Sentences with phrase «nature of law practice»

Stephen has said much over the years about the changing nature of law practice... [more]

Stephen has written extensively in areas as diverse as The High Performance Lawyer, Yesterday's Strategies Rarely Answer Tomorrow's Problems, and Winding Down the Law Practice, Planning for Retirement He has designed and facilitated numerous bar association and law firm retreats dealing with the changing nature of law practice.

«[T] echnology is particularly well suited for legal education, and especially for legal research and writing instruction, because the nature of law practice is becoming increasingly technical.»

It doesn't really matter if you do that with an iPad or with a quill and scroll — if you change the attorney - client nature of law practice, you aren't practicing law anymore.

That's partly because lawyers really resist the idea of running their practice like a business, I think, and part of it is just the nature of law practice means churning hours unless you change something.

Rives, whose resumé includes extensive international travel and postings in South Korea, Greece and the Philippines, says he appreciates the increasingly global nature of law practice.

Perlman further contends that the hierarchical nature of law practice reinforces conformity, since those with low social status are more likely to comply with a directive from a higher authority.

Unsurprisingly, the responses varied based on each attorney's experience and the nature of their law practice.

Not exact matches

Moving across the species boundary, then, it is worth noting that many human societies permit the taking of many wives, most of them encouraging this practice by law and custom (see Stephen Clark, The Nature of the Beast, OUP 1982, pp. 77f and «Sexual Ontology and Group Marriage», Philosophy 58, 1983, pp. 215 227).

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

It is not a law of nature that young doctors who give up practice in the city for a quiet life in the country are unambitious or that everyone who leaves a walking stick in the room of someone on whom he has called is absent - minded.

As a result of my personal experience and awareness, I went from practicing Holistic Dentistry to developing a new discipline and practicing what I call Sustainable Dentistry, a process that follows the laws of nature to heal the mouth and the body as a whole.

Given the nature of the practice of law, it is likely that inspiration will evolve into the identity of a law practice, and the concomitant identification of a market (i.e. the stakeholders that you know value the lawyering you have to offer).

This underlying narrative is reflected in the structure of the book, which begins with the most basic of questions about the nature of judicial review (described as the keys to understanding what the court is doing), before moving on to parameters of judicial review (further dominant themes shaping the law and practice) and grounds for judicial review (public law wrongs justifying the court's intervention).

«With the nature of corporate practice being sector neutral, my team and I are regularly called upon to address matters relating to corporate law by sector specialist teams.»

The LSUC has already embarked on tackling the problem of the exclusive nature of the legal profession with the Law Practice Program.

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Again here, the stated purpose of the program (in new subregulation 4.9.2) is dual in nature: to assist law firms and sole practitioners in maintaining and enhancing their management system for ethical legal practice, and to assist the Society in its engagement with law firms and sole practitioners.

James's practice is international in nature and the majority of his cases involve issues of conflicts of law or jurisdiction.

Formulas considering both origination and production must consider the particular structure of the law firm and the nature of its practice: For example, a law firm specializing primarily in insurance defense litigation and operating at a much lower hourly rate can readily afford the luxury of having highly compensated partners who merely originate business without having significant billable time.

Again, the nature of the law firm practice must be considered.

The type of legal work performed for your clients, the nature of your client base, the competitive environment in which your firm practices and the client's perception of the value of the legal work performed will be critical factors in determining whether your firm should volunteer or react to external pressures for alternative billing arrangements from your clients or as the result of competitive pressures created by other law firms.

The Commentary to this provision sets out the fundamental nature of integrity to the practice of law, noting that:

FitzGerald does not boast about the nature of her practice areas, the risqué and provocative subjects which helped to elevate her name in this area of law.

«The protocol underscores the growing significance of cross-border legal business between our two countries and the increasingly global nature of the practice of law.»

The type of legal work performed for your clients, the nature of your client base, the competitive environment in which your firm practices and the client's perception of the value of the legal work performed will be critical factors in determining (a) whether your firm should volunteer or (b) react to external pressures for alternative billing arrangements from your clients or as the result of competitive pressures created by other law firms.

