Sentences with phrase «of lawyers as»

According to Texas Lawyer, «businesses that rank as part of the survey are firms that were voted by hundreds of lawyers as the best of the best.»

Jay G. Foonberg, published 2004, 704 pages This classic ABA bestseller has been used by tens of thousands of lawyers as the comprehensive guide to planning, launching, and growing a successful practice.

I don't see it like that, and frankly, I see no role for the current generation of lawyers as consultants, as I so define them.

Focusing on the role of lawyers as both client representatives and neutrals, this book contains a wealth of information, resources and practice forms for mediators, therapists, lawyers and other professionals.

Our previous efforts focused solely on partners; we've broadened it because we see all of our lawyers as long - term investments.

It's wise to think of the lawyers as your clients — how are you going to BD and market them?

Some of the perception of lawyers as hyper - aggressive over-billers is a spillover from the United States, but there are enough made - in - Canada anecdotes to keep lawyer jokes amusing here, too.

Both Martindale - Hubbell Connected and Legal OnRamp are still operating, but the 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report showed that both have only a fraction of lawyers as members — with 1.8 % of lawyers saying they personally use Connected and 1 % saying they use OnRamp.

With respect to who could step up to represent the interests of lawyers as a professional association, the ABA may be a good choice.

In an environment where a substantial proportion of litigants do not or can not retain lawyers to represent them, access to justice demands that the court modify its Rules to eliminate the image of lawyers as gatekeepers of the courts.

The alliance is unique in that both companies originated out of law firms and continue to employ a number of lawyers as executives, consultants and service providers.

Now, in their own voices, we have the narratives of many of those lawyers as recounted in a series of oral interviews.

Within the litigation practice area, insurance defense was cited by 31 percent of lawyers as the leading driver of job growth, followed by commercial litigation (30 percent).

The positioning of lawyers as competitors for legal services business has changed since 2000, and Merritt relies on this along with her Ohio data in concluding that her 2010 lawyers were not just facing a tough economy.

When acting in advisory capacity, what is the role of lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law?

When lawyers connect with other lawyers through social networking sites, they may not think about the day in the future when they face one of those lawyers as opposing counsel.

There are lots of stories of lawyers gone bad but taken as a percentage of lawyers as a whole, there really aren't that many.

The layperson thinks of lawyers as the people you have to pay a lot of money if you have a particular problem, like your spouse wants a divorce, or you've been charged with a serious crime, or you are bankrupt.

Finch's quiet courage is seen through the eyes of Scout (Mary Badham), his 6 - year - old daughter, and embraced by an emerging generation of lawyers as the epitome of both moral certainty and unyielding trust in the rule of law.

I don't do corporate work although I have access to GC, I have been «recognized», and my intended client base doesn't care but I wonder whether these rankings actually advance the credibility and reputation of lawyers as a profession..

38 At the same time, however, «lawyers are themselves social actors, functioning within rather than above the perpetual clash» of interests.39 This private - interest role represents the more familiar view of lawyers as zealous advocates for their clients.40 The case - dialogue method, the Report argues, serves to prepare students for their role as private - interest advocates, which is only one side of their dual roles.

As I've noted here before, both Martindale - Hubbell Connected and Legal OnRamp are still operating, but the 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report indicated that both have only a fraction of lawyers as members — with 1.8 % of lawyers saying they personally use Connected and 1 % saying they use OnRamp.

This fear is not limited to those lawyers who are older and more adept, but this also applies to the younger generation of lawyers as well.

So, we got Lawyerist involved in helping to build the website, and a team of lawyers as volunteers were able to knock out a fully functioning piece of legal innovation in an afternoon.

They will be a valuable addition to our team of lawyers as we continue to serve our clients in Manitoba, across Canada and internationally.»

«We're delighted to work with the next generation of lawyers as they combine the disciplines of law and technology for the benefits of our community partners.»

