Sentences with phrase «history of the legal profession»

In the 4,000 - year history of the legal profession, unbiased information sharing has never been the norm.

I notice that none of that needed ABS, so I ask again, why in the name of all things holy would we ever sell our ownership of the no - worse - than - second - most - important profession in the World to an extra layer of entirely profit motived remote investors when (a) we do not have to, (b) every last benefit claimed for ABS can be achieved without ABS, and (c) it would be utterly irreversible when it proves to be, as it most assuredly will prove to be, the most colossal, short - sighted, cynical, profiteering at the expense of the public, and unnecessary blunder in the history of the legal profession dating back 800 years?

The other relevant aspect of nontraditional legal services is the fact that, for the first time in the history of the legal profession, law firms are facing major competition from clients, as well as other firms.

Instead, the rich history of the legal profession is shaping the future.

The next decade, I imagine, will be the most transformational in the long, storied history of the legal profession.

On my blog Library Boy, I have posted a number of items in the past about the material dimension of the history of the legal profession

From award - winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period.

Not exact matches

«That was the other opportunity — to make a difference within not just the legal profession but corporate Canada at large,» says Saguil, who was drawn to TD in part because of its history of sponsoring Pride events.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I believe that this state of affairs largely arises from the deep history of protection of confidentiality within the legal profession and the mistaken notion that protection of confidentiality equals protection of privacy and ensures compliance with the relevant legal requirements that surround the protection of privacy and use of information.

Although Women's History Month is coming to a close, the issues faced by women in the legal profession are still in dire need of continued conversation.

After providing a brief history of women in the legal profession, Stein's article analyzes blog entries on topics such as equal pay, institutional discrimination and gender dynamics and then suggests reasons why women lawyers seeking equality might turn to blogging in place of legal channels.

About Dye & Durham Corporation: Dye & Durham Corporation is a wholly owned Canadian company with a long and reputable history of serving the legal profession and is Western Canada's premier supplier of worldwide legal support and information services.

Therefore, the problem and its long history of failure, requires government intervention, because law societies, being the regulators of the legal profession in Canada, do not realize that they do not understand the true nature of the problem and won't accept the fact that they and all other such institutions within the legal profession do not have the expertise necessary to solve the problem.

Moore ends his discussion of this history noting that Law Society leaders subsequently acknowledged «in their way, that the Law Society alone no longer set the agenda on legal aid and much else affecting the profession.

[I] n carrying out its mandate under its enabling statute, the respondent throughout its long history, has acted to remove obstacles based on considerations, other than ones based on merit, such as religious affiliation, race, and gender, so as to provide previously excluded groups the opportunity to obtain a legal education and thus become members of the legal profession in Ontario.

As I have said repeatedly, the Canadian legal profession is now entering the most disruptive period of time in its history.

The real thrust of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history, library collections and archival resources into the life and work of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic changes in legal education and the profession over the course of the past century and document Osgoode's role in them.

I will reserve a future post to explore some thoughts on what is said at the AALS program, but it is particularly fitting to have the Justice at this joint program since, in addition to her pivotal role in the modern history of women's rights, she was also a founder of the Section for Women in Legal Education and a trailblazer for women in our profession, as this paper by Herma Hill Kay, this year's recipient of the Women in Legal Education section's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, sets out so well.

Through years of experience specializing in the placement of top lawyers with premier legal employers, we have developed extensive information systems, research materials, and referral networks enabling us not only to understand the history and workings of the legal profession but also to stay abreast of trends and changes affecting recruiting and job search strategies.

The legal community has confronted the challenge of adapting to technological innovation throughout its history (albeit, generally somewhat behind the technological curve), but artificial intelligence and its use in the legal profession is relatively new.

This is part of a series of Q&A s with leading women in the legal profession to coincide with International Women's Day on 8 May and National Women's History Month in the US, conducted and written by the law firm recruiting company Major Lindsey & Africa.

If you're looking for a bit of nostalgia about the legal profession or a history lesson, take some time to read Bruce MacEwen's detailed conversation with Arnie Jacobs, a longstanding partner at Proskauer in New York and a «dean of securities law.»

ICLR has an long history of serving the legal profession.

When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.

Never in our history has the LSUC ever contemplated selling any molecule of ownership of the legal profession to non-lawyers, let alone huge swathes of it.

It is not coincidence that a centuries - long history of dispute resolution through trial changed so rapidly once women entered the legal profession in significant numbers.

In the law review article, Jayne frames her argument for the profession to embrace a new model, by first laying out the history of fee - sharing regulation in the legal profession.

As he mentions in his intro post last week, the blog deals with «the various aspects of legal history having to do with the daily life of lawyers and judges, as well as to the sources, manuscript, printed, and otherwise preserved which can be used to help understand how law and the legal profession functioned in the past.

What I really wanted to share here is a piece of that history, a time in the legal profession that seems hard to believe, from today's vantage point, actually existed.

Editor's note: This is part of a series of Q&A s with leading women in the legal profession, in honor of National Women's History Month.

It belongs to all of us and in the case of the manner in which the Law Society of British Columbia made its decision it was a decision made transparently and democratically after a debate informed by law, history and an expression of the modern values of the legal profession.

An earlier wave of sociological research on the legal profession in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, pushed the legal profession courses of an earlier generation to include more sociology and history — as suggested once again by the Carnegie Report.

This collection serves as a valuable visual record of the history of the top levels of the judicial and legal professions in Ontario.

A history of volunteer work or community service evidences your potential to make a contribution to society and the legal profession.

Since its inception in 1979, the Society has published more than 100 books and conducted more than 600 oral history interviews of leading members of the legal profession.

«The National Equal Justice Library (NEJL) is the first and only institution dedicated to documenting and preserving the legal profession's history of providing counsel for those unable to afford it....»

He has published extensively in the fields of legal education and the legal profession, legal history and legal theory, labour and administrative law, globalization and constitutionalism.

Embracing the constitutional imperative to realise the freedom and equality of everyone and accepting that our inequitable past has produced the economic and skills distortions overwhelmingly favouring white male practitioners to the prejudice of black and female practitioners in the legal profession, and now committing to correct that history;

One can only wonder how the history of this country might have fared had members of the legal profession refused to accept as somehow legitimate the culture which legalized slavery or which institutionalized segregation or anti-Semitism, all of which were accepted practices and expressions at one time, and all of which were then, and are now reprehensible.8 Id.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&rlegal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; 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Loss of ownership then followed when the governments there decided to further weaken the legal profession by muddying the ownership and the ethos (the ethos will weaken over time — human nature and history prove it).

Written communications have a long history of supporting elitism, and the legal profession has done well from its ability to use those writing instruments.

«Never before in the history of this country has the legal profession seen mobility to this extent.

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Suggested topics include conflicts and the duty of loyalty, whistleblowing, the adversarial role, judicial ethics, emerging legal ethics issues from new technologies, parallels between legal ethics and other professions, the legal history of ethics,

The stated purpose of the Osgoode Society is «to study and promote public interest in the history of the law, the legal profession and the judiciary in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada and to stimulate research and publication on these subjects».

That said, 2007 is likely to prove to be one of the most important years in recent history for our profession and for the Law Society — primarily because the Legal Services Bill will complete its passage through Parliament.

Suggested topics include conflicts and the duty of loyalty, whistleblowing, the adversarial role, judicial ethics, emerging legal ethics issues from new technologies, parallels between legal ethics and other professions, the legal history of ethics, ethics issues that arise in relation to such areas as environmental, human rights, privacy, international or health law, or any other aspect of ethics and law.

The legal profession, if history holds true, will be one of the last to get it.