Sentences with phrase «evidence of your legal work»

No matter what kind of lawyer you are, documents are a substantial part of what you do, and they may be the only tangible evidence of your legal work.

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My conclusion from my work with sexual and domestic violence is that porn is a serious danger to public safety, akin to shouting «Fire» in a crowded theater; but given legal rules of evidence, there may be little hope of convincing courts of this analogy.
Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.
James Murdoch stated that News International had based its «push back» against new allegations on the combination of three pieces of evidence: that the Metropolitan Police had closed their investigation, that the Crown Prosecution Service had closed their prosecution and that they had received written advice from their legal advisors Harbottle & Lewis, that there was nothing to suggest phone hacking was not the work of one «rogue reporter» working with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Instead, Venditto was willing to try to work out a «legal way» — evidenced by the seeking of lawyers» opinions — for the town to guarantee Singh's loans in order for him to make upgrades to the beach and golf course where he was a concessionaire, Agnifilo said.
The government introduced into evidence audio recordings between Silver and various political reporters, including the New York Post's Fred Dicker, Capital Tonight's Liz Benjamin and POLITICO New York's Jimmy Vielkind, that included nearly identical statements by Silver regarding the nature of his outside legal work and the type of clients he represented.
If you have evidence of plagiarism or fabrication or falsification of data, you shouldn't seek mediation; you should, instead, notify the chairperson, as well as your human resources or legal department — or, if you are uncomfortable with this, you should find a new lab to work in.
As part of our rescue work we also provide investigation, evidence collection and expert testimony for any legal hearings or criminal trials related to the case.
Forensic Architecture is a multidisplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London, founded in 2010 by architect and theorist Eyal Weizman; their work, presented as both legal evidence as well as art exhibits, is focused on remapping state impunity.
NOAA scientists gave evidence that they were given legal advice by named NOAA attorneys that IPCC work done by scientists were records of the IPCC, not NOAA.
For evidence of this, consider well - respected consultant and legal futurist Richard Susskind whose early work «The Future of Law» was met with considerable skepticism and even derision in some legal circles.
Over at Big Debt, Small Law, L4L has a long, colorful and hilarious post in which he sounds the doomsday alarm based on evidence that the legal outsourcing trend has hit the bottom of the barrel: insurance defense work.
Thankfully, the issue of access to justice is figuring prominently in the general debate, as evidenced by the recently released CBA Legal Futures report and the ongoing work of the Action Committee on Access to Justice.
As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thLegal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal services in the US.
Take a few minutes to read Greenwald's work and you see his legal mind, grasp of evidence and the due process pulse through every line.
In listing the document as privileged it was described as «notes and documents, correspondence, minutes of evidence, memoranda being the work product of plaintiff's legal advisers ``.
The Court concluded that Ms. Flatt's evidence did meet the second element of the family status test — that breastfeeding during work hours is a legal obligation — and concluded that breastfeeding in this case was a personal choice.
Lawyers may have a well - deserved reputation for being averse to change, but at the same time there is obviously appetite for innovation, and evidence of creative minds at work in the Canadian legal profession.
Legal principle must try «to keep the law abreast of the society in which [the judges] live and work»: «If the law should impose upon the process of «growing up» fixed limits where nature knows only a continuous process, the price would be artificiality and a lack of realism in an area where the law must be sensitive to human development and social change... Unless and until Parliament should think fit to intervene, the courts should establish a principle flexible enough to enable justice to be achieved by its application to the particular circumstances proved by the evidence placed before them.»
Once the mindset challenge has been overcome by the legal sector, and there are processes in place to guarantee the work that has been completed matches the forensic and other evidence, I believe we will begin to see some truly impressive uses of the technology across a range of cases and scenarios.
No law firm has the necessary degree of specialization of staff, legal materials used, re-use of previously created work - product, or scaled volumes of production, to be able to cope with rapidly expanding volumes of laws, complexity of laws based upon technology, and the masses of records created by the automating of records by electronic technology — every interaction, communication, and transmission that we have now, produces a record, which could be related to some legal service, and records are now the most frequently used kind of evidence in legal proceedings.
When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.
In history, a secondary source like a newspaper account of an election result can become a primary source, if the question is «what sort of coverage was given to elections back in...» The differences between legal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamelegal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundameLegal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamental.
In being an advocate in your family's pursuit of maximum compensation, we can work hard to gather information and evidence that will help support your claim, keep track of all filing deadlines, and represent your family in workers» compensation hearings or other legal proceedings.
Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.
Ultimately, I believe judges should emulate Justice Knazan the next time they are faced with a case that centres around Twitter (or Facebook, snapchat, kik, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, tumblr, instagram, Tinder, etc...) and put it to the participants in the matter to explain how the platform works, why the evidence should be accepted and what relevance any of it has to the legal issue before the court.
The panel points out «there is no evidence before us that the member's legal work was actually affected by the conflict of interest» (para. 52).
I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests this model has ceased to work in providing quality legal services to the public and in providing a level of comfort to the members of our profession.
