The Future of the Law in Scotland: a UK and International Perspective Richard Susskind, Legal Commentator and Author
of The End of Lawyers
~ Professor Richard Susskind, author
of The End of Lawyers?
Real time blog post on ILTA 2009 session: Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice with Richard Susskind, author
of The End of Lawyers?
Here is a link to a Press Release from Los Angeles this afternoon, announcing that Richard Susskind, the controversial (in some circles anyway) author
of The End of Lawyers?
If you've not yet had your fill of Richard Susskind, the much - mentioned - on - Slaw author
of The End of Lawyers?
It's been my belief since the outbreak of the TWU law school fiasco that the legal regulators» response on this issue spells the beginning
of the end of lawyer self - regulation in Canada, but I've been unable to visualize what might come next; having this comparative account allows an examination of the other options.
Not exact matches
Lawyers get the short
end of the stick.
The prospect
of winning large damages in a class action can be the only way for consumers to find
lawyers to take their cases, so a denial
of this certification can effectively
end some lawsuits.
Following news
of the IRS tax probe, one virtual currency
lawyer said the agency's demand simply represented an opening gambit for negotiations — and that it that would
end with Coinbase providing a far more narrow set
of information.
Yet much
of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid
end of the marketplace, where physicians,
lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.
But most lawsuits
end up settling and often after an insane amount
of money spent on
lawyers and time wasted and unfocused.
Because the
lawyers ended up with a good chunk
of what was a fairly small asset pool to begin with, that meant downsizing.
At the
end of the day, if you aren't about the legal requirements governing content marketing in your industry (if any), it's better to consult a
lawyer and keep yourself out
of trouble.
The merger, which is expected to close by the
end of 2016, is the first stage in a complicated reorganization that will take years to complete, and will surely produce a lot
of fees for investment bankers and
lawyers.
During and after Hurricane Harvey's slow and catastrophic crawl over the Gulf states at the
end of August, inmates in multiple prisons in Texas were left to suffer in horrifying, inhumane conditions in ravaged facilities across the state, according to nearly 100 inmate accounts obtained by the National
Lawyers Guild.
Benjamin Brafman, a
lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the
end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»
Ty Cobb, the White House
lawyer in charge
of dealing with the Russia investigation, will retire at the
end of the month and be replaced by Emmet Flood.
Fortunately, we were able to hire a
lawyer who was able to negotiate a settlement — we
ended up paying $ 3,000 instead
of the original $ 8,000 in copyright infringement penalties Mr. Leech was originally seeking.
White House
lawyer Ty Cobb, who will leave at the
end of the month, was one
of the few at Trump's side urging the president to refrain from personally attacking Mueller and to comply with the prosecutor's requests.
On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal
lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department
of Justice, could
end up cooperating with government officials.
William Kissel, a
lawyer who is one
of the committee's six remaining employees, said: «We are absolutely delighted that the matter seems to be coming to an
end, that our creditors will be paid off and that the committee can finally go out
of existence.»
In doing so, they put Attorney General Janet Mills on the hot seat, with a
lawyer saying the suit will
end quickly if the Democratic gubernatorial candidate and frequent foe
of the Republican governor agrees with them because she controls the state's legal representation.
(WASHINGTON)-- The White House
lawyer Ty Cobb is retiring at the
end of the month.
Going Full Nixon: Watergate
lawyer Richard Ben - Veniste writes that Richard Nixon's firing
of Archibald Cox was the «beginning
of the
end.»
And Robert Locke recently wrote a book on business school education pointing out that the whole focus
of business school education now was to have industrial companies run by financial managers — not salesmen, not production
end, not
lawyers, but financial managers.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted he reimbursed his
lawyer for a $ 130,000 payment to a porn star,
ending months
of White House denial.
But apparently that is not the
end of the legal proceedings, according to his wife and
lawyers who are assisting her with the situation.
Sir Cliff Richard's
lawyers have told a High Court judge that the singer should get compensation at the «very top
end of the scale» because BBC coverage
of a police raid on his home caused him «great damage».
More common is the view
of a
lawyer quoted by Vale: «The doctrine is a dangerous one that everyone is entitled to be well fed, well clothed, and well housed, and if one by reason
of misfortune, incompetence or sloth can not achieve that
end by his own efforts the public will pay the bill.
«Though disapproved
of by many, pronunciations
ending in \ - kyə - lər \ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers, including scientists,
lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president.
The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the
end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their
lawyers continue the long march through the courts and chanceries in search
of payouts that now exceed more than $ 2 billion.
Lawyers know this as well since they almost 100 %
of the time
end up in a settlement.
At the
end of Luke's account
of the conversation, the
lawyer, «desiring to justify himself,» asks, «And who is my neighbor?»
When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never -
ending quest for «painless» executions, the role
of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal
of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts
of death - penalty
lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.
If you are the example
of the future
lawyers of this country, I am scared to see where we will
end up during litigation in a court
of law.
With a political fight threatening the Murray - Darling Basin Plan, we asked a constitutional
lawyer if states can withdraw and what it might mean for South Australia at the lower
end of the river system.
It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack
of cases making their way through the court system as the big
end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed
lawyers.
Roper, the head man since 1919 and a star
end on Princeton's 12 - 1 team
of 1899, was also a
lawyer, insurance executive and three - term Philadelphia city councilman.
Marge's Mouthpiece Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott's new
lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, who last week requested that baseball's brass give his client until the
end of January to respond to preliminary findings regarding her well - publicized racist and anti-Semitic utterances, may be just the guy to set Schott straight.
Thiriez, a
lawyer by trade, highlighted the fact the ruling would «delay the case being heard,» with a court hearing — if one should happen — unlikely to be scheduled before the
end of next summer's World Cup.
But if the goal is a legally binding agreement that you'll be held to should one
of you want to
end the relationship, a
lawyer is an important part
of the equation.
When
lawyers and social commentators descend to this level
of deliberate distortion and misinterpretation for their own
ends, they do not serve the public interest and should cease to be taken seriously.
As an astute
lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know
of the latter enactment, by declaring the court
of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name
of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an
end for ever to the attempts
of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source
of tyranny in the case
of the then star chamber.
Because the men were not warned they were targets
of the investigation, Aiello and Gerardi spent a combined 10 hours being interrogated and
ended up charged with lying to the feds, their
lawyers said.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on the Catholic
Lawyers Guild marking the
end of its year with their 41st annual awards dinner, including BP Adams
«This is a plot hatched by Singh and he recruited Mei and that's where it begins and
ends,» said Marc Agnifilo
of Manhattan, Venditto's
lawyer.
A Guardian report suggests police want to interview Murdoch over criminal activities in his newspaper empire and have only held off so long due to an agreement with his
lawyers that inquiries would wait until the
end of criminal proceedings.
The last presidential election results in 2012 were challenged in Ghana's Supreme Court, the highest court
of the land, and for eight months on
end,
lawyers had to be pouring over thousands
of pink sheets, etc..
A
lawyer, she drew some attention toward the
end of her service for sharing a residence with her husband in Long Island, which was outside her Queens district, for reportedly filing for more than one STAR exemption and for a spotty attendance during session.
Zhou told jurors that defense
lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the
end, is a «simple case»
of a top government official allegedly selling his position
of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions
of dollars» worth
of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.