Sentences with phrase «of solving their legal problems»

Many clients don't really want the litigation process but they don't know there are alternative ways of solving their legal problems.

Sam Glover: Yeah, and I guess something that maybe I hadn't really fully appreciated before I started reading your study was the process of, well, the process of solving legal problems from the client perspective is just stress, top to bottom, side to side, front to back.

One of the really important things you do as a criminal defense lawyer is just the simple act of saying, I see you as a human being, I'm on your side, you're not just a «defendant» to me.That can be a big part of solving the legal problems, too.

The costs of solving legal problems are not solely the costs of legal representation and court proceedings.

Significant among them are the high cost of solving legal problems, in particular the high cost of legal representation, the complexity of the law and legal procedures and the negative attitudes of those in the legal system.

Entrepreneurs, non-profit groups, legal aid agencies, and courts are developing legal software applications to serve consumers directly as a alternative way of solving their legal problems at low cost.

«Scott went from a daily regimen of applied science to one of solving legal problems for the same industry,» Hull continued.

«Instead of solving a legal problem and often seeing the client continue in the situation that gave rise to the problem, a holistic approach holds the promise of a more fundamental and permanent change in circumstances.»

According to Associate Dean and Professor Mark McKenna, an expert on intellectual property law who is a driving force behind the Law School's Program of Study in Intellectual Property and Technology law, «This is a welcome, forward - looking course that is dedicated to readying our grads for the new reality of legal practice in the 21st century, a time in which more law firm and corporate employers are seeking to hire attorneys who are familiar with technology and are able to find creative, non-traditional, cost - effective ways of solving legal problems.»

This is because law firms are not in the business of solving legal problems; they are in the business of billing hours devoted to solving legal problems.

Not exact matches

Sure — it might mean spending a little bit of extra money to consult a lawyer but, if Delta's legal department has taught us anything, it's that it is always better to solve a problem before it morphs into a lawsuit.

He's also a sought - after speaker and the founder and resident legal guru of The Law Firm For Businesses, a boutique law firm that helps business owners creatively solve their business and legal problems.

But as people with experience solving complex problems, leading complex organizations and coping with regulatory and legal issues, they have a valid and vital perspective to express on matters of politics and public policy.

Where appropriate, he invites clients to take a step back from the legal issues in front of them and invites them to ask themselves better questions by using the Osborne - Parnes Creative Problem Solving methodology.

«Were we to separate legal and sacramental marriage, it would solve all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the growing discomfort that many of us have that legal marriage is available only to some responsible adults who are in monogamous relationships.»

The church can solve this problem by a «render unto Caesar» approach by relinquishing the legal role that the state has lumbered it with, and gets back to the basics of celebrating who God puts together — which, as stated in the previous verse, was between a man and woman instinct-wise.

«The Jehovah's Witnesses,» Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone once famously said, «ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties.»

«Legislating is about problem solving, and I believe it is a significant problem that New York State has no mandatory reporting law for parents, legal guardians, caretakers or other responsible adults to not notify law enforcement of the death of their child, accidental or otherwise, within atimely manner of the death being discovered.»

And the administration hopes to have solved the multimillion - dollar problem of commercial tax refunds by that point — though many expect legal challenges to stall that deal.

And while the de Blasio administration has increased funding for free legal services for tenants, lawyers working with low - income New Yorkers say that isn't solving the problem, citing the arsenal of strategies landlords can use to evict rent - stabilized tenants since they can increase rents up to 20 percent — without making any renovations — when units are vacant.

Adequacy tied to standards solves the legal and political problems of justiciability.

But is it within the competence (not to mention the legal authority) of the federal government to solve those problems, or will their efforts to do so simply make things worse for educators, school leaders, and policymakers in the places that really matter?

Among sales and marketing professionals in residential real estate, the broad range of Faculty expertise, from legal to ethical to regulatory to electrical, lends itself to efficient arms - length problem solving, even when schedules are exceptionally tight.

