Sentences with phrase «many routine legal services»

That is because they can at best make the law office more cost - efficient, which isn't enough to create affordable legal services, other than routine legal services, but not legal advice services.

It is legal services that take any significant amount of a lawyer's time that are the cause of the problem, and not routine legal services which, for the most part, remain affordable.

To be valid it has to mean that a «charity ABS» can provide routine legal services, and provide legal advice services below cost as a service of the charity, union, not - for - profit organization, or other CSO, that is providing them.

Legal Research is not the only Support Service, and only Routine Legal Services Can be Automated

All that the ABS proposals will give them is the automation of routine legal services, but not any improvement in the affordability of legal advice services.

Such an institute could provide a single bargaining agency on behalf of all lawyers in Canada, by which to obtain the automation of routine legal services, and not have to endure ownership by a commercial investor to get it, as proposed by the ABS investors.

It is not a routine legal service.

Those lawyers and investors who wish to have ABSs made legal are looking to make a return on investment by way of providing routine legal services in greater volume.

They could finance the automation for providing routine legal services, but such automation is something that the legal profession can provide for itself, better by itself without: (1) law offices having to be owned by investors; and, (2) the risk of the fiduciary duty owed to clients being suppressed by the resulting profit duty owed to investors.

Therefore, the motivation of ABS investors is to «corner the market» on routine legal services.

The purpose of ABS investors is not to solve the problem but rather «to corner the market» for routine legal services because that's where «the quick and easy money is.»

There, supermarket chains among others, are vying for the right to offer conveyancing and other routine legal services to their customers.

And it is only routine legal services that the ABS advocates offer to automate.

This could be fixed fees: automation of many routine legal services may finally achieve the long - predicted demise of time - based billing.

Over 150 paralegals and managers provide a comprehensive range of routine legal services in either a standalone capacity or integrated alongside AG's lawyers and, increasingly, as part of clients own internal teams.

(Whatever the size of the necessary size of the one - time increase in annual fees, that's the way to get the necessary automating of routine legal services without worry as to loss of independence and ownership whose purpose is to control the market for monopoly power that dictates price.

The first duty of a Canadian law society is to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — ABS's can't do that because legal advice services can not be automated, they being the bulk of the problem, not the lack of automation of routine legal services.

Court cases need legal advice services from lawyers, because there are no «routine legal services judges» whose work can be automated.

They have three parts: (1) law firms can be invested in (owned — up to 49 % or 100 %) by non-lawyer people and entities; (2) legal services be enabled to be provided with related non-legal services; and, (3) routine legal services be automated by software applications.

Progress is being made in delivering better value to clients, in automating routine legal services, in project managing work and in using technology - led solutions such as document review tools used to create client efficiencies.

In addition to legal research, there are many other specialized support services that can be provided with such expert advice, including the automation of routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client services and satisfaction.

[i] The «unaffordable legal services problem» afflicts both kinds of legal services: (1) legal advice services; and, (2) routine legal services that don't require legal advice.

As to financing such development by Canada's lawyers (instead of by commercial investors) of software for automating the delivery of routine legal services: more than $ 11 million could be raised if every lawyer in Canada paid an addition one - time $ 100 increase in annual law society fees.

With good law society leadership, the automating of routine legal services with software «apps» can be done by Canada's legal profession itself.

But the problem of unaffordable legal services is caused by the high cost of legal advice services, not by routine legal services such as simple real estate deals, divorces, and incorporations.

They can perhaps speed the adoption of innovations such as the «packaging» of those routine legal services that can be provided more cost - efficiently by software applications such as for writing simple wills and incorporating small companies.

So, automation and machine learning will continue to drive down the cost of routine legal services, while opening up enormous opportunities to bring more people into the market.

As they move from providing routine legal services to legal advice services, they will gradually replace the general practitioner.

We can negotiate as a single unit to obtain the automation of routine legal services, and obtain changes to law society bylaws allowing related non-legal services to be provided with legal services.

Note however, that the problem is caused by legal advice services, and not by routine legal services that are mostly routine paper - work, such as simple house sales, wills, incorporating small companies, and such.

Technological innovations and the lessons of the 2008 Financial Crisis are challenging the hegemony of the billable hour and are driving clients to demand routine legal services for a fraction of the cost.

That will be needed to bring, for example, the automation of routine legal services, and better marketing of legal services.

Or, because of the commercial producers of legal services» eating into the routine legal services market of the general practitioner (e.g., LegalZoom, LegalX, RocketLawyer), as a profession we will shrink in size, purpose, and importance, and our law societies proportionately diminished by all such measures.

They want to control the market for routine legal services because that is where the quick and easy money is.

Our Belfast office tackles high - volume, large - scale projects such as document review, e-discovery, due diligence and legal research to enable our Firm to provide routine legal services to clients quickly and cost effectively.

Not exact matches

Typical fees range from $ 10 to $ 16 per month per employee and cover most routine and preventive legal services at no additional cost.

See Part II («Match the attorney you pick to the decision - maker you face if a court, regulator, or prosecutor with a distinctive viewpoint will be driving the legal outcome»), and Part III («For routine, repetitive, or high - volume legal or regulatory compliance tasks, consider a service provider who brings the right processes — and perhaps technology — to your company's needs»)-- of this series.

Hence some guidelines for general management in securing legal services where routine, repetitive, or high - volume work is involved:

Most of the services on display in the demo screenshots look pretty routine, like appearance counsel, transcriptionists, and legal research and writing.

Unbundling of legal services, thus incentivizing legal firms to earn fees through bespoke services rather than through routine tasks

Dundas & Wilson has launched a new paralegal - led Legal Services Unit (LSU) in Scotland, which is intended to cut costs for clients by taking on routine work often carried out by qualified lawyers.

Not only have these changes helped us to become more efficient in delivering legal services, but they have also helped to empower our 400 + clients to find solutions to routine problems freeing the legal team up to spend more time on more important matters.

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

Our Corporate Services Department assists companies and other entities in maintaining legal compliance with filing and registration requirements throughout Atlantic Canada and in undertaking other routine corporate and commercial legal tasks.

Omar's thesis taps into the debate about the commoditization of legal services to make them more widely accessible — e.g., standardizing routine functions so that non-legal professionals can take care of them, with lawyers only called on to handle more complex cases.

That involved keeping all transaction - agreement drafting in - house, regardless of the size and profile of the deal, as well as standardising documents and introducing self - service tools for clients so the legal team was not wasting time on routine or less important matters.

Many of the services that law firms now provide, such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better, cheaper» than a full - service law firm.

clients seem to give their lower - value matters to specialty firms set up to perform those legal services at a low cost; those matters include routine labor and employment, insurance defense, real estate, financings, etc..

Legal and compliance professionals are looking for a better way to handle routine professional services work.

The company is now looking to offer more services to consumers and small businesses, according to a feature in the ABA Journal last year, including routine legal advice using a mix of lawyers and non-lawyers.