Sentences with phrase «improving access to legal services»

The Government argument is that efficiency and improving access to legal services are the main priorities in the provision of legal services to Indigenous communities.

In the first of these three Issues Papers («New Categories of Legal Services Providers» [80]-RRB-, the Commission sought feedback on whether persons (individuals, not companies or other organizations), referred to as «LSPs» should be allowed, via judicial authorization and regulation, «to perform discreet and limited legal tasks with the goal of improving access to legal services.»

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Birmingham Bar's Volunteer Lawyers Program and is committed to improving access to legal services for Alabama's low - income individuals.

«By allowing for the parsing of legal services in this way, they will be more affordable for more clients,» says Mr. Pink, noting that improving access to legal services in Nova Scotia is one of the Society's top strategic priorities.

As you correctly point out, the Benchers have elected to wait to see if, based on experience in England and elsewhere, the case for improving access to legal services through ABSs can be more clearly demonstrated.

Legal insurance is an existing model that has proven successful in improving access to legal services.

TORONTO, November 6, 2015 — MaRS Discovery District and LegalRnD — The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law today announced a partnership dedicated to legal sector innovation and improving access to legal services.

The Benchers of the Law Society are mindful of the potential benefits of ABSs and, in particular, improved access to legal services.

Linna hopes the index will also be a resource for law schools and law students and that, ultimately, it will help improve access to legal services by promoting opportunities for learning, research and collaboration.

He's also involved with an initiative called Houston.AI which began with the realization that emerging technologies, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, had tremendous potential to improve access to legal services.

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.»

To promote legal excellence, high ethical standards and professional conduct in the practice of law; to improve access to legal services for all people in Ventura County; and to work to improve the administration of justice.

The Society is engaged in similar dialogue at the national level, through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is working to improve access to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

June 10, 2016 — «As part of an initiative designed to improve access to legal services, the Tennessee Supreme Court has created a new way for attorneys to earn required CLE credit for doing pro bono work and the court has designated Nashville's Bass Berry & Sims as the first firm in the state to offer the program.

The ATJ Tech Fellows program is seeking diverse and entrepreneurial - minded law students who are passionate about social justice and want to spend the summer learning new ways to leverage technology in order to improve access to legal services for people who can't afford a lawyer.

And law societies should be sponsoring innovations in the methods of doing the work to provide legal services comparable to what is being provided commercially by MaRS, and by MaRS LegaX and LgalRnD to improve access to legal services.

There is a need to both improve access to legal services and to protect the value of existing legal service provision.

[50] The Commission also recommends improved access to legal services for women [51] and further reform of family law to better protect the safety of women and children.

Not exact matches

The City Strategic Plans on UPA drastically improved the legal status of urban producers and the security of their land use; better service provision to urban farmers (training and extension, veterinary services; improved access of urban producer groups to local sources of financing and credit)

«The Total Attorneys model makes Internet marketing affordable and time - efficient for small law firms and solo practitioners and improves consumer access to legal information and services,» he said.

The potential for ABSs to improve access to justice lies in the likelihood that the new forms of financing and management expertise that they can attract will spur efficiencies and innovations in the design and delivery of legal services (and «products»).

This does not, of course, provide complete access to justice, but it provides some access to justice, and additional arguments are also to be made that limited legal work has incidental effects that improve clients» overall legal capacity, extending the benefit received beyond the brief services provided.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

The index's foundational goals include improving access to justice, via (you guessed it) innovative improvements to legal service delivery.

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.

Important from the perspective of both access to legal services and access to articling positions, the new plan is expected to improve availability of composite articles, secondments, and shorter - duration hires for firms.

'» Forrest Mosten pointed out, «market demand rather than societal policy has been the source of [the] growth of new service products and opportunities to improve legal access.»

Because LawFest is a great vehicle for improving access to law and legal services, which is my passion.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

The commission's job is to study how legal services are delivered in the U.S. and how the public's access to such services can be improved.

The Florida Bar Foundation strives to provide greater access to justice in Florida by: expanding and improving representation and advocacy on behalf of low - income persons in civil legal matters; improving the fair and effective administration of justice; and promoting public service among lawyers by making it an integral component of the law school experience.

CFCJ has just completed what it calls The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP), which was a large - scale, collaborative research initiative designed to gain a better understanding of what legal needs Albertans have, the extent to which these needs are currently being met, and how access to legal services can be imprLegal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP), which was a large - scale, collaborative research initiative designed to gain a better understanding of what legal needs Albertans have, the extent to which these needs are currently being met, and how access to legal services can be iServices Mapping Project (ALSMP), which was a large - scale, collaborative research initiative designed to gain a better understanding of what legal needs Albertans have, the extent to which these needs are currently being met, and how access to legal services can be imprlegal needs Albertans have, the extent to which these needs are currently being met, and how access to legal services can be imprlegal services can be iservices can be improved.

There remains lots to talk about how improved access to justice and legal services can be achieved without giving up ownership or bringing about an anti-competitive concentration of delivery (and this is where I pray the benchers will go).

Recently, I attended a session that brought together Legal Aid officials and representatives of legal clinics, among others, to discuss how to improve access to clinic services by members of racialized communiLegal Aid officials and representatives of legal clinics, among others, to discuss how to improve access to clinic services by members of racialized communilegal clinics, among others, to discuss how to improve access to clinic services by members of racialized communities.

Moreover, responding to public demand for improved access to justice and to legal information requires that CanLII direct greater energy and resources to generating public awareness of its service and to the education of users.

The question of how much public pressure would be required to improve the historically stubborn problem of adequate funding for legal aid and other access to justice services is a separate issue that can be set aside for now.

A noteworthy aspect of the Canadian debate on whether to introduce alternative business structures into the legal services sector is the emphasis being given to the potential of ABS to improve access to justice.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

The reforms allow for people who have different skills and expertise to be brought together, people that typically aren't brought together, in order to meet customer needs, and in order to improve access to justice and to legal services.

Seeing students, lawyers, business people, and others get excited about the possibilities in the current legal market and about improving the quality of legal services and access to justice is very satisfying.

LegalRnD is dedicated to improving legal - service delivery and access across the legal industry through research and development of efficient, high - quality legal - service delivery tools and systems.

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.»

Creating a tiered system of legal services is an important step to improve access to justice.

The purpose of the reform agenda of the Legal Services Act 2007 is to unleash the powers of competition thus enabling consumers to have greater choice and access to improved sServices Act 2007 is to unleash the powers of competition thus enabling consumers to have greater choice and access to improved servicesservices.

access to legal services can be improved through the new forms created.»

Whether it is improving the delivery of legal services, the justice system, lawyer efficiency, legal education, or access to justice for all, Theory and Principle works with clients who are moved to innovate and build to create a better system.

We understand that you are currently working on some projects that aim to harness technology to improve access to justice for so that the public can public know all their available options in resolving disputes including online legal consultation services.

Improving your access to justice: Society encourages a more affordable legal services model for Nova Scotians