Sentences with phrase «nonlawyers such»

Instead there was a meeting of the WSBA Board of Governors to discuss whether board will include two members of the «public» or nonlawyers such as LLLTs as full voting board members.

Not exact matches

Some associations, such as the State Bar of Michigan and the Mecklenburg County Bar in Charlotte, now reserve the award for nonlawyers who have contributed to good government in the community.

We don't want our clients to pay lawyer rates for work that can be performed by a nonlawyer, such as the myriad of phone calls and correspondence associated with getting all the relevant parties and materials in one location for a mediation.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Kirchberger highlights legal Semantic Web technology — such as that discussed in Dr. N \» faria Casellas \ rquote s recent post on legal ontologies — and government eportals — like Austria's HELP service — as promising means of offering valuable context to nonlawyers using legal information.

The rule also explains that a lawyer who has supervisory authority over nonlawyers is responsible for the ethical violations committed by such nonlawyers.

From Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog comes word of an interesting new - ish paper1 on the role of nonlawyer representation (such as Washington state's Limited License Legal Technicians) in increasing access to justice.

New York lawyers may ethically contract with overseas nonlawyers to perform legal support services such as legal research, document review and drafting of pleadings or legal memoranda, according to a recent ethics opinion issued by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

This change reflects an undercurrent of fear in the US that nonlawyer ownership will cause our institutions to change too much, such that we lose client confidentiality and the ethos of the lawyer - client relationship.

On the other hand, if the nonlawyer is happy to provide services to the firm only, such as in the role of a Technology Officer or Executive Director, it is easier to see how Rule 5.4 can work.

Without trade - offs to our personal injury law practice, as a result of a new company structure providing a larger capital base in Australia and the UK, we are now able to offer a wider range of other consumer services including services that critics of nonlawyer ownership claim are the sort of «less profitable services;» that nonlawyer owned firms would stay away from such as: employment law, wills, conveyancing, family law and criminal law.

And not just the kind that limits nonlawyer ownership to less than 49 %, but the kind that imposes no such restriction.

(6) the lawyer partners in the firm make reasonable efforts to establish that each nonlawyer with a financial interest in the firm is of good character, supported by evidence of the nonlawyer's integrity and professionalism in the practice of his or her profession, trade or occupation, and maintain records of such inquiry and its results; and

Does it — could it — also encompass structures, be they companies or other types of organizations, that are owned in whole or in part by nonlawyers, and that provide legal services outside the limited contexts of existing companies like the ones listed above, but in «nontraditional» manner such that it could be difficult to describe the structure as a traditional «law firm»?

ABA Formal Opinion 464 concludes that lawyers working in a jurisdiction that bars fee splitting with nonlawyers can divide a fee with a lawyer in another jurisdiction not subject to such restrictions even though the second lawyer might fee share with nonlawyers.

In a study comparing outcomes for low - income clients in the United Kingdom on a variety of matters such as welfare benefits, housing, and employment, nonlawyers generally outperformed lawyers in terms of concrete results and client satisfaction....

While the guidelines do not prohibit nonlawyers from conducting mediations, they do prohibit a nonlawyer mediator from providing legal advice (although they do not prohibit the providing of «legal information,» such as brochures).