Sentences with phrase «lawyer conduct»

[16] It is well established at law that a law society plays a unique and essential role in the independent regulation of lawyer conduct and public protection.

Emerging technologies in the cloud, mobile and social are altering the way lawyers conduct business and interact with their clients.

Their selling points are unique, but completely foreign to the way lawyers conduct legal research today.

Poor communication is one of the most frequent bases for complaints to law societies about lawyer conduct, and similarly, is frequently the root cause for malpractice claims.

To compile the current 21st edition of the annual publication Best Lawyers conducted an exhaustive peer - reviewed survey.

Conventional models of regulating lawyer conduct tend to be largely reactive.

The search box has replaced most print finding tools for legal research, and lawyers conduct most of their research electronically.

Simply having one lawyer who can listen, analyze, and take important notes while the other lawyer conducts the meeting often makes sense as a structure to fit the client's needs.

In other words, there is joint and several liability for claims, regardless of whether the claim flows from negligence or from an excluded act (see below regarding lawyer conduct).

It embodies a shift of focus from individual lawyer conduct to firm culture and behaviour, and from discipline to process improvement.

Once you contact us, our car accident lawyers conduct a thorough analysis of your case, and explain you your rights.

The commentary was a very important element to guiding lawyer conduct.

In addition to providing standards governing lawyer conduct in the lawyer's own practice of law, these Rules encompass a lawyer's duties related to individuals who provide legal services under a limited license.

If what happened to Angela Cardinal was wrong (and I think it's hard to argue that it wasn't), and if what happened to her involved lawyers (which it did), then how can we identify the constraints on lawyer conduct so as to help them not to do such things?

Further, the critical narrative treats all defence lawyer conduct as the same — viewing any cross-examination or assertion of innocence, regardless of how it is made or its respect for the boundaries of legality, as a wrongful infliction of injury on a victim.

Doxly is a cloud - based software for lawyers conducting due diligence or working on transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions.

This question of what constrains lawyer conduct preoccupies and divides scholars who write about theories of legal ethics.

Just 7.5 percent of law firms say they are making use of legal artificial - intelligence tools, while another 29 percent are beginning to explore their options for using AI, according to a survey of firms with 50 or more lawyers conducted by the management consulting firm Altman Weil.

The various Canadian codes governing lawyer conduct clearly prohibit a lawyer from knowingly assisting a client to engage in criminal, fraudulent or other unlawful activities (See, for example, Federation of Law Societies Model Code of Professional Conduct, («FLS Code») Rule 3.2 - 7).

University of Toronto team launches a cognitive computing application that helps lawyers conduct world - class case research

Just as I predicted that smartphones would change the way that lawyers conducted business and that iPads would also make their mark, I can likewise assure you that wearable technology will be embraced quickly by lawyers.

The defence lawyer conducted a search and learned that Mr. Leduc maintained a Facebook account.

In a 2014 survey of 167 judges and family law lawyers conducted by the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family and two prominent academics, all Alberta respondents said that special challenges always or usually arise because of unrepresented litigants» unfamiliarity with the rules of court and the law of evidence, and 96.9 percent said that challenges always or usually arise because of litigants» unfamiliarity with court processes.

[pullquote] Whenever possible one of our IRP lawyers conducts a review of the evidence right away.

Nicole Hyland: I don't think we can blame any fictional character, any TV show about lawyers or people's perceptions of lawyers in the profession, but certainly, people don't really always understand how these rules work and how lawyer conduct is regulated.

US immigration lawyers conducted free legal workshops for the group, warning them they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.

The Democratic Party had considered nominating Carolyn Mazzu Genovesi, an attorney from Glen Head who works for the grievance committee for 10th Judicial District, which oversees lawyers conduct.

«Disqualification should not be used as punishment of counsel or as an example to deter lawyer conduct as such,» Ottenbreit wrote in his decision on behalf of a unanimous three - judge panel.

2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop: On June 1, 2017, Lisa C. Fong and guest lawyers conducted a discipline hearing workshop at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

In response to a series of corporate scandals in recent years, the American Bar Association House of Delegates yesterday adopted new lawyer conduct rules based on three proposals submitted by the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility.

The trend is backed up by a survey of 150 Canadian lawyers conducted recently by Robert Half Legal where one third, or 37 per cent of respondents indicated they'd observed an increase in lawsuits due to pictures or information contained in social media, or on mobile devices.

Integral to the firm's financing activities, our intellectual property lawyers conduct a due diligence review of the intellectual property portfolio.

Until such time as there arises a consistent body of case law addressing the issue of costs in response to sharp lawyering conducted against a self - represented litigant, an increasing number of self - represented parties in our legal system will remain vulnerable to procedural abuse and an overall miscarriage of justice.

Lord Woolf took the view that the ills of civil litigation could be ascribed to the way that lawyers conducted cases and that the way to cure the ills was to transfer the responsibility for the progressing of cases from the lawyers to the judges.

The bar will continue to play a significant role here, in policing lawyer conduct.

The process was introduced in February 2015 and in the first year, lawyers conducted panel voir dire in 14 percent of Superior Court jury trials.

Best Lawyers conducts peer - review surveys in which thousands of lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers to compile its list.

The National Trial Lawyers conducts months of third - party research and peer nominations in order to select the highest qualified lawyers from every region and state from around the country.

I don't really think that adherence to the professional code of lawyer conduct makes that much difference when compared to the ethics and sense of what's right of a well - balanced paralegal.

What if problematic lawyer conduct could be prevented?

An example of this is the AI technology which is revolutionising the way lawyers conduct research into previous cases and legal precedents ahead of trials.

Morality is slippery, which is why people like me think that law is a better constraint on lawyer conduct, most of the time.

And even after he had provided a $ 100 million deposit to qualify for the auction, the Christie's lawyers conducting due diligence on potential bidders pressed him with two pointed questions:

What constrains lawyer conduct?

In my opinion, the reason for this lack of interest at that time was because the Legal Services Board was inundated with complaints about lawyer conduct, and chose to focus its resources on handling the complaints.

In 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada again waded into the area of lawyer conduct in considering the circumstances under which lawyers should be permitted to withdraw from the record.