Sentences with phrase «lawyers feel a sense»

«I want people to see it before they write television shows the lavish lifestyle of lawyers or complain that young lawyers feel a sense of entitlement.»

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It's the first day in Tokyo that finally feels like spring, cherry blossoms in bloom, but he has holed up here in the café because it's roughly equidistant from the offices of his various lawyers, as well as the bankruptcy trustee, whom he meets with regularly out of a sense of «duty» to his former customers.

In the interview, I mentioned that (more or less) many lawyers feel the need to have an assistant out of sense of ego, and that they feel that a lot of clerical - type work is either an inefficient use of their time or, quite simply, beneath them.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

• Build a sense of community: prospective clients want to work with lawyers they feel like they know, like, and trust.

Opportunity, feeling more valued, or a sense of increased security elsewhere lead lawyers to move around more — especially if they feel they are getting pushed out or into roles with lower compensation.

There has long been a sense that lawyers really don't feel the law societies are the best way to be governed and while many have said it to me personally, it was almost impossible to get anyone to talk about it on the record.

It will be to your advantage to make the extra effort to do so, because incorporating the kinds of information that will reduce the uncertainty people feel about dealing with lawyers will increase their sense of comfort, trust and loyalty to you.

But my sense is that clients, and some lawyers, feel that it's important to slip in every bit of advocacy they can into a proceeding (the idea that quantity beats quality, I guess).

Clients who walk into an attorney's office should not feel a sense of disconnect, as if the lawyer is doing the client a favor by providing legal services.

«In addition, many customers feel that hiring a lawyer gives them a greater sense of control by having an expert fully «on their side,»» said the application.

In ABA Survey, you get a sense — I think you get a better feel of how lawyers are actually using technology, and both are good.

Dennis Kennedy: Right, and I think that the other thing is that to build on that, and I agree with you that there is a notion of saying, in the ABA Survey you kind of get a sense of how lawyers are using technology and it does give you a feeling of both the IT lens and there may be management lens in a big firm sense.

Mentors can welcome lawyers into firm networks, make them feel appreciated, and promote a sense of inclusion and camaraderie that heighten engagement and personal identification with the firm.

It might be assumed that the rulings would provoke a sense of schadenfreude amongst defence lawyers — but the reality is that the CPS «s woes are felt by all those in the criminal justice system no...

Adriana Linares: When you say that you feel, in a sense, they're competing with lawyers directly; now that you've learned everything that you've learned and know what you know, instead of it being a competitive thing, were they trying to meet a need that wasn't being met by a certain demographic of lawyers?

Do they feel the same sense of uncertainty about the future that many lawyers feel today?

The author of a Canadian study on the mid-life career change of lawyers (as well as a few other professional groups) found that «even though there was a general sense of enjoyment and fulfillment in the jobs that the participants held, and many of these people felt that they had found their place in the occupational world, those sentiments were not sufficiently strong to keep them there.»