Sentences with phrase «forcing older lawyers»
At the time, forcing older lawyers out the door seemed like a slap in the face after their long tenure at the firm.
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This, coupled with my training as a lawyer, made me to join forces with my colleagues mostly in our 20s and early 30s to contest and win election as the chairman of the old Ilaje / Ese Odo Local Government Area.
Frankly, as painful as it can be, you are actually doing a favor for your older lawyers to force them to learn and use a firm's IT systems.
Lawyers recognize profound changes to the legal market, but firms are largely sticking to their old business models — often showing a lack of understanding of the forces driving those changes, according to a study released this week.
The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.
It's probably a way to force clients to have to trek to a stuffy, old lawyer's office and fork over $ 1,000.
The old arguments against MCPD — it's too hard to offer outside urban areas, lawyers won't learn if they're forced, etc. — are excuses, and they're weak: if we really believed in our responsibility to be at our best for our clients» sake, we'd have started working on solutions a long time ago.
The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire... [more]