Sentences with phrase «lawyers called to the bar»

Limiting the number of lawyers called to the bar for purposes of competition manipulation, is discussed in this book by Christopher Moore, «The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers 1797 - 1997» (University of Toronto Press, 1997).

(1) The issue of LSUC's limiting the number of lawyers it calls to the bar, so as to reduce the competition for clients, has come up several times in LSUC's history when law firms are short of clients.

A vital part of the Law Society's legislated mandate is to ensure that all lawyers called to the Bar in Ontario have the demonstrated competency to practise law at an entry level.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

Since then, he has been assisting Canadian companies and individuals looking to do business in Mexico, both as Ontario's first foreign legal consultant for Mexico and, more recently, as a lawyer called to the bar in Ontario.

The practicePRO Lending Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm), or email [email protected] o.ca with the name of the book, your name, LSUC number and your mailing address (only lawyers called to the bar in Ontario can take out these books).

That needs to be done with a mind open enough to believe that there are lawyers called to the Bar in Ontario prior to the 1950s who were just as admirable as those who attend academic law schools, so that «admirable» becomes a term accessible to a variety of forms of legal education.

I just enjoyed a thoroughly wonderful Sunday brunch with five friends, all of whom happen to be lawyers called to the bar sometime between 2011 and 2013.

The practicePRO Lending Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm), or email [email protected] with the name of the book, your name, LSUC number and your mailing address (only lawyers called to the bar in Ontario can take out these books).

The Federation of Law Societies recommended last year that all new lawyers called to the bar have some knowledge of aboriginal rights.

The articling system, by default, is supported by Canada's largest firms, yet the legal and cultural training they dispense to their students will be directly relevant only to a small percentage of lawyers called to the bar.

The practicePRO Lending Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm), or email [email protected] ticepro.ca with the name of the book, your name, LSUC number and your mailing address (only lawyers called to the bar in Ontario can take out these books).

Not exact matches

Jeremy Diamond is the managing lawyer at Diamond and Diamond Lawyers LLP, he was called to the Bar in 2008 and practices in the areas of plaintiff personal injury litigation in Toronto.

Canadian Lawyer Mag - Lawyers Filling up Federal Liberal Leadership Race If you've been called to the bar and succeeded, you're not a far cry from the world of politics, say lawyers vying for the Liberal Party's tLawyers Filling up Federal Liberal Leadership Race If you've been called to the bar and succeeded, you're not a far cry from the world of politics, say lawyers vying for the Liberal Party's tlawyers vying for the Liberal Party's top job.

South - East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organisations, SBCHROs, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the umbrella body of lawyers in Nigeria and other rights groups in the country, to direct their members to boycott courts in Nigeria in protest over President Muhammadu Buhari's disobedience to orders of courts in the country.

While Caproni agreed to the new lawyer, the judge rejected a plea from Feldberg for a delay of the trial, calling a bid to bar a retrial that was rejected by the Supreme Court last week a «Hail Mary» and saying Silver had plenty of time to plan for his new trial.

Similarly, the post call program continues to allow lawyers from other jurisdictions, with a legal system analogous to ours, to be called to the Bar although these days they have to pay thousands of dollars and pass exams in constitutional law and customary law.

In a petition dated 18th December 2017 addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and copied President General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chairman, Council for Legal Education, Director General, Nigeria Law School Bwari campus and National President, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN), MSSN while reacting to refusal of the Nigerian Law School and Council of Legal Education to call a University of Ilorin law graduate, Firdaus Amasa to bar last week due to her refusal to remove her Hijab, insisted that anyone found guilty in the matter should be punished in order to forestall future occurrences.

Speaking to Citi News, the President of the Association, Noah Tetteh, said, «we are asking for students to be allowed to go to the law school, and directly after that, there should be an examination that they will take and if they pass that exam, then those who make it will be called to the Bar as lawyers.

The second — called a «patent lawyer» or «patent attorney» — has, in addition, earned a law degree and passed a state bar exam, which allows him or her to represent clients in U.S. courts.

In 1821 Wade moved to Ohio and followed various occupations before beginning the study of law in 1825; with a rapidity which might be the envy of lawyers in more settled societies he was called to the bar in 1827 or 1828 and joined the firm of Joshua Giddings at the very fountainhead of political abolitionism.

Use the State Bar Associations list to find the bar association in your county, and call them to ask about finding a lawyBar Associations list to find the bar association in your county, and call them to ask about finding a lawybar association in your county, and call them to ask about finding a lawyer.

