Sentences with phrase «levels of the legal profession»

The organization's mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity at all levels of the legal professions in the Capital District (Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties and surrounding areas) for the benefit of Black, Hispanic and other attorneys of color and the entire legal profession.

By supporting each other, we will individually reach new heights in our profession, and collectively attain equal representation for women at the highest levels of the legal profession.

A procession of walkers from all areas and levels of the legal profession and associated industries will walk from Carey Street through central London to raise vital funds for law advice agencies.

We would also highlight that our speakers represent every level of the legal profession from the thought leaders, the actual leaders to the juniors now in the early years of legal practice.

Howard Law includes attorneys who are continually ranked at the highest levels of the legal profession by other members of the bar and judiciary.

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The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

Extrapolating this observation to evaluation of individuals in the legal profession, it is difficult for any individual lawyer or judge to have sufficiently large numbers of matters of any particular type to have a viable record for statistical analysis to assess effectiveness with a high level of confidence.

U of T and in law at Osgoode, Lorne Sossin continues to show a level of knowledge and commitment to the legal profession that makes him a leading changemaker in Canadian law.»

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

Ellen is particularly known for her expertise on the challenges faced by women in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorneys.

For many years, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Professionalism has sought to improve the legal profession by promoting greater competence, civility, and a higher level of ethical conduct — a mission that aligns with work of the Illinois... Read More

Proactively evaluating your client's experience or level of satisfaction with your services is relatively new to the legal profession.

More women are entering the legal profession than ever — women now make up about half of all law students and 36 % of all licensed attorneys — but these ratios are not reflected at the highest levels of firm positions.

Martindale - Hubbell, the legal profession's gold standard, rates Mr. Sparks as AV Preeminent indicating the «Highest Level of Professional Excellence» and he also carries the highest ethical rating endorsed by that organization.

The legal media (including legal blogs) are full of stories of high levels of attrition, lawyer burn - out, and general malaise in the profession, but I do not think it is entirely pervasive.

On a less practical level, it can be a sort of advocate for the legal profession, recognizing them as consumers of goods and services and as professionals with legislative and policy agendas and reporting in depth on these issues.

While the legal profession has long been afflicted by a deeply ingrained culture where high levels of stress are often viewed as «normal», there are signs that things are changing.

Exercising the profession as a Supreme Court lawyer gives me the opportunity to confront with the highest judicial body, entrusted with the role of guaranteeing uniformity at national level in the interpretation and application of the rules that form the Italian legal system.

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.

To reflect this our original remit involved assisting the development of the legal profession in Russia through mutual exchanges and training programmes, providing advice and assistance in connection with the administration of justice in the Russian Federation and the drafting of legislation and organising high level meetings and round table discussions on developing legal issues.

We know the stress and anxiety that come with any criminal prosecution and will provide you with a high level of personal attention, serving you with a dedication to the highest standards of practice within 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.

Having posted here earlier today about big - firm salary wars carrying fresh - out - of - school associates to the absurd pay level of $ 160,000, I was reassured that there remains some hope for the legal profession by this article to appear in Monday's National Law Journal: Interest in summer jobs at top firms cools down.

The combination of prohibitively expensive professional courses, high levels of debt and low salaries makes it extremely difficult for those from a lower socio - economic background to enter the legal aid profession and then to sustain a career in the sector.

No matter which techniques one chooses to employ, there seems to be an increased level of ethics involved — a duty to the legal profession, and also a duty to establish personal standards.

Opening up firms to outside investors could expand access to legal services without dragging the profession down to the level of online legal forms.

Or, should it be the executive or the legislative branches of the federal government of the United States, who would then override a 200 + year tradition of the regulation of the legal profession on the state level, on the grounds that it is regulating not attorney conduct but restrictions on competition, economic policy and the protection of human rights?

Nancy McCarthy analyzes the results in the current issue of the California Bar Journal, and notes that «minority attorneys continue to face serious obstacles to success in the legal profession from initial job opportunities to career advancement, and they remain grossly underrepresented in top - level private sector jobs.»

Assuming the risks can be mitigated, opening up firms to outside investors has the potential to drastically expand access to legal services without dragging the entire profession down to the level of online legal forms.

And though many lawyers may not feel that's a fair deal or a level playing field, that's the price we pay for the benefits of self - regulation of the legal profession's monopoly.

I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests this model has ceased to work in providing quality legal services to the public and in providing a level of comfort to the members of our profession.

About 20 % of the legal profession suffers from clinically significant levels of substance abuse, depression, anxiety or some other form of psychopathy.

Because of this National Competency Profile, all members of the legal profession can practice on a national level, regardless of where they were admitted to the bar and without evaluation by the local law society.

As the crown jewel event of the year, our National Conference serves as a forum for underrepresented students to learn more about the legal profession from prominent lawyers, judges and politicians.Our conference was created as, and continues to be, a response to the troubling level of black representation in the legal profession.

This collection serves as a valuable visual record of the history of the top levels of the judicial and legal professions in Ontario.

In the legal profession, the Federation of Law Societies has developed and adopted entry level competencies for newly admitted lawyers.

This ranking is based on his legal ability and professional ethics and is the highest possible level of professional excellence that can be awarded by Martindale - Hubbell, the authoritative resource for information on the worldwide legal profession.

One of its main objectives is «to increase representation of racialized lawyers in the profession in proportion to the representation in the Ontario population, in all legal workplaces and at all levels of seniority.»

If we start from the first proposition, not unreasonably, that there is no such thing as a legal profession — there are many legal professions — then the needs of top level City law firms, which are remarkably specialist in their work, are very different from the needs of a high street general practice.

As a result of national mobility, Canada's law societies have worked with the Federation to adopt consistent rules and practices to ensure that the public is served by members of the legal profession who are held to the same high level of competence and ethics, wherever they practice in Canada.

At the entry level, men and women join the legal profession at the same rates, yet by the time they reach leadership roles, less than 20 percent of partners are women.

Legal recruiting is a serious profession, and top recruiters must represent attorneys with the same level of commitment, drive, and insight that outstanding attorneys demonstrate when representing their clients.

There are some reasonable critiques that can be leveled at the shape of legal education and its costs and there are clearly important changes going on in the economics of the legal profession.

I believe members of the legal profession have a special obligation to take on the task of promoting a more inclusive society, because fundamentally, our profession is dedicated to leveling the playing field and ensuring fairness through justice.

The ramifications of these crap - blogs are important, because FindLaw is now tainting their clients, diminishing the stature of their vaunted professor - commentators, and lowering the level of discourse in the legal profession as a whole.

At an Emirate level, the Dubai Legal Affairs Department is entrusted as well of regulating the profession and has a special committee that oversees any complaints filed against legal consultants and advocLegal Affairs Department is entrusted as well of regulating the profession and has a special committee that oversees any complaints filed against legal consultants and advoclegal consultants and advocates.

She is highly respected by members of the legal profession as well as lawmakers and the public — in short, her level of influence can not be understated.

But while the substitution of «customer» for «client» may usefully remind the legal profession it is subject to the basic rules of the market, might it not also tend to reduce the level of duty lawyers owe to those who hire them?

Obviously, there are not satisfactory levels of diversity in various enclaves of the legal profession.

As the legal profession depends on a high level of respect in order to instill trust and confidence in the administration of justice, it benefits from a bubble of prestige and pride.