Sentences with phrase «legal practice context»

The eDiscovery Fellowship Course is designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks and explores the legal and practical principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.
The eight - week course is designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks and explores the legal and practical principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.
Designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks, this course will explore the legal and practical principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.
McClead runs through each of the 6 D's providing some examples and then considers them in the legal practice context.

Not exact matches

Justification by faith was treated moderately in the first part; Melancthon presented it in a way that did not necessarily contradict traditional Catholic teaching — even though it put sacramental practice into a less «legal» and obligatory context.
The term can also be used in legal documents; in this context, the term describes redistricting practices that violate federal or state laws.
The political context of Francisco Franco's regime in Spain, and its restricted legal rights for women, impacted Semmel's consciousness, and upon her return to New York in 1970 her artistic practice and involvement with the growing feminist community of artists would define her art making and activism.
Just like with engineering, the unlicensed ones can still practice, they just can't advise public policy, or offer letters in a legal context.
Thus, it could fairly be said that in the context of the common law in California and most other jurisdictions until only a few decades ago, legal malpractice, both in theory and practice, was almost non-existent and certainly not in common usage in the vocabulary of the common law.
«Recent law grad over $ 250,000 in debt blogs about trying to make it as a small practice public interest lawyer — all within the context of broader changes happening within the legal profession.»
The course included a session on marketing a law practice, which in turn contained a section on branding and what it means in the legal context.
... AI work in the legal context is focused on understanding certain key aspects of legal reasoning and building IT systems useful for legal practice, teaching, or research.»
Best Practices for Legal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educaLegal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educaLegal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal education.
While most legal practice management software uses a «tabs and tables» approach to design, we've chosen to plot a new course relying on search and context to surface information, allowing legal professionals to accomplish their work at «rocket» speed.
Or a school might «flip» the legal research classroom, pushing the lectures about gathering legal information out to podcasts or other out - of - class media, thus freeing in - class time for hands - on practice and discussions about legal authority in a variety of contexts.44
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
If you read some of the material that is presented in the context of legal practice, there seem to be two predictions about where the legal industry is moving.
This conference provides a timely opportunity to look again at the impact of technology on family legal practice in the context of a fast - moving legal services market.
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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
Basic concepts such as how equity partnership works, work in progress / lock - up and recovery rates are seen as the province of partners, yet understanding how things work and why they're important would seem to me to be cornerstones of successful legal practice and would, I think, help associates put their 80 - hour weeks in context.
Opening the door to the world of international and foreign law in the context of first - year legal research and writing will help our students recognize and prepare to work effectively in the global legal practice that awaits them.
This is a great way to gain a deeper understanding of the commercial context of legal practice, extend relationship networks, develop client relationships, and increase the possibility of joining the organisation at the end of the secondment.
There are two important reasons for which London is an international forum for dispute resolution: one, English law as the chosen law for international contracts, particularly in financial and maritime sectors; and two, a long tradition of legal practice with judges committed to promote London as a dispute resolution centre, as demonstrated by Mr Penadés in his article «Commercial Choice of Law in Context: Looking Beyond Rome».
This is a 3 - year project that will review «the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.»
Yet, certain specificities of the province's legal system will typically require vendors to pause to review their typical legal risk tolerance analysis and adapt their practices slightly to appropriately address these in the Quebec context.
The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 conducted a review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.
Leading a team in the context of the legal sector can mean everything from instructing a secretary or delegating work, to leading a practice group, department or firm.
The coding examples Zvenyach uses are oriented around law practice and presented in a legal context.
The issue of non-lawyer ownership interests in legal practices is not the only context in which the «idiom of professionalism» [5] has been used in debate about legal ethics over the years.
The co-requisite Reflections course enhances and supports students» understanding of community legal practice and allows them to situate their clinical work within a broader social justice context.
Participating in critical reflection and rounds encourages students to help one another and themselves in learning how to problem solve, situate their legal practice within a broader social context, and support their self - care.
«Dublin is an important legal market and a key global hub for the financial services and technology sectors, in addition to being well located to support our global tax practice, and will continue to be so, particularly in the context of Brexit, as we expect more institutions to have or develop a presence in the country.»
[the Committee thus recommends to the US to:] Interpret the Covenant in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to its terms in their context, including subsequent practice, and in the light of its object and purpose and review its legal position so as to acknowledge the extraterritorial application of the Covenant under certain circumstances, as outlined inter alia in the Committee's general comment No. 31 (2004) on the nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties to the Covenant;
In her 2014 article «Globalization and the ABA Commission On Ethics 20/20: Reflections On Missed Opportunities and the Road Not Taken,» Laurel Terry examines the work of this ABA Commission that was charged with performing a «thorough» review of the Model Rules (including, but not limited to, Model Rule 5.4), as well as a review of the «US system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice development.»
Dottie Burch, the head of the practice group, has years of experience as a lifelong equestrian and as an equine attorney, enabling her to offer targeted legal advice which is relevant and practical in an equine context.
The question was put on the table again in 2010, when the President of the ABA established the Commission on Ethics 20/20 «to perform a thorough review of the [Model Rules] and the US system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments,» [26] with a view towards making recommendations to the House of Delegates for amendments to the Model Rules.
This gives me a little chuckle as I have often heard him comment, in the context of dealing with issues of competence of members, that any lawyer with a practicing certificate is entitled to hang up their shingle and represent clients regardless how long they've been away from day to day legal practice.
And she describes a few «augmented intelligence» scenarios that would be useful in the context of legal practice:
Practice Note: This decision runs contrary to recent decisions in other jurisdictions that seem to relax the standard privity requirements in legal malpractice claims and permit assignments of legal malpractice claims to non-clients in a business context.
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If you're not familiar with this committee, it was established in 2009 with the goal of performing «a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.»
We expect our articling students to continue their formal education within the context of the law firm environment, and to become exposed to the widest possible range of legal subject matters, various alternatives for dispute resolution, appropriate business practices, and ethical standards.
Chapter 8: Family Lawyer as Limited Scope Litigation Counsel How Self - Represented Parties Experience Litigation Rules Governing Limited Scope Court Appearances A Friendly Word of Caution Basic Checklist of Tasks to Allocate in the Litigation Context Fact Gathering and Legal Research Organizing by Tasks and Substantive Areas Additional Litigation - Related Ethical Considerations Practice Tips Endnotes
While you may provide these services to an employer (including the government), or use your legal skills in a non-practising context (like education), you can not carry on the private practice of law.
Ideally, faculty would incorporatea range of email assignments, and students would have multiple opportunities to practice communicating legal analysis in emails in a variety of contexts.45 Indeed, this is one of the consistent themes that comes out of surveys of practicing attorneys: the recommendation for more frequent, shorter assignments to prepare students for the tasks they are most likely to have as new attorneys.46 But the reality is that first - year legal writing classes are already overloaded with content, making it difficult to incorporate numerous email assignments.47 And eliminating traditional, complex memo and brief assignments is also problematic, as those assignments build critical skills in complex legal reasoning.48
With more than 50 attorneys practicing in eleven distinct litigation practice areas, one of our experienced litigators can help you (and your readers, viewers or listeners) better understand the background and context of any breaking legal story.
Clinical Law focuses on the different contexts in which clinical law is practised, discusses approaches to building relationships with clients and communities, and explores the future of clinical legal practice.
This Commission was tasked to perform a review not only of alternative business structures and multidisciplinary practices, but of all the Model Rules «in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.»
In this context, the Commission takes pains to clarify that its proposal regarding LSPs «is consistent with the longstanding ABA policy in support of state - based judicial regulation of the legal profession and the practice of law by licensed lawyers.»
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