Not exact matches
You see, Hillary has spent decades
doing the relentless, thankless
work to actually make a difference in their lives, advocating for kids with disabilities as a young
lawyer, fighting for children's health care as first lady, and for
quality child care in the Senate.
Accordingly, smaller firms need to
work harder not just to differentiate themselves on a basis unrelated to size, but also to firmly establish that «fewer
lawyers»
does not correspond with «lower
quality.»
Lawyers, including women from Big Law can continue to
do high
quality work but under much less pressure.
If you can... If I can figure out a way to
do better
quality work, if I can figure out a way to train junior
lawyers to be better, if I can figure out a way to heighten my analysis and get better at quantifying risk and probability and stuff like that, I feel like there's no choice.
When you say our business, I don't wan na separate the business of law from the legal
work that we
do, because what it is about and one of the points that I was trying to make in that I think people sometimes gloss over or miss is that it's about
quality of
work and it's about becoming better
lawyers.
As voting is fundamental to our democracy, so to is education, and the ABA has
done great
work advocating for children and our support for providing a
quality education to all, and we are promoting this year
lawyers getting involved in a right to a high
quality education for all children.
As the editor of Canadian Lawyer for almost a decade, and someone who is constantly impressed with the
work lawyers do, even I was blown out of the water by the
quality of the candidates.
Although it was expressed in different ways from various perspectives, some of the representative comments here included: «
work overload [because of] lack of efficient management;» «total hands - off management style that causes chaos for associates and paralegals;» «
lawyers who are managers thinking they can direct people;»
lawyer managers finding / using time to actually
do the management part of their job;» «poor
quality of life for associates / poor management by partners;» «indecisiveness / inaction;» and finally, one that constitutes perhaps the cardinal sin, entitling the offender to immediate admission to Dante's innermost circle of Hell: «lack of vision from the top.»
And even if they manage to secure legal services, their problems
do not end — they have to contend with arcane and complex court procedures, they receive poor customer service from their
lawyer, they question if the
work could have been
done more efficiently and, as a result, more cheaply, they don't understand the information they are given, they are not able to judge the
quality of the services they receive, they receive bills they
do not understand, for amounts they never anticipated.
By
doing so, you will gain an important insight into the
quality of
work you will receive from our professional staff of
lawyers.
The
lawyer's ability to represent the employer outside the jurisdiction in which the
lawyer is licensed generally serves the interests of the employer and
does not create an unreasonable risk to the client and others because the employer is well situated to assess the
lawyer's qualifications and the
quality of the
lawyer's
work.
But even
lawyers of the future will have to spend considerable amounts of their time
doing the
work for the clients, not bathing / drowning in news, however high the
quality.
Dedication and
quality of
work determine whether technology use serves clients or distracts
lawyers from
doing their job properly.
De-lawyering — setting up processes which facilitate non-legal or paralegal professionals
doing work under a
lawyer's supervision — could lower costs without sacrificing
quality.
To be candid, if the real and potential benefits of providing legal advice include speed of service and reduced cost respectively, to achieve a positive outcome, which has ultimately come about via the use of sophisticated IT / AI at some point during the legal service / problem continuum, and as a legal buyer my main concern is the right result,
quality, value for money and / or price (which remains the issue in many instances), and I know
lawyers and law firms can now
do the
work quicker, smarter and more accurately using AI and cognitive computing technology, can I therefore expect my legal fees to be reduced?
The argument that vendors make when they sell us these services is that these databases will make
lawyers more efficient (effectively saving the client money by reducing
lawyer time spent on a file) and improve the
quality of research (which in turn improves the
quality of the
work done for the client).
Regardless of the potential
quality and ethical problems, many
lawyers do hire lead - generation firms, and it seems to
work quite well for many of those that
do.
That is, by our own account, we don't think that all
lawyers produce the same
quality work.
My best
qualities are that I am a person who can
work for «difficult, fast - pased
lawyers», I get along well with others, and I am always asking other if they need help when I have nothing to
do (a great team player).