Sentences with phrase «lawyer does in all practice»

Can paralegals do everything a lawyer does in all practice areas?

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Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

Even if those lawyers in English Canada wanted to practice in French, they have no opportunity to do so.

Massachusetts is one of only three states in the U.S. that doesn't license title insurers, and lawyers stand to make the most out of the practice (and have lobbied to keep it this way).

«It's our practice at this time that when the case is in active litigation we don't comment,» Louise N. Smith, one of the lawyers representing Hayes told SB Nation.

Shoop's father, a lawyer, might've said, «We didn't send you to Yale to be a coach,» but befriending rivals is something coaching has in common with practicing law.

A lawsuit stemming from the head - injury death of a Frostburg State University football player should be dismissed because his coaches did not know the athlete was bleeding or had suffered a concussion and could not have foreseen that he was endangering his life by participating in practice drills, lawyers say.

Incidentally, these are the same lawyers and social commentators who, before the Anas exposé, insulted; made formal disciplinary complaints against; and without a hearing, illegally banned myself and others from practicing in the courts of law - all for daring to say that «no one can convince me that there is no corruption in the judiciary or that some judges do not take bribes».

But, 95 % + of the lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average lawyer who does tax work.

«I don't begrudge her that,» said Owens, a practicing lawyer in Plattsburgh who has endorsed Derrick.

Nothing that requires us to work in public service forever — if you're a lawyer you can take a break from private practice, do public service and go back to your firm.

Practicing in a private law firm if he was a lawyer or doing some nice things that get his name associated with good works first.

In the United Kingdom, patent attorneys have the same rights as lawyers do to practice patent law in specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High CourIn the United Kingdom, patent attorneys have the same rights as lawyers do to practice patent law in specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High Courin specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High Courin the U.K. High Court.

Dylan, we've seen you argue unpopular points as a lawyer on The Practice; did that help prepare you for your role in this film?

I even got to work with constitutional law questions at PHMSA, something I never thought many lawyers get the chance to do and certainly not in their first year of practice.

This is usually because the specialist lawyers have become so used to the various practices and contractual terms common in the industry that they don't blink an eye at clauses that turn a non-industry lawyers hair white.

Me, Larry Garner, owner of Elvisyorkshireterrier.com, is not a veterinarian, nor do I hold a doctorate in animal practice, or am I a certified medical doctor, nor am I a lawyer.

What did you do the last time you needed a lawyer in an unfamiliar area of practice for a personal matter?

Obviously, I had no interest in speaking with American firms about American law for a Canadian publication, but I was always interested in U.S. firms that were doing something interesting on the practice management or business - model side, because these are universal issues for lawyers.

Do lawyers necessarily need to use the latest and greatest technology toys in their law practices and will doing so necessarily make them better lawyers?

Adobe Acrobat Professional is powerful software, which can help lawyers do more with PDF files in e-filing, e-discovery, and general everyday law practice.

If you do receive consideration, demonstrating that you signed the contract under duress will require specific legal advice, and you need a practicing lawyer in your jurisdiction.

Many firms do a poor job of cross-selling the firm's other services to existing clients in part because they are not as familiar with the other practice areas in the firm or the individual lawyers who practice in those areas.

For example, a lawyer might want to subscribe to content updates matching «Notices to the Legal Profession», «Rules of Practice» and court decisions in a specific area of the law, but not to other content — They know what they can do and not do with the information (in terms of copyright).

«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»

Many law firm practice group descriptions are overstuffed, listing everything that every lawyer in the group does, for fear of overlooking an opportunity or offending a heavy hitter.

The effect of the proposal found above would be to allow only these government lawyers who hold the designation to enjoy the privilege of precedence, even above and beyond lawyers in private practice with greater seniority and greater experience who simply don't have the designation (s. 3 (4)-RRB-.

Don't you find it a bit ironic that lawyers hire accountants to advise them since they don't have training in accounting and finance; they hire consultants and people to help them in marketing, in management, in HR and all the other areas of running a practice, yet for some reason they regard IT as an area that somehow they should be able to master with all its nuances and pitfalls?

(I note that the LSUC Annual Report does require * some * lawyers, particularly those who engage in real estate practice and those who manage trust accounts, to make general statements about their compliance with particular Rules and policies — but that just highlights the incongruity for me.)

As a result, it now provides much more than legal research support for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

In contrast, a consultation does not occur if a person provides information to a lawyer in response to advertising that merely describes the lawyer's education, experience, areas of practice, and contact information, or provides legal information of general interesIn contrast, a consultation does not occur if a person provides information to a lawyer in response to advertising that merely describes the lawyer's education, experience, areas of practice, and contact information, or provides legal information of general interesin response to advertising that merely describes the lawyer's education, experience, areas of practice, and contact information, or provides legal information of general interest.

