(a) The firm's ability to handle complex and multi-dimensional problems (b) The firm's expertise in one or
more substantive areas of the law (c) For a firm with branch offices, the ability to better serve clients through one or more offices
Not exact matches
More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade
More than other
areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private,
substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach
of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection
of climate change and
more established fields of legal study, such as international trade
more established fields
of legal study, such as international trade
law.
Additionally, students would take classes in a specific order allowing classes to be specially planned to give students within the specialization a
more in - depth study
of the subject matter, potentially studying how there
area of interest applies to other
substantive areas of law that are not commonly part
of the particular specialized
area of study.
The
more financially and professionally successful mid-sized
law firms are proficient in performing virtually all
of the usual legal services in most
of the
substantive practice
areas required by their key clients, however, they do not have the lawyer complement required to be expert in all practice
areas, nor will the sophisticated buyers
of legal services believe that mid-sized
law firms are able to provide the same breadth and depth
of high quality legal expertise as large general practice firms several times their size.
An equally compelling kind
of competition is ability
of a firm's to attract and retain the
more profitable and productive attorneys, especially those who control a considerable amount
of profitable client business or those who practice in
substantive practice
areas that are in high demand by profitable
law firm clients.
But, in my view, such reforms need to be accompanied, if not preceded, by multilateral consensus - building processes on
substantive law that go beyond the level
of abstract investment
law principles and that help to concretize these principles for
more concrete
areas of policy - making.
The condition for
law firms to register is that they must contribute
substantive content on one or
more legal topics in their
area of expertise and introduce a client to the service.
We know that there are many
substantive areas of family
law that could benefit from reform, but our thinking is that families in dispute need a smoother,
more responsive entry into the system if they are going to benefit from
substantive provisions, current or reformed.
«We have created a new portal for solo and small - firm lawyers to enter the ABA, and we have thrown open the doors to our
more than two dozen
substantive law sections, recognizing that these colleagues practice in many
areas of the
law and work on behalf
of a diverse group
of clients.
From the claims LAWPRO has seen, it is clear «dabblers» (lawyers acting outside
of their usual practice
area) are
more likely to commit malpractice errors, and in particular a failure to know or apply
substantive law.
By Elizabeth Grace Because sexual assault is a recognized wrong in many
areas of our
substantive law, it is quite common for a civil lawsuit to run in parallel with a... Read
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