Sentences with phrase «just access to lawyers»

She defines access to justice as broader than just access to lawyers and courts.

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Aside from the merits of the decision, which puts the cost of the courts not just on the users but on all the taxpayers (which may be the appropriate place for them), it is amusing to see high - priced lawyers say that access to justice is greatly improved because of the abolition of hearng fees that are less per day than the lawyers charge per hour.

With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to justice.

We should be looking at how to sell a story about access to justice, judicial independence, or the Rule of Law in a way that does not just reaffirm lawyers» self image, but actually alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

Lawyers have to talk amongst themselves about it; they need a forum to offer up innovative and (dare we say) disruptive ideas about the path the industry needs to take — not just to protect its entitlements, but to better serve the people who need access to its services.

Having his own firm gave Nixon access to deep - pocketed clients, allowed him to travel internationally and burnish his foreign policy credentials and, most importantly, helped build a formidable staff of top - notch lawyers, researchers and writers — a staff that did just about everything for him when it came time to ramp up for the 1968 campaign.

Gulotta called for the use of technology to address access to justice, envisioning platforms resembling Lyft, OpenTable, and Uber for the law, adding, «Just like taxis, lawyers will be a thing of the past if we don't embrace technology and access to data.»

If you're on the road you've got everything on your computer but you need Internet access, you hear all the stories about or even in a coffee shop, people being able to look at what information, what sites you're visiting, if you're using an unsecured provider and that ought to scare the heck out of all the lawyers because you just can't afford to have your confidential data be compromised in any way.

Which means lawyers don't necessarily have to come into the office just to access files.

«But I think there are just too many lawyers without access to clients who need them the most, rather than too many lawyers and no jobs.»

And if he is successful it will not just help lawyers, but could also help improve access to justice.

Some lawyers say changing the name of the Law Society of Upper Canada is just a distraction from the real work that needs to be done in order to address barriers to access to justice.

93 One of our fundamental beliefs is that lawyers generally — not just constitutional advocates before the United States Supreme Court — need access to the scope of arguments available through a global approach.94 Consequently, we think the advocacy component of the traditional LRW course may be the best place to think about incorporating a global legal issue.

Of course this platform places a strata of AI to make access to information easier and it will be capable of suggesting options, solutions and resources, just as a lawyer does at present; but that doesn't mean that the lawyer is excluded from the equation.

If you need feedback from your client, from other lawyers, or even from an external consultant, there is no need to email anybody a copy of the document, you just give them access to the document in OneDrive.

Starting in July 2016, prospective lawyers taking the Massachusetts bar exam will be tested not just on traditional topics such as constitutional law, torts and property, but also on access to justice.

Just ahead of the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA), where an expected 10,000 trademark lawyers will gather starting Saturday in Barcelona, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. and Alt Legal are announcing an integration that will provide one - click access to WK Trademark Navigator from within Alt Legal.

As defined by patent attorney Brett Trout in this post on his BlawgIT blog, the real - time Web incorporates tools such as Twitter to enable lawyers (and the rest of the world) to obtain instantaneous access to information about something that just happened, or about something that is constantly changing.

LawLink, however, is restricted to American lawyers only — among the required application fields are «Bar Number» and «State,» and can I just say how annoying it is to come across any major online operation that offers access, service or delivery to anyone in the 50 states but nowhere else in the world?

Setting aside the matter of relative public access to private practice lawyers over different time periods (and the related question of whether that degree is enough, too much or just right to meet public need), the inescapable conclusion from Malcolm's introduction to the conversation of the growth in the number of exempt lawyers in Ontario is that we should reexamine our notion of what a «typical» legal career looks like.

Here are a few back - of - the - envelope calculations to try to convey just how unrealistic it is for lawyers to focus only on legal aid / public funding and pro bono as a solution to the access to justice crisis.

Tired of watching the people in her community lose rights, property, and access to loved ones just because they didn't know the law or know a lawyer they could afford and trust, Jessica Bell left her career in legal ethics and founded Bell Advocate LLC.

Further, Responsive Law continued, the definition of what it is to practice law also needs to change and unauthorized practice of law regulations need to be modified so that greater access to legal help from multiple sources, not just lawyers, is available to the public.

A broad vision for how just a few lawyers who share actual numbers on their profitability from unbundled legal services will gradually turn the tide on the number of attorneys introducing these options in their practice, and the impact this has on access to justice nationwide

Tired of watching the people in her community lose court cases, homes, and access to loved ones just because they didn't know the law or know a lawyer they could afford, Jessica Bell founded Bell Advocate LLC.

Surely law societies have a duty, and therefore the authority, to ensure there are just enough competent lawyers to meet demand, and surely law societies can affect, if not manage, demand by helping to ensure that people in the community have access to legal information (and perhaps to legal advice from qualified non-lawyers) that may make it unnecessary for them to consult lawyers.

Meaningful access to justice requires more than just providing women and children with access to any lawyer, or any judge.

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Nor do I believe, if access to justice is the real goal, that chief among the culprits should be tax policy, rather than — to choose just two prominent examples — the number of lawyers who choose to practise in rural areas, or the funding of legal aid.

But Internet savvy, or even Internet access, is not required to become a Delta client, as the FAQ makes clear: «Delta Law Group is just like a typical law firm with a live lawyer who represents you.

If that's what lawyers are choosing, it seems hard to block access to opinions by the public who just as likely to use it for their legal research.

So, whether by way of just demands for their abolition, or commercially engendered shrinkage of lawyer numbers, law societies are fated to be greatly reduced in purpose, power, and prestige, by reason of management by part - time amateurs (i.e., 19th century benchers unable to cope with the «access to justice» problems («A2J problems») of a 21st century law society).

Field operates on virtual desktops and Field lawyers and staff have access to our network applications, services and data from anywhere, anytime using just about any computer, tablet or smart phone on a secured connection.

Richard traces the access to justice movement's beginnings back to the early 1990s, when an array of stakeholders concluded that the existing approach of «just fund more lawyers» was not reducing the justice gap.

In fact, a lawyer probably has more access to such knowledge and experience if not associated with one firm, and if the lawyer is just willing to ask.