Not exact matches
«The SEC is saying, look, there's a wild west happening, and while we're concerned, there are good
practices we can encourage,» says William Carleton, a start - up
lawyer based in Seattle who has
followed the no - action letters.
A
practicing lawyer, advising a legislative committee or governor, would predict the
following: the law would meet immediate legal challenge and be struck down by a federal district court, which would be affirmed by the court of appeals.
Leading Australian food
lawyer, Joe Lederman of FoodLegal commented «Australian packaging suppliers
follow US and EU standards as well as meeting additional industry and retailer standards, and these require «best
practice» and product safety and food safety to be met.»
The first trailer for Gilroy's anticipated
follow - up to his acclaimed directorial debut Nightcrawler has dropped, and it has Washington setting the bar for Oscar - buzzy performances as the titular idealistic
lawyer who becomes disillusioned with the
practice.
Regarding the «journalist» label problem, compare it to the
following: if a person is described as a
lawyer, it's a given that everyone thinks the individual is actively
practicing law at either a partnership or at his or her own office.
We assembled two lists of 12 people (
lawyers in private
practice and everyone else) who, based on a series of factors such as Twitter
follow ratio, Klout score, and overall impact on the national conversation, seemed to us the most influential users of social media in the Canadian legal community.
The
following is an excerpt from Cloud Computing for
Lawyers, Chapter 7, «Cloud Computing Applications for Your Law
Practice.»
We assembled two lists of 12 people (
lawyers in private
practice and everyone else) who, based on a series of factors such as Twitter
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At a minimum I'd recommend mentioning that you are a
lawyer, what your
practice areas are, and any other information that might encourage relevant people to choose to
follow your account even if they know little or nothing else about you.
Pinnington says that under the 2/3 Rule, «the goal of being a happy
lawyer with a successful
practice can be achieved provided all your clients / matters meet at least 2/3 of the
following requirements:» 1.
Rodrigue, who oversaw the opening of the Montreal office in Place Ville Marie on April 2,
following her nomination as Montreal managing partner in February, said she is building a team with
lawyers not only called to both Canada's common law and Quebec's civil regime jurisdictions but having an active
practice in both.
Instead, the better
practice is for the
lawyer to
follow up personally with the contact, and ask him or her in passing whether they'd like to be signed up for the firm's email alerts in an area of interest (e.g., if the contact is general counsel at a hospital, maybe they'd be interested in receiving the firm's healthcare alerts).
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The
lawyers were ranked in the
following practice categories: Antitrust, Bankruptcy / Restructuring, Corporate / M & A, Environment, Healthcare, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labor & Employment, Litigation, and Private Equity.
In particular, we are seeking
lawyers who work in the
following practice areas: auto accidents, consumer bankruptcy, divorce, child custody, criminal defense, DUI / DWI, motorcycle accidents, personal injury and truck accidents.
Follow the experiences of one solo
lawyer and discover her techniques that have helped her fight the urge to quit and close her solo
practice.
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Regardless of the technologies and organization that might make sense in the short - term of managing a
practice, it is still the
lawyers» responsibility to
follow and adhere to the rules, regulations and canons of ethics adopted by the bar associations, professional liability funds and malpractice insurance carriers.
One could say that he set the standard for all others to
follow with regard to how
lawyers should be interacting with their
practice systems.
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Therefore, it has to be something that is provided to
lawyers before they dive into
practice, whether private
practice or within a law firm where they may be expected to
follow a firm's policy for the use of the technology.
Follow other
lawyers in your
practice area and see how they do it.
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The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as
follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all
practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of
lawyers in full - time private
practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of
practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older
lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger
lawyers joining the profession.
A total of 26
lawyers are ranked in the
following practice areas for Massachusetts: Antitrust, Banking & Finance, Bankrupcty / Restructuring, Corporate / M & A, Environment, Health Care, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment.
The triggering event was probably the massive change in client behaviour and the deeply unnerving drop in business that
followed, combined with
lawyers» utter inability to adjust their own
practices in response.
