Sentences with phrase «good legal sense»

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The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

We would like to think that bishops had the good sense to junk the worthless questionnaire in favor of proclaiming the Church's message «in season and out of season» — no matter whether it ruffled the feathers of the IRS or gave an ulcer to USCC experts on the legal niceties of ecclesiastical pusillanimity.

But what is equally fascinating, if also unmistakably contradictory, about Alhaji Banda's rather caustic criticism of Akufo - Addo's level of «wisdom» and / or «intelligence,» is that it well appears that sometime in the past, Alhaji Banda recognized enough common sense, intelligence and wisdom in Nana Akufo - Addo to prompt him to solicit the legal advice and services of the man he clearly appears to have lately fallen out with.

In the past, Halbritter has said there's no legal limit on the number of casinos the Oneidas could open on their land, adding «the only limit is good business sense.»

When you purchase products shown on GeekWrapped.com, you agree that you will use the purchased products in a safe and legal manner, consistent with all applicable laws, recognized safety rules, and good common sense.

As noted earlier, scientific and technical advice and information — as well as policy analyses — can be made available to the Congress in a manner that is not considered lobbying in the traditional or legal sense.

While even non-organic foods contain less than the maximum legal levels of pesticides, common sense suggests that less is better: Some pesticides have been linked to myriad diseases and conditions, including Parkinson's and cancer.

Detailing the remarkable true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), born to an aristocratic father and slave mother in 19th century England, and telling a Jane Austen - ish love story against the backdrop of a legal case that was crucial in ending slavery in Britain, it might not be the most formally adventurous film of any director on this list (though it is undeniably Well Made in a classical sense), but that almost feels deliberate.

It makes no sense for the industry, already battling piracy (read that as code for, «free ebooks»), to open another channel for (legal) «free ebooks», without adding controls to encourage a good percentage of people to buy their ebooks.

Legal and historical quibbles aside, the central point is a valid one: repeating a behavior or action that's yielded one result in the hopes of achieving a different result... well, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

I summed up my sense of this in a recent post, where I wrote, «We live in a time when two guys in law school who think they have a better idea for a legal research site can run with it and create the company Ravel Law by the time they graduate.

All of this is rather common sense for lawyers who work in labour and employment law, which happens to be the primary practice area for the author of the law society's legal opinion, as well as myself.

As you develop a marketing plan for your law firm, it makes sense to look to good examples from other corners of the legal world.

But a more practical legal mind might interpret the mantra as just good moral sense, and advise not to use criminal law too hastily or hot - headedly.

But as Jordan Furlong observes at Law21 such knee - jerk reactions don't necessarily make good business sense since jettisoning associates indiscriminately can lead to a loss of top notch legal talent that can hurt a firm in the long run (indeed, intellectual «capital» is perhaps a law firm's most valuable asset).

In Law Practice Today, he discusses 5 key elements for the future of law practice: a client - centric point of view; a shift in the burden of proof on change; a sense of urgency to find solutions for better service delivery; technologies that make legal services more accessible to clients; and the creative productization of service offerings to drive down costs.

I have not seen any similar studies for the legal profession, but it would make perfect sense that lawyers who communicate well with their clients are less likely to get sued.

«CSL and LexisNexis are both well respected, best of breed providers within the legal community, so engaging in a partnership that exposes conveyIT Maestro to a greater proportion of the New Zealand legal market just makes sense.»

Greg noted that M&A lawyers must have a «good business sense and the ability to provide both legal and strategic advice that helps clients achieve their business goals.

In order to make better sense of the issues lawyers and judges already face and will increasingly meet, read my chapter, «Failing to Predict the Past: Will Legal Causation Kill Tort Law in Cyberspace?»

An investment in legal aid, says Sullivan, also makes good financial sense, given the cost savings that come with avoiding family disputes — fewer calls to the police, fewer trips to the hospital.

While Legal Times makes editorial sense as a «well defined product for an audience of narrowly defined shared interests,» he argues, the NLJ is a newspaper in search of definition.

That kind of an answer, I believe, shows a good sense of what law firms want law schools to do and the important role that a good legal writing program can play in a law school.

It sometimes seems that the rest of the legal world considers the Bar to be one of those British oddities that, like our unwritten constitution, does not make much sense in the abstract but works rather well in practice.

