Sentences with phrase «of affordable legal services»

(2) being content to have the victims continue to pay for a justice system from which the legal profession earns much more than do those taxpayers earn, but LSUC will not perform its duties, as required by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to provide those taxpayers with an affordable lawyer, and its members with the innovations that enable the production of affordable legal services;

At this time, that culture — resistance to change, failure to adopt technology, lack of affordable legal services — has stirred resentment and anger among citizens.

Almost twenty years, Will Hornsby, staff counsel for the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, authored a piece (PDF) on «Improving the Delivery of Affordable Legal Services Through the Internet: A Blueprint for the Shift to a Digital Paradigm.»

Woody Mosten is a true pioneer in expanding the availability of affordable legal services.

In 2015, William Hubbard, the then President of the ABA, established the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, which was established to «make recommendations on how technology and innovation can help expand the availability of affordable legal services to the poor and middle class».

I disagree,... it would be a mistake if the law societies do not come to believe that the absence of affordable legal services is not a primary factor and the leading cause as to why the majority of the population has chosen not to use lawyers.

The fact is, lawyers have a long way to go to ensuring availability of affordable legal services for lower - and even middle - income individuals.

The method of producing legal services is very obsolete, i.e., making a cottage - industry method of production more cost - efficient will not enable the production of affordable legal services.

The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer legal service providers to offer legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's services that they can not afford.

«The solution is to use numerous different technologies — including the ones that we're building — to bridge that gap and increase the supply of affordable legal services by increasing the productivity of legal service providers.

The usual theory posits that consumer demand for affordable legal services far outstrips the supply of affordable legal service providers, more so in rural and remote areas.

Not exact matches

If a building containing rent - regulated housing is demolished, the landlord has no obligation to reinstate the affordable housing in the new building, according to Peter Gee, the director of housing and community services for Asian Americans for Equality, an organization that offered legal help for the residents.

That is because materials and supplies no matter how very expertly and cost - efficiently delivered to an obsolescent method of producing a product (such as the way in which legal services are produced), can not make the product affordable, and therefore, neither can «apps» within the law office.

In this post, I would like to explore another combination of legal services and mediation that has enormous potential to create affordable and accessible dispute resolution opportunities for clients.

It is legal services that take any significant amount of a lawyer's time that are the cause of the problem, and not routine legal services which, for the most part, remain affordable.

As a result, the A2J problem of unaffordable legal services is inevitable because law firms do not have the necessary high degree of specialization and volume of production that produce the economies - of - scale necessary to maintain legal services as affordable.

All of these individuals are exceptional people and they all share our belief that legal services should be easier to obtain and more affordable.

The A.G. of Ontario at the Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ): there are now many sources developing such «apps» for the intended purpose of making legal services affordLegal Innovation Zone (LIZ): there are now many sources developing such «apps» for the intended purpose of making legal services affordlegal services affordable.

But CanLII has the developed national market of lawyers and judges, and LAO LAW has 36 years of know - how and success with which to provide that market with the services necessary for making legal advice services affordable.

ABSs can't make legal services affordable because they perpetuate the same method of producing legal services.

I can't have an affordable lawyer of my own because you use your monopoly over legal services to serve yourselves, but not the needs of the public for legal services.

Law society neglect of the problem, which is in law, its duty to solve, has created a large permanent class within society that can not obtain affordable legal services.

Given such is the case, perhaps a triage approach may be what's needed to make justice / the legal system more approachable, affordable and accessible with checks to improve quality of service throughout the process.

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

We want to make the process of buying legal services as simple and straightforward as possible, so during times of stress you can relax, knowing that your legal issues are being solved in the most affordable and efficient manner.

Small firm solicitor services are very affordable and should never be lumped into the discussion of legal services unafforability.

