First, while there are more women working
in legal professions than men (at 68 percent), men dominate the higher - paying and higher - ranking legal jobs.
It offers tremendous opportunities for the rest
of legal profession and generally the legal system too.
If only the public would rally around legal aid funding, protest legislative limits to judicial discretion, and defend the virtues of a self governing
legal profession as we do.
This award was initiated as a means of acknowledging the work that is done by publishers to provide the Canadian
legal profession with high quality materials for use in understanding and researching the law.
The course is taught by
legal professions who explain what you need to know about applying legal principles and practices that relate to the shopping center industry.
Does the fact that the regular old white male dominated
legal profession does not provide accessible legal services for the poor or the middle class?
Research shows that nine per cent of women in the
Canadian legal profession leave within 16 months, while another 55 per cent leave within 4.5 years.
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.
It may be time to stop fighting against us and join us in the fight for achieving an equitable, diverse and
just legal profession.
This program focuses on providing varying amounts of assistance to qualifying attorneys to ensure that the state's
legal profession remains diversified.
As far as industries go,
legal professions still have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to closing the gender wage gap, especially in terms of partners and executives.
Explore how law students, young lawyers and the
wider legal profession can engage in the social justice space and understand the legal and professional skills required when embarking on related career pathways.
Supporting the
BC legal profession as they develop skills to work with self - representing litigants is well within our mandate.
I suggest that we must look at collaboration through a much wider - angled lens, including those within and those outside the bounds of the
traditional legal profession.
There is evidence of this erosion all around us, both within and without the bounds of the
formal legal profession.
Maybe it's the total failure of the legal press to do their jobs of reporting on this issue so we have an
informed legal profession.
The panels include notable angel investors, lawyers,
legal profession critics and innovation thinkers, academics, and business executives.
Best Lawyers is considered by many as the oldest and most respected peer review publication
in legal profession.
The same pressure to increase efficiencies and show ever improving value is being focused on the private practice
legal profession with an intensity never before experienced.
In a constantly
changing legal profession, how can we equip the next set of leaders with the tools and skills to leverage innovation in addressing our widening access to justice gap?
Historically, the
Canadian legal profession faced significant, self - imposed restrictions in the area of advertising: close to a total ban was imposed.
These changes are largely in line with shifts towards a more merit based compensation structure across the
wider legal profession, and in such a competitive market.
What actually happens long term about this is something we as well as the
whole legal profession will watch with interest.
Until these barriers are also removed, we can not rest in our efforts toward a more balanced and
diverse legal profession.