Sentences with phrase «legal opinion services»

CanLII could be a true support service available to all lawyers and judges in Canada if it used LAOLAW's technology of centralized legal research to provide legal opinion services for all client and case fact - patterns.

None of them can provide 5,000 legal opinion services per year, and none shows any understanding of such support services providing legal opinion services.

I wrote an in - depth paper that I sent to CanLII's Board of Directors recommending that CanLII provide the legal opinion services that LAO LAW provides, at cost, to all lawyers and judges in Canada.

CanLII's materials are too limited, and it provides no legal opinion services for lawyers.

In addition to its client - specific legal opinion services, LAO LAW makes available hundreds of general and specific memoranda, draft factums, and other materials that can be downloaded.

LIZ would have no competitors providing such a civil service function for all of Canada's law societies, and paid for by enabling CanLII to provide at cost a legal opinion service as does LAO LAW at Legal Aid Ontario.

[iv] As to financing it: create CanLII's legal opinions service, provided at cost, plus the necessary profit.

As a very successful example, since July 1979, LAO LAW at Legal Aid Ontario, has provided a legal opinion service for Ontario lawyers in private practice, who service legal aid cases.

For example, I recommended (in a paper of some 65 pages) to several benchers and to the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (the FLSC), the sponsor of CanLII, that CanLII be scaled - up to provide the legal opinion service at cost to every lawyer in Canada, that LAO LAW provides free to Ontario's lawyers willing to service legal aid cases.

Not exact matches

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

The range of activities being quarantined under a 48 per cent buyout of the Maggie Beer Products premium food business by ASX - listed Primary Opinions has been clearly outlined in a prospectus ahead of a vote on June 24 by shareholders in the Victorian acquirer, which is switching to food manufacturing and away from operating a legal services networking hub.

Primary Opinion had a chequered history, having transformed into a legal services, human resources and accounting firm from 2013, from its previous guise as a social media company called Jumbuck Entertainment.

England and Wales left with the highest drink - drive limit in Europe after Malta announces plans to lower legal blood alcohol content for drivers Road safety groups and emergency services call for England and Wales to follow suit No progress on UK drink driving deaths since 2010 Public opinion polls show 77 % in favour of a lower legal limit

«I'm confident of the fact that we handled everything legally and ethically; that we did the things I wish more people would do in public service, we sought guidance from an ethics board,» de Blasio said at an unrelated Queens press conference, adding that he sought legal advice from lawyers and opinions from the Conflicts of Interest Board.

The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.

If you talk to a lawyer and your lawyer says not to do anything, don't pay back your loans «get your lawyer to put that in writing for you»!!!! There is a legal opinion from Charles Rotenberg stating that these are real loans and they need to be serviced.

Bottom Line, Inc. publishes the opinions of expert authorities in many fields These opinions are for educational and illustrative purposes only and should not be considered as either individual advice or as a substitute for legal, accounting, investment, medical and other professional services intended to suit your specific personal needs.

A county attorney found that the differences in the pet laws were minor and reversed an earlier legal opinion that halted service to the six cities, Jones said.

In a formal legal opinion, Brnovich sided with Corporation Commissioner Bob Burns, who has been trying for months to get Arizona Public Service to open its books to show political donations.

North Carolina quickly put the kibosh on plans for advertising legal services on Groupon, stating in a proposed ethics opinion that the site's fee «is a percentage of the amount actually paid to the lawyer and appears to constitute revenue sharing with a nonlawyer.»

I asked Britton whether a handful of recent ethics opinions ruling against Avvo's fixed - fee legal services product accelerated the decision to sell.

In the meantime, try and see if you can still get a dial - up service and landline internet, just to ensure compliance with our nearly sepia - toned legal ethics opinions relating to email.

For many years he has worked with such experts by providing legal opinions in relation to their servicing the electronic records management systems of large institutions.

If such technology were used by CanLII, in addition to legal opinions, from its large databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized databases and projects such as databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.

It continues as a true support service but it has had to shift from emphasizing its production of complete legal opinions, to the free downloading of highly specialized memoranda of law, factums, and other materials.

