Sentences with phrase «others in the legal profession»

«Dedicated to the demands and desires of solos and small law firms, the clients we serve and others in the legal profession who use our services or dream of going out on their own.»

Some lawyers choose to publish these articles in their firm newsletters, others on blogs, and others in legal profession periodicals.

She also hopes the site will help law students learn about the possibilities of small - firm practice and enable small - firm lawyers to broadcast their accomplishments to others in the legal profession and the public at large.

Our August issue includes our most popular story of the year — the Top 25 Most Influential — where we take stock of the lawyers, judges and others in the legal profession who are having an impact.This is my first year overseeing the process from beginning to end — observing the reaction to last year's list (when I first started at Canadian Lawyer), seeking nominations for this year, encouraging lawyers from across the country to vote, selecting the finalists and then deciding what to highlight about their impressive accomplishments.

Its popularity — both in terms of the number of nominations we receive as well as the number of votes in the public poll — highlights the engagement and pride in their colleagues that lawyers, judges and others in the legal profession have.

While the awards were for their performance within the public service, the lawyers say there are lessons for others in the legal profession.

NALS of Pennsylvania provides the opportunity to further the knowledge and enhance the ethical standards and professional attainment of our members; to conduct programs of continuing legal education for members and others in the legal profession; to promote fellowship and cooperation among members and with the legal community.

Like many others in the legal profession we're simply asking for the current cuts to be re-evaluated.

Reading List There's a growing body of articles about Twitter for Attorneys and others in the legal professions.

Not exact matches

«That was the other opportunity — to make a difference within not just the legal profession but corporate Canada at large,» says Saguil, who was drawn to TD in part because of its history of sponsoring Pride events.

Who then will lead the fight for full legal rights and recognition of our moral minority in medicine or any other profession?

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

«As such, faculty in these... three schools are afforded many opportunities to engage in external consulting and in other forms of affiliation with the practice side of their health care, legal, or business professions [and therefore] have opportunities for gainful employment following retirement.»

Yet it's a more subtle, damning film for implicating the media as much as the church, the courts, the legal profession and other Boston institutions in the systematic, wider cultural cover - up it describes.

It's just that science and scientists, climate scientists in particular, still haven't caught tup with the fact that a lot of science is now being seen by the public as equally grubby in it's attempts to enhance it's own status as the lawyers and legal fraternity or the big pharma of the medical world or the shenanigans of the financial and accountancy world and all the other grubbiness inherent in any profession that seeks to elevate itself and it's practitioners to a high public, power wielding status by fair means or foul

Others, such as Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice, assert that businesses such as Total Attorneys «are a cancer in the legal profession.»

In a 2005 guest post on Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground, Raymond P. Ward wrote that lawyers are more prone to depression than members of any other profession.

There is nothing as capable as LAO LAW at doing what it does in any other law office or institution in the legal profession in Canada.

While other branches of the legal profession, such as the Bar and CILEX, have a # 500,000 minimum, solicitors have far more bargaining power as they pay approximately # 250m in premiums.

Although there are increasing numbers of gay lawyers and barristers who are role models for those coming up through the ranks, it seems a large majority still feel that the legal profession lags others in terms of being accepting of people's sexual orientation.

The legal profession and the practice of law — like many other professions and businesses — are undergoing profound transformative changes driven, in large measure, by rapid technology changes.

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.

For now, these two futures will operate in parallel, but in the longer run — perhaps in two to three decades — the Susskinds see the second future as dominating and leading to a gradual dismantling of the legal and other professions as we know them today.

No doubt there will be other studies and other benchmarking reports of AI in the legal profession.

The question generated a good deal of discussion: Most commenters praised the advantages of Macs over PCs; others reasoned that Macs hadn't gained more traction in the legal profession because law schools push PC technology, and bar associations haven't done more to educate lawyers about Macs» ability to protect client data from viruses.

The list of past courses shows the great diversity and richness of this Association, and its efforts to provide its members and others in the profession with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and understanding of legal systems and issues in various parts of the world.

