If it doesn't I fear the consequences for
the future generations of lawyers.
When he came to Toronto last June, Tuckett brought many ideas on helping to bridge the gap for
future generations of lawyers, including reaching down to the high school level in communities where kids might not consider law as a career.
That's why David's retirement is a moment to pause and consider the central importance of his work to current and
future generations of lawyers and clients.
To consider the one without considering the effect upon the others would be similar to a law society considering cost - cutting and reduction of its major programs without considering the resulting effect upon the reputation of that law society, and the resulting law society and legal profession that it will leave to
future generations of lawyers.
His passion for the law extends to his role as an adjunct professor of law, where, for more than 15 years, he has been teaching
future generations of lawyers.
The second reason Stevens's remark to Adam Liptak is important is that it signals that Stevens, who by design has been out of the public spotlight, in retirement might turn his formidable writing skills to a memoir that would inspire and instruct
future generations of lawyers and judges as well as presidents and senators who have the duty to nominate and confirm federal judges.
«If I was going to stand up in front of my students and really believe that having a legal degree and a career as a lawyer can be among the most fulfilling career choices a person can make,» says Michigan State University law professor Renee Newman Knake, «I needed to be doing something to make sure that would be true going forward for
future generations of lawyers.»
Not exact matches
This ties into the Legal
Futures Initiative, which is considering legal education and training
of the next
generation of lawyers.
Remove it by designating the
lawyer's first blogging session as nothing more than idea
generation: spend the entire time hammering out 10 or 15 topic sentences for
future posts (alone or with colleagues), then rank them in order
of interest.
I also felt a surge
of confidence for the
future in knowing that, amongst those students, are some
of the next
generation of lawyers.
The report offered 22 recommendations on how the Canadian legal profession can innovate in response to «a new wave
of competitors, a new breed
of legal clients, a new
generation of lawyers and law students [who] are planning and acting as if the
future were already here.»
The sixth white paper in Robert Half Legal's annual
Future Law Office project, entitled «The Changing Face
of the Legal Industry,» notes that for the first time,
lawyers from four
generations are now working side by side.
Presentations were on the
future of the practice
of law, as well as the changing expectations
of different
generations of lawyers.
Connecting competition law to broader policy issues and discussions
of economic concern around innovation, even if to continue to maintain the standard economic analysis, may provide the context that would expand interest in this area for the
future generation of competition
lawyers.
Aware
of the revolutionary changes that the economy and the market are going through, ASLA (Affiliation
of the most important Associated Italian Law Firm), supported by Cassa Nazionale Forense, devised and created «Diritto al Futuro (Right to the
Future)- The next
generation of lawyers», a great event that will take place in Milan on 18th May 2018 at Palazzo Mezzanotte, headquarter
of Italian Stock Exchange.
Writing in the ABA's Law Practice Today, Neha Sampat, attorney and former dean
of students and adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, offers six areas firms can address in order to keep younger
lawyers fully engaged, safeguard the
future of the profession, and capitalize on the promising opportunities the next
generation can cultivate.
We are grateful to our Chair and all
of our speakers for their efforts inspiring a
future generation of Young Legal Aid
Lawyers to continue the fight for access to justice.
She hopes that her background and present experience as an LPC student at BPP and
future trainee solicitor at Eversheds Sutherland will put her in good stead to help the next
generation of lawyers in any way she can.
It is a thrill for the CLA to watch the
future generation of criminal
lawyers in action.
Developing strong innovative intelligence and maintaining a reflective practice will provide the coming
generation of lawyers with new tools to respond to the complex legal problems
of the present and the
future.
In her presentation, «Law Students + Technology = Closing the Justice Gap,» Kaufman discussed ways in which law students are moving beyond traditional curriculum paradigms, learning «
lawyering skills
of the
future,» and how those skills can help the next
generation of lawyers and legal organizations provide access to justice for underserved groups and individuals.
As for the regular directories, Legal 500 said it wanted to increase its coverage
of the stars
of the
future, and asked law firms to highlight their next
generation lawyers in submissions.
It's time for Ontario to re-establish itself as a Canadian leader in the advancement
of the rights
of sexual violence and harassment victims with a goal
of creating an environment that's more safe, fair and understanding for current and
future generations, Toronto
lawyer Elizabeth Grace recently told the province's Select Committee on Sexual Violence and Harassment... View -LSB-...]
Mostly, firm leaders need to recognize and convince others this turning point in our conservative profession presents massive opportunities to reinvent the practice
of law for the benefit
of future generations of clients and
lawyers.
The Institute for the
Future Law Practice is interested in working with
lawyers, legal educators, and allied professionals who believe that we need a new
generation of legal professionals who can work more effectively in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
The story follows a relatively simple narrative in which successive
generations of U.S. corporate
lawyers have evolved from generalists, to specialists, to someday, in the not too distant
future, project managers.
What would you say the next decade holds in terms
of legislative development for the
future generations of employment
lawyers in West Africa?
Halsbury's Laws
of Canada combines the expertise
of Canada's leading practitioners, jurists, and academics to provide current and
future generations of Canadian
lawyers with a solid understanding
of the full range
of the law.
Either the law society finds ways to reduce the number
of eligible licensees to match the available articling opportunities (and I sure can't think
of any that won't invite government scrutiny), or it drops the articling requirement and creates a potentially major threat to the ability
of future generations of new
lawyers to competently practise law upon their admission to the Bar.