Sentences with phrase «little legal training»

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Flaherty admits that comparing the gain from earning one corporation's legal business to the high cost of extensive computer training at a law firm with hundreds of lawyers makes his test little more than academic.

«Unlike other professional education, most notably medical school, legal education typically pays relatively little attention to direct training in professional practice.

An eminent lawyer with liberal views on religion, slavery, and republicanism, Wythe saw little benefit in the drudgery of traditional legal training and preferred to have his students read law reports and foundational English legal writings, such as those by Sir Edward Coke.

A challenge for us in legal tech is that we provide relatively advanced services, but must do so with an interface that requires little to no training.»

Relatively little time, attention, or firm resources may be allocated to things the rainmakers may do not do well, such as maintaining the quality of legal services, financing the practice, recruiting and training new lawyers, employee relations, automation, or any of the many other problems affecting law firms.

Some need considerable training on available data before they can be let loose to scour and explore documents, others have such universal uses they can just «get to it» with little or no training, i.e. their natural language processing (NLP) recipes are broadly applicable to a wide range of types of legal texts and document formats.

I think the issue is not one of training, but of understanding that the purpose of a university education and that of a law firm placement are fundamentally different, and legal research needs and experiences have little in common from one environment to the other.

Subtle as it may seem, legal professionals associate the word «training» with the doldrums of uninteresting classes of little value to performance.

The legal education system that trains our lawyers reinforces the current legal culture by offering little to no information on arbitration as a form of dispute resolution.

Luckily, Legal Files Software is so user friendly and a little bit of training goes a long way.

Despite the fact that law students consistently request (on those rare occasions when they are asked for their input on the curriculum) more skills - based training that will prepare them for legal practice and working with clients, law schools provide little, if any, classroom teaching directed at accomplishing actual tasks.

UPDATE Monday, Aug. 25, 2008: Michael Lynch's comment («[e-discovery] is work that requires little brainpower or legal training») got under Ralph Losey's collar too:

Much of that work requires little brainpower or legal training, says Michael Lynch.»

Plus, there are so many great hidden gems in Word that makes the lives of legal professionals easier that a little training can go a long way.

Prof. Perlman, who heads the LPTI Institute, reminded the audience that very little has changed about legal education since the days of Christopher Langdell: «We still train law students to look backward, for bespoke legal work; that's not how most legal services are delivered today.»

Thanks for weighing in, Mike Quite a few legal marketing friends and colleagues have said a similar thing — that a little bit of advance notice would have been nice, and perhaps a training webinar / conference call, ahead of the lawyer outreach, so they are one step ahead in terms of being able to advise internally.

Soon, it will be the season for chucking mortar boards into the air as law students celebrate their success in securing the all important First or 2.1 degree to qualify them to join an ever growing list of contributors to the profits of the vocational law schools and join a list of highly qualified «legal technicians», working for little above the minimum wage, if they can't get that all important training contract or pupillage.

A typical attorney who self - identifies as an «employee rights» attorney will usually have much more experience (as compared to the typical attorney identified as an «employment attorney» or an «employer defense» attorney) with: (1) representing workers on a contingency - fee basis (where no fee is paid unless the case wins or settles) and offering risk - sharing fee arrangements generally; (2) playing offense, so to speak — analyzing, identifying and prosecuting specific legal violations (whereas employer - side attorneys tend to have more experience in broader - stroke compliance / employer - training matters, and reactive work in litigation that responds to claims they are presented); and (3) identifying with the «little guy» who has been harmed by a larger opponent, often having well - tested strategies that have worked while representing individuals against large organizations and wind up with good case results.

All this points to very little justification for the longer education and training in Canada, and it instead illustrates the Janus - like approach to development of legal training — in one way looking to its historical ties with the U.K. and more recently being influenced by developments in the U.S.

Suffice it to say, whether its collective innovation - decisions, or the reluctance of lawyer - leaders to stay the course because we have little training or experience as managers or leaders, the legal industry presents special challenges for innovation adoption and diffusion.