Sentences with phrase «first legal approach»

The biggest impact that I predict will is going to happen over the next three to five years within the legal operations space is the beginning of a metric - first legal approach, by which I mean benchmarks, KPIs and using numbers.

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Both Hetrick and Kauffman are mediators, and see first - hand how same - sex couples can overcome some of the legal hurdles through a collaborative approach to divorce.

Based on his statement, it appears that he already had something in mind when he first approached the studio but due to «a lot of legal red tape,» it wasn't going to work out.

Another possible approach for academies is to change the sick pay schemes to prohibit contractual sick pay for absence during investigations, although legal advice should be sought first by any academy considering this.

The debate on balancing as a moral and legal approach are numerous, but two main questions that are always requestioned and re-examined are first juridical - philosophical question that refers on the nature of balancing, whether it is a rational procedure for applying norms or a mere rhetorical device.

That sort of non-legal approach to legal problems leads to radical start - ups like DoNotPay, which describes itself as the world's first robot lawyer.

I work alongside partners who have come to the legal professional both traditionally and via less conventional career paths, such as through working in IT first, making for a well - rounded approach to running the firm.

There are a number of different ways you may approach this process, depending on the nature of your firm and the feelings you want legal consumers to have when they first encounter your brand.

The profession rejected this strictly «formalist» approach to teaching writing processes as inadequate preparation for independent legal writing and analysis.44 The shift away from models in legal writing instruction accompanied a shift to teaching students to write from the social perspective.45 The social perspective integrates into writing processes an understanding of the purposes for which a particular document is written, the identities of its audiences, and the needs of those audiences.46 Part of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's needs.

By connecting its LA&W course with one of the required first - year courses, Maryland's approach to first - year instruction has been in line with a number of the Report's specific recommendations: «Offer an Integrated Curriculum,» «Join «Lawyering,» Professionalism and Legal Analysis from the Start,» and «Support Faculty to Work Across the Curriculum.»

Now located in Tacoma's Theater District at historic Ledger Square, we offer a cost - effective approach to first - rate legal services, creating a better balance for your ledger.

Combining this approach with our knowledge of substantive areas of law, technical proficiency and first - hand industry experience, enables us to resolve the complex legal and regulatory issues facing our clients.

While most in his element in a courtroom, Chris» client - first, practical and business minded approach to resolving disputes is appreciated by executives and in - house legal teams alike.

This research shows that they are a first port of call for many businesses, but a number of these consultants do not have any professional qualifications and may employ the goal of eliminating all risk from the workplace rather than setting a proportionate approach to dealing with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other legal requirements.

Last week, I thumbed my nose at the approaching Mayan apocalypse and gave the first 6 of my 12 legal - writing resolutions for 2013.

As it so happens, Elhauge has just finished co-authoring a casebook on global antitrust law that he believes is the first casebook to take the approach that the law applicable to a basic legal subject is multinational.

We predict another explanation for the legal sector's vulnerability is that smaller law firms — like small businesses in general — are adopting the approach of «we're not big enough to be the target of cyber crime» — but that is their first and perhaps most serious mistake.

This conference marks the first time that leaders in the legal community will come together to discuss how to strengthen and improve our food systems, to consider how stakeholders perceive and adapt to change, and to learn better practices and approaches to food law problems for clients, researchers, and government.

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.

It demands close attention to factual details that matter; a winnowing out of details that don't matter; a reliance on concrete facts coupled with a disavowal of breezy generalizations and characterizations; a building up of facts into step - by - step arguments from which conclusions naturally follow; the marshaling of reasons that will earn the respect even of an opposing audience; a dialectical approach in which countervailing facts and counterarguments are carefully disarmed; a defense not of the first positions you might take, but of the best ones; and, at least in your early development as a legal writer, a stripped - down style that contains not a whiff of ornate embellishment.

Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7

This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the six reserved legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land grab.

The «prove it first» approach, presupposes that the current arrangement is already the very best way to provide legal services and the very best way to provide access to justice.

From the time the first edition was published in October of 2013, the CounselLink Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report was unique in its approach.

First, a law school that recognizes the approaching crisis in legal service delivery outside of urban centers is a small but significant step to addressing the problem before it becomes really serious.

This task - based approach is evident from the very first screen, which differs based on whether the subscriber is at a law firm or a corporate legal department.

