Sentences with phrase «improve access to the profession»

Despite already being touted as a landmark for the industry, the law firms behind the initiative aimed at improving access to the profession are hoping to substantially expand the number of firms backing the scheme.

Discussion of LSUC's lawyer licensing process, fees, and alternatives to the current regime to improve access to the profession.

Not exact matches

Geradine is currently the Executive Director of Midwives Alliance of North America, a professional organization that promotes excellence in midwifery and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality healthcare and improving outcomes for women, babies and their families.

The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.

Geradine is a former President and currently the Executive Director of Midwives Alliance of North America, a professional organization that promotes excellence in midwifery and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality healthcare and improving outcomes for women, babies and their families.

The CIOB has highlighted a number of areas where increased Government funding should be considered and barriers that need to be removed if access to the professions is to be improved.

I'm pleased the profession supports our proposals for a fully funded Access to GPs scheme, which would allow surgeries to bid for funding to improve patient access to theAccess to GPs scheme, which would allow surgeries to bid for funding to improve patient access to theaccess to their GP.

Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

NNSTOY defines teacher leadership as «the process by which highly effective educators take on roles at the classroom, school, district, state, or national levels in order to advance the profession, improve educator effectiveness, and / or increase access to great teaching and learning for all students.»

The vision of DR is to increase distributive leadership, improve teacher retention, extend the reach of effective teachers, improve equitable access to effective teachers, and evaluate the profession.

This scholarship was first awarded to eight recipients in 2014 as a way for VECCS to give back to our profession, support our members, and promote the VECCS mission: «Improving access and quality of emergency and critical care to every patient in need».

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

The legal profession resists changes that offer the possibility to improve access to justice.

They proposed lowering the pass score to match the national average and claim that lowering the pass score will improve access to justice in underserved areas and improve diversity in the profession.

«There should be no glory in striving for diversity; it's about jointly improving access to the legal profession for the brightest and best irrespective of social advantage or other personal characteristics,» says Barry Matthews, director of legal affairs and third - party sales at ITV.

In response to Call to action # 27, Law Society Treasurer Janet E. Minor reported, in a June 4, 2015 press release, that the Society is ``... committed to enhancing cultural competency within the legal professions» and to taking steps to improve the services provided by lawyers and licensed paralegals to Métis, First Nations, and Inuit people, as well as access to those services.

The purpose of the Center «is to position the ABA as a leader and architect of the profession's efforts to increase access to legal services and improve the delivery of, and access to, those services to the public through innovative programs and initiatives.»

31:44 — You've commented in the past on the expense of law conversion courses — how do you think access to the legal profession could be improved?

But selling ownership of the legal profession to nonlawyers who want hefty returns on their investments is most certainly not the answer considering that it will worsen, not improve, worsen the profit motivations / greed in the process (more layers of entities to pay), and considering that it will most certainly weaken the independence of the legal profession to the profound detriment of society, and considering that the access to outside capital will serve only to greatly accelerate anti-competitive concentrations (a trend various ABS insiders and observers in the UK candidly admit is happening and one they candidly admit that they are working hard to accelerate).

Let us hope that more and more past supporters will have the courage of epiphany and (1) give up trying to deliver ownership of our profession to those who do not and can not share our ethos, and (2) work toward improving access to justice by tackling the real problems.

For a discussion of the control the legal profession in general, and the ABA in particular, has with respect to the regulation of legal services in the US, see Gillian Hadfield, «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets,» Daedalus 143 (2014) 3, 10 - 11.

The session wraps up with a question on the one thing the panelists would change in the legal profession, with collective responsiblity for access to justice, more respect for court administration and improved gender, race, sexuality and class diversity all cited.

However, all lawyers and Law Societies in Canada would be wise to heed the warnings in the last paragraph of that report: «where benefits to the consumer can be attained with proper regulation to ensure that professional values are not lost, the Law Society must develop proper regulation to allow for changes to the profession through which improved access to legal services can be attained.»

The legal profession needs to develop greater awareness of disability issues in order for wheelchair access to be improved, says Raquel Siganporia

Although many lawyers already provide «limited scope legal services,» new clarity and direction in the legal profession's rules of conduct should improve public access to a broader range of these services.

The Center for Innovation was designed to position the ABA as a leader of the legal profession's efforts to increase access to justice and improve the delivery of services to the public through innovative programs and initiatives.

We believe the legal profession and the clients they serve will benefit as a whole if law students are utilized in a meaningful way through exposure to 21st century skills and practical experience by working with technology tools that are expanding legal access and improving the delivery of legal services.»

A government - appointed Legal Services Board was established to oversee regulation by reference to eight «regulatory objectives» which were, confusingly given equal priority (the public interest, supporting the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting consumers, promoting competition, encouraging a strong independent legal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principles).

We believe the legal profession and the individuals they serve will benefit as a whole if law students are utilized in a meaningful way through exposure to multidisciplinary skills and practical experience developing tools to expand legal access and improve the delivery of legal services.

[50] The questions ranged from how, generally, clients and potential clients can be better served, to whether access to legal services can be improved by authorizing persons without a full law school education and law license to provide them, to what insights can be gained from innovations in other professions and industries.

An Act to improve access to justice by amending the Solicitors Act to permit contingency fees in certain circumstances, to modernize and reform the law as it relates to limitation periods by enacting a new Limitations Act and making related amendments to other statutes, and to make changes with respect to the governance of the public accounting profession by amending the Public Accountancy Act

In a rapidly changing legal profession, technology plays an important role in helping to improve access to justice.

It aims to improve access routes to the profession and make CPD requirements more flexible.

The plan sets out the BSB's ideas for improving access to the Bar from a diverse cross-section of society, and aims to promote policies which encourage diversity and equality of opportunity within the profession.

Her current work explores how human centered design can be used improve the delivery of legal services and examines the impacts of legal technology on the legal profession and access to justice.

To be even clearer, I'm not suggesting that opponents have not included helpful guidance and suggestions in their largely well researched and well thought out papers on things the legal profession and legal regulators could be doing to improve access to justice, innovation and modernizatioTo be even clearer, I'm not suggesting that opponents have not included helpful guidance and suggestions in their largely well researched and well thought out papers on things the legal profession and legal regulators could be doing to improve access to justice, innovation and modernizatioto improve access to justice, innovation and modernizatioto justice, innovation and modernization.

Jordan, you say, «ABS proponents see the opportunity for improved access to justice, enhanced quality of legal services, and a stronger legal profession better able to defend itself against inevitable attacks to its ethical integrity from outside forces (pro tip: keep an eye on the state).