Lawyers in private practice often perform pro bono work to help low - income individuals and underserved portions of the population such as the elderly, victims of domestic abuse and children.
Clients can easily spot shallow initiatives, hollow offers and marketing speak (after all, they started out
as lawyers in private practice and know exactly how law firms work).
I developed these methods as part of the technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for
Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare model).
Go back even further and Fiona M. Kay's 1999 survey of Barreau du Quebec members found that even when male and female
lawyers in private practice worked similar hours, women's average billable hours were lower.
Paliare Roland is also a lead participant in the Law Society of Upper Canada's Justicia Project - a voluntary and precedent - setting initiative designed to support the retention and advancement of
women lawyers in private practice.
By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW was producing legal opinions for
lawyers in private practice at the rate of 5,000 per year — because those lawyers could make more money using LAO LAW instead of billing Legal Aid for their own legal research hours.
Regardless of the accuracy of the survey findings, anyone who has ever been an
associate lawyer in private practice knows the stresses of learning the law, building a practice, grappling with more senior aggressive counsel, meeting the demands of partners and of course, the long hours and billing targets.
Regardless of the accuracy of the survey findings, anyone who has ever been an associate
lawyer in private practice knows the stresses of learning the law, building a practice, grappling with more senior aggressive... [more]
As a former Judge's Associate,
former lawyer in private practice, through working in lawtech and legal publishing, Sherika has experienced and understands the challenges of the profession from many different angles.
But are the career motivations of benchers of Canadian law societies compatible with the unpopularity that inflicting such inconvenience
on lawyers in private practice would bring them?
For Devine — Daley's top deputy in the state's attorney's office, former Chicago Park District Board president and now a highly respected
trial lawyer in private practice — that could include a federal judgeship or even U.S. attorney in Chicago if Jim Burns steps down.
SYSS was co-founded by Caroline Griffin, a
Baltimore lawyer in private practice for 20 years before becoming the Chair of the Mayor's Anti-Animal Abuse Advisory Commission in Baltimore, the first animal abuse commission in the country.
With an array of legal experience and varied sector backgrounds, from being an
M&A lawyer in private practice, to a senior officer at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), our guest talks to Lawyer Monthly about the personal and professional rewards of being an Investment Funds lawyer and teaching this subject at Harvard Law School.
We have tried to develop features that appeal to a wide variety of people who might be interested in trade law, including:
trade lawyers in private practice; government officials and employees of international organizations; professors and students; trade policy experts; think tanks; and nongovernmental organizations.»
He has served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, been affiliated with York University's Centre for Refugee Studies, and worked as a
refugee lawyer in private practice and in a community legal aid clinic.