Law librarians often have access to many resources that practicing lawyers don't, or may be inclined to take a more research - oriented approach to tackling a problem that demands a practical solution.
As a practicing lawyer I didn't question this.
Visit the Ontario Bar Association's successful public campaign, Why I went to law school, and the stories told by
practicing lawyers does not include a single story about going to law school to become a legal outsourcer or working in a commodity legal practice.
Not exact matches
But mostly Clio's challenge is teaching
lawyers who don't currently use such systems how they can better manage their
practice and deliver their services more cost - effectively.
Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in
Practice (2005), that
lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by
doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.
Any future settlement will presumably also have to
do more to inform email users about Google's scanning
practices and, possibly, direct some of the settlement money to consumers instead of only the
lawyers.
Even if those
lawyers in English Canada wanted to
practice in French, they have no opportunity to
do so.
Stumpf, however,
did not seem to express regret for how he handled those initial weeks after the bank was fined, including where he initially levied most of the blame on low - level employees for the sales
practices problems instead of management, said Stuart Baskin,
lawyer with Shearman & Sterling, the firm that the board hired to investigate the sales scandal.
Massachusetts is one of only three states in the U.S. that doesn't license title insurers, and
lawyers stand to make the most out of the
practice (and have lobbied to keep it this way).
«It's our
practice at this time that when the case is in active litigation we don't comment,» Louise N. Smith, one of the
lawyers representing Hayes told SB Nation.
Shoop's father, a
lawyer, might've said, «We didn't send you to Yale to be a coach,» but befriending rivals is something coaching has in common with
practicing law.
A lawsuit stemming from the head - injury death of a Frostburg State University football player should be dismissed because his coaches
did not know the athlete was bleeding or had suffered a concussion and could not have foreseen that he was endangering his life by participating in
practice drills,
lawyers say.
Incidentally, these are the same
lawyers and social commentators who, before the Anas exposé, insulted; made formal disciplinary complaints against; and without a hearing, illegally banned myself and others from
practicing in the courts of law - all for daring to say that «no one can convince me that there is no corruption in the judiciary or that some judges
do not take bribes».
State Senate
lawyers argued over the weekend that the Senate's
practice of paying members stipends for committee chairmanships they
do not hold were legal, constitutionally defensible and proper as «a classic example of internal administrative prerogatives.»
But, 95 % + of the
lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax
practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average
lawyer who
does tax work.
«I don't begrudge her that,» said Owens, a
practicing lawyer in Plattsburgh who has endorsed Derrick.
So legislators who are also
lawyers that
practice at a firm, but who
do not work directly for clients, will most likely still operate outside of the public's scrutiny.
That means the public still
does not know how much Senate President Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) makes with his title insurance company, Great Abstract Title Co., or how much Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and other
lawyer - legislators make from their legal
practices.
Nothing that requires us to work in public service forever — if you're a
lawyer you can take a break from private
practice,
do public service and go back to your firm.
Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau), a private -
practice lawyer, didn't mince words as he confronted the issue head on with a «no comment.»
Since when
did it become the ethical
practice of any responsible and respected
lawyer committed to the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, the independence of the legal profession, constitutionalism and democracy to resort to the print and electronic media as the medium of arguing an appeal or review of the decision of a Court of law he has lost?
Practicing in a private law firm if he was a
lawyer or
doing some nice things that get his name associated with good works first.
In the United Kingdom, patent attorneys have the same rights as
lawyers do to
practice patent law in specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High Court.
Come up upside down,
practice lawyer, he
do that.
Dylan, we've seen you argue unpopular points as a
lawyer on The
Practice;
did that help prepare you for your role in this film?
I even got to work with constitutional law questions at PHMSA, something I never thought many
lawyers get the chance to
do and certainly not in their first year of
practice.
This is usually because the specialist
lawyers have become so used to the various
practices and contractual terms common in the industry that they don't blink an eye at clauses that turn a non-industry
lawyers hair white.
For states where a Lexington
lawyer does not hold a license to
practice law, they work with independent, of Counsel attorneys who have been trained to assist with this work.
Me, Larry Garner, owner of Elvisyorkshireterrier.com, is not a veterinarian, nor
do I hold a doctorate in animal
practice, or am I a certified medical doctor, nor am I a
lawyer.
When asked if Taylor is a
lawyer by training, but not a scientist by training, Taylor responds, «I'm a
lawyer by training, but I don't
practice... But I'm a scientist by training as well.
What
did you
do the last time you needed a
lawyer in an unfamiliar area of
practice for a personal matter?
Obviously, I had no interest in speaking with American firms about American law for a Canadian publication, but I was always interested in U.S. firms that were
doing something interesting on the
practice management or business - model side, because these are universal issues for
lawyers.
Do lawyers necessarily need to use the latest and greatest technology toys in their law
practices and will
doing so necessarily make them better
lawyers?
The next one might be for the firm you
did the contract assignment work for, or a different assignment from the legal staffing firm that hire you or even possibly some work outsourced to you by one of the fellow contract
lawyers who have their own
practices.
Adobe Acrobat Professional is powerful software, which can help
lawyers do more with PDF files in e-filing, e-discovery, and general everyday law
practice.
They were meant as quick, short, off - the - cuff advice for other listserve participants — and don't reflect the sophistication with which many solo and small - firm
lawyers market our
practices.
It can lead to burnout or despair, to be sure, but those who enjoy
practicing law without the office politics (even if they are not great
lawyers)
do have a lot of freedom to be themselves.
If you
do receive consideration, demonstrating that you signed the contract under duress will require specific legal advice, and you need a
practicing lawyer in your jurisdiction.
An estate planner may dislike the business development aspect of private
practice (this story could apply to the employment
lawyer as well), but still enjoys the nitty gritty of the complex planning that trust departments
do.
Many firms
do a poor job of cross-selling the firm's other services to existing clients in part because they are not as familiar with the other
practice areas in the firm or the individual
lawyers who
practice in those areas.
Virtual Lawyer Spotlight aims to educate
lawyers about
practicing law online through real - world case studies of
lawyers successfully
doing just that.
For example, a
lawyer might want to subscribe to content updates matching «Notices to the Legal Profession», «Rules of
Practice» and court decisions in a specific area of the law, but not to other content — They know what they can
do and not
do with the information (in terms of copyright).
«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best
practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to
do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of
lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»
I don't think that many of us would disagree that, today, the size of the gap between licensed to
practice and competent to
practice ranges wildly from case (or matter) to case, as well as, from
lawyer to
lawyer.
Lawyers, after all, don't just
practice law.
Well, I've been arguing for awhile now that when
lawyers do need to show we're the superior choice, our ethical standards,
practice insurance, and professional indemnity system will be among our greatest assets.
Many law firm
practice group descriptions are overstuffed, listing everything that every
lawyer in the group
does, for fear of overlooking an opportunity or offending a heavy hitter.
The effect of the proposal found above would be to allow only these government
lawyers who hold the designation to enjoy the privilege of precedence, even above and beyond
lawyers in private
practice with greater seniority and greater experience who simply don't have the designation (s. 3 (4)-RRB-.
But when
lawyers run a $ 500k to a million dollar
practice, they
do so with far less planning.
Don't you find it a bit ironic that
lawyers hire accountants to advise them since they don't have training in accounting and finance; they hire consultants and people to help them in marketing, in management, in HR and all the other areas of running a
practice, yet for some reason they regard IT as an area that somehow they should be able to master with all its nuances and pitfalls?