Sentences with phrase «practicing bar about»

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

The about - face move came less than two months after the authority barred the practice, known as the on - balance - sheet model, to prevent fintech companies from directly competing with existing banks and financing companies.

Practice sorting and classifying objects, we've got a candy sorting activity you could try, or how about collecting and organising data on a LEGO bar chart?

Talking to someone online is less daunting than walking up to someone at a bar — and you get to practice your conversation skills with the added bonus of being able to take time to think about what you're going to say — helping you feel more in control when you meet someone in person.

«The Next Practice partnership is about re-imagining the bar for corporate leadership,» said Manish Bapna, interim president, WRI.

Here is how I went about creating a completely new product called The Playbook: The California Bar System Practice Guide, based on my TBD Law inspiration and learning.

«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.»

For some time, law practice expert Ed Poll has been blogging about the California Bar's efforts to force lawyers to procure malpractice insurance, most recently by requiring lawyers to disclose to clients their lack of malpractice insurance.

«The result is that there are now real and pressing concerns about the viability and sustainability of practice for many at the Criminal Bar, and about whether the Bar will be able to continue to recruit and retain the practitioners needed to do this vital work for the future.

«I have always been outraged about the California bar's often overzealous paranoia about «UPL» (unauthorized practice of law)-- and attacking efforts by paralegals and others to help out the underserved.

In comments on the story over at WSJ Law Blog, a few participants call for the American Bar Association to take a more protectionist approach and prohibit firms from off - shoring work, while others decry use of Indian lawyers as «unauthorized practice of law» since decisions about whether documents are privileged requires legal judgment.

I wrote previously about CuroLegal's development of a site for the New York State Bar Association, LawHUB, designed to streamline member access to all of its legal content, research, and practice management tools.

• Applicants who are required to establish rehabilitation under Rule 3 - 13 «so as to ascertain whether they displayed any malice or ill feeling towards those who were compelled to bring about the proceeding leading to the need to establish rehabilitation;» • Applicants with a history of substance abuse / dependence «so as to ascertain whether they discussed or posted photographs of any recent substance abuse;» • Applicants with «significant candor concerns» including not telling the truth on employment applications or resumes; • Applicants with a history of unlicensed practice of law (UPL) allegations; • Applicants who have worked as a certified legal intern, reported self - employment in a legal field, or reported employment as an attorney pending admission «to ensure that these applicants are not holding themselves out as attorneys;» • Applicants who have positively responded to Item 27 of the bar application disclosing «involvement in an organization advocating the overthrow of a government in the United States to find out if they are still involved in any related activities.»

In this episode of The Digital Edge, hosts Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway talk with Oregon State Bar Professional Liability Fund Practice Management Advisor Sheila Blackford about her advice for attorneys seeking to better manage their client trust accounts.

Sharon Nelson: Well, I should mention to the audience that I am very grateful to David who agreed to speak to the Virginia State Bar's Committee on the future of the practice of law and so I've had the pleasure of speaking with him before and you were absolutely marvelous to do that for us, and one of the things we talked about that day, as you'll recall, is how the American legal industry has remained stubbornly opposed to ABS in any form, so I'm going to repeat a question I asked you when you spoke to the Committee, why do you think American lawyers are so opposed to ABS?

«We enjoy going to state bar events and talking with members about CosmoLex and how it can help them in their daily practice,» states Dr. Rick Kabra, CEO and founder of CosmoLex.

Vicki Voisin talks with the State Bar of Michigan practice management advisor JoAnn Hathaway about her tips to help law firms go paperless.

Although each state is different, when you search online or call a state bar association, you can find information about the attorney's standing with the bar and the date he or she was admitted to practice law.

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.

In addition to the holidays, I argued at the Fifth Circuit; published two articles at The Huffington Post (here and here); produced a podcast episode on appellate practice for the ABA's Sound Advice series; gave a presentation to the Dallas Bar Association (about the post-election Supreme Court and Trump's list of possible nominees); participated in a panel discussion about e-briefs and legal writing at the annual meeting of the Council of Chief Judges of State Courts of Appeal (in North Carolina); was cited on SCOTUSblog and the Appellate Advocacy Blog (both here and here); and was quoted by Bloomberg (here, here, here, and here), CNN, and the Winnipeg Free Press.

We've written before about lawyers launching practices there, forming bar associations there, opening law schools there and plugging books there.

I wrote just yesterday about the announcement from MyCase of its application programming interface and App Bar, which will allow third parties to develop applications to integrate with the MyCase practice management platform.

We're really looking forward to talking to lawyers about our Rocket Lawyer On Call ® program, as we exhibit for Practice Management Day at the New York State Bar Annual Meeting.

