Sentences with phrase «need of the legal profession»

LCCA's purpose, according to its announcement, «is to promote standards for cloud computing that are responsive to the needs of the legal profession and to enable lawyers to become aware of the benefits of computing technology through the development and distribution of education and informational resources.»

Crispin Passmore, Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority (in book): Passmore explains how the SRA inherited a «traditional and old - fashioned» regulatory system driven by the needs of the legal profession, and the SRA's ongoing journey to transform the system to one focused on consumers of legal services.

Expert research services tailored to the needs of the legal profession and high - profile blue chip companies.

Clearly print law reports continue to meet a specific need of the legal profession that online does not.

Service oriented architectures (SOA) provide many benefits when it comes to building solutions that meet the needs of the legal profession.

It asks questions such as whether blogs deserve to be considered among the media through which legal scholarship can be communicated; their distinctiveness, if any, among such media; the way, if any, in which blogs can meet the needs of the legal profession or of others with whom it interacts in one way or another; and of course the ways in which blogs can or ought to change for answers to these questions to become more satisfactory.

Not exact matches

Martin likens this to what's already happened within the legal profession, where computerization of routine research has slashed the number of new associates law firms need to hire.

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

As the face of the legal profession continues to change, women's initiatives have already begun to adapt to the needs of women in the profession.

As we face declining dues - paying membership and an increasingly complex marketplace, it's imperative that the ABA transform to better meet the needs of our members, the legal profession, and the public.

While acknowledging that contingency fees are needed to facilitate access to justice, the Court clarified that policy goal of reducing barriers to legal services is but one factor to consider, and that the policy of maintaining the integrity of the profession is a primary concern with deep roots.

The need for a more - flexible schedule can arise from a variety of personal and professional situations, including caring for young children or aging parents, starting or growing a solo practice, moving with a spouse who is required to relocate for work, starting or growing a side business outside of the legal profession.

«The part [of the legal profession] that is actually growing,» Katz says, «the Clearspires, the Axioms, legal process outsourcers and software companies — they need people with particular sets of skills,... who know the law, understand software and technology, and [know] how to mesh the two.»

Although Women's History Month is coming to a close, the issues faced by women in the legal profession are still in dire need of continued conversation.

Creating a legal regime is clearly the role of the government, but the legal profession needs to step up to pressure our government to do this.

The opportunity for the legal profession to take responsibility to «heal itself» and begin to address the national legal aid funding problems with their own systems of funding to ensure that those needing access to justice receive it.

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of theLegal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of thelegal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

One of the key findings of the CBA's Legal Futures Initiative is that the client needs to become the centre of the legal universe if the profession is to maintain its relevance in the face of transformative chLegal Futures Initiative is that the client needs to become the centre of the legal universe if the profession is to maintain its relevance in the face of transformative chlegal universe if the profession is to maintain its relevance in the face of transformative change.

An equally important reason for creating a much more sophisticated and competent legal research facility for the legal profession, is the need of the courts, particularly the Supreme Court of Canada and the provincial and territorial Courts of Appeal.

Effectiveness may be debated (I think that clearly depends on the research and writing talent of the ghostwriter, the oversight of the attributed author, and the objective of the blog)-- but unethical??? I strongly beg to differ, and instead submit that ghostwriting lawyer blog posts is nothing more than a legitimate new twist on a time - honored tradition in the legal profession (mostly driven by the practical need to efficiently manage heavy workloads by delegating).

If legal educators better understand current and emerging needs and expectations of the legal profession along with trends in the business and practice of law, the academy will be better able to prepare students for successful entry into the profession.

We need a modern understanding of the rule of law and the associated implications for the legal system and profession upholding it.

The topic reflects increasing concern among lawyers that professional training needs to cover legal technology or the profession will be short of crucial skills.

Much like in the retail world where there are Wal - Marts and Costcos, multinational as well as local chains, online stores, and independent boutiques; there's space and need in the legal profession to provide a variety of services from a variety of service providers and in a variety of formats.

The Canadian legal profession is currently engaged in a much - needed debate about the future of legal services in general and whether to allow the use of so - called alternative business structures (ABSs) more particularly.

