There is still time for British Columbia to adopt a more consumerist and easier to understand term
like limited legal services; the word: unbundled — is just not endearing.
Not exact matches
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are
legal and increasingly popular for individuals wanting to circumvent censorship, avoid mass surveillance or access geographically
limited services like Netflix and BBC iPlayer.
I was puzzled when I recently watched an ad for Pay - Day - Loan (or the
like) that in the disclaimer specifically mentioned that they didn't provide their
service in New York due to
legal limits on interest rates.
But if your practice covers multiple
legal services and your customers have more than one type of need,
limiting yourself to one topic is
like only advertising to a portion of your market.
Yet, as I mentioned last time, the Utah Supreme Court Task Force to Examine
Limited Legal Licensing states that much like how only doctors provide medical services, lawyers are the only ones who should provide legal ad
Legal Licensing states that much
like how only doctors provide medical
services, lawyers are the only ones who should provide
legal ad
legal advice.
If you or anyone you know would
like more information about the project, and perhaps even volunteer, please contact me and visit the website of the Alberta
Limited Legal Services Project at albertalegalservices.com.
Unbundling
legal services can be a dirty word to some bar associations and regulators, who would
like to require a lawyer do all the work from beginning to end — and perhaps maintain the lawyer mononopoly while
limiting services.
Does it — could it — also encompass structures, be they companies or other types of organizations, that are owned in whole or in part by nonlawyers, and that provide
legal services outside the
limited contexts of existing companies
like the ones listed above, but in «nontraditional» manner such that it could be difficult to describe the structure as a traditional «law firm»?
To offer a few examples: lawyer disciplinary systems are much more (if still imperfectly) transparent and professionalized; lawyers now have more tools available to them to ensure that they deliver good quality
legal services to the public; and the public now has more (if still
limited) options regarding the delivery of
legal services (
like, for example, licensed paralegals in Ontario and unbundled
legal services).
Firms
like Axess law operating out of Walmart providing affordable basic
legal services,
legal insurance plans
like DAS, prepaid
legal plans, unbundling of
legal services to paralegals, increasing the
limits one can sue for in small claims court where litigants and represent themselves, front ended call centres where you can access free basic
legal advice, employment sponsored
legal plans, etc..