Sentences with phrase «parts of the legal profession»

«It is on account of negligence on the part of the legal profession that the SSS has engaged in the arrest of judges for alleged corruption and abuse of office,» Falana said.

Ironically, consideration of the Amish and technology in the context of the legal industry would call for considerably more effort on the part of the legal profession to understand the capabilities of available tools and decide how they should best be used, but it also gives a good way to consider how to decide what to adopt.

With lawyers from over 130 jurisdictions and all parts of the legal profession attending, the conference aims to provide world - class professional development opportunities to help you deliver outstanding legal services.

The constant refinement of each produces a continuingly improving cost - efficiency, which when combined with a greatly scaled - up volume of services rendered, produces a reduction in the costs of production that is not possible in any other part of the legal profession.

Although I think that claim may underestimate the automation potential in many parts of the legal profession, the point is that the extent and timing of the transformation of professional services are not easy to predict.

These decisions show how parts of the legal profession, often perceived as a technology laggard, are catching up and starting to surpass others in use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI).

The faith in immaculate, organic improvement is part of the legal profession's «last mile problem.»

On the possibility of a single regulator being introduced — the Legal Services Board (LSB) controversially called for a single legal services regulator in 2013 — Lavender warned that a super-quango would fail to understand the differences between the various parts of the legal profession and would try to impose a one - size - fits - all concept of regulation.

Although I think that claim may underestimate the automation potential in many parts of the legal profession, the point is that the extent and timing of the transformation of professional services is not easy to predict.

Sam Mercer, Head of Equality & Diversity (Bar Council) added: «The Lawyer Portal will be a valuable source of information for a career at the Bar and other parts of the legal profession.

Ross Watson, associabot, will continue to cause equal measure of intrigue and concern within different parts of the legal profession.

Some parts of the legal profession only require a high school diploma, while others need to see a two - year degree on your legal resume.

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.

Leaving aside the fact that nearly twenty - five years later legalized abortion still remains our most pressing legal and social issue, the claim that the issue of abortion could be medicalized turns out to be wrong in a way that we should have been able to predict long before: the medical profession has for the most part declined to join the partnership.

What part of «shared sacrifice» do you people active in the legal profession not understand?

«The part [of the legal profession] that is actually growing,» Katz says, «the Clearspires, the Axioms, legal process outsourcers and software companies — they need people with particular sets of skills,... who know the law, understand software and technology, and [know] how to mesh the two.»

A majority of Canadian courts do not publish their decisions on their web site, in part due to the fact that court decisions are routinely screened, commented upon in the form of headnotes and made available to members of the legal profession by commercial publishers.

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.

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.

The profession rejected this strictly «formalist» approach to teaching writing processes as inadequate preparation for independent legal writing and analysis.44 The shift away from models in legal writing instruction accompanied a shift to teaching students to write from the social perspective.45 The social perspective integrates into writing processes an understanding of the purposes for which a particular document is written, the identities of its audiences, and the needs of those audiences.46 Part of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's nePart of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's nepart, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's needs.

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

Yes, the legal industry as a whole is and will continue to undergo disruption as software eats up the more routine, commoditized parts of the profession.

In 2013, the American Bar Association appointed Stu as a member of the Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, which is part of the ABA's Division for Public Services, an ABA department dedicated to applying the knowledge and experience of the legal profession to promotion of the public good.

You'll be invested in as part of our future: To be at the forefront of the legal profession requires foresight, a desire to share ideas and a willingness to have a voice on issues of importance.

I think a big part of that, too, is developing and thinking about, what is your unique point of view that you bring to the sector to the legal profession.

Find out what the primary responsibility of the legal profession is and how Hupy and Abraham is doing their part to fulfill this role.

Along with its Global and Latin America editions, the Chambers USA Guide is part of a series of Chambers & Partners research - based publications for the legal profession.