I think one of the reasons that wikis all but failed to have a transformative impact in the legal sphere is that the «allow changes first, let the community correct later» approach of wikis creates too much uncertainty about the quality of the current version of the document.

At first glance, it would appear some approaches to Flex Time legal education would have very little impact on governance (for example, where an existing course is taught at night) while others could have significant impact (for example, where a summer semester is created or a digital course that no longer accords to the metrics for assessing course credit — such as «contact hours» in a classroom).

The first small steps towards a more consumer - oriented branding approach in the Canadian legal market might already have been taken when we recently saw three prominent Ontario personal injury firms team up on a joint marketing initiative under the banner of the «Personal Injury Alliance» in order to pool some of their respective marketing budgets into a collective effort with high cost / high production value commercials in order to obtain more bang for their buck as it were.

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Section 35 (1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Duty to Consult, and the Government of Alberta's First Nations Consultation Policy This paper argues that Alberta's approach to First Nation consultation falls short of fulfilling the province's constitutional obligation in this regard, but the development and management of public lands and resources appears to operate smoothly and efficiently, without any serious legal challenges or significant delays in this process.

Insurance companies demand that their legal advisors take a client - first, team - oriented approach that emphasizes efficiency and cost - effectiveness.

This Kennedy - era approach and my dad's insistence on being a dad seem far more suited to the mind - set of the twenty - first century legal workforce than today's firms have yet to recognize.

First, as a result, the Italian (and almost isolated) legal tradition on the limitation period is being kept standing still and protected against any kind of influence by the defensive approach of the ICC.

Our lawyers and professionals approach each matter with unparalleled legal knowledge and a first - hand understanding of the decision - making processes of attorneys general.

This enables them to have an upper hand, especially if you approach them without seeking legal counsel first.

Baker Donelson was one of the first law firms in the United States to develop its own unique approach to legal project management as well as Lean Six Sigma processes and tools and the alliance will make these solutions more readily available to a broader segment of the legal industry.

Let me first declare an interest, so that you can put what I am about to say in context: I edited The Legal 500 in 1996 and 1997 and am responsible for the thematic (as opposed to alphabetical) construction of the editorial of that publication, an innovation I am proud to say remains intact to this day, and which I believe better reflects the interconnected nature of the sector - led approach law has increasingly taken.

A regular conference speaker and author on legal procurement, Steph's unique insights also draw upon first - hand experience gained in commodities as diverse as IT and consultancy, and make her uniquely placed to help firms navigate the professional, institutionalised approach to buying now endemic within the legal profession.

KYL was featured in the recent Legaltech article, «Keesal, Young & Logan is First Law Firm to Pass the Legal Tech Assessment», a case study covering the firm's approach to leveraging technology training and certification to increase consistency and efficiency.

The first possible approach would be to retain legal aid for clinical negligence cases generally.

In justifying this approach, the court pointed to several considerations that SCOTUS identified as benefits to merits - first: the importance and frequency of the constitutional issue, the need of police departments for guidance on the issue, the purely legal, non-fact-bound nature of the issue, and the quality of the briefing (with amicus briefs from several advocacy organizations, a group of First Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights Divisfirst: the importance and frequency of the constitutional issue, the need of police departments for guidance on the issue, the purely legal, non-fact-bound nature of the issue, and the quality of the briefing (with amicus briefs from several advocacy organizations, a group of First Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights DivisFirst Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division).

Our approach, however, is that legal action should not be the first option when conflict arises.

The Recorder has named 25 winners of its first - ever Innovators awards, which honor original approaches to improving delivery of legal services to clients of all kinds.

For the first time, Dentons has been included among the «Fearsome Foursome,» an honor bestowed upon four elite law firms for their intense approach and fierce tactics in today's competitive legal market.

Iordache Partners is a no - nonsense, project - comes - first approach to legal services.

The ethical approach to the A2J problem is first to determine if the problem can be solved, and if clearly it can not be solved, only then to engage in programs such as: the law societies» «alternative legal services»; [5] «Access to Justice Week»; an A2J committee; and, comparable efforts such as the NSRLP (the National Self - Represented Litigants Project).

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

However it is also clear that the legal recognition of Indigenous peoples» relationship to their traditional lands through native title is a necessary first step in a rights - based approach to development.

This approach to therapy, a combination of psychologist Susan Heitler's psychotherapy training and experience in legal mediation, was first established with the publication of her 1990 book, From Conflict to Resolution: Skills and Strategies for Individual, Couples, and Family Therapy.