I am building systems where I can give people the tools they need when they're starting their practice to make sure they're giving themselves the best footing possible to avoid being in ethics trouble and building tools for the lawyers who receive letters of investigation and need to respond properly but maybe can't afford counsel to do it for them.

I can see where many lawyers can get burned out or just do not like the practice of law in the private sector, but for me it has been a natural transition.

It does seem reasonable, however, to suggest that lawyers are now facing a practice and regulatory environment in which their value or «value - added» is not taken for granted, as it largely has been in years past.

By 1988, LAO LAW was producing legal opinions at a rate of more than 5,000 per year for legal aid lawyers (lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases).

Don't forget that Chief Judge Lippman recently instituted a requirement in New York that new lawyers must complete 50 hours of pro bono representation before being admitted to practice law, regardless of the number of years they attend school.

But the billing targets imposed on lawyers in firms large enough to demand or set targets (and such firms can be as small as a sole practice though I have never in my life set a target) do sometimes cause lawyers to put the billing imperative ahead of the client's interests.

A golden nugget in Jeff Blumenthal's report on Reed's acquisition of a seven - lawyer practice group from Luther Menold, a law firm affiliated with Ernst & Young, is how the deal was done:

Although providing a referral fee to another lawyer for sending a potential client is a common practice in many areas, it may not be ethically responsible to do so.

As Tom Mighell, past Chair of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section said in his 2010 IgniteLaw speech before the 2011 ABA TECHSHOW, No Lawyer Left Behind, most law schools do not provide practice management education, and this omission needs to be rectified by employing practicing lawyers to teach these subjects, making them requirements for graduation, and including a practical coPractice Management Section said in his 2010 IgniteLaw speech before the 2011 ABA TECHSHOW, No Lawyer Left Behind, most law schools do not provide practice management education, and this omission needs to be rectified by employing practicing lawyers to teach these subjects, making them requirements for graduation, and including a practical copractice management education, and this omission needs to be rectified by employing practicing lawyers to teach these subjects, making them requirements for graduation, and including a practical component.

What stands out about these lawyers is their enthusiasm about improving their practices and in learning new technology, management and marketing skills to help them do that.

Some lawyers, who had planned to retire, and we are expecting to do so, don't because for the first time in a long time they are enjoying practicing law — they are doing what they were trained to do instead of being an untrained practice manager.

The Barristers» Society does not require lawyers who are now practicing law in Nova Scotia to adhere to any particular beliefs about sexuality and marriage.

I come across these lawyers all the time in my business — they're often brilliant and would sit comfortably in many of the «best» lists and tiered rankings — but they practice at firms who don't do much marketing (or marketing to directories), or they market by just «doing» — by being as good as they can be, and letting the rest take care of itself.

It is a fact of life that most lawyers tend to be tough in evaluating business prospects, have more courage in billing top rates, and doing a better job in advising clients of the firm's billing practices ahead of time, if they have to account currently to a committee of peers.

Gibbons is one of only 20 law firms nationwide to be named to the National Law Journal's inaugural «Midsize Hot List», which recognized firms with fewer than 300 lawyers that have found innovative ways to position themselves and demonstrated creativity and success in recruiting and retaining top talent, developing practice areas, managing operations and generally navigating the economic downturn more effectively than did many larger firms.

Most senior lawyers probably came through law school and their early years of practice in a time when word processing was done using manual or electric typewriters.

The more financially and professionally successful mid-sized law firms are proficient in performing virtually all of the usual legal services in most of the substantive practice areas required by their key clients, however, they do not have the lawyer complement required to be expert in all practice areas, nor will the sophisticated buyers of legal services believe that mid-sized law firms are able to provide the same breadth and depth of high quality legal expertise as large general practice firms several times their size.

Lawyers who specialize in appellate practice generally recommend taking a few days off before even communicating the loss to the client, much less deciding what to do next.

Like the three reports discussed above, and, in fact, drawing heavily on those reports, the curricular change literature generally takes the position that the case - dialogue method of pedagogy does not sufficiently prepare law students to become practicing lawyers.74 While students learn basic case analysis skills through this method, they are usually not explicitly taught how to integrate those skills into a larger set of lawyering skills, in particular those identified as fundamental in the MacCrate Report.75 Further, while reading and analyzing cases, the focus of most law school classes, are important lawyering skills, they represent only a small portion of what lawyers actually do.76 Consequently, these commentators advocate for teaching legal skills as they are used in their real - world context, not merely as abstract ideas, and for integrating theoretical analysis and practical skills.77