Sentences with phrase «of routine legal services»

That will be needed to bring, for example, the automation of routine legal services, and better marketing of legal services.

We can negotiate as a single unit to obtain the automation of routine legal services, and obtain changes to law society bylaws allowing related non-legal services to be provided with legal services.

So, automation and machine learning will continue to drive down the cost of routine legal services, while opening up enormous opportunities to bring more people into the market.

They can perhaps speed the adoption of innovations such as the «packaging» of those routine legal services that can be provided more cost - efficiently by software applications such as for writing simple wills and incorporating small companies.

With good law society leadership, the automating of routine legal services with software «apps» can be done by Canada's legal profession itself.

As to financing such development by Canada's lawyers (instead of by commercial investors) of software for automating the delivery of routine legal services: more than $ 11 million could be raised if every lawyer in Canada paid an addition one - time $ 100 increase in annual law society fees.

In addition to legal research, there are many other specialized support services that can be provided with such expert advice, including the automation of routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client services and satisfaction.

The first duty of a Canadian law society is to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — ABS's can't do that because legal advice services can not be automated, they being the bulk of the problem, not the lack of automation of routine legal services.

(Whatever the size of the necessary size of the one - time increase in annual fees, that's the way to get the necessary automating of routine legal services without worry as to loss of independence and ownership whose purpose is to control the market for monopoly power that dictates price.

Over 150 paralegals and managers provide a comprehensive range of routine legal services in either a standalone capacity or integrated alongside AG's lawyers and, increasingly, as part of clients own internal teams.

Such an institute could provide a single bargaining agency on behalf of all lawyers in Canada, by which to obtain the automation of routine legal services, and not have to endure ownership by a commercial investor to get it, as proposed by the ABS investors.

All that the ABS proposals will give them is the automation of routine legal services, but not any improvement in the affordability of legal advice services.

Not exact matches

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.

To be valid it has to mean that a «charity ABS» can provide routine legal services, and provide legal advice services below cost as a service of the charity, union, not - for - profit organization, or other CSO, that is providing them.

Those lawyers and investors who wish to have ABSs made legal are looking to make a return on investment by way of providing routine legal services in greater volume.

They could finance the automation for providing routine legal services, but such automation is something that the legal profession can provide for itself, better by itself without: (1) law offices having to be owned by investors; and, (2) the risk of the fiduciary duty owed to clients being suppressed by the resulting profit duty owed to investors.

Therefore, the motivation of ABS investors is to «corner the market» on routine legal services.

The purpose of ABS investors is not to solve the problem but rather «to corner the market» for routine legal services because that's where «the quick and easy money is.»

See Part II («Match the attorney you pick to the decision - maker you face if a court, regulator, or prosecutor with a distinctive viewpoint will be driving the legal outcome»), and Part III («For routine, repetitive, or high - volume legal or regulatory compliance tasks, consider a service provider who brings the right processes — and perhaps technology — to your company's needs»)-- of this series.

Most of the services on display in the demo screenshots look pretty routine, like appearance counsel, transcriptionists, and legal research and writing.

Unbundling of legal services, thus incentivizing legal firms to earn fees through bespoke services rather than through routine tasks

This could be fixed fees: automation of many routine legal services may finally achieve the long - predicted demise of time - based billing.

Omar's thesis taps into the debate about the commoditization of legal services to make them more widely accessible — e.g., standardizing routine functions so that non-legal professionals can take care of them, with lawyers only called on to handle more complex cases.

That involved keeping all transaction - agreement drafting in - house, regardless of the size and profile of the deal, as well as standardising documents and introducing self - service tools for clients so the legal team was not wasting time on routine or less important matters.

Many of the services that law firms now provide, such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better, cheaper» than a full - service law firm.

[i] The «unaffordable legal services problem» afflicts both kinds of legal services: (1) legal advice services; and, (2) routine legal services that don't require legal advice.

The company is now looking to offer more services to consumers and small businesses, according to a feature in the ABA Journal last year, including routine legal advice using a mix of lawyers and non-lawyers.

But the problem of unaffordable legal services is caused by the high cost of legal advice services, not by routine legal services such as simple real estate deals, divorces, and incorporations.

The steady rise of the ALSP since the year 2000 — the legal process outsourcer, the flex - lawyer platform, the managed legal services company, and advanced legal software — has enabled the movement of millions of hours» worth of routine, straightforward legal work off lawyers» desks and out of law firms.

The real cause is that most front - line purchasers of corporate legal services (in - house lawyers) care more about what traditional suppliers (law firms) can offer them (strong personal relationships, a reliable brand, routine buying processes, and a familiar culture) than what they can offer the enterprise.

The Internet is not only making it easier for non-experts to gain access to the information they need; it is driving a gradual expansion of automation from low - cost, routine professional services to more bespoke services, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated (e.g., IBM Watson's applications to the healthcare and legal industries).

Technological innovations and the lessons of the 2008 Financial Crisis are challenging the hegemony of the billable hour and are driving clients to demand routine legal services for a fraction of the cost.

Axiom's proven track record in the U.S. and the U.K. will mean that law firms will be attacked on their turf — which includes fairly routine work for very large buyers of legal service.

The initiative, which was announced to staff internally today (2 Ferbuary), will see the creation of a new support services centre delivering some core internal business support processes, as well as a legal services centre delivering some routine or less complex elements of legal work.

Or, because of the commercial producers of legal services» eating into the routine legal services market of the general practitioner (e.g., LegalZoom, LegalX, RocketLawyer), as a profession we will shrink in size, purpose, and importance, and our law societies proportionately diminished by all such measures.

The solution, if there is one, is either to (i) provide greater public subsidies for legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «routine» legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).

Dye & Durham's emarket includes our cloud - based suite of legal software, an all - in - one solution for legal professionals looking to automate routine document production — providing significant time savings, efficiency, superior work flow process improvement, and the ability to improve their service levels.

Emarket, Dye & Durham's single cloud - based gateway, is the complete all - in - one solution for legal professionals looking to automate the collection and filing of Public Records Data and the automation of routine document production — providing significant time savings, efficiency, superior work flow process improvement, and the ability to improve their service levels.

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