Not exact matches
But when it helps provide
quality legal representation, and makes our lives
much easier, I would say it's worth it.
The NAO argues that the commission has paid practitioners # 25m too
much and concluded that the LSC should «do more to understand the market for criminal
legal aid to make the most of its ability to control price and
quality».
At Brooks Kushman we recognize that the way clients organize and administer their
legal workflow can have as
much of an impact on their success as the
quality of the law firms that handle their work.
I think one of the reasons that wikis all but failed to have a transformative impact in the
legal sphere is that the «allow changes first, let the community correct later» approach of wikis creates too
much uncertainty about the
quality of the current version of the document.
Ratings might tell us with a significant degree of certainty whether former clients liked their lawyers, but be
much more imperfect in revealing whether clients actually received good
quality legal services.
The technology is here to bridge the gap between people who don't have the resource to afford time critical and
quality legal insight from human lawyers, and a
legal industry that would
much rather spend its time looking at the bigger picture.
DUI leads are
much more valuable than most other criminal cases, since a high percentage of those arrested are middle class, and able to afford
quality legal representation.
At Morgan & Morgan we believe that every person should have access to
quality legal representation, regardless of how
much money they make.
It doesn't take very
much improvement in
quality of information to make large differences in value of
legal maters according to my model.
The
legal profession must be constantly improving its services, in the form of maintaining their high
quality in a situation wherein there is a need to provide increasingly more time delivering each service - more time because of: ( 1 ) the rapidly increasing volume of laws; ( 2 ) their greater complexity due inter alia, to the complexity of the technology upon which they are based and impacted; ( 3 ) the greater volume of technology to be understood; and, ( 4 ) the
much greater volume of relevant electronic records to be coped with.
1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy
quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawye
quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of
Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawye
Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high
quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawye
quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How
Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?
The book covers some well - rehearsed ground and swings at some low - hanging fruit: the narrow backgrounds of the current Supreme Court justices, the esoteric nature of
much legal scholarship (in that critique he echoes the Chief Justice), the poor
quality of most briefs and opinions, and law schools» inadequacies when it comes to preparing students for practice.
One market is based upon how
much law firms have to pay to attract and retain top
quality law school graduates, which is affected by the associate
legal employment market as a whole.
To offer a few examples: lawyer disciplinary systems are
much more (if still imperfectly) transparent and professionalized; lawyers now have more tools available to them to ensure that they deliver good
quality legal services to the public; and the public now has more (if still limited) options regarding the delivery of
legal services (like, for example, licensed paralegals in Ontario and unbundled
legal services).
The faculty who teach in the evening program are great and seem to care very
much about providing a
quality legal education to the students.
According to that report, the public viewed
legal advice as «standard products» where «
quality» and «price» did not vary
much between providers.
The hard truth is that a lot of
legal work doesn't really vary that
much from firm to firm, in terms of function and
quality; there are very few
legal tasks that only one firm can offer to an acceptable degree of competence, let alone excellence.
In a world where those two
qualities can pay
much more than the
legal field (finance, business)- it takes larger salaries to get associates with those
qualities.
We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to
quality reproductive health care services, including safe and
legal abortion — regardless of where she lives, how
much money she makes, or how she is insured.