Sentences with phrase «just legal profession»

The proposed ban on keeping sensitive Canadian data in Canada is significant to more than just the legal profession: I expect my doctor, eHealth Ontario and anyone else who is a custodian of personal and sensitive health data to honour Canadian law.

It may be time to stop fighting against us and join us in the fight for achieving an equitable, diverse and just legal profession.

It's not just the legal profession that needs a push forward.

However, with women now forming approximately 37 % of the lawyers in Canada, the percentage of female judges is falling quickly behind not only the profession but also what many Canadians expect — a judiciary that reflects Canadian reality and not just the legal profession.

It is not just the legal profession.

It may sound shocking, but it's not just the legal profession that is so imbalanced; women are notoriously underrepresented in parliament, and there are currently just seven female bosses in the FTSE 100.

«That was the other opportunity — to make a difference within not just the legal profession but corporate Canada at large,» says Saguil, who was drawn to TD in part because of its history of sponsoring Pride events.

Not exact matches

Low has the legal profession fallen — this just in from my old colleague and source for good hip hop JK, who's currently at NYU law school: I was walking to class yesterday when I saw one of my friends carrying around your «Online Politics 101» paper.

The medical profession appears to be divided, the researchers note, not just in its attitudes about providing controversial practices such as terminal sedation, abortion or birth control for teens, but also in its judgments about what doctors should do when patients request a legal procedure to which their doctor objects.

Although the filmmakers strive to give a fair hearing to those within the porn world who unapologetically defend the profession, the film clearly questions just how much the barely legal participants are in control.

Just as the American Bar Association polices the legal community and the AMA (American Medical Association) does the same for the medical profession, you must get more serious about accountability.

I became so disillusioned by property attornies and sell outs in the legal profession all sitting in their 900 thread count Italian silk suits, it just made me sick.

It's just that science and scientists, climate scientists in particular, still haven't caught tup with the fact that a lot of science is now being seen by the public as equally grubby in it's attempts to enhance it's own status as the lawyers and legal fraternity or the big pharma of the medical world or the shenanigans of the financial and accountancy world and all the other grubbiness inherent in any profession that seeks to elevate itself and it's practitioners to a high public, power wielding status by fair means or foul

News today includes not just one, but two stories dealing with diversity in the legal profession.

We outlined a bold vision for the future of the legal profession, encouraging a crucial conversation that's taking place not just within Canada, but around the world.

The legal profession just about dislocates its shoulder patting itself on the back for its independence from government, except when its members are sucking up to politicians to get QCs.

Just as numbers do not tell the full story of women and law, simply fixating on the ratios of women in the profession does fully address years of systematic inequality pervasive in the legal system.

Was the FutureFirm game was just a bunch of legal nerds rolling around a 12 - sided die all weekend, or might some of the ideas generated at the conference actually help change the profession for the better?

Given his age and his achievements, his layoff provided striking evidence of just how hard the economy had hit the legal profession and his suicide showed just how painful its effects could be.

Whether the rise of non-lawyer legal service providers is an initial step towards deregulation of the legal profession or just another thing for bar associations to regulate has yet to be seen.

What better way to build a wall around the legal profession than to embrace French just as it was fading away as a spoken language?

In Condé Nast Portfolio, writer Karen Donovan (with whom I've worked in the past) does a great job of portraying the legal profession's ambivalence about one in particular of these rankings, Super Lawyers, which she says «may just be the cheesiest example of this phenomenon.»

The legal profession plays a pivotal role in the creation and preservation of an equal and just society.

And that's just the beginning of the legal profession's diversity problems.

It seems the vast majority of people talking about social media in the legal profession just want to say «do it» and «you should do it» and «if you do it you will get business» and blah blah blah — but no one digs any deeper than that and gives you the true rationale behind it.

But we aren't just focused on the numbers; we are focused on the future of the legal profession.

I'm usually able to see both sides of an argument, but here, honestly, I just can not understand the logic of the other side given the pervasive utilization in the legal profession of junior colleagues to write judicial opinions, briefs, motions, articles, letters, etc. on which senior folks sign off.

My biggest concern is that in an age where one of the biggest concerns in the legal profession is access to justice, this tilts the scale just a little bit more against the little guy.

Just as Rome was not built in a day, the garotting of the legal profession and public interest does not occur in a day.

In 2015, Stu was selected as one of the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland's Honorees for exemplifying the best in the legal profession for unwavering commitment to creating a more just and accessible legal system in our state.

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

Here's the description of the project: The legal profession is not just struggling through a recession, but also undergoing a structural break with the past.

But just how far is the legal profession - and the general public - willing to trust the judgement of an AI algorithm?

I'm not a fan of the legal profession and all the game - playing so I can't believe I'm writing a review for a lawyer... but they are JUST THAT GOOD!

And now it seems as if wikis are also poised to take off within the ranks of the legal profession, at least according to tech guru Dennis Kennedy, who posts here at Between Lawyers about an article that he and Tom Mighell just published on wikis.

Polls have at various times established that not just a quarter, but up to 40 per cent of US lawyers want to leave their profession; and whereas British lawyers are only just waking up to the fact they are miserable and want to die, their American counterparts have been alert to it since 1989, which saw the publication of Deborah Arron's Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers are Getting Out of the Legal Profession.

From the time I arrived at Pacific to the time that I left, the entering class size shrunk 40 per cent and so wanting to make sure that we're in a position — and the Canadian market is very different — but recognizing that legal education is very closely tied to the economic pressures of the day, not just in the legal profession but more broadly, is something I'll be bringing forward.

But from what I have seen, the companies that are best at serving the legal profession are the ones whose top execs get out in the trenches, where they don't just talk to lawyers, they listen to them.

Just as Howe has put a social purpose twist on the traditional business incubator, he sees how the model could apply to the legal profession, with some caveats.

Billing by the hour is just one of many established customs within the legal profession.

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

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

Maybe it's because I get jaded easily, but I just can't get myself excited that the legal profession is really getting on the case about diversity or women.

In fact, if anything, I would have thought it would enhance it, just as blogs like this, by enabling comment, dialog and interaction, enhance the sense of community within the legal profession.

And it has been just five years since the terms «TAR» and «predictive coding» first began to filter into the legal profession's vernacular.

«This is just one of many ways you will see the ABA changing to better serve the American legal profession, and promote the cause of justice in our society.»

Admittedly, that headline is misleading, given that the lawyer in question is not just any lawyer but former presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards and that the principle at issue has nothing to do with the student's love of the legal profession.

Dentons» decision to cease publication of its annual profits per equity partner (PEP) has its backers within the legal profession: according to a survey of partners, just under half think financial transparency is «irrelevant» to anyone outside the firm itself.

While 23 per cent of Ontario's population was racialized in 2010, just 17 per cent of the legal profession was composed of racialized lawyers.

This just - released announcement from Thomson Corp. promises to reshape the field of law firm Web design, but the question is in what way: FindLaw Acquires Hubbard One EAGAN, Minn., July 26, 2004 — FindLaw ®, a Thomson business (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), today announced the company has acquired Hubbard One, the legal profession's leading provider of -LSB-...]