Sentences with phrase «legal rural services»

As one of the leading specialist legal rural services teams in the south we will deliver the quality of service and expertise you would expect from a top London practice but at a rate you would expect from a quality regional firm.

Not exact matches

In response to this massive growth and population change, Volunteer Legal Services launched its Outreach Program in order to address the legal needs of people living in suburban and rural areas outside of AuLegal Services launched its Outreach Program in order to address the legal needs of people living in suburban and rural areas outside of Aulegal needs of people living in suburban and rural areas outside of Austin.

Reduced demand for traditional legal services (typically billed by the hour) also means there is less demand for articling students and a tendency towards over-supply of lawyers (while paradoxically at the same time, many rural and smaller communities don't have enough lawyers).

Special Services Units: Addressing particular legal problems or the needs of specific vulnerable communities — Foreclosure Prevention Unit, Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team, Medical Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American legal problems or the needs of specific vulnerable communities — Foreclosure Prevention Unit, Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team, Medical Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American Unit.

LSS also established in 2010 a new community engagement department to ensure legal aid services meet local needs particularly in rural and remote communities.»

Citizens in rural Manitoba will have more access to legal services with the merger of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP and Christianson Law announced yesterday.

This initiative was the first of its kind in Canada to recognize the importance of ensuring continued access to legal services in small communities and rural areas and to highlight the challenges that these communities were and continue to face.

Created in 1928 as a counterweight to lawyer - rich Montreal and Quebec City, the 6,500 - member APP was devoted to ensuring the quality of legal services in smaller urban centres and rural regions and giving voice to the lawyers who practise there.

ARLO, which has a separate website, matches law students with summer and articling positions in rural communities, and also encourages rural lawyers to «make positions available as a way to ensure the succession of their practice and accessibility of legal services in their community.»

Florida Rural Legal Services is a non-profit organization which provides civil legal advice and representation for low - income people and communiLegal Services is a non-profit organization which provides civil legal advice and representation for low - income people and communilegal advice and representation for low - income people and communities.

Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. — Pro Bono Award, 1996.

The few legal practitioners in Uganda are based in the capital city, making it difficult for people both in urban and rural areas to access legal services.

Florida Rural Legal Services has awarded Mr. Cushnie the Pro Bono Award four times.

So the question is: How can unemployed and under - employed urban lawyers provide their valuable (and ostensibly affordable) legal services to under - served rural consumers?

The usual theory posits that consumer demand for affordable legal services far outstrips the supply of affordable legal service providers, more so in rural and remote areas.

Alaska Legal Services Corporation Location: Anchorage, Alaska Brief Description: The legal fellow will assist in drafting, researching, and editing legal education materials and legal forms to bolster ALSC's Pro Bono Training Academy (PBTA)-- an online support mechanism for pro bono attorneys to assist clients in rural communiLegal Services Corporation Location: Anchorage, Alaska Brief Description: The legal fellow will assist in drafting, researching, and editing legal education materials and legal forms to bolster ALSC's Pro Bono Training Academy (PBTA)-- an online support mechanism for pro bono attorneys to assist clients in rural communilegal fellow will assist in drafting, researching, and editing legal education materials and legal forms to bolster ALSC's Pro Bono Training Academy (PBTA)-- an online support mechanism for pro bono attorneys to assist clients in rural communilegal education materials and legal forms to bolster ALSC's Pro Bono Training Academy (PBTA)-- an online support mechanism for pro bono attorneys to assist clients in rural communilegal forms to bolster ALSC's Pro Bono Training Academy (PBTA)-- an online support mechanism for pro bono attorneys to assist clients in rural communities.

Following law school, Ms. O'Rear worked for Legal Aid of East Tennessee under a fellowship from the National Association of Public Interest Law intended to increase access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East TenneLegal Aid of East Tennessee under a fellowship from the National Association of Public Interest Law intended to increase access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East Tennelegal services in two rural communities in East Tennessee.

Community Legal Services serves 12 counties that are both rural and urban.

Sullivan & Ward, P.C. is a West Des Moines, Iowa law firm providing legal services to business entities, rural electric and telephone cooperative associations and individuals.

They include demographic shifts, like the aging of the profession and depopulation of rural lawyers; disruptions, like advances in technology and competition from non-legal entities; and a well - documented crisis of access to legal services and the justice system.

A recent article in the ABA Journal on access to legal services in rural America noted that «Nearly 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, but the New York Times says just 2 percent of small law practices are in those areas.

At Scheifele Erskine & Renken in Meaford, our firm provides a full range of real estate legal services to clients located in the urban and rural areas of Owen Sound, Meaford, Thornbury, Town of Blue Mountains and Collingwood.

