Sentences with phrase «person by a paralegal»

In a motion filed July 30, 2010 seeking sanctions and the termination of the alleged toe - tapper's pro hac vice status, plaintiffs claim that on July 12 their counsel, Juan Carlos Antorcha, was conducting a deposition by telephone that was attended in person by a paralegal working for plaintiffs» counsel.

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Those lawyers will be replaced by: (1) self - help programs, including unbundling of legal services; (2) greater use of much less competent people such as law students, paralegals, and untrained volunteers; and, (3) pro & low bono, which, as all charity, is uncertain as to its volume, availability, and timing.

These are: (1) the role of the firm in serving the client's needs; (2) the specific assignment undertaken by the lawyer; and (3) who, or what level of a person at the legal organization, will work on the matter, including a proper division of skills (senior attorney, specialist, newly employed associate or paralegal).

When you engage VPS, you aren't engaging just one paralegal, limited by that one person's experience.

Because of the forces that are greatly increasing the volume of laws and their complexity, people are progressively less able to solve their legal problems by themselves, and are forced to accept law society programs that «cut costs by cutting competence» (e.g., law students, paralegals, self - help, and «unbundling» of legal services).

In our experience, usually people want to switch solicitors because — unbeknownst to them at the outset of the claim — they are being represented by a paralegal rather than a solicitor.

In response to Call to action # 27, Law Society Treasurer Janet E. Minor reported, in a June 4, 2015 press release, that the Society is ``... committed to enhancing cultural competency within the legal professions» and to taking steps to improve the services provided by lawyers and licensed paralegals to Métis, First Nations, and Inuit people, as well as access to those services.

All of the attorney's mail from outside of the South Carolina office comes to the South Carolina office and we do have a mail person who scans it and sends it by e-mail to the attorney and the paralegal who's working on the case but all of the paralegals have scan snaps on their desk.

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Although it was expressed in different ways from various perspectives, some of the representative comments here included: «work overload [because of] lack of efficient management;» «total hands - off management style that causes chaos for associates and paralegals;» «lawyers who are managers thinking they can direct people;» lawyer managers finding / using time to actually do the management part of their job;» «poor quality of life for associates / poor management by partners;» «indecisiveness / inaction;» and finally, one that constitutes perhaps the cardinal sin, entitling the offender to immediate admission to Dante's innermost circle of Hell: «lack of vision from the top.»

We maintain a reasonable case load so that each person gets our full attention, and each case is handled directly by our Nassau County lawyer, not an assistant or paralegal.

Then the other concept is right seats, which is you could have someone who you know needs to be a part of your team and they are currently your finance manager or your lead paralegal or your managing partner and it turns out that they do not have the skillsets to implement the roles that need to be implemented by the person in that seat and that means you either need to find a new seat for them that makes sense for the needs of your organization, move them to a seat that is appropriate for their skills and interests, or even though they're a great person they can't be a part of your organization because they don't fit in it.

The profession [independent paralegals] is growing by leaps and bounds but because it is still new not many people realize what paralegals can do.

«It helps us think about who is the right person to review specific agreements and, if it's low value, low risk, whether the contract needs a full legal review or could be handled by a contract manager or paralegal, or eventually a non-human review,» says Mr Tomlinson.

If any person knowingly violates any of the provisions of G.S. 84 - 4 through G.S. 84 - 6 or G.S. 84 - 9, fraudulently holds himself or herself out as a North Carolina certified paralegal by use of the designations set forth in G.S. 84 - 37 (a), or knowingly aids and abets another person to commit the unauthorized practice of law, in addition to any other liability imposed pursuant to this Chapter or any other applicable law, any person who is damaged by the unlawful acts set out in this section shall be entitled to maintain a private cause of action to recover damages and reasonable attorneys» fees and other injunctive relief as ordered by court.

And it wouldn't solve the problem of people who are not barred anywhere, such as the many paralegals who do doc review side by side with licensed lawyers, or the thousands of foreign lawyers who do offshore outsourced legal process work.

What we need is foresight and backbone by government so that it can reduce what it wastes on funding unneeded law and paralegal students, what it wastes on clogged courts hearing unprepared people squabbling over their kids, what it wastes on judges and staff involved in trials that could have been avoided, what it wastes on health care for stressed out litigants, what it loses in harmed productivity in the workplace by stressed out litigants, and so on.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

When one envisages the evolution from discipline by senior lawyers in Convocation reflecting their views and experience as to what was proper conduct to disciplinary adjudication by hearing panels of lawyers, paralegals and lay people, some of whom are benchers, applying regulatory codes of conduct, it is clear that much has changed.

Otherwise, what is the functional value to a client of hiring someone with the extensive training of three - year university degree followed by a period of mandatory articling if we presume that a much less rigorous paralegal training followed by some weekend CPD courses makes a person professionally capable to defend complex cases with the potential for lengthy jail terms?

A paralegal, or legal assistant, is a person in a legal profession who performs certain tasks that would normally be performed by an attorney, should a paralegal not be present.

I first started to do a certain kind of paralegal work — what would later be called «Native Courtwork» — making a connection between a Native person accused of an offense and a lawyer willing to represent the accused (and often doing much of the factual research) at Akwesasne, the Mohawk community bordered by Cornwall, Ontario in 1970.

A paralegal is a person who is hired or employed by a law firm, a lawyer, any governmental agency or any such corporation to perform duties related to the legal field.

Performing investigations, interviewing people associated with the case, maintaining case related documents and updating them are some of the basic job functions carried out by litigation paralegals.