Beyond law schools, mental health issues in the legal profession is something that is increasingly addressed: «But research suggests that [lawyers] are at much higher risk of depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues than people in the broader population — and may even be more susceptible than those in other high - stress professions, such as medicine.»

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the baIn many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bain the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of theLegal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of thelegal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

This in part reflects the fact that only a minority of law graduates go on to enter the legal professions and that legal education has many other uses.

Three days later, Portland, Ore., business attorney Josh Barrett launched TabletLegal, a blog that would allow him to «discuss lawyers using the iPad, applications for the iPad and other developments specific to the iPad in the legal profession.»

The corresponding provision in force on the date of adoption of the contested decision provides, in the same vein, that «[t] he safeguard procedure shall be applicable to all persons pursuing commercial activities or crafts, all farmers, all other natural persons pursuing independent professional activity, including the liberal professions subject to legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected, and also to all legal entities governed by private law».

It would certainly be helpful for those within the legal profession interested in access to justice to build more bridges to other fields.

Partnership has for years been the career incentive above all others in law — the long - term goal that underpins the business model of the legal profession.

[I] n carrying out its mandate under its enabling statute, the respondent throughout its long history, has acted to remove obstacles based on considerations, other than ones based on merit, such as religious affiliation, race, and gender, so as to provide previously excluded groups the opportunity to obtain a legal education and thus become members of the legal profession in Ontario.

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since legal news bureau since 2002.

How do the legal sector's attitudes towards diversity compare to attitudes in other professions or industries?

I'm usually able to see both sides of an argument, but here, honestly, I just can not understand the logic of the other side given the pervasive utilization in the legal profession of junior colleagues to write judicial opinions, briefs, motions, articles, letters, etc. on which senior folks sign off.

Andrew Langdon QC, Bar Chairman, said Jackson LJ's review «indicates that he has listened carefully to the views of the legal profession and accepted proposals from the Bar Council and others that multi-track cases are so varied in character that they do not lend themselves to any rigid costs matrix, and that cost management is working better than had been supposed.

Canadian Lawyer welcomes commentary and op - ed pieces from members of the profession, students, legal academics, judges, and others in the legal community.

Inspired by the good work of Justice Douglas Miller and others in the Desert Bar Association, the Adopt - a High School program is aimed at introducing 12th grade students to the legal profession.

In conjunction with other recent studies carried out by ourselves, and the likes of the Legal Services Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority, we are building a clearer picture of why and how the profession needs to move forward.

Some leave for positions in government agencies, in - house, or not - for - profits, and others simply leave the legal profession altogether.

Litigator and legal industry pioneer Chad Burton, who serves on ABA Law Practice Division's Council, is chair of the Division's Futures Initiative, and is on the governing board for the new ABA Center for Innovation, explains how the ABA and other like - minded organizations and individuals are engaged in initiatives to help lawyers run better practices and improve the legal profession.

The organization's mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity at all levels of the legal professions in the Capital District (Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties and surrounding areas) for the benefit of Black, Hispanic and other attorneys of color and the entire legal profession.

The Barristers» Society does not prohibit Christian law graduates of other law schools in Canada (or the U.S.) from entering the legal profession in Nova Scotia if they, as individuals, adhere to traditional Christian beliefs and practices, including those concerning sexuality and marriage.

The blog was intended to discuss the role of women in the law, in legal education, as students, as academics, and within the legal profession, and we also discuss other issues.

Like the earlier two reports, the Carnegie Report discussed the gap between theory and practice in legal education, and argued that law schools should strive to provide a more integrated legal education that will bridge that gap.67 This Report identified clinical and practical legal training as «weakly developed» in comparison to the «signature pedagogy» of law schools, the case dialogue method.68 Further, this weakness in practical training is in «striking» contrast with training in other professions, such as medicine and architecture.69

I think in the legal profession still in the UK you see lawyers looking at technology and then dictating and getting other people to do things, like secretaries.

Compared to other professions, there has been notably less innovation and new technology developed in the legal industry, which is the problem

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