Sentences with phrase «of practising lawyers»

I was privileged to be one of the panellists, but found myself in some hot water for suggesting that, viewed in its entirety, the current framework for the education and development of practising lawyers was not «fit for purpose».

The reality for most people in the country, however, is that we have roughly one tenth the number of practising lawyers per person as there are in the US, and the services that they provide are prohibitively expensive.

I hope that whatever lies ahead, law schools will continue to draw on the expertise and experience of practising lawyers for this very reason.

The legal profession, represented both by the regulators, in the form of the Law Society of BC and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and by the Canadian Bar Association, as the representative of practising lawyers, opposed the measures as an undue interference with the solicitor - client relationship.

Under the agreement, which calls for the creation of a national registry of practising lawyers, lawyers of common law signatory jurisdictions can provide legal services in, or with respect to the law of another common law signatory jurisdiction for up to 100 days on a temporary basis without permit.

But some innovation is simpler and not necessarily transformative, at least from the perspective of practising lawyers.

Beaton welcomes Mike to our blogging community where we aim to serve the interests of practising lawyers and their clients.

The net annual increase of practising lawyers was nearly 600 lawyers in the 1990s and averaged 700 lawyers in the following 15 years.

During the first 10 year period from 1989 to 1998 [xv], the number of private practice lawyers increased by a total of only 14.9 % while the number of practising lawyers in other categories increased by 79.7 %.

Overall, the number of practising lawyers increased by 561 lawyers [xiv] or 2.3 % annually during the 1990s.

When LAWPRO began collecting this information it turned out that 38 per cent of practising lawyers had excess professional liability insurance available to respond to claims.

At the same time, the LPP has involved the participation of hundreds of practising lawyers across the province in the creation and delivery of the program, as subject matter experts, mentors and assessors.

See the Snapshots for numbers of practising lawyers and non-practising (including retired) members, years at Bar, geographic distribution, gender and diversity data, types of practice and areas of law.

The Society also provides an interactive map to show the distribution of practising lawyers in non-urban areas of Nova Scotia.

In West Coast LEAF's view, TWU must respect the Charter «s equality protections when its activities — such as the certification of practising lawyers — enter the public realm.

The high count of reported claims resulted in a claims frequency — the ratio between the number of practising lawyers and the number of claims — of 100.5 claims per 1,000 lawyers.

«The majority of graduating lawyers are now female, and the majority of practising lawyers are not,» Ha - Redeye notes.

Overall, the numbers of practising lawyers to full time marketing / BD / communications professionals ranged from 10.2:1 to 37.1:1.

In partnership with US recruitment firm J. Johnson Executive Search, we compiled data from 31 UK and US law firms, to show the ratio of practising lawyers to full time marketing / BD / communications professionals.

Do they think that they would be better off in discipline cases with a body not composed largely of practising lawyers (though in Ontario at least there are lay benchers that participate in review of lawyers» conduct)?

How many North American law firms would sponsor poetry readings in their offices, and have them attended by goodly numbers of practising lawyers.

There has also been a significant increase in the number of practising lawyers between the ages of

The hope is that the program will «increase the number of practising lawyers in Nunavut, while also meeting Sivumut Abluqta's education priority to deliver relevant programming to meet the needs of Nunavummiut,» said a statement on the University of Saskatchewan's web site.

«The most striking aspect of the report to me was the description of how our legal aid tariff rate has declined by 27 per cent since 1991, and how the number of practising lawyers taking legal aid referrals has nearly halved in the past decade,» said Maclaren.

those services that support or supplement the practice of law by the MDP, and under the supervision of a practising lawyer (Rule 2 - 23.3 (2)(a)-RRB-

Students complete their articling (practicum) requirements with us and begin developing their professional career here under the guidance of a practising lawyer.

And although the number of practising lawyer full - time - equivalents... Read More»

To practise law in Canada, students must graduate from law school, sit a bar exam (or pass the equivalent bar course in some provinces), and complete 10 to 12 months of articling under the supervision of a practising lawyer.

Edinburgh / Aberdeen About Blog The blog of a practising lawyer and full - time cynic.

Not exact matches

The Directory includes articles of particular relevance to lawyers practising in a corporate setting.

The recent clarification of the powers of the federal Commissioner of Competition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competition field.

About Ogilvy Renault Ogilvy Renault LLP is a full - service law firm with close to 450 lawyers and patent and trade - mark agents practising in the areas of business, litigation, intellectual property, and employment and labour.

Amy Fong is circle leader of the Real Diaper Circle for Metro Vancouver, mom of 2 kids, and a full - time practising lawyer.

Colin Myler, the last News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, a former lawyer at News International, had claimed Mr Murdoch was wrong to deny he knew about an email proving the practise went beyond «one rogue reporter».

In 1997, Alexander, then a practising lawyer in Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll lead.

Redford plays Jim Grant, a former member of the radical left organisation, Weather Underground, and who is now a practising lawyer with an 11 year old daughter.

Born into a family of artists but opting to study law at Rome University — after which he practised for nine years as a lawyer — from 1935 he worked as a freelance photographer in the pleasant seaside town and port, Senigallia, on Italy's Adriatic coast, north of Ancona, in the Marche region.

Young lawyers are not getting enough exposure to the real world,» says Thomas Zuber, a retired superior and appeal court judge who also practised law and taught at the University of Windsor for many years.

The University of New Brunswick law grad has some advice for lawyers looking to practise in Canada's picture province: Consider both your professional life and your personal life.

Many licensed lawyers practising today did not master (or were even exposed to) the lengthy list of learning objectives contained in this document.

«In spite of much change in how and where lawyers practise and why people need lawyers, our method of regulation has not evolved on pace with the advancement of technology or of government, civil, and commercial interactions,» says NSBS President René Gallant.

While the LSUC has undertaken numerous efforts to boost the number of available articling positions, the default logic remains primarily market - based in the sense that private lawyers who are eligible to serve as principals (and it is private lawyers who make up the vast bulk of principals) are entitled to decide for themselves, on the basis of their own private economic calculations, whether to devote any of their money, time and other practise resources to experiential training.

Other factors at play could also be female Aboriginal lawyers leaving because of family pressures, Aboriginal lawyers not wanting to practise in a mainstream area such as corporate law, lack of opportunity within some areas, and not wanting to move away from their own band and family.

That's because, if he had, it's at least plausible the judge would have used some version of: a connection is «substantial» if it's «material» which means «if it falls outside the de minimis range», because that's where one is likely to wrongly go if one is going to err and is a lawyer who practised in common law Canada between 1997 and 2007 even if mostly on the criminal side.

I know the names of the kids of lawyers I practise «against.

This time the target was firmly trained on employment lawyers, with an article in The Times on 4 January 2011 by Helen Giles, an HR director, which was excoriating in its account of the «legal extortion» practised by employment tribunals and the «parasitical» lawyers bringing claims therein.

Every story is unique (and extraordinarily well - written, I might add), painting a memorable picture of the lawyer in a few paragraphs and tying his or her background, personality, interests or experiences into the law they practise and how they deal with the people they represent.

Harrison Pensa's 50 lawyers practise across a remarkably wide variety of legal disciplines that... more»

F. A. Mann is considered to be one of the finest British lawyers of the twentieth century, esteemed as an international jurist and as a practising solicitor.

I am very active as a practising lawyer, particularly in the areas of procurement and competition law.