Sentences with phrase «of legal profession»

The issues relating to the future of the legal profession are challenging enough already.

Well, meet the Diogenes of the legal profession: J. Kim Wright.

As I said in my previous post, the non-lawyer Attorney General is the white tiger of the legal profession.

core values of the legal profession are protected, and 2.

It was to be an installment of Blawg Review, promised Above the Law editor Elie Mystal, that would «make hamburger of the legal profession's sacred cows.»

The Bluebook, of course, is the Bible of legal citation, the inside - baseball of the legal profession that separates a proper citation from an abomination.

The non-lawyer Attorney General is certainly not «a member of the legal profession».

True mentoring, in the biggest sense of the word, is an essential ethical obligation of the legal profession.

I think members of the legal profession prefer to treat non-lawyer Attorneys General as quaint anomalies.

The Law Society has a duty to consider indebtedness of its licensee candidates in relation to the relative wealth of the legal profession when deciding who can best bear the burden of funding the LPP.

The following have motivated managing partners to make organizational, structural and procedural changes in which their firms organize and manage client service and marketing: (a) an ABA study on the declining image of the legal profession; and (b) clients» perceptions concerning services provided and their treatment by lawyers, not only the results achieved or the fees charged.

However, Butler ruled that Mulgrew had to turn over his notes, noting «the nature of the legal profession is such that the Law Society could not investigate complaints about its members without access to privileged information.»

But we aren't just focused on numbers; we are focused on the future of the legal profession, which is not going to be 88 % white and 64 % men for much longer.

Recommendation 3: All members of the legal profession should keep abreast of relevant technologies.

First, as for every profession, advances in technology will serve to commoditize the more routine aspects of the legal profession.

To advance and protect the interest of the members of the legal profession residing or practicing in and about the City of Kamloops, Province of British Columbia;

A foreword by Robert Ambrogi, writer of the award - winning blog LawSites, reflects on the future of the legal profession as lawyering becomes an increasingly automated practice.

In short, The Millennial Lawyer is a must read for anyone interested in the future of the legal profession.»

However, members of the legal profession are not obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings brought before a consumer dispute resolution body.

My view of the legal profession and the practice of law was formed by practicing there.

«Immigration law is a challenging, but rewarding, area of the legal profession, and is becoming ever more important as a result of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

A couple of months back, I reflected in a blog post on how LPO has been influencing the trajectory of the legal profession and legal education, but what about the trajectory of LPO itself?

Unless those Ph.D. s come to law teaching with respect for law's special expertise — and with new ideas for how to integrate their social science backgrounds into the world of law as it is experienced on the ground — then the move toward legal empiricism will only increase the unfortunate rift between tenured law faculties and the rest of the legal profession.22

The days gave the students an overview of the legal profession, the career options available to them as well as different routes into law including choosing an apprenticeship.

The Queen's Counsel designation is awarded annually to members of the legal profession to recognize exceptional merit and outstanding contributions to the legal community.

Some people actually blame law schools for the current state of the legal profession, since they increased admissions just as the bubble was about to burst.

Kaufman first examines how the profession has changed over the last five year, then offers philosophical approaches, practical examples, and valuable exercises to help lawyers reconcile their goals and expectations with the realities and demands of the legal profession.

The Society encourages members of the legal profession to contact the Equity & Access Office with any questions or concerns they may have related to equity, diversity and cultural competence.

To reflect this our original remit involved assisting the development of the legal profession in Russia through mutual exchanges and training programmes, providing advice and assistance in connection with the administration of justice in the Russian Federation and the drafting of legislation and organising high level meetings and round table discussions on developing legal issues.

In countries with this dichotomy of the legal profession, mostly barristers argue in courts.

I do not think the public perception of the legal profession includes a «sense» of the profession being early adapters to change or visionaries especially, when it comes to affordable pricing policies.

The demographics of the legal profession in Canada mirror that of the wider population with the proportionately large baby boom generation nearing retirement age.

While 23 per cent of Ontario's population was racialized in 2010, just 17 per cent of the legal profession was composed of racialized lawyers.

@Gary P. Rodrigues: «My understanding is that the decision to continue to offer the Ontario Reports in print is in response to feedback received directly from members of the legal profession who see the Ontario Reports as a mechanism for creating a sense of community among members of the legal profession as well as the primary means whereby the Law Society communicates with the profession.

We can even make it clear to businesses that if they build it, we will come, but also make it clear that we are not going to give them part ownership of the legal profession.

Australian lawyers have greater temporary and permanent mobility and Australia is moving toward national regulation of the legal profession.

It's not the same for many aspects of the legal profession.

We discuss the survey and what it reveals about the state of the legal profession with Aric Press, editor - in - chief of The American Lawyer magazine, and Bruce MacEwen, -LSB-...]

The United States may have have Don'tDateHimGirl.com, but Ireland has RateYourSolicitor.com, a Web site that encourages consumers to rate members of the legal profession as poor, average, good or «avoid.»

[4] Accordingly, it can be argued that the experiences reported by SRLs are merely reactions to the inherently adversarial nature of the legal profession.

Admittedly, that headline is misleading, given that the lawyer in question is not just any lawyer but former presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards and that the principle at issue has nothing to do with the student's love of the legal profession.

The introduction of ABSs is all about «the wholesale abolition of the legal profession».

Of course, the court went a bit overboard, I think, suggesting that plagiarism leads to a parade of horribles such as burdening the court, undercutting a client's cause, generating criticism of the legal profession and reflecting a lack of integrity that reflects badly on the entire profession.

Georges has the easier position to defend, given that he has the massive weight of the legal profession's inertia on his side.

Prior to 1975, when women started to attend law school in greater numbers, women lawyers formed less that 5 % of the legal profession.

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The challenges facing small communities in regards to legal professionals arise from two primary trends; the aging of the legal profession as a whole and the preference among newly called lawyers to practice in urban centres.

I am appalled that members of the legal profession would call for unbridled, vigilante street justice.

Consider what we are told about the future of the legal profession.

Virtual assistant services are starting to look much more appealing, given the changing landscape of the legal profession.