In the last 5 years, Access Legal Care has provided free legal consultations and affordable legal services to thousands of clients in Michigan, Illinois, and many other states and countries (who have Michigan and Illinois mattLegal Care has provided free legal consultations and affordable legal services to thousands of clients in Michigan, Illinois, and many other states and countries (who have Michigan and Illinois mattlegal consultations and affordable legal services to thousands of clients in Michigan, Illinois, and many other states and countries (who have Michigan and Illinois mattlegal services to thousands of clients in Michigan, Illinois, and many other states and countries (who have Michigan and Illinois matters).

All of our Primary Care Attorneys offer affordable legal services as follows:

CCLI's mission is to increase the number of small law firms in Minnesota providing affordable legal services to clients who are financially ineligible for legal assistance through existing legal nonprofits.

Jamie Butler of Butler & Company — One of Vancouver's top personal injury lawyers, has been focused on providing effective, affordable, and accessible legal services for the «little guy» against the big insurance companies for over 20 + years.

Legal Technicians offer a new, more affordable option to those not in need of the full services of an attorney.

We have dozens of 5 - star reviews from our amazing clients who have loved our free legal consultations, affordable legal help, quality legal services, and excellent service.

The Brown Award recognizes programs and projects that employ innovative means to enable affordable access to legal services for those of moderate income, who do not qualify

It created the ABS for two purposes: (i) to serve at affordable rates low and middle income clients who would have been eligible for legal aid in the past, in the areas of family and immigration law, and (ii) in a manner akin to Aspire Law, to generate a sustainable income stream for CALS, so that it can continue to provide its services for free, but reduce its reliance on government funding and grants.

However, the need for affordable legal services for the low income residents of Austin continues to grow.

From the state of the industry panel to the closing CLE presentation on the future of legal services, the conference's common theme was freeing up attorneys to practice law and provide affordable legal services to more clients.

Justice Bridge is described as a legal access center and law practice incubator that will help enable new lawyers to deliver high - quality, affordable legal services to clients of modest means.

This new service offers affordable access to initial legal advice on a whole range of topics, while also giving our students valuable commercial skills and experience.»

As a result, law firms are not sufficiently specialized, nor scaled - up sufficiently in their volumes of production, to be able to provide high quality legal advice services at affordable prices.

Just as the Federation of Law Societies of Canada sponsored the creation and maintenance of CanLII (the Canadian Legal Information Institute), a national institute needs to be created that provides the permanent expertise and support services necessary to making legal services adequately affordLegal Information Institute), a national institute needs to be created that provides the permanent expertise and support services necessary to making legal services adequately affordlegal services adequately affordable.

In addition to the benefits that unbundling provides for attorneys, it also increases access to justice by making affordable legal services available to a larger segment of the public who are actively seeking such assistance online.

That means taking a close look at what regulatory incentives or directives (or, perhaps as a last resort, taxes on the new capital investments) might ensure the development of affordable, effective and fair legal services and products for people with currently unmet legal needs.

The duty to make affordable legal services available to the population arises from the law that requires the law societies to regulate the legal profession and the monopoly it has over the provision of legal services.

That is the key to making legal advice services affordable, and also provided by way of the highest degree of competence, because of the much higher degree of specialization than now exists in any law firm.

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By making legal services simple and affordable, Rocket Lawyer actually helps to expand the market for legal services to millions of individuals, families and small businesses.

A Lawyer for over 10 years, Claudia is the director of Legal Beagle, an innovative law firm offering easy and affordable online legal services New Zealand Legal Beagle, an innovative law firm offering easy and affordable online legal services New Zealand legal services New Zealand wide.

The delivery of services is two-fold: (1) assisting the community in identifying legal needs, and (2) creating legal packages that are affordable, understandable, and accessible.

Nowhere does either webpage say, «however, these are the proactive steps that we are taking to make legal services affordable,» followed by a list of such «steps» in proof of being sufficiently proactive.

This body of research argues for the recognition of everyday legal needs and responding investment in affordable, community - based legal outreach, pointing to the very considerable social costs of non-resolution that are borne by social and health services, income supports, disability plans, and employment insurance, other social services (more information and supporting publications can be found on the Forum website).