Sentences with phrase «lawyers do in the real world»

And this — turning real life problems into legal issues — is what lawyers do in the real world.

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«The fact that I don't have a job as a minister and continue to work as a lawyer, mostly when parliament is not sitting and I am not engaged on constituency duties, enables me to keep a foot in the real world — though, I accept, a well paid one.»

Because I had a wonderful and long conversation today with a friend who has been a major business lawyer for forty years in the real world, I decided to do this post.

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

The high - end transaction will need full service, but the smaller client, in or outside urban centres, may want to rely on something cheaper — whether or not consciously sacrificing the depth or subtlety that a traditional legal education allows a real lawyer to offer (whether he or she does or not, in a fee - cutting pratical world.)

Since Silva was fluent in Portuguese, she translated some of the intellectual property for the web site and was eventually asked to create what her lawyer Paul Dollak calls «profiles of women who don't actually exist in the real world, with descriptions of them, the things they like, the kind of guys they're looking for, even photos of them.»