Thus far, the need for serious restructuring to our institutional access to justice mechanisms has driven the legal profession to consider a multitude of possible solutions that have yet to prove effective.

And second, representatives of equality - seeking groups, whether from within or outside the legal profession, need to actively lobby those with political capital and influence to select from among these qualified and under - represented applicants at such time as appointments are being made.

I think the legal profession needs to have a greater proportion of its members become comfortable with code considering that today's biggest issues are almost all inexorably linked to technology.

In conjunction with other recent studies carried out by ourselves, and the likes of the Legal Services Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority, we are building a clearer picture of why and how the profession needs to move forward.

There is zero need to sell ownership of the legal profession to the giant companies that will be answerable to their shareholders.

The profession rejected this strictly «formalist» approach to teaching writing processes as inadequate preparation for independent legal writing and analysis.44 The shift away from models in legal writing instruction accompanied a shift to teaching students to write from the social perspective.45 The social perspective integrates into writing processes an understanding of the purposes for which a particular document is written, the identities of its audiences, and the needs of those audiences.46 Part of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's needs.

Commercial awareness is therefore a prerequisite for students, because lawyers in all sectors of the legal profession need to be commercial in their outlook and more skilled than ever before, in order to meet the requirements of modern legal practice and a smooth integration into life as a trainee solicitor.

For the past 18 years, Andrew Elowitt has tailored the best practices of leadership development, innovation management, and executive coaching to the unique needs and challenges of the legal profession.

Flexible software designed to suit your needs: Our time recording solution is designed to suit the different ways of working that exist in the legal profession.

To help ensure that all of our initiatives are responsive to both the concerns of the legal profession and the needs of clients, Best Lawyers has assembled an international Best Lawyers Board of Advisors.

Yet, those same laws do not require the legal profession to meet the needs of the entire market.

Aaron Street: Yeah, so I am on the ABA's law practice division Legal Futures Initiative, which is kind of a gathering of a bunch of innovators in the profession talking about the future of law and the future of law practice, and at the meeting in Miami last week we all got there and realized that, setting aside the future of law practice, there were some more pressing issues in law that needed some innovators to work on — namely the travel ban, immigration ban, Executive Order from President Trump — and so our committee spent a couple of hours thinking about how we, as a group, could help lawyers solve that issue.

If further proof were needed of the rather slow pace of change in the legal profession, events over recent weeks at both Clifford Chance (CC) and Gateley provide it.

It shows why there is a need for a «family doctor counterpart» in the legal profession, i.e., to provide a comparable sorting, triage, and advice service that: (1) makes sure that all available legal services are used; and, (2) people are aided in their understanding and decision - making as to which of their problems need legal services.

We in the legal profession need to understand just how vulnerable we are to losing our share of that market.

Blackmun found that the absence of lawyer ads hurt the legal profession, holding that «the absence of advertising may be seen to reflect the profession's failure to reach out and serve the community,» and that many people in need of legal services do not contact an attorney because they worry about pricing or finding a competent lawyer.

The best I can come up with is to credit the legal profession for presenting itself in such a way as to make even a jaded guy like the 2002 version of me think that a law school would never have the nerve (or the need) to intentionally mislead potential students about their employment prospects.

The bottom line is that the legal industry is in desperate need of a rebranding that starts on the surface and permeates throughout our profession's culture.

I agree with Martha Sperry at the blog Advocate's Studio, who says this case highlights the need for our the legal profession «to examine change, and that includes the ethical rules that purport to guide the profession and ensure protection of client interests.»

We strive to make sure our firm is constantly responding to the evolving needs of our clients and to changes in the legal profession.

These articles will grapple with the importance of, need for, and how tos for civility in the legal profession.

The legal profession need to re-skill to take advantage of the developments in technology to stay relevant in your particular field.

Recommendation 1: The legal profession should support the goal of providing some form of effective assistance for essential civil needs to all persons otherwise unable to afford a lawyer.

We need to set out a clear vision of what we expect from law firms and engage with the profession and firms, including the major commercial firms, on the delivery of good services for clients and the public interest in a reputable, well working legal system.

All of us involved with the legal profession need to remind ourselves that solos and small firms dominate the numbers of the profession and that the world of Bay Street represents a small and atypical minority that can appear so dominant that it distorts perceptions.