Sentences with phrase «legal professions still»

I think in the legal profession still in the UK you see lawyers looking at technology and then dictating and getting other people to do things, like secretaries.

The surprise is that the legal profession stills needs such articles.

Despite the advent of Smartphones (Blackberry, iPhone, etc.) and the many ways they facilitate our lives (i.e. we can now start a car, open a bank account, receive and send e-mails, read the news, etc.), the legal profession still seems to be behind on technology.

Instead, the legal profession still uses the obsolete «handicraftsmen's» method, which has very limited capacity to innovate greater cost - efficiency, and therefore has no capacity to maintain the quality of legal advice services while having to cope rapidly increasing volumes of law, their complexity, and electronic records, without increasing their price.

Not exact matches

BlackBerrys may still linger in Washington, Wall Street and the legal profession, but in Silicon Valley they are as rare as a necktie.

Leaving aside the fact that nearly twenty - five years later legalized abortion still remains our most pressing legal and social issue, the claim that the issue of abortion could be medicalized turns out to be wrong in a way that we should have been able to predict long before: the medical profession has for the most part declined to join the partnership.

It's just that science and scientists, climate scientists in particular, still haven't caught tup with the fact that a lot of science is now being seen by the public as equally grubby in it's attempts to enhance it's own status as the lawyers and legal fraternity or the big pharma of the medical world or the shenanigans of the financial and accountancy world and all the other grubbiness inherent in any profession that seeks to elevate itself and it's practitioners to a high public, power wielding status by fair means or foul

Still, it was only after Rush Limbaugh decided to weigh in on this pressing matter in the legal profession that we thought it worth pointing out.

Although there are increasing numbers of gay lawyers and barristers who are role models for those coming up through the ranks, it seems a large majority still feel that the legal profession lags others in terms of being accepting of people's sexual orientation.

Although Women's History Month is coming to a close, the issues faced by women in the legal profession are still in dire need of continued conversation.

Therefore, if you are unsure which branch of the legal profession you are interested in pursuing, it could be that the best option would still be to focus on obtaining a qualifying law degree.

Still, if the legal profession wants to address civility in the legal profession, one logical place to begin is by looking to ourselves.

While it functions as a much more general hub for law - related news and features, it is still essential for anyone in a legal profession.

Based on these statistics, it is obvious that there is still a gender wage gap in the legal profession.

While all other financial institutions and professionals are still bound by the law and must track their clients» money trails and may be subjected to warrantless searches by government authorities, the unique role of lawyers and the legal profession's independent role in the justice system has been recognized.

As you know the legal profession is behind when it comes to adapting to trends... some lawyers are still not convinced that market engagement is a worthy goal.

In the late 1980s, although women lawyers had made great strides in the legal profession, there was still a large gender wage gap due to women lawyers being forced onto the mommy track.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

But in the legal profession, there's still a need for low - cost, pay - as - you - go, single - license services — and I'm afraid that the more Lexis acquires, the fewer options we'll find at the low end.

In The Boston Globe, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, a senior partner at the law firm Bowditch & Dewey and author of the book, Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law, says of the survey: «This shows that we are reaching a crisis point when it comes to the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession, and therefore a crisis point when it comes to women leaders generally.»

Despite the above limits, Twitter still has the potential to be an invaluable research tool in the legal profession.

If you still have hope the legal profession can be changed, read The Lawyer Bubble by Steven J. Harper.

Honoured, and still quite amazed — having had no ambition when I joined the profession other than to do interesting work and do it well — and of course — to complete my qualification as a Legal Executive, I feel really proud.

«Law students and lawyers with disabilities still face barriers in accessing and remaining in the legal profession.

Although the protector of justice and equity in society, the legal profession is also one of the slowest professions to actually deal with the racism and sexism that, unfortunately, is still very prevalent at all levels of our profession.

It's about a mentality that has accompanied the corporatization of America's most important institutions, including the legal profession — a dramatic transformation that is still unfolding.

When asked what profession he would have pursued instead of becoming a lawyer, he explained he would still want to work in the legal field.

When lawyer Robert P. Bigelow came out with his book Computers and the Law: An Introductory Handbook in 1966, he was so far ahead of his time that a reviewer of the book noted, «The effects of computers upon the legal profession are still basically unknown.»

That's almost exactly the demographic profile of the legal profession (pdf) when it comes to women, but still a little disappointing for non-white speakers, assuming I've counted correctly.

While there was definitely a very steep learning curve when I entered the profession, I am still grateful for the countless hours of theory, philosophy, analysis and critical thinking that was a very large part of my legal education.

As someone who still pays his bills with a chequebook and stamps, I'm a little reluctant to address the whole question of technology in the legal profession.

The legal profession should unify, singing from the same hymn sheet to promote the value of justice, and access to it; with the foundations lying within the Magna Carta itself, which still provides three clauses that remain in force today.

It is a mystery why anyone would still be interested in selling any portion of the legal profession to non-lawyer profit seekers.

There's still plenty of work left to do when it comes to diversity in the legal profession, says Georgina Stanley

Still, because lawyers are also information professionals, and given that social media and the legal profession share an increasingly large border, these insights can fuel debate within the law.

Some members of the profession are standing their ground; some are streamlining their activities, finding internal efficiencies to meet what expert Richard Susskind calls the more - for-less challenge; and still others are seeking ways to turn the profession on its head, looking for disruptive answers that will please both clients and legal professionals.

Still, the question remains whether workplace investigations by attorneys constitute «the regular practice of the [legal] profession» under N.Y. GBL § 83.

However my classmates graduated into a legal profession that was still predominately male, especially among the older attorneys would were most likely to be judges, law firm partners, mentors and those with hiring authority.

MCC: Although legal operations is still a relatively new field, you're one of the profession's veterans.

The relative quiet on the commercial front presents an opportunity for the legal profession to set standards for «future legal texts» while the issue is still fluid.

Cheffings, who has taken over leadership of the PRIME work experience initiative, was speaking as part of a recent Legal Week roundtable on social mobility, in which leading players in the diversity movement discussed the issues that still need to be dealt with by the profession.

It was also a world where Canada's legal profession was still almost exclusively provincial - in both senses of the word.

Leaving aside whether success at a «large firm» correlates to success in the legal profession, I still question Sanders» data.

«Not surprising but certainly disappointing is the latest report from the American Bar Association that documents that minority attorneys still face a Sisyphean struggle to succeed in the legal profession.

Perhaps the data you cite is a start, but it is nowhere near conclusive, and it remains greatly outweighed by the vast body of social science data that tells us the legal profession is still highly segregated.

Even accounting for offsetting departures from both streams of the Ontario legal profession, the province still saw a net increase of 3,000 lawyers and 1,700 paralegals to the rolls of the Law Society.

The tide has turned I am pleased to say, but there is still a long way to go before we eradicate the billable hour and its partner in crime the timesheet, together with any form of retrospective billing, from the legal profession.

This — our 27th annual report on what's going on in the legal profession — has been the most difficult of all these reports to write because of the continuing and sometimes conflicting changes in the profession which many firms still have not recognized or accepted.

In this episode, I dive deep into the origins of the billable hour, explore where it's heading, and evaluate whether it still serves a purpose in the legal profession.