Sentences with phrase «made of alternative business structures»

Most bizarrely, no mention is made of alternative business structures as used in the UK or Australia — structures that would allow for imaginative combinations that would truly allow for greater access to justice.

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There are signs that this concept of a total change in culture and working patterns is becoming more popular, with the Law Society survey reporting that 475 alternative business structures (ABSs) were in operation: 116 more than a year earlier making up 5 % of all firms.

The Court also enacted new attorney Rules of Professional Conduct in March 2015, which allows LLLTs to own a minority interest in law firms with lawyers, making Washington the first U.S. state to formally permit alternative business structures (ABSs), which is generally defined as non-lawyer investment and / or ownership in law firms.

The next mistake that I fear the Law Society will make is the adoption of Alternative Business Structures (ABS) which will allow venture capitalists and companies like Wal - Mart (seriously) to own up to 49 % of a law firm.

However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

«We really see alternative business structures as an access to justice tool and something that can help us make legal services available to a wider variety of people from a wider variety of backgrounds,» says Gilani.

It seems that every month a new Alternative Business Structure (ABS) is announced, all of whom are dedicated to making legal services more accessible than ever before.

Andy Daws, Riverview's vice-president North America, says the 2007 Legal Services Act, which was designed to promote competition, innovation and the public and consumer interest, has made the U.K. «the world's legal laboratory right now,» where experiments in ownership structure, service delivery, and alternative business models are being carried out, with varying degrees of success.

He was the keynote speaker in 2012 at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada on Alternative Business Structures, and subsequently made presentations on ABS to Benchers at Law Society of British Columbia and Barreau du Québec, and three times to Benchers of Law Society of Upper Canada.

These firms are making alternate fee arrangements, alternative business structures, legal process outsourcing, off - shoring — and many more of the buzzwords of the legal futures literature — work for them.

Actually, under that alternative business structure, one of the big themes kept coming back to you was the idea that you need outside capital to make something like this work.

For example, LSUC ignores the problem and its duties as set out in s. 4.2 of the (Ontario) Law Society Act, while «fast - tracking» the Alternative Business Structures issue (ABS issue) to the quick creation of: (1) an ABS Committee (2) a (biased) ABS Discussion Paper written by the Committee; (3) the online publication of the responses thus obtained; (4) the online publication of a summary of those responses — all done by the work of those self - interested benchers who have campaigned hard to have ABSs made legal; and (5) a proposed vote in 2016 to determine the law society's position as to making ABSs legal.

The Law Society of Upper Canada will continue to dither on Alternative Business Structures and will make no decision on this creature in 2015;

There is a lot of money to be made in alternative business structures whether people believe it or not.