Sentences with phrase «how practising lawyers»
About a year after the new policies were in place, the CBA - BC conducted a survey of its members to analyze how practising lawyers found the new policies.
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«In spite of much change in how and where lawyers practise and why people need lawyers, our method of regulation has not evolved on pace with the advancement of technology or of government, civil, and commercial interactions,» says NSBS President René Gallant.
Every story is unique (and extraordinarily well - written, I might add), painting a memorable picture of the lawyer in a few paragraphs and tying his or her background, personality, interests or experiences into the law they practise and how they deal with the people they represent.
The law society's very detailed and extensive review of articling suggested many of the things I've been looking at with the way in which law firms are actually transforming how lawyers get to practise.
When we examine how diversity influences the profession as a whole, it's easy to lose sight of the experience of being an individual lawyer, with specific identity characteristics, practising law in Ontario.
This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's) legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.
«The most striking aspect of the report to me was the description of how our legal aid tariff rate has declined by 27 per cent since 1991, and how the number of practising lawyers taking legal aid referrals has nearly halved in the past decade,» said Maclaren.
Technology is vital to lawyers» competence, how they practise law and deliver legal services to their clients.
Practising lawyers are changing how they do business but the need for them has not disappeared.
Lawyers have always had lifetime licenses to practise law, and we may have forgotten how unusual that is.
How many North American law firms would sponsor poetry readings in their offices, and have them attended by goodly numbers of practising lawyers.
The problem with this big - firm model is that when lawyers want to practise on their own or within a small firm or company, they quickly discover their knowledge of how to run a business is as limited as their experience in ordering paperclips — that is, very little.
Founded in 1989, the ILA provides a forum for lawyers practising in the fields of insolvency law and restructuring practice to co-operate on matters of professional interest, to network, to share know - how, and to represent the ILA's view to Government and to other professional bodies having an interest in insolvency law and restructuring practice.
Another important observation was that while lawyers could not change the environment in which they practised, they could control the circumstances — that is, how they practised.
I also think we have really helped the profession practise better and smarter with the practical and «how to» information and resources we provide lawyers.
However, for family lawyers the uncertainty as to how family law will be practised, and the impact this will have in the long term for our society, is similarly gripping.
In spite of much change in how and where lawyers practise and why people need lawyers, our method of regulation has not evolved on pace with the advancement of technology or of government, civil and commercial interactions.....
«We have a very high volume — having the students helps us, but also from a long - term strategy, we're also creating a new breed of lawyers who are sensitive to the issues of violence against women; they know how to practise with clients in a trauma - informed way,» she says.
If Convocation approves this form of proactive regulation, there is merit to exploring how this approach might also be applied to other groups such as corporate and in - house counsel, government lawyers; lawyers and paralegals practising in legal clinics, and other practice settings.
How many years have passed and still there are lawyers practising real estate on a daily basis who have never received a buyer agency invoice; not for a full commission amount or an apportionment.