The feasible responses seem to be (i) move into higher - end work, often of an advisory or highly specialist nature: Jeremy Robinson, aviation and competition law partner at Gates and Partners, solicitors, believes that the competition in his practice area does not come, and is unlikely to come, from PLFs or ABSs anytime soon; (ii) form collaborations short of ABSs or multi-disciplinary practices with complementary non-solicitor businesses (Martyn Taylor, MD of respected solicitors agency, Ashley Taylors, has noticed a huge increase in the number of solicitors» firms looking to work on litigation - related joint projects with Ashley Taylors; (iii) to the extent possible adopt the practices of more successful competitors; (iv) innovate.

The specific benefits that will be most valuable to your law firm depend on a variety of factors, including the nature of your practice, the number of attorneys and staff members in your firm, the size of your caseload and the other systems your firm employs.

Firms like Uber and Deliveroo will undoubtedly be keeping a close eye on the case, as well as the launch of the Taylor Review, which was announced in response to the ever - changing nature of working practices in our evolving economy, and the associated employment laws.

Fortunately, given the nature of our practice being a general business law practice, we have exposure to all the different areas, so it just involves a shift of resources.

Law school, because of its size and, unsurprisingly, because of the very nature of laws and practice itself — applicable to all through universal (we believe) reasoning, along with the «taxi rank» take - «em - as - they - come view of trade — has a terrible tendency to lose the person of the student along the way.

The approach that law firms use varies based upon the nature of the firm's practice, the number of clients to be surveyed, the relationship between the client and the firm, and the firm's objectives to be obtained from the survey.

Born and raised in San Diego, Torri Sherlin infuses her environmental law practice with a fervent love of nature.

Williams Kastner's Tribal Practice Group understands the often complex and individualized nature of Indian law.

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range internal market issues, ranging from public procurement to goods and services, energy, agriculture competition and social and employment law.

As the article reports, Lerach's securities actions were widespread and changed the nature of securities law practice.

Risks relatively low for family law litigation When claims are reported to LAWPRO, they are «coded» based on area of practice and the nature of the error alleged.

Although the nature of Joe's practice consists mostly of fighting insurance company lawyers from mostly large law firms, he is not intimidated by anyone or anything.

As we discussed in our recent piece «Robot, Esq.: Four Reasons Lawyers Shouldn't Fear AI and Automation Legal Tech», there are critical limitations on the ability of existing, non-general AI to replace human beings in legal practice — including the truly bespoke nature of certain tasks, the lack of sufficiently relevant and tailored data sets to train algorithms to handle even semi-bespoke tasks (given the complex cocktail of idiosyncratic considerations that good legal counsel comprises), and the non-empirical or data - driven aspects of the practice of law — involving emotional intelligence, communication, and persuasion — which I believe are core to providing effective legal services.

The Centre provides expert commentary on the new and emerging professions in law, innovative legal practice, the nature and impact of LegalTech, diversity and inclusion, and the future of legal education.

Bill's practice is of a general nature, with an emphasis on Sexual Abuse Cases, Aboriginal Law, Collaborative Family Law, Mediation, Wills and Estates, Real Estate, Business Law and Civil Litigation.

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.

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Henry apparently finds that option too radical, and therefore unrealistic (to be sure, while it would be ideal for firms to develop alternative methods of charging for their services that eliminate the billable hour, the fact remains that law is a business and alternative methods of billing have to make economic sense given the nature of practice areas such as litigation where one's adversary has the power to determine how much time one will have to spend on a case).

Amicus Capital Services offers legal lending options with terms and rates that cater specifically to the unique nature of law firms and their legal practices.

One of the reasons for the outstanding nature of the contribution this blog makes to legal scholarship is the number of law students, practicing lawyers and law professors from all across Canada who are among its contributors.

This is because (a) the shift in practice requires an integration of law with problem - solving methods that are not legal in nature (e.g., data, process, project management, technology, and team - based collaboration); and (b) the state of the art for these new approaches to practice are currently being developed in the field by practitioners and other allied professionals.

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Our expertise in the key areas of corporate law can be tailored to meet clients» regional requirements, reflecting the truly international nature of our practice.

It should come as no surprise that in - house legal functions are transforming legal practice and in particular the nature of the relationship between corporations and law firms.