Sentences with phrase «exists in the legal profession»

The ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession provides a national voice for female lawyers, and the Task Force on Gender Equity addresses continuing gender equity issues that exist in the legal profession and in society at large.

Flexible software designed to suit your needs: Our time recording solution is designed to suit the different ways of working that exist in the legal profession.

In your experience, have you found that female - on - female discrimination exists in the legal profession?

Working closely with law firms on a daily basis, Brian is able to deliver his comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges that exist in the legal profession.

Nothing like this exists in the legal profession, outside the most devoted practitioners of intense, one - on - one mentoring.

Are we to believe that these figures prove not only that racism exists but that «systemic» racism exists in the legal professions in Ontario?

It's never been conscionable to ignore the racism that exists in the legal profession.

But the letter certainly reads as an exercise in «impression management» in support of a denial that racism exists in the legal professions and, in any event, a denial that racism is worthy of being addressed.

They don't exist in the legal profession because law societies are not pressured by their membership to sponsor their creation and use.

Not exact matches

As was observed by Henry James MP, at another time of unprecedented radical change some 140 years ago, «those who had to frame and introduce a measure of legal reform had sometimes to contend with -LSB-...] with members of the legal profession, who might think that their interests would be affected by any change in the existing system.»

It is striking to note that nowhere... is any evidence presented that harassment or invidious discrimination actually exists to any significant degree in the legal profession — or that, if it does exist, it is such a serious and widespread problem that the Model Rules must be amended.

But strong pressure to do so will exist in times of economic downturns, as the legal profession is now facing by reason of the problem of unaffordable legal services.

The ABS issue has again activated a long existing «class - oriented split» in the legal profession, specifically, between those lawyers whose clients can be ABS investors, and those whose clients are «of the people and small business and institutions,» i.e., the clients of the general practitioner, the solo practitioner, and the small unspecialized law office.

B players exist in all sorts of organizations, and the lack of management and development attention they typically receive is nothing unique to the legal profession.

In today's legal profession, however, there are opportunities to buy existing practices and hit the ground running.

In order to protect the image of the legal profession, it is important that the Model Code of Professional Conduct incorporate the important contextual differences that currently exist.

This vote does symbolize in some very important ways that the legal professions in Ontario is ready to take a very difficult look at the barriers that do exist.

Dr Mala Sidebottom, a dual - qualified solicitor and doctor and Amandeep Khasriya, a clinical negligence solicitor will join the existing department, which already has a strong reputation for its clinical negligence work and recently achieved the highest rankings possible in the independent guides to the profession «The Legal 500» and «Chambers & Partners».

In the UK, members of the legal profession complain that the government has not spent enough money to support existing initiatives, let alone the new ODR plan being proposed.

At the second reading of the Legal Aid and Advice Bill in 1948 (later the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949), the Attorney General and former British Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, noted in relation to the need for reform that: «The existing arrangements were subject to the further criticism — and I think a serious one — that the scheme depended on the good will and charity of the legal profesLegal Aid and Advice Bill in 1948 (later the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949), the Attorney General and former British Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, noted in relation to the need for reform that: «The existing arrangements were subject to the further criticism — and I think a serious one — that the scheme depended on the good will and charity of the legal profesLegal Aid and Advice Act 1949), the Attorney General and former British Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, noted in relation to the need for reform that: «The existing arrangements were subject to the further criticism — and I think a serious one — that the scheme depended on the good will and charity of the legal profeslegal profession.

In a recent post on Slaw, Robert McKay has offered an interesting critique of the legal and professional publishing profession as it exists today (Fun but Dangerous Work: Surviving Professional Publishing), with insights as to new hires and advice to the legal publishing companies on the risks of de-hiring talent for short - term gain on the bottom - line.

If the majors do nothing more than tinker with their search engines, repackage existing content, and acquire smaller competitors that package and recycle the same content in the same way, then the battle for continuing relevance to the legal profession will be lost.

When it comes to your trust accounting, there's one requirement that affects lawyers and other legal professionals and doesn't exist in most other professions.

They didn't exist for the legal profession in England and Wales before that.

What I really wanted to share here is a piece of that history, a time in the legal profession that seems hard to believe, from today's vantage point, actually existed.

The Legal Aid Agency will instead extend existing contracts, suspend a fee cut which was due to come in with the new contracts, and work with the profession to examine ways of promoting greater efficiency in the criminal legal aid syLegal Aid Agency will instead extend existing contracts, suspend a fee cut which was due to come in with the new contracts, and work with the profession to examine ways of promoting greater efficiency in the criminal legal aid sylegal aid system.

Whatever the legal profession itself might think, the reality is that for many in the community, the status quo has created a cozy world where the competition that does exist does more to reinforce the current inequalities.

Last year the LLD hosted a group of senior gay and lesbian partners from some of Canada's largest law firms, to discuss what barriers exist and what can be done to break these barriers down, in the legal profession.

[9] Given the fragmentation of the legal services profession in England and Wales, there exist over 15 of them, of which nine fall under the remit of the LSB as follows: [10]

Slaw readers, cast aside your presuppositions and conventional wisdom about the legal profession and propose something new, even radical — pretend the legal profession doesn't exist in its current form and you need to invent it.

The launch of a digital version of the Ontario Reports is a clear sign that the existing business model for the print publication that is truly the heart and soul of the legal profession in Ontario is beginning to falter.

But if you listen and watch how firms treat their talent, you'd never know this concept exists, especially in the accounting and legal professions.

Responses to the consultation demonstrated two over-arching perspectives: those who believe that change is happening in the legal profession, and those who doubt that transformative change is occurring or that there are compelling reasons to meet that change... respondents who cautioned against the need for change often expressed strong support for the public policy reasons underlying lawyers» existing regulatory regimes.

Judges for the court are to be selected from existing judges in Shanghai and possibly from the legal profession.

In practice, then, most SLAPP lawsuits (perhaps all) exist because a member of the legal profession was prepared to represent the corporate litigant.

Across the discipline of legal education and across law schools, and without the blessing of appointed and delegated leaders, legal educators should act on their power to define, advance, and implement their own visions of law and legal education, in ways that make the changing conditions of the legal profession and its existing institutions relevant but not determinative.

In his sixth article as President of the Tennessee Bar Association, Adams and Reese Memphis office partner Lucian Pera proposes proactive changes among lawyers to help narrow the gap between existing legal needs of ordinary Americans and the ability of the legal profession to meet those needs in his «President's Perspective: Encouraging Experiments»In his sixth article as President of the Tennessee Bar Association, Adams and Reese Memphis office partner Lucian Pera proposes proactive changes among lawyers to help narrow the gap between existing legal needs of ordinary Americans and the ability of the legal profession to meet those needs in his «President's Perspective: Encouraging Experiments»in his «President's Perspective: Encouraging Experiments».