Sentences with phrase «major legal services organizations»

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Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Illinois lawyers and law firms donate thousands of hours in free legal services each year in addition to providing major financial support to legal aid organizations.

Interestingly, Elsevier's peer organization within RELX, Lexis - Nexis, is first of all a major legal information service.