Over the past three decades, SLS volunteers have taught and assisted inmates at several correctional institutions, offered «duty counsel» service at rural court houses, published numerous books and pamphlets, advocated for changes to laws that adversely affect the poor, participated on radio and television programs, helped individuals file their income tax returns, provided countless lectures and seminars, and assisted hundreds of thousands of individuals with their specific legal questions and problems.

Articling positions are rare in rural communities, as well, compounding the inaccessibility of legal services to many residents.

So, the rural lawyer population is dwindling and there is a legal desertification creeping across small town USA — so what, it can't be that big a deal what with the internet, on - line legal services and all.

Tennessee's legal aid and legal services attorneys are simply not able to reach every person in need, particularly those people living in rural areas.

3) mobile technologies; and (4) remote service delivery platforms that facilitate pro bono attorneys to offer legal assistance to individuals living in rural communities.

Such technology includes an app developed by Ron Staudt, professor of law at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago - Kent College of Law, that walks pro se litigants through the legal process; dispute resolution websites which can provide a forum to settle lower - dollar grievances that might not be economical for a lawyer to handle; and virtual law practices that can enable lawyers to deliver services to clients in rural locations.

In support of Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC), Brittany Ward worked on a project that utilized technology to facilitate the delivery of services to rural populations inServices Corporation (ALSC), Brittany Ward worked on a project that utilized technology to facilitate the delivery of services to rural populations inservices to rural populations in Alaska.

Congress in successive years allowed for funding to expand the existing network of legal services programs to rural and suburban areas of the United States that had never been included as a target population for free civil legal services.

Although similar themes were encountered in many locations, I was personally struck by the submissions made in rural communities and the additional challenges that are faced by those delivering and seeking legal aid services in these areas.

«Some applicants are interested in sharing a student,» says REAL project manager Angela McCue, who wrestles annually with the logistics of getting more second - year law students and articling students into rural high - needs areas, especially those where legal aid services are needed.

The impact of these services on access to justice is significant for residents of rural Canada and will likely become even more important as providers of legal information and legal services seek new ways to serve rural communities that are increasingly losing lawyers in their communities to retirement.

That's going to mean, the participants suggest, finding under - served markets and filling those markets» need for legal services, perhaps by moving to a rural area, or by setting up a virtual firm to service those areas.

These Fellowships will fund ten articling positions for community legal clinics and Legal Aid Ontario to provide legal information and services to linguistic minorities and residents of rural and remote communilegal clinics and Legal Aid Ontario to provide legal information and services to linguistic minorities and residents of rural and remote communiLegal Aid Ontario to provide legal information and services to linguistic minorities and residents of rural and remote communilegal information and services to linguistic minorities and residents of rural and remote communities.

A year ago, we mentioned that the Law Foundation of Ontario had launched a project on access to legal information and legal services by linguistic minorities and persons living in rural or remote areas.

mfg Solicitors provides a range of legal services for personal, business and rural matters.

The Committee welcomes the initiatives to make available to women facilities to ensure their equal access to legal services, including in rural areas, and the strengthening of the Sex Discrimination Act, 1984.

Board members from the National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service have been meeting in rural Victoria to plan for the year ahead.

[3] A further non-exhaustive list of organisations who have publicly expressed support for the campaign includes: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Amnesty International Australia; Australian Catholic Bishops» Social Justice Committee; Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; Australian Council of Social Services; Australian Council for International Development; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Red Cross; Caritas Australia; Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW; Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales; Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University; Human Rights Law Resource Centre; Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth; Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales; Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney; Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council; National Association of Community Legal Centres; National Children's and Youth Law Centre; National Rural Health Alliance; Public Health Association of Australia; Quaker Services Australia; Rural Doctors Association of Australia; Save the Children Australia; Sax Institute; Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW; Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific; UNICEF Australia; and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.

(The list of agencies signed up to the campaign include: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Amnesty International Australia Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Australian Council of Social Service Australian Council for International Development Australian General Practice Network Australian Nursing Federation Australian Red Cross Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Caritas Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Diplomacy Training Program Fred Hollows Foundation Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Indigenous Law Centre Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council National Association of Community Legal Centres National Children's and Youth Law Centre National Rural Health Alliance Oxfam Australia Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Public Health Association of Australia Quaker Services Australia Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Association of Australia Save the Children Australia Telethon Institute for Child Health Research UNICEF Australia Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre)

Century 21 Bravo describes itself as the largest multi-cultural office in Calgary, providing residential, rural and commercial service, as well as in - house legal, mortgage and appraisal services.