In order to prepare rising
lawyers for their probable transnational role, law schools must bring a more global dimension into legal education.14 Some observers see this step as comparable in its portent for legal education to the movement away from state - based legal instruction and toward a national perspective that spread through American legal education
following World War II.15 Whatever the strength of that comparison, the advocates of globalization envision a future in which the
practice of law is not limited by national borders or confined to a single national legal system.
A common
practice followed by
lawyer managers is to establish a peer review evaluation program that provides
lawyers with clarification of what is expected and how they measure up to the firm's standards.
In the
following you can find details concerning our German
practice and our offices in Germany as well as links to the German professional rules for
lawyers, tax advisers, accountants and notaries.
If you
follow these
practices, you may help your DC icy road accident
lawyer to craft a successful personal injury claim that can help pay for your injuries and lost wages.
Watford - based firm shuts
following the loss of banking
practice to US giant with remaining
lawyers joining a variety of firms
The channels will help
lawyers keep abreast of new developments in specific
practice areas and foster robust conversation between bloggers who cover the same subject, since they now have an easy way to
follow each others» postings.
As previously reported by Legal Feeds in June 2012, the British Columbia Supreme Court appointed retired Supreme Court justice Ian Pitifield to oversee the transfer of the residential schools victims to new
lawyers following a critical review of Blott's firm Blott & Co.'s
practices.
While everyone has different style tastes and different
practices areas and settings may have their own unique needs, most people will find the best
lawyer briefcase for them from the
following options.
Since going in - house may be too overwhelming and difficult directly after qualification, the great majority of in - house positions are aimed at
lawyers with 2 - 6 years PQE, the general consensus being that an in - house career should only be
followed after having gained at least a couple of years of private
practice experience.
Some have been General Counsels, senior in - house counsels or partners in private
practice, while others are mid-career
lawyers,
following alternative career paths.
«Civil
Practice Issues,» panelist,
Lawyers Following Orders: Ethical Pitfalls and Practical Advice, Suffolk University Law School Center for Advanced Legal Studies and the New York City Bar, April and May 2008
Following the combination of the Labor & Employment
practices at Bryan Cave and BLP, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's combined team now includes over 120 employment
lawyers in offices across the US, UK, France, Germany and Russia, with excellent capabilities and a strong network in Asia.
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lawyers and
practices were ranked in the 2011 edition in the
following geographic and
practice areas:
The
following is an excerpt from Cloud Computing for
Lawyers, Chapter 6: Implementing Cloud Computing Into Your Law
Practice.
This is why I've always felt Twitter would be a valuable tool for a
lawyer even if he or she never issued a single tweet:
following informative accounts in your
practice, industry, and community sectors is enough on its own to justify your investment of time and effort in Twitter.
Within private
practice,
lawyers in law firms with more than 300
lawyers had the highest pro bono hours,
followed by
lawyers in firms with 101 to 300
lawyers, and solo practitioners.
The Institute
followed its successful pilot with a course on interviewing children and the preparation of non-evaluative views of the child reports, held in Vancouver over two days in 2007,
following which a number of
lawyers, myself included, began preparing views of the child reports, independent of the Institute and the ad hoc
practice developed in Kelowna.
Six White & Case private equity
lawyers are leaving the firm's London office after a restructuring of the
practice following the departure of global private equity co-head Richard Youle to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.
In particular, norms relating to
lawyers»
practice that had formerly been under the domain of professional and state bodies, or left to the discretion of
lawyers and their firms, are increasingly incorporated into «guidelines,» «procedures,» «codes of conduct,» «manuals,» or «bestpractices» memoranda, which
lawyers are expected to
follow (footnotes omitted).
In preparing for the talk, I developed the
following set of best
practices that any
lawyer using Apple devices should employ to help protect their law firm's data:
They cover the
following skills: opening a
practice, relations between
lawyer and client, and work - life balance issue in the
practice of law.
Other responses show in - house counsel are also choosing external legal services providers based on their knowledge of specific
lawyers (67.4 per cent),
followed by industry /
practice area expertise (49 per cent), technical expertise (43.7 per cent), and law firm reputation (24.2 per cent).
When more
lawyers practice law with that mindset, whatever their model of service delivery, clients will change their minds about
lawyers, and public perception will
follow.