Sentences with phrase «number of practicing lawyers»

With a record number of practicing lawyers in the U.S., finding a lawyer for your legal needs is no easy task.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire... [more]

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• Since 2000, the number of practicing lawyers has increased by five times the rate of increase in the general population»

Recent statistics from the American Bar Association (ABA) indicate that the number of practicing lawyers in the United States has more than tripled since 1977.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

Hopefully a smaller number of applicants will sufficiently impact the number of practitioners in the coming years to help restore the balance between the number of practicing lawyers and the legal work available (if such a thing ever existed).

Not exact matches

Bob also is a seasoned trial lawyer with a very active litigation practice and decades of experience covering a number of areas including employment, commercial disputes, private equity, financial services, insurance, securities, real estate, sports law, and banking.

In New York, a number of seemingly anonymous locations — the lawyer's office, the doctor's, the dentist's — have become places to see the kind of art that you might only hope to view in a gallery or a museum, thanks to medical professionals» practice of trading treatment with artists.

For a number of years, I was a practicing lawyer.

I've criticized this style of confusing marketing in the past, writing in one instance about a number of lawyer websites, all created by the same marketing firm, that created misleading impressions of a lawyer's areas of practice and geographic location.

As the legal profession evolves to meet the changing demands of the marketplace, freelance lawyers have a new angle on the practice of law, and their numbers have been growing in the largest U.S. legal markets over the past several years.

However, for many lawyers, running a law practice using a jury - rigged system of unrelated software programs is less than desirable for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the complexity inherent in such a system.

As I discussed in this post, the consolidation of Supreme Court practices within a limited number of large law firms has contributed to the under - representation of minority lawyers before the high court.

The general practitioner is disappearing and the per capita number of lawyers in private practice has been decreasing for decades.

There are a number of other ways that lawyers can use infographics in their law practices.

The figures I've seen show that there are over 1 million lawyers in the United States and even accounting for those who are retired, in academia or judgeships, 550,770 seems on the low side for the number of currently practicing attorneys.

The survey covers everything from the number of lawyers licensed to practice in the U.S., to the number of firms, size of firms, etc..

The number of lawyers who describe their practice as a «virtual» law practice declined this year to 5 percent, from 7 percent the year before, according to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report.

The merger will also make Norton Rose Group one of the five largest international legal practices by number of lawyers, with more than 2,900 lawyers in 43 offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Don't forget that Chief Judge Lippman recently instituted a requirement in New York that new lawyers must complete 50 hours of pro bono representation before being admitted to practice law, regardless of the number of years they attend school.

In addition to asking lawyers whether they consider their practices virtual, the survey also asked whether they use virtual office services, which it defined as services that provide a fixed mailing address or phone number together with on - demand use of office space and receptionists.

Hoping to expand their reach or trying to position lawyers as thought leaders in their practice areas, a number of large law firms are now actively producing content and distributing it through social media.

Senior Partner Jane Keir Managing Partner Linda Woolley Number of UK Partners 52 Number of other UK fee - earners 165 AREAS OF PRACTICE Criminal, Regulatory & Public 38 % Corporate, Real Estate 10 % Litigation (inc Emp) 19 % Family & Private Client 13 % Immigration 10 % Clinical Negligence 10 % CONTACTS Clinical Negligence Terrence Donovan Corate & Commercial James Fulforth Criminal Litigation Stephen Parkinson Dispute Resolution Richard Foss Employment Richard Fox Family Charlotte Bradley Immigration Nicolas Rollason Private Client Matthew Duncan Public Law Adam Chapman Real Estate Paul Harbour Regulatory & Professional Discipline Nicola Hill The Firm An astute, diverse firm of lawyers working for private clients, businesses and government, nationally and internationallof UK Partners 52 Number of other UK fee - earners 165 AREAS OF PRACTICE Criminal, Regulatory & Public 38 % Corporate, Real Estate 10 % Litigation (inc Emp) 19 % Family & Private Client 13 % Immigration 10 % Clinical Negligence 10 % CONTACTS Clinical Negligence Terrence Donovan Corate & Commercial James Fulforth Criminal Litigation Stephen Parkinson Dispute Resolution Richard Foss Employment Richard Fox Family Charlotte Bradley Immigration Nicolas Rollason Private Client Matthew Duncan Public Law Adam Chapman Real Estate Paul Harbour Regulatory & Professional Discipline Nicola Hill The Firm An astute, diverse firm of lawyers working for private clients, businesses and government, nationally and internationallof other UK fee - earners 165 AREAS OF PRACTICE Criminal, Regulatory & Public 38 % Corporate, Real Estate 10 % Litigation (inc Emp) 19 % Family & Private Client 13 % Immigration 10 % Clinical Negligence 10 % CONTACTS Clinical Negligence Terrence Donovan Corate & Commercial James Fulforth Criminal Litigation Stephen Parkinson Dispute Resolution Richard Foss Employment Richard Fox Family Charlotte Bradley Immigration Nicolas Rollason Private Client Matthew Duncan Public Law Adam Chapman Real Estate Paul Harbour Regulatory & Professional Discipline Nicola Hill The Firm An astute, diverse firm of lawyers working for private clients, businesses and government, nationally and internationallOF PRACTICE Criminal, Regulatory & Public 38 % Corporate, Real Estate 10 % Litigation (inc Emp) 19 % Family & Private Client 13 % Immigration 10 % Clinical Negligence 10 % CONTACTS Clinical Negligence Terrence Donovan Corate & Commercial James Fulforth Criminal Litigation Stephen Parkinson Dispute Resolution Richard Foss Employment Richard Fox Family Charlotte Bradley Immigration Nicolas Rollason Private Client Matthew Duncan Public Law Adam Chapman Real Estate Paul Harbour Regulatory & Professional Discipline Nicola Hill The Firm An astute, diverse firm of lawyers working for private clients, businesses and government, nationally and internationallof lawyers working for private clients, businesses and government, nationally and internationally.

