Sentences with phrase «per practising lawyer»
If it cost $ 3,800,000 to get 3 people or 100 people or 1,000 people licensed who otherwise would not have been, the cost per practising lawyer would be the same.
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I think women in our class accounted for 40 per cent so it was a decent percentage but from my graduating class, in terms of transaction lawyers, there is essentially myself and one other classmate still practising who happens to be at Dentons as well.»
The Law Society of Upper Canada indicates that more than half — 52 per cent — of lawyers in Ontario practise alone or in firms of four or fewer lawyers and that they constitute 94 per cent of all the firms in the province.
«The most striking aspect of the report to me was the description of how our legal aid tariff rate has declined by 27 per cent since 1991, and how the number of practising lawyers taking legal aid referrals has nearly halved in the past decade,» said Maclaren.
For the smaller firms in which 90 per cent of Canadian lawyers practise, there is a propensity to accumulate capital within their own private corporation, which is generally good planning, but they often ignore RRSPs as an effective additional tool.
That result reflects statistics showing 80 per cent of lawyers practising in that province do so in the metropolitan areas of those two cities.
The high count of reported claims resulted in a claims frequency — the ratio between the number of practising lawyers and the number of claims — of 100.5 claims per 1,000 lawyers.
For lawyers in Ontario, the underlying insurance which all practising lawyers (not on exemption) carry is the Law Society of Upper Canada's mandatory insurance program, which has limits of liability of $ 1 million per claim and $ 2 million in the aggregate.
Lawyers in firms which restrict their practise to only criminal and / or immigration law can qualify for a premium discount equal to 50 per cent of the base premium under the Restricted Area of Practice (RAOP) option.
When LAWPRO began collecting this information it turned out that 38 per cent of practising lawyers had excess professional liability insurance available to respond to claims.
Fifteen per cent of lawyers surveyed said they would have chosen business management or marketing careers in lieu of practising law.
The reality for most people in the country, however, is that we have roughly one tenth the number of practising lawyers per person as there are in the US, and the services that they provide are prohibitively expensive.