Sentences with phrase «of law society»

There's a simple version in the back of the Law Society's office procedures manual you could adapt.

It is also an opportunity to increase awareness of the Law Society's distinct role as regulator among government's legal stakeholders.

This mentoring referral is not part of the Law Society's discipline process and does not involve any allegations of professional misconduct on your part.

Then over at the latest issue of The Law Society Gazette, a feature on what it takes to be a successful legal writer — i.e. one whose work is read by someone other than the client, the judge or the tenure committee.

For St. Lewis, a civil liberties expert and the first black woman elected as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Rancourt's explanation rings hollow.

He is a practising criminal lawyer, co-founder of the Law Union of Ontario, a former co-president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, and a life bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada

Whatever business model they choose, solicitors will continue to have the full support of the Law Society.»

The general practitioner is much more than half of law society membership.

Paul Saguil, chairman of the law society's equity advisory group, says that the survey's results are unfortunately not surprising, given what the law society learned through its report about the challenges faced by licensees.

Does the Law Society's activity on this front take it too far outside of its functions as articulated in section 4.1 of the Law Society Act, namely «to ensure that,

The legal system, and members (as they were described then) of the Law Society of Upper Canada, were also complicit in these actions.

She is also a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Joe Egan, President of the Law Society spoke of the history of Chancery Lane as well as the principles the profession upholds.

The first part of the Law Society's paper focuses on technological innovation in practice.

To come to terms with the monumental challenge before it, the Insurance Committee of the Law Society acted quickly to appoint members of an Insurance Task Force.

He is qualified with the Senegalese Bar Association (1993) and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales (International Division).

He is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association, the Muslim Lawyers Association (former Western Canada Rep.), and is a sustaining member of ACTLA.

The event will feature a debate with a panel of guests including Lucy Scott - Moncrieff — Director of Scott - Moncrieff & Associates Ltd and Chair of the Law Society's Equality and Diversity Committee; David Johnston — CEO of the Social Mobility Foundation; Chris Topping — Partner at Broudie, Jackson & Canter, Simao Paxi - Cato — YLAL and Invictus Chambers and James Wakefield — Director of the Council of the Inns of Court.

The first thought that usually comes to mind, which is also reflected in the title of the Law Society document, is the use of new technologies.

Richard is a member of the Law Society and a Practicing Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Confirmed speakers include Andy Slaughter MP, Andrew Caplen, President of the Law Society and Bill Waddington, Chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors» Association.

We recognise that the Government has listened to the views of the Law Society and our members and as a result made changes to mitigate their impact.»

The initiative was the brainchild of Dean Parnell, a partner at Sydney Mitchell and Chair of the Law Society's Dispute Resolution Committee, who said, «It is recognised by both our Committee and the local courts that junior lawyers are not getting as much regular court exposure as perhaps was the case ten years ago.

I was privileged this year to be invited to participate in the service on behalf of the Law Society and to represent Cardiff & District Law Society.

As a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), The Private Client Section of the Law Society and Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE), Tom is able to provide up to the minute advice to clients.

Linda is a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel, The Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel and is a senior litigator of the Association for Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

About 20 people represented the solicitors» profession including the President, Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents of the Law Society, a few Council members and about five representatives of local law societies.

West Coast LEAF will argue in support of the Law Society's decision to deny accreditation to TWU's law school in the belief that the Law Society's decision reflects a proper weighing of the rights at stake by upholding the fundamental right to equality enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We recently learned that Jocelyn Frazer, Practice Advisor and Equity Ombudsman (on leave) of the Law Society of Alberta, has passed away.

We have therefore created this Workshop, which is supported by the Women Lawyers Division of the Law Society in a -LSB-...]

Christina Blacklaws, vice-president of the Law Society, called for early legal advice to be reinstated for housing and family cases.

West Coast LEAF intervened in support of the Law Society's decision not to accredit TWU's law school.

In South Africa, some of our lawyers are also members of the Law Society of Northern Provinces, theGauteng Law Council, and the Black Lawyers Association.

Catherine Dixon, the chief executive of the Law Society, welcomed the interim report as providing «a vital opportunity to consider the fundamental question of how to restore and protect access to justice for everyone in the 21st century, regardless of their background and economic circumstances.»

Kent solicitor and senior partner of CooperBurnett solicitors, Jonathan Smithers, has taken office as the 171st president of the Law Society.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

She completed an complementary business diploma in 2011, a Paralegal diploma in 2015 and became a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2015 as a licensed Paralegal.

Last month Convocation of the Law Society of Upper Canada approved amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Paralegal Rules of Conduct to provide guidance to lawyers and paralegals who provide legal services under limited scope retainers.

Your blog post underscores the need and the purpose of the Law Society's Dialogue on Licensing.

«The petitioners say they are part of a group of people in the second category, including the media and members of the public, who are only indirectly related to any investigation of a member of the Law Society (the «Non-Regulated Group»).

The article features interviews with Meagan Williams, a colleague of mine from UWO Law (and occasional law blogger), Tom Conway, head of the Law Society task force on articling, Dean Lorne Sossin of Osgoode Hall, Deborah Glatter of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, and Chris Axworthy, the new Dean of the Thompson Rivers law school.

There are features of Law Society practices and the SDT procedures that are so backward, that they violate the most rudimentary standards of fairness.

(This diluted expectation of privacy is what I believe Jan Lindsay, then President of Law Society of British Columbia, was referring to when she is reported to have said at a conference in 2014: «This is black and white: BC lawyers are prohibited from using non-BC-based cloud computing providers, including Google and Dropbox.»)

Ontario law students have written an open letter and petition to the Benchers of the Law Society, calling on them to reverse their decision and implement a more equitable means of funding the LPP.

It can not be beyond the ability of the Law Society to develop such a policy with the insurance industry for all of its members, particularly if such cover becomes compulsory.

As treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Tom Conway is overseeing a massive change in the profession, leading efforts to respond to the articling crisis in Ontario by proposing an alternative to articling through the introduction of the Law Practice Program.

As Ontario's Law Times reports, a smoldering series of events led to prominent lawyer George Hunter's resignation as treasurer of The Law Society of Upper Canada and his disciplinary suspension, and they have now sparked a $ 1.4 million lawsuit against him and one of Canada's largest law firms, Borden Ladner Gervais.

In his attempts to patent his invention, he employed a local solicitor, Glanville Davies, a council member of the Law Society.

Judith Perkins, a committee member of the Law Society's Junior Lawyers Division, reckons there are now about five applicants for every training contract.

Star alumni: Four treasurers of the Law Society of Upper Canada; former Nova Scotia Appeal Court justice and current Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell; former Ontario Chief justice George Gale; former Supreme Court of Canada justice Roy Kellock; former Ontario Court of Appeal justices James Carthy and Allan McNiece Austin; Ontario Superior Court justices Joan Lax and Paul Perell.