The corporate team works closely with all of the firm's
other legal service disciplines, providing integrated support to clients ranging from listed companies to owner managed businesses and partnerships across Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Not exact matches
But in
other respects, I am perhaps on the fringe of AltLegal in that the
legal component of my work is often secondary to the
services I provide, which include writing, research and analysis, often at the points of intersection of law and
other disciplines.
For some clients, he serves as outside general counsel managing
legal service providers both within and outside the firm across a range of
disciplines; in
other cases, he is retained on a matter - by - matter basis.
That is the new market in which
legal firms find themselves; you are no longer competing only with the Magic Circle firms to attract the crème de la crème, you're up against Tesco, the Government Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every other potential discipline into which they might throw themse
legal firms find themselves; you are no longer competing only with the Magic Circle firms to attract the crème de la crème, you're up against Tesco, the Government
Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every other potential discipline into which they might throw themse
Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every
other potential
discipline into which they might throw themselves.
Since corporate matters frequently involve aspects of many
legal disciplines, the firm's corporate attorneys regularly draw on the resources of Seyfarth Shaw's
other practice areas such as employee benefits, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, environmental and bankruptcy to deliver coordinated, seamless
service to clients.
Organising and attending activities such as design sprints and hackathons on
legal innovation and legaltech are good ways to (a) become trained in new domains of knowledge and exposed to professionals in
other disciplines; (b) cultivate interest individually and organisationally; and (c) test ideas in safe environments that might germinate into real products or
services.
Capturing the extent to which law students take classes from
other schools within a university to obtain instruction in
legal -
service delivery innovation and technology
disciplines.
Laurel S. Terry, Current Developments Regarding the GATS and
Legal Services: The Suspension of the Doha Round, «
Disciplines» Developments, and
Other Issues, 76 The Bar Examiner 27 (Feb. 2007)
The term «experience» or «experienced,» as used on the Site, Applications, and in
other communications in reference to third party attorneys participating in LegalZoom's
legal plans or
other attorney access
services means that the
legal plan primary handling partner of each law firm fulfills the following: (a) possesses a minimum of five years» experience practicing law, (b) maintains errors and omissions insurance policies consistent with industry standards, (c) is in good standing with the state bar in each jurisdiction in which the attorney is licensed to practice, (d) has no pending malpractice lawsuit, as of the date of joining one of LegalZoom's
legal plans, and (e) has no public record of
discipline by a state bar within the last five years.
These developments have produced many opportunities for law schools, practitioners, and experts from
other disciplines to work together to improve
legal services.
The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the
legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from
other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal
Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.
• Works together with clients to design new approaches to
legal services delivery; • Solves problems at the intersection of business, law, technology, and
other disciplines that require all - star expertise and collaboration skills; • Engages our lawyers, students, and professional staff; • Broadens talent and recruiting opportunities; and • Creates immersive learning experiences that foster new skills lawyers need to help clients be more successful.
It is the market and CLIENTS, particularly corporate law departments that pay the vast majority of
legal spend, who have a reasonable expectation that the business skills required of
other disciplines are also applicable to their
legal service providers.