I never said that you must practice in
the form of an alternative structure; I merely said that you may.
Not exact matches
His team advanced an
alternative hypothesis, stating that these curious
structures were not true microfossils but pseudofossils
formed by the redistribution
of carbon around mineral grains during these hydrothermal events.
The purpose
of this action research, in turn, was to examine the effects
of alternative forms of assessment and feedback
structures on students» math anxiety.
Matt Mancini, Lesley Jackson, and Meg Leary harness the extemporaneity
of lived experience and channel it through carefully
structured forms to evoke an
alternative to the bleak political quagmires
of this era.
Working with composers and film / theatre crews, Ayoung Kim utilises storytelling and narrative
structures to evoke
alternative forms of reading, listening and thinking about our present human condition.
Hernandez has produced and created content often taking the
form of performances, programming platforms, and
alternative education
structures.
The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid
structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an
alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example
of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract
forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.
The
alternatives to practice may not come in the
form of other business
structures, but in other technological
structures which allow for law to be conducted in different ways.
Until the problem is solved, lawyers and law students best beware such obsolescent law societies, and for similar reasons, beware the proponents
of «
alternative business
structures,» in whatever
form and size proposed.
In addition, in contrast to traditional
forms of legal aid,
alternative structures offer the means to provide those services on a sustainable and scalable basis.
Technology, the glut
of new lawyers, structural changes in BigLaw,
alternative business
structures, the growth
of intelligent
forms — all are leaving a lasting impression on the practice
of law.
As an exception to the universally accepted view that law society committees are «all
form and no substance» in regard to the «unaffordable legal services problem» («the problem»), there is one Law Society
of Upper Canada (LSUC) committee that has produced a Discussion Paper that has great substance, although some ingrates are so inconsiderate as to say that it's not «the right stuff»; see:
Alternative Business
Structures and the Legal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion Paper.
Mediation, a
form of non-binding
structured negotiations involving a neutral third party mediator, is the principal method
of alternative dispute resolution considered by litigants and encouraged by the courts.
What
of the various
forms of automation (Watson etc),
alternative structures (not ABS but various firm set - ups like Cognition or Practical Law) and legal process outsourcing e.g. to India or even Halifax (Tory's research and drafting wing)?
Many have argued that allowing for
alternative structures will jeopardize the self - regulation
of the profession: «there is a very real concern that legislatures or non-judicial entities might claim a right to regulate this new
form of practice.»
She does this in the
form of stories and experiences told firsthand by people who have created, are managing, are employees
of, and / or have invested in
alternative structures, as well with persons who regulate them.
The Commission's
Alternative Law Practice
Structures Working Group recommends allowing a limited
form of non — lawyer ownership in law firms.
In sum, even though the Report mentions
alternative structures only briefly, and expressly advocates for only a limited
form of them (minority nonlawyer ownership) in a lukewarm manner, a close reading the Report suggests that its authors in fact enthusiastically support
alternative structures.
In September 2012, the Law Society
of Upper Canada (LSUC)
formed its
Alternative Business Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm
Alternative Business
Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm s
Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore
alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm
alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm
structuresstructures.
• Introducing the regulatory framework for law practices to adopt a limited
form of alternative business
structure - Legal Disciplinary Practices (LDPs)- such that valued non-lawyer employees can now take equity in the firm.
«An entrepreneur has revealed plans to combine a claims management company, a consumer website and the clinical negligence department
of a top 100 firm to
form a market - dominating
alternative business
structure (ABS).