@Gary P. Rodrigues: «My understanding is that the decision to continue to offer the Ontario Reports in print is in response to feedback received directly from members of the legal profession who see the Ontario Reports as a mechanism for creating a sense of community among members of the legal profession as well as the primary means whereby the Law Society communicates with the profession.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

Aaron Street: I guess with today's conversation with Nicole about technology design and access to justice, it's another good opportunity for us to step back and kind of chat about what this access to justice goal is all about and how our listeners and the small firm legal community in general can support it in a way that makes sense.

It makes good sense to retain a lawyer to ensure you handle your case correctly and that you follow all the legal requirements to protect your rights to recovery.

But for the rest of the industry, I've argued that it makes sense to understand what law firm clients and payers are being sold (or at least told) by consultants and technology vendors about how they can better control their legal spend.

Sean Williams heads the team at Hill Dickinson LLP with a «sound common sense approach that is backed up by good legal knowledge».

Although it makes sense to begin the process of grading reform with legal writing, the goals of the Carnegie Report, Best Practices, and the humanizing law school movement will not be achieved with a change in just one course.

In addition Irwin Mitchell, in partnership with national deaf - blind charity Sense and Monckton Chambers, have developed a series of factsheets and template letters to help you better understand the law around SEN issues and make basic legal representation yourself.

Many SRLs in the original Research Study complained that legal language and the use of unfamiliar terms and expressions only heightened their sense of «outsider» status in the legal system — «like going as agnostic to a religious court» — as well as their ability to constructively participate.

Before meeting someone you'd like to have as a client, research their business on the federal case site Pacer to get a better sense of potential legal needs.

Tip No. 32 — Emery Harlan: Before meeting someone you'd like to have as a client, research their business on the federal case site PACER to get a better sense of potential legal needs.

You may want to look at Author Max — http://www.methodm.com/author-max — it is a Word add - in that provides some functionality that will be helpful to legal research specifically (such as Paste Unformatted when copying from a legal database), and other functionality that just makes good sense (such as setting once my rules for front matter, footers, headers and then applying automatically, or pre-flight check to look for leftover revision marks or broken cross-references).

You wouldn't have had this beautiful National Reporter System that served us so well for 100 years and, because there are now vendors that are asserting monopolies over portions of the law, either on their own behalf or on behalf of a governmental entity, that has retarded innovation in the legal profession, and it's hurt our ability to carry out legal tasks and to conduct justice in a way that makes sense for our modern world.

So, evidently, while Ontario wants to discourage the use of a soon - to - be-legal product (well, legal in the skewed Pulp Fiction sense), it seems quite motivated indeed to generate revenues from its exclusive distribution, sale and taxation.

Extrapolate the sense of that question to other areas, for example: is divorce necessarily a legal matter, or is it something that could be handled to better effect by alternative dispute resolution?

Then Judge Alsup could still «acquit» (not in a legal, but practical sense) Google by holding there was no objective willfulness as Google had, in his opinion (contrary to that of the higher courts), good reasons for believing it was in its right to use the material at issue.

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Investing in a legal opinion and devising a strategy before heading to court makes good financial sense, especially if you are representing yourself.

The problem with these recent decisions isn't so much the Court's desire to curb the presumption of deference and apply correctness to review fundamental legal questions decided in the first instance by a statutory tribunal — this is well within the jurisprudence of Dunsmuir v New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 and seems to make good sense from most perspectives — but rather the ease with which the Court suggests we can decipher fundamental legal questions from the rest of the field in deciding when to apply the presumption of deference and when not to.

While what Federalist says makes good «political» sense if your ultimate goal is not be reversed, as a legal matter, published opinions are supposed to add to (or subtract from) the law, or be notable in some way or other.

As we architect the future of legal services in the U.S., it is important to develop a road map that makes sense and is likely to produce the best outcomes.

Legal causation however need not be determined by scientific precision and is essentially a practical question of fact which can best be answered by ordinary common sense rather than abstract theory.

But what has changed dramatically is how legal services are delivered — by whom, utilizing what resources, from what kind of business structure, at what cost, for what types of business challenges, and in a way better aligned with client expectations and sense of value.

Even if a company believes it's in the right, says Becker, a prolonged legal battle and «fighting to the death» may not make good business sense.

We have just celebrated our first birthday but in that short year have proven leaders in the legal innovation space (18 active legal tech startups working in our incubator) and in the Access to Justice space (we led a four month Family Reform Community Collaboration which has been well received by experts across the board — , so this was truly a natural partnership that made sense.

Our law, for better or worse, recognizes the creation of subsidiary companies, which though in one sense the creatures of their parent companies, will nevertheless under the general law fall to be treated as separate legal entities with all the rights and liabilities which would normally attach to separate legal entities.