See N.Y. State 1049 (2015)(where a potential client posts a message on a website asking to be contacted by
a lawyer about a legal problem, a lawyer may respond in the manner invited by the client); N.Y. State 1014 (2014)(where detainee communicates through another detainee that he desires to be contacted by a particular lawyer, the lawyer's response is not a solicitation, because the communication was initiated by the prospective client).
Not exact matches
Rendleman posits a hypothetical case involving a
lawyer who's also a rancher: If an employee cowpoke happens to know the rancher is a
lawyer and asks to come in to the rancher's law office to talk
about a
legal problem, that's ethical.
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 pr
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 pr
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 pr
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 pr
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 pr
lawyers who understand that and can help them with their
problems.
This is true whether you're talking
about solving a research or discovery
problem, sketching out a
legal strategy, assessing the merits of a case, or performing a multitude of tasks that a
lawyer now confronts.
One of my favourite things
about being a
lawyer is that
legal work provides unending opportunities for
problem solving.
But the law societies have failed to be proactive
about unaffordable
legal services, but they are in regard to the much less serious
problem of incompetent and unethical
lawyers.
I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked
about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to
lawyers, and that you can have your
legal problem or your life
problem with
legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a
lawyer, so not all access to justice
problems are access to
lawyer problems.
Behind the scenes, this programmed with a series of questions, there's a logic tree, so depending on what the person's
legal problem is, it'll ask a series of questions and those are all vetted with
legal aid
lawyers, and also ask questions
about their income and where they live, which they can answer not, but answering those questions will, at the end of that, I don't know if you followed it out to the end, but it produces a little customized page of, «These are resources you should be looking at.
We talked
about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking
about is an access to
lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their
legal problems solved.
I think that comes up a lot where
lawyers, like many people, I don't want to make this just all
about lawyers but it is a specific
problem that we see in the
legal industry where
lawyers just want an answer.
I learned
about the importance of medical -
legal partnerships, where
lawyers can be part of the team at VA medical facilities and I have learned that when
lawyers are on the team they can often help solve the underlying
problem that brings the veteran to the facility, such as homelessness and without the exposure on the street the veteran has a place to live, often they don't need to come to the medical facility as often.
Whatever the
legal or business situation, our
lawyers understand that clients trust and appreciate
lawyers who genuinely care
about their
problems and provide them with effective and innovative results.
They have no choice, other than to do nothing
about the
legal problems that otherwise compel them to go to court without
lawyers.
I guess maybe what I'm thinking is that by opening up the window, by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and solving
legal problems, and part of me thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows
lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop thinking
about serving just one client's
legal needs, and start thinking
about solving that
legal problem for anyone who comes to you.
Sam Glover: You talked
about analyzing
legal issues from TV shows, for example, which some
lawyers do that and I wonder if that is helpful in sort of branding and raising your profile, but I wonder
about it in terms of search engine optimization because people aren't searching for those kinds of
legal problems and the kinds of people that come across your post if it goes viral, I mean it sounds awesome to get thousands or hundreds of thousands of hits on a post, but those aren't clients so I wonder how you think
about stuff like that, you know kind of going for publicity seeking posts?
In this interview Attorney Zhao chatted the original intention to takeup the
lawyer's occupation and talked
about the development of the Chinese law.Both of them wish this interview to promote the improvement in the field of the international
legal service and arouse people to pay much more attention to international
legal problems.
I have started this Blog with two purposes in mind: first to provide persons with
legal problems with information
about what they can do to recover for injuries and damages caused by the conduct or misconduct of others, and second, to try to provide information to other
lawyers about developments in the law in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
Clients are on Twitter, and they are talking
about their
legal problems — and their
lawyers.
That goes to something we've talked
about before on the podcast which is realize that
lawyers tend to be myopic thinking
about, «There is a
legal problem and I have the solution to it,» rather than, «My client has a
problem, one aspect of which is a
legal problem that I was trained to solve in law school, but there's a bigger
problem that I can help solve.»
I think they apply whether we're talking
about individuals who definitely are under - served by
lawyers today, but I think it goes all the way up to the largest clients, too, where there are large corporates that have all these
legal needs that aren't being met because it's just not either packaged or priced in a way that works for them to get these
problems solved.
In the meantime, the court may decide whether to allow the agreement to stand or not so you could be stuck with that bad agreement for at least several months and then pay a lot of money for a trial when you could have avoided that whole
problem to begin with by hiring a
lawyer to give you independent
legal advice
about your agreement draft.