Since both are so active at Vanderbilt Law School, a good part of their reflection centers around how a change in legal education could stimulate a re-focus in the greater legal profession.

«However, when such language is used as part of a campaign of rudeness, aggressiveness and intimidating behaviour, as in this case, then the panel finds that this behaviour crosses into the realm of conduct that is unbecoming of the model of civility to which we aspire in our legal profession.»

One of the more interesting parts of Guy Joubert «s recent interview with the Canadian Lawyer is his observation that there is only scant accurate and current statistical information on the Canadian legal profession.

Later, the ABA's House of Delegates easily adopted a resolution encouraging programs on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession as part of mandatory or minimum continuing legal education requirements.

«I think movement will be a continuing part of the profession as we face more changes in technology and in the kinds of ways people get legal services and the continuing evolution of the balance between in - house and external counsel.»

In a post today that is sure to please the law school «scamblogger coalition,» Adam Smith, Esq. writes that the entrenched ways of law schools are a big part of the current problem facing the legal profession.

As the profession comes up with new and creative ways to deliver legal services, they have to be focused on the ways in which cost, value, and excellent quality can all be integrated in part of that service....

That said, this three - part column presents an overview of noteworthy Web 2.0 products and services of interest to the legal profession.

[2] The residual effects of a time when the legal profession was only governed by white males explains merely part of these concerning statistics.

Law Society President Lucy Scott - Moncrieff says: «This and recent similar cases dramatically illustrate the pressures on so many parts of the profession — the obvious pressures on PI and legal aid practitioners are to the forefront.»

We can even make it clear to businesses that if they build it, we will come, but also make it clear that we are not going to give them part ownership of the legal profession.

As part of its commitment to promote equality and diversity in the legal profession, and to ensure that the Ontario community is served by a representative profession, the Law Society of Upper Canada conducts research and collects data on the composition of the profession.

This insight is based in part on my own empirical research on legal education and the legal academy, which is primarily housed at and funded by the American Bar Foundation, on legal education and the legal academy.5 In this Article, I will also draw on several current examples of law schools that incorporate social science into legal training, using them to illustrate how interdisciplinary research can bridge theory and practice for lawyers and the legal profession.

And for a slew of reasons that I will explore in Part 2 of this column topic, a more elite class of law school graduate spells trouble for the Canadian legal profession's ability to contend with the current crisis of unequal access to justice.

Jon Cartwright, Legal Team Partner at Hazlewoods, comments: «Bank debt is being driven up in part by the legal profession being a victim of its own success — workloads and billing are both on the rise, and firms are ploughing that back into their practices.&rLegal Team Partner at Hazlewoods, comments: «Bank debt is being driven up in part by the legal profession being a victim of its own success — workloads and billing are both on the rise, and firms are ploughing that back into their practices.&rlegal profession being a victim of its own success — workloads and billing are both on the rise, and firms are ploughing that back into their practices.»

There are many moving parts to the legal profession, and the tectonic plates are always in danger of shifting — as illustrated, for example, by Quebec's recent decision to withdraw from the mobility scheme after having belonged only for a few years.

The GCs cited by the NLJ are, for the most part, familiar names within the legal profession — which is kind of the point, if they are to be considered influential.

Legal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanLegal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demanlegal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demand it.

The award is part of Texas Lawyer's Professional Excellence awards honoring those lawyers who have made their mark on the legal profession in Texas.

I am excited to be a part of the IAALS project because it has brought together a diverse and distinguished set of legal advisors who are passionate about improving the preparedness of young lawyers for this noble and evolving profession.»

As part of our work, we looked at how client expectations are changing and noted in our research that their experience with other services providers is, not surprisingly perhaps, influencing what they expect from the legal profession.

Pro bono work, or work undertaken «for the public good,» is an integral part of law and the legal profession.

In part one of this article series I posed the question of whether clinical legal education can provide the solution to two difficulties facing the legal profession in Canada today.