Sentences with phrase «in legal profession»

Legal Week Intelligence, in association with Fulcrum GT, recently published the first edition of its Top 20 Legal IT Innovators report, which profiles the law firm leaders, in - house lawyers and tech pioneers driving change in the legal profession.

While public attention tends to focus on employment issues facing industries such as forestry, mining and agriculture, small communities across Canada are also facing serious challenges in regards to the attraction and retention of professional service providers, including those in the legal profession.

Recognize the psychological game going on here: many students expect their fall 1L grades to give them a lightning bolt of insight about their future in the legal profession.

In your experience, have you found that female - on - female discrimination exists in the legal profession?

In The Boston Globe, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, a senior partner at the law firm Bowditch & Dewey and author of the book, Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law, says of the survey: «This shows that we are reaching a crisis point when it comes to the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession, and therefore a crisis point when it comes to women leaders generally.»

She also hopes the site will help law students learn about the possibilities of small - firm practice and enable small - firm lawyers to broadcast their accomplishments to others in the legal profession and the public at large.

Read some of his blog entries, and you'll agree with Kevin O'Keefe: «Jim is a shining example of the best in our legal profession.»

I use it to keep informed about what's happening in the legal profession, who's saying what, access to breaking news and emerging trends.

Working in the legal profession day in and day out, Robillard sees the need for business etiquette.

As a result, behaviour that is common practice in the legal profession, such as the examples mentioned above, is subject to being penalized by the Law Society.

We may as well be saying, «evangelical Christians are not welcome» in the legal profession.

In the past, it has been argued that the number of female federally appointed judges (32 % in total) has been similar to the percentage of women in the legal profession.

CLE is obviously not in lock - step with changes in the legal profession.

As you rightly point out, this is a time of upheaval in the legal profession.

Predictably, mental health issues such as depression, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue are becoming more prevalent and gaining increased attention in the legal profession.

But in the legal profession, there's still a need for low - cost, pay - as - you - go, single - license services — and I'm afraid that the more Lexis acquires, the fewer options we'll find at the low end.

Despite inroads made by women at the nation's top law firms, a new two - level system is emerging in the legal profession, with women on the bottom.

Social mobility in the legal profession, commissioned by the legal communications specialist Byfield Consultancy, draws on interviews with lawyers at all stages of their careers from those starting out such as Subashini Nathan, presently a paralegal for a legal aid firm, through to Lady Justice Hallett, the fifth woman to sit as an Appeal judge.

The curriculum also has mandatory classes on social innovation and the law, Indigenous law, legal innovation, the business of law, and issues of diversity in the legal profession.

Pelletier says the barreau is taking this information, along with many of the lessons it learned about promoting women in the legal profession, to try to put out the message that those same changes should apply to everyone.

Many in the legal profession criticised government ministers for not rushing to the defence of judges under fire during the Article 50 case debacle last year.

During Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, we should give thanks for the intangible rewards of working in the legal profession.

In the late 1980s, although women lawyers had made great strides in the legal profession, there was still a large gender wage gap due to women lawyers being forced onto the mommy track.

In the legal profession, documentation is everything.

Alison Wolf of The Lawyer Coach Blog suggests that business development skills, such as using language to build or maintain client relationships, can help women lawyers advance in the legal profession.

A local law school Dean recently commented that women seem to be backsliding in the legal profession.

Based on these statistics, it is obvious that there is still a gender wage gap in the legal profession.

«We hope it will pave the way for systemic change in the legal profession that will address the realities women in private practice are facing.»

Using artificial intelligence in the legal profession can aid lawyers in completing menial tasks with accuracy, which is in line with the Law Society of Ontario's mandate for lawyers to practise more efficiently and cost effectively, attendees at the Ontario Bar Association's annual Institute heard this week.

It's probably just as applicable today, especially with those recently unemployed in the legal profession.

Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Fred Alvarez, chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession and award recipients Attorney Richard A. Soden, of counsel to the Boston office of the national law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP and Justice Dan Sosa Jr., retired Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, to talk about diversity in the legal profession.

Regulators have been slow to offer guidance to legal professionals wrestling with the changes in the legal profession.

We in the legal profession need to understand just how vulnerable we are to losing our share of that market.

, there was much talk at the plenary session about the allegedly irrevocable changes occurring in the legal profession because of the fallout from the Great Recession.

Based on my experience, as well as the anecdotes of others I know in the legal profession, there are lawyers who simply are innately talented legal writers.

We've made great advances in recent years in Canada in examining mental health in the legal profession, and prior, in law school.

Sakalauskas and Osgoode Law student Kwaku Tabi both pointed to a lack of diversity in the legal profession as a barrier to access.

There are now over 800 lawyers in the UK working for «virtual» law firms as advances in technology drive the rise of a new business model in the legal sector, shows new research by Hazlewoods, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors who specialise in the legal profession.

As well as holding multiple academic leadership roles, Black - Branch is also involved in the legal profession.

About: «Legal Networking Group (LNG) is created to bring together people who are currently working as attorneys, legal assistants, law clerks, legal support stuff, paralegals, freelance paralegals, law students, paralegal students, or thinking to enter the legal field to share their knowledge, resources, and experiences, to help each other generate better results for their businesses, improve professionalism, gain recognition in the legal profession, network and socialize!

He lives in Canada and works in the legal profession.

The ABA study cites statistics from the 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding salaries of women vs. men in the legal profession.

Rather, factors such as stereotyping and gender bias contribute to the wage gap in the legal profession.

The Women's Law Association of Ontario is a not - for - profit corporation dedicated to advancing issues and causes relevant to women in the legal profession through education and awareness programs.

It shows why there is a need for a «family doctor counterpart» in the legal profession, i.e., to provide a comparable sorting, triage, and advice service that: (1) makes sure that all available legal services are used; and, (2) people are aided in their understanding and decision - making as to which of their problems need legal services.

Legal aid expansions only really benefit us in the legal profession, by providing a steady and predictable source of government - funded clients.

A report by Catalyst published in July 2012 on women in the legal profession demonstrates that 1993 was the year with the highest percentage of women as J.D. students, at 50.4 %.

Later, the ABA's House of Delegates easily adopted a resolution encouraging programs on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession as part of mandatory or minimum continuing legal education requirements.

Burning out is a very real and serious issue in the legal profession.

I don't recall hearing much about this when I was entering the profession, but based on what I've heard this week, am hopeful that the fundamental value of integrity in the legal profession is given appropriate emphasis in the education of law and articling students.