Sentences with phrase «larger legal realities»

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Most lawyers will be impacted, including large multi-office firms who face greater competition for their services, small firms and sole practitioners who lack in - house IT staff but must file electronically and connect with clients, in - house counsel who face increasing cost pressures to rationalize their legal spending, and litigators who must address age - old disputes with the rules of civil practice and the modern realities of stored electronic information.

That's a large swath of legal consumers that you theoretically could help but who, in reality, probably haven't heard of you.

While the Heenan, Blaikie debacle may have more, ultimately, to teach us about human shortcomings and hubris than the perils of the immediate legal marketplace, it does underscore the reality that defections, shakeups, acquisitions and takeovers have become the norm among our nations largest law firms...

Though some might attribute the decline of law reviews to the increased popularity of blogs (which courts continue to cite with growing frequency), there are other factors at play, such as the larger issue of whether legal scholarship has grown out of touch with the realities of law practice.

While that may lead some to also think it will result in large legal bills and a lot of procedural hurdles the reality is — particularly in insolvency cases — there's «only so much runway.»

The problem is simply stated as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than judicial decisions.

Few, if any, law school classes allude to the realities of well - documented and hardly «new» changes in legal practice including: the «vanishing» trial, clients who no longer want to buy into the paternalism of the I'll - take - care - of - it - for - you model, or the extraordinarily large number of self - represented litigants who can not afford full representation.

While it is often assumed that legal AI systems are only for very large law firms doing huge deals and with equally huge financial and tech resources, the reality is very different.

This simply does not match the reality of legal work or day - to - day experiences of an attorney in a large law firm today.

It's also the most glaring gap between law school and market reality and a large driver of the mass dissatisfaction of clients with their legal panel.