Sentences with phrase «most practising lawyers»

-- by the C&I Group and BDO Stoy Hayward shows that while most practising lawyers use the hourly billing system, there is a growing demand for other options.

So, where does that leave most practising lawyers?

Most practising lawyers will recognise the reasons Lord Neuberger identified for working against the continuing lack of diversity in the legal professions.

As I have said before on SLAW, most practising lawyers simply do not need to use many electronic resources.

Not exact matches

We need people who know that history, to help guide policy and maintain the collective memory, but most of them will not be practising lawyers, I suspect.

«The most striking aspect of the report to me was the description of how our legal aid tariff rate has declined by 27 per cent since 1991, and how the number of practising lawyers taking legal aid referrals has nearly halved in the past decade,» said Maclaren.

Called to the Quebec Bar in 1949, Le Dain went on to teach law at his alma mater, McGill University, practise as a lawyer, become dean of Osgoode Hall Law School in 1967, and, perhaps most notably, chair the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs from 1969 to 1973, which recommended that cannabis be removed from the narcotic control act and be regulated provincially.

Most controversial among these is the proposal that «lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals,» in other words, alternative business structures.

I suppose if the intent was to insure that OHLS gets people who have shown the ability to continue on in school for graduate degrees, so as to ensure a steady stream of professors, rather than merely produce people fit to practise as lawyers... but wait, that's not what most of the students seem to want, if we believe the surveys and reports.

Edited by students and offering student articles for the most part, the Review will also publish in each issue articles on law or policy by practising lawyers or academics.

Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.

The # 1 cause of claims against Ontario lawyers practising in most areas of law is problems with lawyer - client communication.

The reality for most people in the country, however, is that we have roughly one tenth the number of practising lawyers per person as there are in the US, and the services that they provide are prohibitively expensive.