Sentences with phrase «more access to legal services»

Citizens in rural Manitoba will have more access to legal services with the merger of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP and Christianson Law announced yesterday.

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As elected officials struggle to address the ongoing opioid crisis, one of the more controversial proposals has been legal injection sites, where addicts would have access to clean needles, medical staff, and a variety of information and services — including treatment options.

The new programs are expected to increase college access and support degree completion by providing wraparound services for students such as child and elder care, transportation, health care services, family and / or employment counseling, legal aid, and more.

As I looked into VLO, I realized that this new way to practice would allow my office to more effectively represent parents nearby, and provide access to those families who are outside of more urban centers who otherwise have not had access to legal services at all.

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African - Americans are generally more likely than other ethnic groups to make use of these services at libraries, especially accessing newspapers or news articles and accessing specialized databases such as legal or public records.

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More recently, Emery Lee [10] published a journal article in the University of Miami Law Review entitled «Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services» [11]

More of the public get greater access to legal services.

Unbundling (or limited scope representation as it is commonly referred to in the U.S.) is becoming more recognized and highlighted as a key tool to increase access to justice, particularly for those who do not qualify for legal aid services but can not afford full representation (the CBA, NAC and Macfarlane reports for example).

Justice - involved youth need more than legal services to obtain access to justice; they need a youth - centred approach.

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

See also: (1) «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (pdf; posted on the SSRN on, May 21, 2014); and, (2) «Self - Represented Litigants» Tax Money Provides More Funding for Legal Aid Ontario,» (posted on Slaw, on July 31, 2015).

The government needs to bring in the European virtually automatic 50/50 custody and access system, not bring in thousands more legal services providers.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

The legal research service Casemaker has partnered with the international legal research service vLex in a joint licensing agreement that gives clients of both companies access to more of the world's laws.

Using tech to avoid trouble with Foreign Corrupt Practices ActBy David Simon and John Turlais There's no question technology is creating more efficiency and greater access to legal services.

More and more legal firms and service providers are relying on Cloud storage to keep data safe, as it provides access to better security and expert remote management of software / IT as part of the service, and more robust backup procedures than what may be available in hoMore and more legal firms and service providers are relying on Cloud storage to keep data safe, as it provides access to better security and expert remote management of software / IT as part of the service, and more robust backup procedures than what may be available in homore legal firms and service providers are relying on Cloud storage to keep data safe, as it provides access to better security and expert remote management of software / IT as part of the service, and more robust backup procedures than what may be available in homore robust backup procedures than what may be available in house.

Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.

For every hour spent teaching students how to access information (in books, on the paid services, or on the open web), professors should devote many more hours to assuring that students understand legal authority and gain significant experience actually working with it.

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If Lauren's mother had had access to civil legal services at the time of her divorce, it is more than possible that Lauren would be alive and well today.

The Hawaii Courts Mobile App can be used to access court records, learn more about jury service, or obtain information about free legal services.

With some online legal services you may have direct access to an attorney if you're doing something more complicated.

But one important factor can be addressed by changing the manner by which legal services are regulated — the lack of legal information: not knowing if it is better to appear in court, or better to not appear because if you do and you are unable to pay the fine, you will necessarily be incarcerated, not knowing whether it is possible to request a more convenient court date in order to maintain employment, not knowing if children are allowed in the courtroom and not having access to child care, not knowing if the citation itself can be challenged, and, if so, how.

More than 400,000 lawyers have access to Fastcase's desktop application while 18 state bar associations have purchased subscriptions for their members, making it a trusted research service within the legal profession.

The trend in research is towards lower cost services and more open access to legal materials.

Ideally, in time this service will be supplanted by something much more robust — perhaps a collaborative effort by Canadian law schools to create an open access online repository of Canadian legal scholarship along the lines that Simon described a couple of months ago.

Legal plan members have access to free document reviews from local attorneys, and deeply discounted rates on legal fees for more complicated legal servLegal plan members have access to free document reviews from local attorneys, and deeply discounted rates on legal fees for more complicated legal servlegal fees for more complicated legal servlegal services.

Yet, to achieve access to justice for all Canadians, legal services must be delivered as part... [more]

Allocations include: nearly $ 4.8 million in additional annual funding for legal aid, with a focus on indigenous and family law services; $ 3.8 million per year to fund expansion of Parents Legal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice servlegal aid, with a focus on indigenous and family law services; $ 3.8 million per year to fund expansion of Parents Legal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice servLegal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice services.

«These portals will use cutting - edge, user - centered technology to help ensure that all people with civil legal needs can navigate their options and more easily access solutions and services available from legal aid, the courts, the private bar, and community partners,» the announcement said.

The American public faces significant, unmet legal needs that require considerably more innovation and other efforts to bolster access to affordable legal services, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in a relegal needs that require considerably more innovation and other efforts to bolster access to affordable legal services, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in a relegal services, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in aservices, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in a reLegal Services said in aServices said in a report.

Unbundled legal services are one of the solutions to the complex issue of access to justice, and LAWPRO recognizes that the provision of unbundled legal services is occurring in Ontario at the present time and that they are likely to become more common.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

After learning more, I successfully ran for the Group Legal Services Association (GLSA) Board based on the belief that technology would enable lawyers to practice more efficiently and in turn enhance access to justice.

Instead of doubting the role of pro bono, Burns says governments and the legal profession should focus on creating a more seamless co-ordination between pro bono services and other ways of addressing access to justice.

As you correctly point out, the Benchers have elected to wait to see if, based on experience in England and elsewhere, the case for improving access to legal services through ABSs can be more clearly demonstrated.

It is more responsive to a diverse and rapidly changing world, intended to enhance the quality of legal services offered by Nova Scotia lawyers, to encourage ethical legal practices, to facilitate innovation in legal services and to promote increased access to legal services.

Improving your access to justice: Society encourages a more affordable legal services model for Nova Scotians

«The OADC program is a great example of how the public and private sectors can work together to create better access to legal services for the public, while providing attorneys with tools to run more efficient practices.»

This contribution is manifest in the likelihood that at least some newly - licensed lawyers who are members of historically disadvantaged and excluded groups may be more willing or able to provide legal services to everyday people who are members of those same groups, and others, who experience lack of access to justice.

The only thing lawyers and legal associations talk about more than access to legal services is lawyers starving to get a job as a lawyer.

The three western amigos would endure some disapproving looks and comments from others, but people residing in these great provinces would gain immensely through more affordable legal services — and certainly access to justice is in the public interest, is it not?

Beyond the principle of fairness, I would argue that this review of licensing requirements ought to also consider the «access to legal services» dimension of access to justice more directly.

So when it sought to offer clients access to lawyers, it could not do more than create a referral service, since its in - house attorneys were not allowed to provide legal services to anyone but LegalZoom itself.

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