The annual LSUC filing does not require lawyers to attest that they have abided by the terms of the oath they swore when they were called to the bar, it does not require them to attest that they have generally complied with the Rules of Professional Conduct, nor does it require them to attest that they have sought to advance any other principles or goals (e.g., justice, access to justice, fairness, quality client service, etc.).

Paul noted that of the 17 lawyers not in practice at the time of the survey, 12 are women and 11 were called to the Bar in the past 10 years.

«We pair up a student or a recent call - to - the - bar or an articling student with a more experienced lawyer who can just discuss career options and maybe tell them a little bit about what it's like to be a lawyer,» says Leung.

And lawyers from all over the Lone Star state are responding to a call by the Texas Bar for volunteers to represent the children as well as any parents who decide to fight for custody, reports the Associated Press.

It's nearly a year since the Canadian Bar Association issued the Futures Report calling for an approach to legal profession regulation and service delivery that maximizes flexibility and choice for stakeholders, including clients, lawyers and other service providers.

Chris Bentley, managing director of Ryerson's LPP and a former criminal lawyer and Ontario attorney general, told Canadian Lawyer that early indicators suggest LPP graduates, once called to their provincial bars, are meeting with «excellent» employment results.

In comments on the story over at WSJ Law Blog, a few participants call for the American Bar Association to take a more protectionist approach and prohibit firms from off - shoring work, while others decry use of Indian lawyers as «unauthorized practice of law» since decisions about whether documents are privileged requires legal judgment.

Jamaican - born Aston Joseph Hall was a criminal lawyer in sole practice from when he was called to the Ontario bar in 1995 to 2002, when he became a senior partner at Hall & Vaughan in 2002 and then opened his own law firm, Aston J. Hall and Associate, in 2009.

In order to get called to the bar we need to swear an oath acknowledging certain of our obligations as lawyers.

Bruce was called to the bar in 1972 and has over 40 years experience as a trial lawyer representing clients in the Burlington area.

We're really looking forward to talking to lawyers about our Rocket Lawyer On Call ® program, as we exhibit for Practice Management Day at the New York State Bar Annual Meeting.

Once upon a time, in the last millenium, soon after I was called to the bar, a lawyer from another country gave a speech, in Toronto, about how litigation was conducted in his country and the key issues all counsel should address to present their client's case, properly.

Lately there is one segment of lawyers that LAWPRO and practicePRO have made an extra effort to reach out to: new lawyers and those about to be called to the bar.

Morden J.A. of this court expressed the matter this way in a 2001 address to the Call to the Bar: «Civility is not just a nice, desirable adornment to accompany the way lawyers conduct themselves, but, is a duty which is integral to the way lawyers do their work.»

«The biggest minefield I see is overworked or inattentive lawyers failing to provide adequate direction and supervision, leaving the paralegal to figure things out on [their] own,» says Salt Lake City lawyer Keith A. Call, who has written about ethical issues involving paralegals in the Utah Bar Journal.

The American Bar Association put out this press release on Tuesday, calling on the ABA Young Lawyers Division to pitch in.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers... [more]

CPD is in largest measure a waste of time and resources that could be far more profitably applied to creating an encrypted, key - worded data base of precedents, relevant case law, and other materials (not unlike the old bar ad materials except these would be updated continuously as needed every year past your call) that all lawyers could access for research purposes at any time; i.e., the time they need it.

Bar Exam Graders are the last stop on your road to becoming a lawyer and inappropriate answers calling your fitness into question will be referred to the Board of Law Examiners.

The human rights committees of both the Bar and the Law Society have condemned the attacks and called on the Iraqi government to allow medical supplies, lawyers, journalists, and human rights observers into the camp.

While lawyers have until mid-October to comment on the proposed changes, there were quickly calls from some members of the personal injury bar for a total ban on lawyer advertising.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers.

Dania Majid became one of the founders of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA) after she was called to the bar, building on her experience in establishing the Arab Law Students Association at Osgoode Hall Law School.

She was called to the Alberta Bar 100 years ago and was the first woman lawyer in Alberta.

If you do get hurt while at a restaurant or bar then call your personal injury lawyer to figure out if the company owes you any money for medical bills.

Like Roberts, he too was a lawyer, called to the Ontario Bar in 1926.

These associations, commonly called integrated or unified bars, are charged by the courts or the legislatures with responsibilities for regulating lawyers licensed to practice in their states.

Sure, clients have approached us and are telling us, «here is the work we would like you to do; here is how we would like to see it manned; here is what we're prepared to pay for lawyers over 20 years call to the bar; and we don't want to see them spending more than five or 10 per cent of the time.