Sentences with phrase «legal profession does»

I don't know if there is any other profession — I can't think of one off hand — that is entitled to discriminate in the manner the legal profession does in the provision of its services, and I speak from personal experience.

Kimber Russell: When we acknowledge the leaky pipeline, in part we're saying that the legal profession does not set women up to succeed.

My view is that it is in the interest of the legal profession and in the public interest that innovation happen within the legal profession so that the legal profession does not wither in the face of change.

Slaw readers, cast aside your presuppositions and conventional wisdom about the legal profession and propose something new, even radical — pretend the legal profession doesn't exist in its current form and you need to invent it.

If the legal profession doesn't pick up the task, however, it will be assumed by those «outsiders» who see the lucrative potential in serving up «smart» legal documents, and they will get to set the terms and means whereby legal information is managed.

Notably, stagnant mobility in the U.K. legal profession does not appear to be the result of active resistance to the proposition that more diversity is beneficial.

The legal profession does not agree about what exactly is meant by «injury to Aboriginal culture,» what are the defining characteristics of the wrong, what theories of liability support it, how causation may be determined, where the chain of causation ends and how damages should be conceived and calculated.

But the markup is in fact important to law because our legal system is pretty much given over to computers to manage; if the legal profession doesn't pay attention, it will miss the opportunity to participate in the formulation of legal XML, or whatever that morphs into, and consequently will have to handle law in the future with implements designed by others.

I don't think the legal profession does a very good job of treating its lawyers like human beings, with human problems.»

In considering the matter, the hearing panel concluded disbarment was the only appropriate punishment: «Any other sanction would compromise the public confidence in the profession's integrity and suggest that the legal profession does not take dishonesty committed by lawyers seriously.»

Admitting that the legal profession does not reflect the diversity of society, the Report states that the legal profession should ensure that the justice system operates free of bias.

In fact, 10 years ago, the other business I was in — media — looked a lot like the legal profession does now.

Yet, the legal profession does not have the means to meet it, and, speaking through its bar associations, it rejects that it has the obligation to do so.

Therefore, the problem and its long history of failure, requires government intervention, because law societies, being the regulators of the legal profession in Canada, do not realize that they do not understand the true nature of the problem and won't accept the fact that they and all other such institutions within the legal profession do not have the expertise necessary to solve the problem.

We've certainly come a long way since the days when many in the legal profession did not even know what LPO stood for.

The report is important because the changes in the legal profession don't affect anyone more acutely than law students and young lawyers, who will actually live to see the changes sweep across the industry.

Is the legal profession doing that?

Can the legal profession do anything about this justice gap?

There are, however, I think 2 main reasons knowledge managers in the legal profession don't necessarily use the phrase «enterprise content information» management to describe their work, even when they are involved in a lot of information - related tasks including document management, records management, knowledge management, litigation management, risk management and project management:

Lord Goldsmith said a recent survey carried out by the ATJF, the Law Society, the Bar Council and Ilex showed 72 % of the legal profession did not know they could obtain pro bono costs on winning a civil case.

So what can the legal profession do to protect those lawyers (especially those who hold less power in the firm) who are vulnerable to harassment or assault?

Not exact matches

I wonder if you're practicing as midwife underground in a state where you're not licensed, if you sort of by default don't report your income, since what you're doing isn't a legal profession?

The House was a stronghold of the aristocracy, although it did represent a broad cross-section of the established interests in the state: the church, rural and urban property, the navy, the army, the legal profession, commerce and trade.

In the true tradition of the legal profession, the fact that the President had been deceived by the Vice-President and Dr. Oteng Adjei into granting an executive consent, did not intimidate me as the Attorney - General to grant the indemnity requested.

What part of «shared sacrifice» do you people active in the legal profession not understand?

Since when did it become the ethical practice of any responsible and respected lawyer committed to the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, the independence of the legal profession, constitutionalism and democracy to resort to the print and electronic media as the medium of arguing an appeal or review of the decision of a Court of law he has lost?

He highlights the 2012 Derek Keilloh case in the UK that shows the «impossible ethical and legal position doctors now face in Australia... as they are caught between the profession's ethical code, which places patient welfare at the heart of their endeavours, and the law of the country which places unacceptable obstacles in the way of doing so.»

The medical profession appears to be divided, the researchers note, not just in its attitudes about providing controversial practices such as terminal sedation, abortion or birth control for teens, but also in its judgments about what doctors should do when patients request a legal procedure to which their doctor objects.

I really didn't want to drop out, I had my goal that pursue a legal profession all the time yet didn't want to put a lot of pressure on my mom as well.

Mumbai, India About Blog Legally India reports news and information relevant to Indian law firms, the Indian legal profession, Indian lawyers, law students, and international law firms and lawyers doing business in India.

During the Vergara trial, attempting to do away with teacher due process rights, sworn testimony (during discovery) was given that, as stated above, thinking administrators were able to successfully ease teachers out of the profession, careful scrutiny of beginning teachers by competent administrators prevented districts from hiring teachers who did not fit the district, and the average time to dismiss a teacher via the legal process was months and tens of thousands of dollars.

Nor do they want to lose hard - won legal protections as they seek to raise standards for their profession.

Just as the American Bar Association polices the legal community and the AMA (American Medical Association) does the same for the medical profession, you must get more serious about accountability.

While the 12 plans finalized as of mid-July do not include exemptions from teacher legal protections, they do encroach on key aspects of the profession, including the importance of teacher certification and the benefits of small student - to - teacher ratios.

Positions with Tier 1 and Tier 2 employers which do not require a J.D. or involve the full - time provision of legal services may be eligible employment if they generally require the graduate to use his or her legal training to a significant degree or are often held by members of the legal profession.

Does it have to do with idiosyncrasies or the arrogance of the legal profession?

This is despite the Law Society of England and Wales saying he did not understand confidentiality and was bringing the legal profession into disrepute by suggesting that email would become the predominant way lawyers and their clients would communicate in his 1996 book, The Future of Law.

There is nothing as capable as LAO LAW at doing what it does in any other law office or institution in the legal profession in Canada.

Simon, don't you mean «marginal» rather than «paramount» in terms of use by the legal profession when compared to the commercial legal publishers competing services?

By launching into the profession without getting proper training from successful, experienced lawyers, they are doing their clients a disservice and the entire legal profession takes a hit on credibility.

Courts don't often encourage advertising by the legal profession.

And while the legal profession is rife with professionals that don't exercise these basic rules on a daily basis, I would venture to guess that, for the most part, lawyers know the difference between good and bad manners.

Most legal regulators do not likely have the resources at present to launch large numbers of UPL prosecutions, and it's probably safe to assume members of the profession are unwilling to pay significantly higher annual dues to give their regulators the resources to do so.

But don't overlook the impact your peers in the legal profession can have.

A majority of Canadian courts do not publish their decisions on their web site, in part due to the fact that court decisions are routinely screened, commented upon in the form of headnotes and made available to members of the legal profession by commercial publishers.

«I don't know any company, if you go outside the legal profession, that doesn't have its benchmarks and its key performance indicators and they can tell you down to 1 / 100th on everything.

It is striking to note that nowhere... is any evidence presented that harassment or invidious discrimination actually exists to any significant degree in the legal profession — or that, if it does exist, it is such a serious and widespread problem that the Model Rules must be amended.

But strong pressure to do so will exist in times of economic downturns, as the legal profession is now facing by reason of the problem of unaffordable legal services.

«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»

Why do individual members of the public have a negative impression of the legal profession?