Sentences with phrase «of the bar association»

All lawyers are members of the bar association for their respective offices.

There actually is a committee of the bar association that is looking at expanding our practice areas.

The methodology makes it clear that the focus was «the future of the legal profession and law firms», access to justice and the role of bar associations.

Chair a section of your bar association, serve on the board of a non-profit, get appointed to a local commission, or run for local office.

She maintains membership and leadership positions in a number of bar associations and other committees involving family law and juvenile justice.

Those who wish to apply must be a president - elect, vice-president or an upcoming leader of the bar association.

All judicial candidates go through by an independent screening panel comprised of bar associations and local civic and community organizations.

But I want to challenge the way you think of the bar association.

Networking will always play a role in the life of a bar association but the networking paradigm is failing us as an association.

Networking takes time, whether that networking takes the form of a bar association event, a happy hour with colleagues, or online social networking.

But the way to get the most out of bar associations is to become active and not just read your monthly newsletters.

Remember, many of the officers of the bar associations are sole practitioners themselves.

Nevertheless, until recently, lawyers have used email for all client communications with the ethical blessing of the bar associations.

It explains the function and purpose of bar associations, the many ways lawyers volunteer in their communities, and programs like Legal Aid that are available throughout the country.

Because of strict regulations of bar associations, law firms must play with a different set of rules.

You should also prepare a five - minute canned introduction you can give to meetings of your bar association, professional groups, local community groups and to local social service groups.

Not just members of the bar association — average sitting - at - home citizens wonder what you base your claims on.

Minami Tamaki attorney Lisa P. Mak recently started a two - year term on the board of directors of The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF).

An attorney active in the community, Vogel served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of Erie County, was named «Woman Lawyer of the Year» in 2009 by the Women Lawyers of Western New York and awarded «Prosecutor of the Year» in 2008 by the International Association of Financial Crimes.

If you are a member of a bar association in America, chances are pretty good that you have benefitted from the good counsel of Chris Manos, the Executive Director of the State Bar of Montana.

Even with vast consumer support this was an incredibly bold move (as evidenced by the reactions of bar associations across the country) but it has paid off and it will have a lasting beneficial impact on the lives of a lot of legal consumers.

LAPs refer in their materials to rules of confidentiality, but for integrated bars in particular, the mission of the bar association itself (typically phrased in some form of «protect the public») is directly at odds with the idea of confidentiality owed to the LAP participant.

He is the current Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Legal Ethics Committee.

And while the courts could step back in and undertake the work of the bar associations, most state courts are already underfunded and judges have more work than they can do.

Elected member of the Boston Bar Association Council from 2005 to 2008, and, since 2005, an appointed member of the BBA's Public Service Committee, which oversees all public service programs of the Bar Association.

And the first one is, I think the lawyers who are actually part of the system, that get the work and the clients from these companies don't want to wave a big giant flag to their bar associations, because a lot of the bar associations don't like what these companies do and you get in this whole fee - sharing thing and it becomes a big issue.

You must invite the local bench and bar, and you should certainly invite representatives of the bar association, the law society and your local law school; normally someone like the chief justice or dean can be prevailed upon to provide a short speech.

Although the opinions of each bar association are very similar to a point, in fact many of them use decisions of other states to form their own, attorneys will find some variation so should always look to the state they practice in for confirmation.

Moliterno provides a chronological history of the bar association as it deals with self - identified crises.

So I would challenge research lawyers in other provinces, where there is not yet a dedicated section of the bar association for legal research, to take the initiative and create such a section.

Hardly a volume of bar association proceedings is now without some reference to this new phenomenon.

This is the first time Casemaker has offered its research service outside the context of a bar association member benefit and the first time it has offered its service directly to lawyers for free.

I spoke to the NABE conference about the future of bar associations and suggested a number of new themes or pillars upon which 21st - century bar associations could be built.

The suspension stems from allegations released to the press that in 2014, while she was the vice-president of the Bar Association, she was involved in a shoplifting incident where she stole two pairs of jeans worth $ 455.

The redesign project is making me think through the interesting intersection of technology and law; and it's exciting working through the policies and procedures that surround the environment of the bar association and the needs and desires of our practicing lawyers seeking meaningful advice and resources.

«We understand the importance of the bar associations and have recently partnered with both the Alabama State Bar and the New Jersey State Bar to offer member benefits.

I am just the 95th in a long line of lawyers who cared enough about our colleagues and the profession to want to become the chief evangelist of the bar association.

The board of directors of the Bar Association unanimously named (not elected as stated in the press release, how can you be elected when the members did not vote) Claudia P. Prémont into the role of the new «Bâtonnière» du Quebec.

Judge Beaupré decided it was not in the best interest of the bar association and its members that Khuong be reinstated to her position as president of the bar until the court can examine the whole case fully.

The members requested that Khuong be reinstated in her position as president elect of the Bar Association.

I think the silence and non-participation of most members of the bar association speaks louder.

Over a decade ago in Canada, in 2007 the province of Ontario brought paralegal or legal services provider regulation under its version of the bar association, The Law Society of Ontario.

On August 22, we heard in La Presse that the Quebec Minister of Justice has asked l'Office des professions to look into the affairs of the bar association to ensure in the eyes of the public that the drama that currently plagues the bar association will not impede its good and effective functioning.

At the same time these decisions are coming down, Britton says that the legal profession is ailing, much at the hands of bar associations.

She is currently a member of the Steering Group of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia's Committee on National Security Law, Policy & Practice.