards that we refer to as «Management Systems for Ethical Legal Practice» (MSELP).
Each such law firm and other legal entity will be required: (i) to designate an individual who will be responsible for the entity's compliance with its regulatory requirements, (ii) to establish and maintain a management system that promotes competent and ethical legal practice, and (iii) to undertake self - assessment and report to the NSBS on its management system.
The following draft outcomes are the desired results for the Society of management systems for ethical legal practice (MSELP):
We're positioning ourselves to assist lawyers in enhancing their Management Systems for Ethical Legal Practice.
A pilot project is now underway to develop a tool for lawyers to self assess their Management System for Ethical Legal Practice (MSELP), a central piece of the Society's Transforming Regulation initiative.
Since November 2015, the Society has engaged in an extensive consultation process with the profession about transforming regulation in general and specifically, legal services regulation and the management system for ethical legal practice (MSELP).
If the firm is asked to complete a self - assessment relating to its management system for ethical legal practice, described in more detail below, it is the designated lawyer's responsibility to use reasonable efforts to ensure that the self - assessment is accurate and complete.
Lawyers and law firms are required to have in place all of the elements that apply to the specific entity, in order to have an effective management system for ethical legal practice, and demonstrate that the lawyer or firm is engaged in and committed to the following:
The Society's website has more information about the elements that comprise a management system for ethical legal practice and about the recent pilot project.
These core elements will assist lawyers and law firms in establishing management systems for ethical legal practice (MSELP).
Legal Services Support Pilot Project On March 24, 2016, Council approved the creation of a pilot project to evaluate a self - assessment process developed in response to the requirement that all law firms have a management system for ethical legal practice (MSELP).
Consultation Since November 2015, the Society engaged in an extensive consultation process with the profession about transforming regulation in general and specifically, legal entity regulation and management systems for ethical legal practice (MSELP).
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