«Concurrent jurisdiction over lawyers, shared between superior courts and law societies, is an ordinary aspect of the dual identities of lawyers as officers of the court and members of a regulated profession,» she wrote.

I'd like to provide some thoughts about this issue in the context of a) the role of lawyers as advisors, b) the mediation process and c) justice reform.

In part this is important as much for the guidance of lawyers as it is for the assistance of public sector clients to understand the role of their lawyers, and basis for some of the advice that they give.

Apple unsuccessfully argued that the meetings shouldn't be privileged because Amazon was actually plotting business strategy and that it is now using the presence of its lawyers as a pretext to hold back information.

I repeated the same propositions in my lecture to the Ghana Bar Association Conference of that year and was essentially ostracized by a section of lawyers as a result.

For Long, there's the cost of the lawyers as well as the emotional anguish (regardless of guilt or innocence, this sort of trial must weigh heavy on the accused).

but the ad in itself shows the difficulties of advertising legal services - the «ghostly» presence of the female lawyer, not looking at all at ease, seems to reinforce the image of the lawyer as an out of touch individual at difficult moments.

Maybe I asked the wrong sort of lawyer as he, while being an accomplished practitioner in his field, is a knockabout criminal defence hack with little need for theory and sophisticated legal strategies.

Mediators like accountants plainly fall outside the protection of legal professional privilege, which attaches to communications between lawyers and their clients by virtue of the status of the lawyer as such, rather than merely because a person is giving legal advice.

To some, like Alex Craigie, who wrote a useful post refuting the idea of the lawyer as potted plant at a deposition, there's a whole truckload more.

But this does not accomplish the client's true aim, which is the successful resolution of the client's matter, and it puts lawyers and clients at odds, undermining the position of lawyer as trusted advisor.

As such, it is necessary to obtain services of a lawyer as early as possible in the proceedings to defend you.

However, larger claims need the aid of a lawyer as the suits can be rather intricate and long.

Both exercises help to give first - semester students a better idea of lawyering as a transactional attorney.43

Some lawyer stereotypes — such as the image of the lawyer as a shark — are so pervasive that it's easier to embrace them rather than try to erase them.

Chris neatly sums it up in the last sentence «This is not the end of lawyers but it just might be the end of lawyering as we know it.»

In all cases of personal injury, you should seek the advice of a lawyer as soon as possible.

If you have a will, living trust, life insurance policies, and other assets with named beneficiaries, it is important that you seek the advice of a lawyer as soon as possible to determine the effect a divorce may have on your estate planning.

Sponsorship requires a collaborative culture that views the success of every lawyer as a benefit for the entire firm.

Sharon D. Nelson: Well, interesting, you kind of answered my next question, so I think I'm going to reshape it a little bit because I do think a lot of lawyers are worried about Artificial Intelligence replacing their jobs, and from my own perspective, I think a certain amount of that fear is justified, but I do understand what you're saying and I've watched with considerable admiration as you've kind of turned your ship a little bit into a different harbor because originally it was called ROSS: The Super-Intelligent Attorney, and now, you have more shaped ROSS from the point of view of the lawyer as somebody that allows the lawyer to be more efficient, serve the client better, and to focus on something other than what you might call «the goat work» of the legal world, which we really don't want to do, and so how did you come to the realization that that was something that needed to be done?

The provision of free legal services to those unable to pay reasonable fees continues to be an obligation of each lawyer as well as the profession generally, but the efforts of individual lawyers are often not enough to meet the need.

Not exact matches

Also, as the Tantalizing Trademark blog notes, the reason Swift's lawyers filed for so many applications (20 filings for five phrases) is that trademarks only protect specific categories of goods and services.

Former Western Australian lawyer Michelle Gordon has been appointed as the next Justice of the High Court of Australia, replacing her husband, Justice Kenneth Hayne, who soon reaches the mandatory age

Saying this could qualify as «willful» disregard of the law, lawyer Robert Barnes wrote for the site LawNewz, and a court would take that into account when assessing the newspaper's right to do so.