Our experienced lawyers will spare no reasonable expense in the investigation of your commercial vehicle crash and we will work hard to gather evidence and present arguments that protect your legal rights and recovery.
Better to increase the attractiveness of legal services by enabling lawyers to provide related services accompanying their legal services, e.g., family law lawyers providing financial planning advice, and law firms providing accounting and tax advisory work, and litigation lawyers working with experts who improve and maintain their clients» electronic records management systems, because records are the most frequently used kind of evidence and are completely dependent on their records management systems for everything, particularly their «integrity» ( which is what the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts require be proved for admissibility; e.g., section 31.2 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Canada Evidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free downevidence and are completely dependent on their records management systems for everything, particularly their «integrity» ( which is what the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts require be proved for admissibility; e.g., section 31.2 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Canada Evidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free downEvidence Acts require be proved for admissibility; e.g., section 31.2 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Canada Evidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free downEvidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free downEvidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free downevidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free download ) 。
He also singled out the work of Barrett - Vane, labelling her a «legal ops pro who has done a lot of good work in a number of areas and who recognises the importance of meaningful data to help in - house teams make properly considered, evidence based decisions».
We are experienced in working with forensic accountants and IT consultants to uncover evidence of fraud to support legal proceedings and / or insurance claims.
As the burden of proof rests on your side of the legal arena, you need to be sure that you work with experienced trial lawyers who know how to present incriminating evidence of intoxication in your civil case.
By meticulously investigating these and other sources of evidence, our legal team can work toward establishing the liability of trucking companies to compensate you and your loved ones for the emotional, physical, and / or financial damages you endured.
She was of the view that legal help work, i.e. initial advice without representation in court, should be brought back into the scope of legal aid without the need for evidence of domestic abuse.
A history of volunteer work or community service evidences your potential to make a contribution to society and the legal profession.
The lack of a general monopoly on the provision of legal services and the ease with which foreign lawyers may work in England and Wales are additional evidence of the openness of the English and Welsh legal services market.
The collection of forensic evidence of torture and the production of medico - legal reports for the purposes of proving torture in asylum claims have been cornerstones of Freedom from Torture's work since our creation in 1985.
The traditions of law publishing brands run deep and have great quantifiable value, few more so than of that other renowned work, not on this occasion from Butterworths but Sweet and Maxwell, Archbold, as we anticipate the possibility of litigation following the English Judicial Executive Board's decision that Blackstone's Criminal Practice rather than Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice should be the standard legal reference work in the criminal courts.
Working together to examine what the accumulating evidence about public perception, lawyer competencies, the cost of legal education, and unmet legal needs tells us is an essential first step, and Michigan is taking it.
The role an expert plays ranges from that of a consultant working in the background behind the legal and commercial team, to preparing reports as evidence at trial and testifying before the court or arbitrator.
The personal injury attorneys at J&Y can help you navigate the legal complexities of filing a claim that often requires submitting doctor's reports, medical tests such as lab work, X-rays, details of any surgical procedures, medical bills and other expenses, as well as additional evidence to support your claim.
Provide proof of U.S. citizenship, evidence of legal permanent residency or eligibility to work in the U.S.
An example of what they will be working on is something they call The Legal Chain, which is a consortium chain developed by Fadada (China's leading online legal service firm), the Onchain for - profit entity (which in turn was created by the Antshares team), and Microsoft Azure that provides a blockchain - powered digital legal evidence reposiLegal Chain, which is a consortium chain developed by Fadada (China's leading online legal service firm), the Onchain for - profit entity (which in turn was created by the Antshares team), and Microsoft Azure that provides a blockchain - powered digital legal evidence reposilegal service firm), the Onchain for - profit entity (which in turn was created by the Antshares team), and Microsoft Azure that provides a blockchain - powered digital legal evidence reposilegal evidence repository.
The work responsibilities of the social worker includes writing assessments, conducting interviews to clients and their families to know the type of problem, providing counseling support, recommending best solutions ion particular cases, coordinating and making referrals to different agencies, participating in meetings like child protection seminars or mental health, maintaining records needed in preparation of legal action, guiding evidence to be used in court, helping clients through individual or group conferences, developing and implementing written materials for educational purposes, conducting workshops and providing psychiatric social work.
For further evidence of my qualifications as a Legal Assistant, I have enclosed a resume with three reference letters pertaining to my skills, qualifications, and work ethic.
• Documented success in performing routine investigative work involving criminal cases • Highly skilled in locating and interviewing clients, complainants and witnesses, and others who may have official information relevant to a legal defense • Well - versed in determining the reliability and credibility of witnesses by conferring with attorneys • Exceptionally talented at evaluating various types of evidence, and advising attorneys in investigative procedures
A criminal justice is an individual who works in the field of law and is responsible for passing judgments or verdicts in legal proceedings of a crime committed by a convict, in a court based on the evidences and hearings presented in the court.
The Family Separation Clinic has led the way in developing and delivering effective intervention routes that are based on the international research and, working with key legal professionals, has begun to build a an evidence base to demonstrate how successful outcomes for children can be achieved through a combination of legal and therapeutic interventions.
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