When I've invited
lawyers of different ages and stages of their careers to make guest appearances in my undergraduate course on the profession, big - law attorneys have spoken enthusiastically
about tackling cutting - edge
legal problems.
What is being published
about the consequences of the
problem is very negative: ( 1 ) the
legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; ( 2 ) young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, ( 3 ) the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help
legal profession is shrinking as will
lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; ( 2 ) young
lawyers can forget
about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile
lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work
lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, ( 3 ) the rich will have
lawyers and the very poor will have free
Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help
Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have
lawyers to help them.
Which
lawyer on here actually has had a dream
about their client's
legal problems?
A collection of essays
about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking
about an old
problem... produced by the
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young
Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
Legal Aid
Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.
However, in nearly all cases, because those firms are owned exclusively by
lawyers and are regulated exclusively by
legal regulators, very little information is ever available
about those firms and their
problems.
Our knowledgeable
lawyers and our experienced
legal staff will be happy to answer any questions
about our firm or discuss any
legal problems you have.
2) If you are in the Portland area, join the Portland
Legal Hackers Meetup to learn more about innovative solutions to legal problems faced by lawyers and clients a
Legal Hackers Meetup to learn more
about innovative solutions to
legal problems faced by lawyers and clients a
legal problems faced by
lawyers and clients alike.
If
lawyers were considered a public good — if everyone knew and could access all their rights, could easily build
legal risk management and
problem avoidance into their lives and businesses, utterly free from worries
about the direct cost because we were all collectively funding it for our mutual benefit — what sort of
legal profession would we end up with?
This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as
legal academics and
lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and how people access
legal education, where and how people learn
about law, and where and how people solve the
problems that matter most in their lives.
-- You have a
legal problem — You go to Lawdingo and enter your phone number — A Lawdingo staff member calls you back quickly — They ask you for more details
about your case — Lawdingo (behind the scenes) uses its technology to forward your case details to relevant
lawyers — Those
lawyers decide whether to pick up the lead — A
lawyer contacts you, and you're off
To be candid, if the real and potential benefits of providing
legal advice include speed of service and reduced cost respectively, to achieve a positive outcome, which has ultimately come
about via the use of sophisticated IT / AI at some point during the
legal service /
problem continuum, and as a
legal buyer my main concern is the right result, quality, value for money and / or price (which remains the issue in many instances), and I know
lawyers and law firms can now do the work quicker, smarter and more accurately using AI and cognitive computing technology, can I therefore expect my
legal fees to be reduced?
And right now,
legal hackers seem to be getting their projects mainly from municipalities and a few «thought leaders» within the academe — people who generally don't have the kind of deep knowledge
about legal problems facing solo and small - firm
lawyers and their clients that would be necessary to come up with a list of
problems to solve.
More broadly, prior to being a
lawyer, I used to be an avid reader of Edward de Bono's work on thinking, including vertical, horizontal and parallel thinking, along with his «Six Hats» approach to thinking, and would like to re-read his work with an eye to seeing how applicable it would be to thinking strategically
about legal problems.
Last March, at the
Legal IT conference I pleaded that lawyers should also be trained (or train themselves) «in innovation [by which I mean technological innovation]» and that, as a profession, we should therefore train ourselves to code and, more generally, to think about legal problems systemically and algorithmic
Legal IT conference I pleaded that
lawyers should also be trained (or train themselves) «in innovation [by which I mean technological innovation]» and that, as a profession, we should therefore train ourselves to code and, more generally, to think
about legal problems systemically and algorithmic
legal problems systemically and algorithmically.
There has been a failure of imagination (on all sides)
about a debate that tends to consider the real experience of people with
legal problems only through their possible interaction with
lawyers.
If you need advice
about a specific
legal problem, please contact a
lawyer or
legal clinic.
And there is a third
problem — the result, perhaps, of the privilege and entitlement some (by no means all or even most)
lawyers feel
about their
legal services monopoly.
It is hard to describe exactly, but I am thinking really of inculcating a mind - set or habits of thinking: approaching
legal problems as a
lawyer thinking
about the practical needs of their client, as opposed to as an abstract, philosophical or intellectual
problem.
Returning to the discount analysis, the
problem remains much less
about (i) the unit cost of
lawyer hours than (ii) the number of units
legal tasks demand.
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