Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public
interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.
Not exact matches
But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. —
based public
interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.
«Because of a poor credit score, you may only have access to credit cards with higher
interest rates,» says John Heath, directing attorney of Salt Lake City -
based Lexington
Law Firm.
By the way, the purported Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands issued his infamous subpoena through a private
law firm, which is hired on a contingency
basis, is being paid by USVI in another matter, and has a conflict of
interest.
Law firms are confronted with the public
interest on a daily
basis.
Here's an
interesting program: Boston -
based law firm, Sherin and Lodgen will discount legal fees for clients who go green.
On the Slaw blog, Steven Matthews observes in this post that the cross-Atlantic merger between U.S.
law firm Sonnenschein and U.K. -
based Denton Wilde Sapte was announced and rolled out by the
firms through an
interesting technique: the use of a dedicated «microsite» (http://www.snrdentoncombination.com).
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Interesting white paper here from the people at C24 on the use of BI in the Legal Sector,
based on their experiences with
law firms like Wright Hassall and others.
It's
interesting that nowadays there's a cloud -
based legal software available to help
law firms in saving time and money.
Until
law schools expand their traditional teaching methods to include more skills -
based and technical programs, which is slowly happening,
law firms interested in promoting a culture of efficiency will need to consider less - traditional recruiting sources.
If your
firm is thinking about taking this step, or if you're
interested, you can find out more about the potential risks and benefits of an LDP by reading the practice notes on legal disciplinary partnerships and
firm -
based regulation, to which you can obtain access from the
Law Society's homepage.
Unless
firms can change existing ethics rules to redefine what constitutes a conflict of
interest (and I believe that we'll see these attempts, especially if
firms move towards the model of a publicly - traded
law firm), the number of conflicts
based malpractice actions will proliferate.
There's certainly some for whom it's appropriate, and we offer a solution kind of in that broad context, which is if you want our recommendation for free for a dedicated
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The entity / proactive compliance
based regulation work now being undertaken in NS, Ontario, the Prairies and BC by the
law societies will move us much closer to truly being able to advance the public
interest in overseeing what lawyers and their
firms actually do and how they do it.
«We've seen a lot of other [
law]
firms become more
interested in performance -
based pay.
As the article describes, Daniel Elia, a former disgruntled client of Buffalo
based law firm, Damon & Morey has created a website, damon-moreymisconduct.com, to broadcast Elia's complaints about the
firm's alleged misconduct, such as charging unreasonable fees and failing to disclose a conflict of
interest when the
firm represented Elia and one of his creditors in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy case.
After the launch of our portfolio funding product with
law firms at the end of 2014, we saw significant demand in the offering from lawyers
interested in working on a partial contingent
basis and we rolled this out across a number of leading
firms with particular
interest from the arbitration community.
Jeff Pniowsky, a Tax Dispute Resolution Lawyer with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, a Winnipeg
based law firm, successfully acted on behalf of the intervenor, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) cases of Bastien and Dube (2)-- dealing with tax exemption related to property and
interest income on Indian reserves.
* Incentives / performance -
based hold back / success fees — aligns
interests by tying a portion of
law firm compensation to outcomes achieved;
Scott Flaherty,
based in New York, covers the business of
law with a focus on legal ethics, lawyer misconduct, conflicts - of -
interest and litigation involving
law firms.
When the very notion of accessing software applications on the cloud hit the legal profession — let alone cloud -
based data storage and retrieval — most
law firms reacted in a predictably risk - averse manner: That's
interesting, but what is the data security exposure to the
firm, the confidentiality risks to clients, the liability insurance coverage implications?
Pro bono matters referred by Justice Connect to Telstra are typically undertaken in the offices of community legal centers or Salvos Legal, the Salvation Army
law firm, and selected
based on the expertise and
interests of the lawyers involved.
If the SRA and the
Law Society wish to maintain a united profession, the best way of doing so is to recognise the diversity of client and
firm interests that now exists, and to reflect that with parallel regulatory regimes, and an approach to qualification that is
based on the future, not the past.
Googling «socio - legal studies canada
law reform» may produce some
interesting results, but without the seal of approval from a reputable source, such as a university -
based repository, what clues are there for a student to distinguish a balanced opinion from a PR
firm's rhetoric?
UK -
based law firms will find the Canadian market especially of
interest, as Canadian markets open up to the European Union when the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is ratified towards the end of 2015 or in 2016.
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