However, the sound advice and deft legal drafting skills of an experienced real estate attorney may pay for themselves several times over by solving problems before they ever arise.

Two decades of debate over assigning blame for emissions, legal responsibility for reducing them and allocating per capita rights to use the atmosphere for disposing of heat trapping gases have created a zero - sum game without opportunities for solving problems by creating mutual gains.

Therefore the problem of unaffordable legal services can not be solved without government intervention.

However, doesn't that make it even more important to walk in the shoes of a variety of members of the public, for example, who are trying solve their legal problems?

Maybe this low percentage is the root cause of the legal tech industry's obsession with solving all the wrong problems, or maybe 9 % is a typical percentage of ex-professionals to have on staff for companies trying to provide tech solutions to that industry.

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

This is a problem that should be solved: it is in the interests of all members of the legal community who write regularly to have access to these time saving software packages, as this is a place where immediate efficiency improvements could be made with little expense or change in work style.

Few legal project problems can be solved in a couple of days.

«The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»;

Malcolm your favorite solution, alternate business structures (ABSs), they can not solve the unaffordable legal services problem because they propose no change in the method of producing legal services.

A recent report by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, stated nearly 12 million Canadians will experience at least one legal problem in a three - year period, and few will have the resources to solve them.

No matter how you bill, what types of legal problems solve, or what types of clients you serve, Clio can be used to fit your workflow.

Therefore, the problem and its long history of failure, requires government intervention, because law societies, being the regulators of the legal profession in Canada, do not realize that they do not understand the true nature of the problem and won't accept the fact that they and all other such institutions within the legal profession do not have the expertise necessary to solve the problem.

While it could be argued that wholesale distribution of law will create more retail (free or low cost) legal information distribution points and thus increase access to justice — indeed, it would solve many of the closed problems of legal information that I listed above — I'm now not entirely convinced that this is the only way to go for state government publication efforts.

In each of the last 12 months, the ABA Journal has checked in with a group of legal professionals who have pioneered the use of technology for problem - solving, research and innovation, among other traits.

Support services methods of production are essential to solving the «unaffordable legal services problem.»

«Mindfulness can help us become more aware of each other and our communication deficiencies across the firm so that we work to improve and integrate our problem - solving, responsiveness and interpersonal skills with our legal skills.

Evidently, leaving the balancing to national courts would not solve the problem of divergent judgments in individual cases, which would again adversely affect legal certainty and equal treatment.

But because ABSs would not change the method whereby the work is done to produce legal services, they have no capacity to solve or reduce the problem of unaffordable legal services.

(A problem that could easily be solved for legal proceedings by amending subsections such as, s. 31.5 CEA and s. 34.1 (8) OEA, and s. 41.6 of the Alberta Evidence Act (AEA), to state that «systems integrity» can be established by proof of compliance with 72.34.)

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

So why does the majority of LSUC's membership tolerate such preference given to the interests of benchers of law firms that serve large institutions and potential investors and not to solving the unaffordable legal services problems of middle and lower income people?

Right now, they have nothing of that nature — no program the purpose of which is to solve the problem of unaffordable legal services.

Law society neglect of the problem, which is in law, its duty to solve, has created a large permanent class within society that can not obtain affordable legal services.

Given: (1) the misery and damage caused to the majority of the population by the problem; and, (2) the law societies» refusal to try to solve the problem, the commercial producers have a strong argument that they should be treated as equal to the ABSs in providing relief from the consequences of the law societies» breach of trust, i.e., their failure to perform the duties attendant to their monopoly over the provision of legal services.

But that problem can not be solved by turning ownership of the legal profession over to investment houses.

(1) management by part - time amateurs (benchers), whose work is mostly charity — «amateurs» because they don't have the expertise necessary for solving difficult problems such as the unaffordability of legal services (and they don't try to get it);