Sentences with phrase «lawyers deliver legal services»

Going virtual is about abandoning the traditional way lawyers deliver legal services.

A new cloud - based platform called PlanetXLaw aims to help lawyers deliver legal services more affordably to low and moderate income consumers.

The ABA LPM eLawyering Task Force published Suggested Minimum Requirements for Lawyers Delivering Legal Services Online which is a good starting point for any lawyer considering a virtual practice.

The 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report found that 89 % of lawyers delivered legal services using a smart phone.

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Lawyers have a service to deliver to the consumers who need legal help.

One is online training for lawyers in legal innovation and technology, the other an index tracking how well law schools are preparing students to deliver legal services in the 21st Century.

ACC believes that many traditional law firm business models and many of the approaches to lawyer training and cost management are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value - driven, high - quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost and develop lawyers as counselors (not just content - providers), advocates (not just process - doers) and professional partners.

In contrast, most law firms price work, bill clients, compensate lawyers and reward partners based on the amount of time and effort required to produce and deliver legal services.

As Malcolm Mercer has argued in his recent Slaw column: «If we can not find ways to effectively have regulated lawyers, paralegals or alternative providers deliver legal services in some areas, there can be no justification for prohibiting anyone but licensees from servicing those areas.»

The present method of legal services delivery is the «handcraftsman's» method, i.e., the same lawyer or group of lawyers performs all stages of the work necessary to delivering the finished legal service to the client.

If we challenge the previously sacrosanct exclusivity of lawyer - delivered legal services, even a little, we will discover that the extensions of those prohibitions are, ultimately and immediately, doing us more harm than good.

In 2012, Washington became the first state to adopt a rule that authorizes Limited License Legal Technicians or LLLTs that are authorized and regulated by the state Supreme Court to deliver specific legal services without the direct supervision of a laLegal Technicians or LLLTs that are authorized and regulated by the state Supreme Court to deliver specific legal services without the direct supervision of a lalegal services without the direct supervision of a lawyer.

No two lawyers are alike, and neither are the legal services and ensuing results they deliver.

It's clear we need a solution that increases lawyers» productivity while helping to deliver legal services at the level expected by clients.»

«Software is eating the world and legal services have to be delivered now in some form other than a text - based narrative or by an advisory consultant... Increasingly, lawyers are going to be needed to build information products comprised of a mix of tech, design [and] project management.

In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report to Convocation outlining a proposal to enable lawyers and paralegals to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities, not for profit organizations and trade unions, to clients of such organizations in order to facilitate access to justice.

We deliver award - winning law firm websites, responsive lawyer web designs, attorney blogs, social media engagement strategies, legal SEO, pay - per - click (PPC) advertising, online law firm videos, and countless other products and services.

Using UPL regulations, today's lawyers have excluded non-lawyers from participating in delivering legal services.

Independent parties attest our German business lawyers and tax advisors impeccable expertise: «This firm has not only passed our rigorous screening process, but has distinguished itself as a firm delivering legal services of the highest standards», says John C. Buchanan, President of The International Society of Primerus Law Firms, a highly selective alliance of independent business law firms.

We pride ourselves in offering clients first class legal services delivered by lawyers with sound business skills.

Our current legal system is predicated on lawyers — and more recently paralegals — delivering «legal services» (the definition of this term is discussed in the next section).

Our multi-disciplinary real estate sector lawyers combine in - depth real estate sector knowledge with technical legal excellence to deliver an exceptional transactional, disputes and advisory service.

With more than 4,400 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 47 countries, the firm has the fluency to deliver a broad scope of quality legal services — consistently, with confidence and sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences.

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

ABS is a tool to enable lawyers to consider how they deliver legal services.

There's been a huge increase in the number of in - house corporate lawyers in America over the last couple of decades, creating an opening for a whole new function of legal ops, which are the professionals charged with driving efficiencies, and coming up with a new way to deliver legal services.

If we can not find ways to effectively have regulated lawyers, paralegals or alternative providers deliver legal services in some areas, there can be no justification for prohibiting anyone but licensees from servicing those areas.

As more web - based applications are created that substitute for the work of a lawyer, the client portal becomes the essential component in the lawyer's toolbox for delivering legal services.

I think we are looking at a time where legal education is very strong, built on a very strong foundation across the country, but what we're looking at, at a time when the paradigm shift is happening in the way in which legal services are being delivered and the way in which our understanding of what it means to be a lawyer is changing... legal education has to be flexible, adaptable, and changing in order to respond, to make sure the lawyers of the future are ready for those new challenges.

The above solution would establish CanLII as a comprehensive support service in place of the present «handcraftsman's method» of legal services delivery, whereby the same lawyer or group of lawyers perform all stages of the work necessary to delivering the legal service to the client.

Justice Bridge is described as a legal access center and law practice incubator that will help enable new lawyers to deliver high - quality, affordable legal services to clients of modest means.

Esther Woodhouse, Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and Probate specialist lawyer at Roythornes said: «The online service is part of wider Government plans to reform the justice system and deliver a modern service to improve the efficiency of the probate application...

Deloitte Tax Law LLP delivers a full range of tax law services with 17 lawyers operating from four offices across Canada, providing legal services in all areas of tax law including: tax litigation and controversy, tax advisory, customs, and global trade and commodity tax services.

It's not just the industry as a whole that's changing, and we talk about that a lot, but really it's the individual lawyers thinking outside the box, pushing the boundaries of what we've been taught in the traditional model, and just getting out there and delivering legal services in new ways that's really forming what we call this future of law practice.

«Good lawyers with good books of clients are going to gravitate toward firms that could deliver legal services in the best cost - effective manner to clients and services clients and works with their clients.»

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The traditional law firm is a collection of sole practices and small firms that hang out together under the same letterhead and share a library and kitchen, delivering legal services through the ongoing application of lawyers» efforts.

But some lawyers say the debate around the topic singles out a cosmetic issue and ultimately distracts from harder conversations about how legal services are delivered.

As technology is increasingly used within law practices to streamline legal processes and more efficiently deliver services to clients, an important question has arisen within legal professional and academic circles: Do lawyers and law students have the technical skills to meet the needs of future legal jobs?

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I think that as lawyers it's important to figure to out how to deliver that while still being mindful of ethics and providing quality legal services.

Rather than focusing on the particulars of AI, lawyers, legal technologists and others with impact on how services are delivered need to be developing a real intention to shift the practice model.

In theory, the firm would use its retained earnings (monies left over after payment of salaries and other expenses) to invest in innovations that re-invent how services are delivered (taking off the pressure lawyers have to chase billable hours), which in turn would reduce prices — or the firm would invest in legal services that can be done without lawyers, thereby creating an additional income stream.

Technology is vital to lawyers» competence, how they practise law and deliver legal services to their clients.

The cost - effectiveness of cloud technology (aka «virtual law office» or VLO) that enables lawyers to deliver online legal services has been touted as one of best methods to address access to justice challenges, increasing as a result of a prolonged economic downturn.

Lawyers now are professionals who are running a business that delivers legal services and products.

With more than 30 partners and directors and over 60 other lawyers and legal professionals, Collas Crill delivers a comprehensive range of legal services to clients locally and around the globe.

The Society will have the authority and mandate to seek injunctive relief when legal services are delivered by an individual or organization that is not a lawyer or legal entity and there is actual harm or demonstrable risk of actual harm to the public by the unregulated individual or entity.

the nation's largest association of lawyers and one of the largest voluntary professional associations in the world, is challenging lawyers to deliver affordable online legal services.

As a lawyer or legal practice administrator, you strive to deliver great service to your clients.