Over the course of two days, Rooney spoke with school administrators, faculty members, and members of the state and county bar associations, as well as members of the WSBA Solo and Small Practice Section, about how to start a residency or incubator program in Seattle.

I have had more personal comments about clients from members of the Bar — a habit I regard as completely beyond the pale of professional practice — than I care to mention.

Where state bars have been very clear that solo practitioners should not imply that their firms are larger than they are, the rules about how those same practitioners should deal with virtual law practices (VLPs) are much less clear.

Now, that manuscript is about to be a book, The Lawyer's Essential Guide to Writing, published by the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section.

For example, I had launched my practice about two years before I attended a state bar annual meeting in California where I manned a booth for a while in the exhibit hall with some colleagues who do the same exact work that I do, the small group of us that are part of a trade association in California, the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel.

Given how much I gripe about the how bars penalize solos more harshly than Biglaw attorneys, I thought that I'd feel some sense of gratification when I read about how a former Wilkie Farr partner has been suspended from the practice of law for a year for billing clients for $ 30,000 of personal long - distance calls.

The March issue of Law Practice Management, the magazine of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section, includes an article I wrote about ethics sites on the Web.

Though releasing a book about big - firm practice on the same day that the bar exam starts doesn't strike me as the best timing (particularly where the narrator expounds on the devastating consequences of failing the bar), the release date does allow AL to ride the coattails of recent movies like The Devil Wears Prada and other exposes of bad bosses.

Friedmann wrote in October about an opinion on offshoring from The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, which likewise concluded that the practice was ethically permissible.

She says the criminal defence bar loses a significant number of women after about five years of practice.

Published by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, the book has sections for everyone from those who are just thinking about buying a handheld to established power users.

Although Langdell, from his elite perch in the Harvard Law School, clearly won the day in terms of formal United States legal education, the grumbling about his victory from the practicing bar has also remained a persistent feature of the scenery since that time.

Aside from questions about whether a lawyer is permitted by the lawyers professional conduct rules repeatedly to send collections letters regarding states where the lawyer is not licensed to practice law, such letters are harder to take seriously when the collections lawyer is going to have to arrange for another lawyer barred in the particular state to file any collections lawsuit.

Debra is speaking about the How - To's of Law Practice Management at a workshop called «Succeeding at the Business of Law,» sponsored by the State Bar of Texas on Friday, April 16th, 2010, at the University of Texas Law School.

Perhaps we're reacting defensively to all the lawyer jokes and stereotypes about unethical attorneys, but no good is served by barring qualified people who have fully rehabilitated themselves from practicing law (often in ways aimed at helping others avoid their fates).

Sam Glover: JoAnn, how do insurance providers think about malpractice insurance differently from practicing lawyers, from bar associations?

Richard Carlton, deputy director of the State Bar of California's Lawyer Assistance Program, sees those numbers and says, «There's something about the practice of law that attracts a certain personality that is prone to experiencing these problems.»

We've all thought about how the bar exam is a bad way, or at least an imperfect way to assess whether people are competent to practice law, but then you've also got these other trends around part - time practice, about maternity leave, about military spouses.

I thought the fact that there is kind of a pending issue in our state about what it means to be a lawyer, to practice law, whether full time practice is what's required for you to consider yourself practicing law, and it's pretty clear to me, and I think to most of the people engaged in the bar association in Minnesota that where our society is headed probably means that arbitrary numerical thresholds of how many hours you bill or work is probably the wrong way to think about whether people are professionally lawyers or not.

As explained by the New York City Bar, creating a business plan forces you to carefully consider important elements of running a law practice that you may not otherwise think about ahead of time.

After nearly seven years of talking about tech as a Bar leader, when my term ended I put my full focus inward into my own practice and put everything I had learned into totally reinventing my office from the bottom up.

These three topics were selected for the 2006 NIFTEP Workshop because they are timely, they provide common ground for discussion among academics and the practicing bar, and they all represent «out of the box» thinking about ways to promote ethics and professionalism.

We hear so much about the so - called «greying of the bar» and that older lawyers have no one to sell their practices to; so they simply close them.

About 50 % of the practicing bar are litigators; i.e., barristers — the high - cost cure side of the bar.

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An enterprising Wisconsin blog has discovered that the general counsel at at least four of the state's largest companies are not licensed to practice law there, raising questions about the bar - admission requirements of in - house lawyers everywhere.

It also offers candid advice about how law schools can set their students up for ethical practices long before they take the bar exam, and how young lawyers can meet the standards of decorum expected of them.