Not exact matches
Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of
traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for
legal services,
how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and
how we do them.
«The
Legal Services Act creates enormous challenges for
traditional law firms, not least
how to position themselves against the likes of The Co-operative and other well - known high - street brands,» he says.
Does the choice of wording for this clause imply that it is fine for nonlawyers (together or not with lawyers) to own
legal service providers — regardless of
how wide the range of
services they provide — as long as those providers are operated as companies or not - for profit organizations and instead of as
traditional «law firms?»
Joel invited other lawyers to consider
how they can support the growing number of people who can't afford
traditional legal services.
Crispin Passmore, Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority (in book): Passmore explains
how the SRA inherited a «
traditional and old - fashioned» regulatory system driven by the needs of the
legal profession, and the SRA's ongoing journey to transform the system to one focused on consumers of
legal services.
We should be asking
how will AI allow clients to sidestep the
traditional legal service sector by using a cheap software alternative (owned by non-lawyers).
With legions of lawyers striking out on their own, empowered by social media tools that circumvent
traditional ways in which clients and lawyers find each other, Internet - based tools are revolutionizing
how legal services get delivered.
Under the opinion, attorneys with a VLO can not make the statement that their fees are less than those of a
traditional law firm but can explain
how the use of the technology to deliver
legal services results in lower overhead for the firm and that this may reduce fees.