Where small firm lawyers who are overwhelmed by administrative tasks would not need to do them: They could join a franchise, which, benefitting from external investment, would have the resources to develop and offer to a large number of small firms streamlined IT infrastructure, billing, marketing and file management, advertising, and a branded name and logo, freeing the lawyers to practice law.

In a 2007 report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reported on a number of gaps in legal education and set out a series of recommendations for bridging those gaps.2 Among the authors» findings was the «increasingly urgent need to bridge the gap between analytical and practical knowledge...» 3 The resulting recommendation that the teaching of legal doctrine be integrated beyond «case - dialogue courses» and into courses that focus on more practical skills acknowledged that this idea was «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 4 One of the schools where the teaching of legal analysis has long been integrated into practice - focused courses is the University of Maryland School of Law (Maryland).

As Jeff Richardson reported at iPhone JD, the number of lawyers using mobile devices to manage their law practices increased again this year, with smartphones leading the way.

The 2017 Chambers Global guide has listed 20 US lawyers as leading individuals in a number of key practice areas and...

The number of outside practicing lawyers attending: a handful.

In 2011, only 16 % of lawyers reported using cloud computing in their law practices, with that number increasing only slightly in 2012 to 21 %.

This week, the court decided to «relax» its confidentiality rules and it provided Avvo with a CD - ROM containing the names, addresses, admission dates and ID numbers of lawyers in active practice there — some 66,000 of them.

Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago - based company that provides services like office management and business development for solo and small firm lawyers, runs a number of practice - specific blogs — from lemon law to DUI.

Of Washington's three law schools, SU produces not only the largest number of new lawyers who go directly into a solo practice, but has done so historically, with a high of 21 solos from the 2010 graduating clasOf Washington's three law schools, SU produces not only the largest number of new lawyers who go directly into a solo practice, but has done so historically, with a high of 21 solos from the 2010 graduating clasof new lawyers who go directly into a solo practice, but has done so historically, with a high of 21 solos from the 2010 graduating clasof 21 solos from the 2010 graduating class.

Rather than hear from one speaker for an hour, the participants got to hear and learn from a number of people, all their peers and all lawyers who had faced and addressed these issues in their own practices.

Managing the administrative and legal work for the large number of requests that come in can become overwhelming, however, by adopting the right tools and processes into your practice, you can create a lean, mean, lawyering machine.

The Law Society of British Columbia today is launching its Justicia Project aimed at increasing the number of women lawyers in private practice.

The result of these two trends is a dwindling number of lawyers practicing in small communities and rural areas of Canada and a looming access to justice crisis if large numbers of lawyers decide to retire without replacements in place.

However, the number of senior women lawyers in private practice is increasing so slowly that it will be a long time to wait for greater female judicial representation if appointments stay locked below the percentage of women in the practice of law.

In my capacity as Head of Office, I manage a team of specialist lawyers who provide legal services in number of practice areas: corporate, intellectual property, banking, litigation, arbitration, hospitality and employment.

Even for lawyers who have above - average practices, a large number of their business and trade clients will retire sooner and more comfortably than the lawyers.

While 10 % of the general adult population is alcohol - dependant, among lawyers practicing from 2 - 20 years, the number jumps to 18 %.

Our lawyers are dedicated to building their respective practice areas as is shown by the number of categories we were shortlisted in; they deserve this recognition as a strong regional powerhouse rooted in the UAE.»

Foley Hoag lawyers and practice areas retain a number of top rankings in the just - launched Chambers USA 2010.

Actually, a substantial number of lawyers have been able to do this, and they haven't necessarily had to leave private practice to do it.

I do, though, think it's troubling the number of young lawyers who find that life in private practice just isn't what they signed up for.

For a number of years, Kelly gained invaluable experience aggressively representing corporate clients in what could only be called «high - stakes» litigation, practicing alongside some of the best firms and attorneys in the State of Texas, if not the nation; however, Kelly is a full - time father before he is a lawyer.

The increasing number of downloads each year reflects that practicePRO.ca is seen as a valued source of practice management tools by lawyers in Ontario and beyond.

Our attorneys and lawyers are experienced in a number of practice areas, including auto accidents, personal injury, and Premises Liability cases.

I suspect that a large number of small and large office lawyers were intellectually slighted in some way and went into the practice of law as a way to get social redemption.

Corinne Katz has over 20 years of experience working as a lawyer both in house and in private practice across a number of exciting jurisdictions.