Obsolete, because: (1) it uses the least experienced of legally - trained people as the basis of the most important legal service — legal advice and opinions — and, (2) because it is too cost - inefficient.

Some bar associations have even withdrawn outdated opinions in light of other state bar associations» concerns about the effect of such a prohibition on the accessibility of legal services to pro se litigants.

Having worked for many years with records management experts who service clients» ERMSs (I write the legal opinions that accompany their reports), and having been the legal advisor in the drafting of the NSCs concerning ERMS technology, I know that these defects are very common.

According to the court's opinion enforcing a two - year suspension [pdf], Ms. Guste provided legal services to prepare a power of attorney and represent her client in the matter of a hit - and - run accident.

Greg offers legal counsel and services in strategic planning and risk assessment, policy development, contract negotiation and drafting, transactional and opinion work, due - diligence and all forms of dispute resolution.

Unbundled services can include any of legal opinions, legal research, drafting, coaching and / or representation.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

However, the maximization of cost - savings is obtained by having such a support service provide full legal opinions, rather than merely enabling lawyers to download memoranda and other materials from an online catalogue.

COPRAC's hypotheticals indicate that publishing a blog that demonstrates your knowledge of your practice area will not subject you to attorney advertising restrictions if it contains information but not offers of availability; the same is true if the blog contains articles of opinion or information on legal issues outside your practice area and does not offer your services.

That included the ability to influence public opinion and help shape laws; contribution to the strength and quality of legal services; and social and political influence and involvement.

Some state bars, such as the North Carolina State Bar, have specifically published ethics opinions permitting virtual law practices and encouraging the practice of providing unbundled legal services online.

For example, legal research, as a specialized support service provided by career research lawyers, is a far more competent and cost - efficient way of producing legal opinions than relying of students» legal research.

Particularly in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster (see «LASPO: why it's time to listen and review») and if Corbyn is indeed right about the change in public opinion, the time is ripe for reassessing the need for access to legal services for poor and marginalised communities.

It also means, in my opinion, that there is a fairly large niche opening up here for an even modestly adventurous firm to position itself at the forefront of legal service through the use of even yesterday's information technology.

If you have an opinion whether the market for legal services is changing, or not, you can find plenty of ammunition from recent studies, surveys, and headlines.

Either this is a sign of the times, or the public has an abysmally low opinion of the value of legal services.

To date, Avvo Legal Services, which connects consumers to attorneys for a flat fee and takes a portion for advertising, has been knocked by at least five state ethics opinions saying that lawyers who engage with the platform are running afoul of rules regarding fee - sharing with nonlawyers and the unlicensed practice of law.

DTCC offers several different services — in your opinion which are the most difficult from a legal stance?

But it is also a move that polarises opinion between those who view the stationers as the epitome of the high street (and therefore the place to be) and those who will see the retailer as a bit too down - market for the rarified world of legal services.

The market already has computerized legal services being provided by Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer and so far those companies have skated through the unauthorized practice of law and in my opinion rightfully but that's a different queslegal services being provided by Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer and so far those companies have skated through the unauthorized practice of law and in my opinion rightfully but that's a different quesLegal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer and so far those companies have skated through the unauthorized practice of law and in my opinion rightfully but that's a different question.

Readers of this blog and those others probably know that some member of the Conservative Party, or of the federal civil service, obtained opinions from leading scholars and jurists that the appointment of Justice Nadon is legal.

In our opinion, outsourcing services / projects can help law firms and partners focus on the legal work.

For the third consecutive year, Peppermint commissioned a What clients really want from a legal service provider research project, collating the opinions of over 1000 private clients, 150 UK corporate clients and more than 150 law firms.

Inclusion in the Top 25 talks to a level of respect, the ability to influence public opinion, and to help shape the laws of this country and others; contribution to the strength and quality of legal services as well as access to justice; and social and political influence and involvement.

An attorney of law firm may not include, on a website or other advertisement, a quotation or excerpt from a court opinion (oral or written) about the attorney's abilities or legal services.