Sentences with phrase «practicing lawyers so»

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Even if those lawyers in English Canada wanted to practice in French, they have no opportunity to do so.

The result was term sheets that were so complex even good lawyers couldn't fully understand what they really meant unless they had been practicing in the specific area, and sitting on venture backed company boards, for many years.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

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.

Of course, I'm a lawyer, so once in a while I practice law.

Maybe a few state lawmakers, particularly the lawyers and consultants who can find conflict so easily, will relinquish their side practices.

«Our research team includes biomedical engineers, biochemists, surgeons and a lawyer working on every aspect of this game - changing field of medicine so it becomes part of everyday medical practice in the near future.

by Jefferson Robbins It's never clear if disgraced lawyer Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a practicing Catholic, as are so many of the souls around him in a grey, hopeless Boston — but there's a crucifix on his office wall, and he sure has the posture down.

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.

I was a practicing lawyer then, so mostly I was making people feel irritated.

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?

I recently met a new lawyer who could not find a job, and so started her own general practice.

Even so, this is a concerning development in that a significant amount of lawyers in Canada practice in a solo or small firm environment (in British Columbia 51.2 % of all lawyers in the province practice in firms of 5 or less lawyers).

Law librarians can teach lawyers these necessary skills so as to maximize the cost - savings that electronic records management technology can provide to law practice management:

Over the past 30 years that I've been practicing and regularly interacting with lawyers, it has never ceased to amaze me that extremely capable lawyers can be so clueless when it comes to the business side of the practice.

Represented his firm as a practice of multiple lawyers in multiple cities throughout the United States, when in actuality his firm consisted of just him, «with his so - called associates being independent contractor attorneys paid on a commission basis.»

But when lawyers run a $ 500k to a million dollar practice, they do so with far less planning.

It is truer today than ever before: we live in a global economy, so whether or not a young lawyer intends to practice international law, there is a strong likelihood that, throughout the course of her career, she will face matters of international significance or, at minimum, cases that require some knowledge of the international legal landscape.

These new lawyers starting new practices are so laser - focused on marketing that they are likely to get blindsided (clever girl) by the other essential parts of a law practice: lawyering and running a business.

So one of the first things a lawyer needs to do is accept that she will suffer slings and arrows throughout her career, and the more difficult her type of practice, the more intense the slinging.

For young lawyers, the reputation of a practice is paramount to their interest, so your jobs board should be full of activity and engaging content for a young lawyer.

The opinion goes so far as to note that a lawyer who becomes aware that the client is receiving personal email on a workplace computer or other device owned or controlled by the employer has a duty to warn that this practice should be discontinued.

I imagine a conference so named can either entice or repel, depending on one's interest in the plethora of discourse on practice - ready graduates, tomorrow's lawyers and the goals of legal education.

Although providing a referral fee to another lawyer for sending a potential client is a common practice in many areas, it may not be ethically responsible to do so.

So whether you're looking to raise your own profile or looking to consult with a fellow attorney with expertise in a particular practice area, Super Lawyers» listings, multimedia outreach, and premium services can help.

«Said the judges: «Brent Kidwell was nominated based on his remarkable success in melding the expertise of the firm's technicians with its lawyers» practices so as to create a uniquely efficient «Client Driven Applied Technology» — all executed within a 12 - month period.»

Some lawyers, who had planned to retire, and we are expecting to do so, don't because for the first time in a long time they are enjoying practicing law — they are doing what they were trained to do instead of being an untrained practice manager.

We wanted to dig a little deeper, so we surveyed 100 self - employed lawyers in 34 different practice areas to find out which practice areas they routinely send business to.

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firms is their ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie, so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

Using cloud - based technology under creative, but effective, business models, can increase efficiencies so that lawyers can focus on what they do best - practice law.

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firm is the ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

So you and I met the last guest I had too, we met at Ernest Benson's small firm boot camp and we started talking, and I always really appreciate these very nuanced conferences because any lawyer that shows up at these really sort of boutique conferences have a different mindset about the way they approach their practice and the things that they're going to learn and the things that they're interested in.

David: So I think that thought leadership is very important and I think it's increasingly important and this is something I think is true at all levels, wherever a lawyer is practicing.

So, connecting with other lawyers in similar practice areas, on say LinkedIn, is crucial.

So no lawyer, whether they're a solo practitioner in a family law practice in a medium size or small city in the United States or somebody who does the most sophisticated mergers and acquisitions around the globe, no lawyer should think that their practices are unaffected by these large scale forces that are reshaping the entire economy and they ought to be looking for ways that they can use these forces or participate in these broader trends to make their practices more effective, to make the service they provide their clients better, and to make their own lives better.

Nigel then told me that in all his years of practice, this particular lawyer had never done anything remotely like that, and really, this lawyer wasn't one to give anyone praise, let alone go out of his way to do so.

Most colleges don't factor your particular major into the application, so choosing a notary, Magistrate, Politician A lawyer is a person who practices law, as an advocate, barrister, attorney, counselor or solicitor or chartered legal executive.

Whenever they're presented with a new, cutting - edge concept in marketing, many lawyers respond with what seems to be a reasonable objection: «The people in my town aren't like that; my practice is different, so your techniques won't work.»

And, this week I'd like to showcase how a few other lawyers have used social media effectively, including: 1) how a law student created a name for himself online and continues to do so as he builds a solo practice from the ground up, 2) how one personal injury attorney successfully created a blog that stands out from the crowd, and 3) how a BigLaw attorney has created a very successful niche using social media.

The practice of law is labor intensive, so the profitability of different clients, practice areas, and lawyers should be measured in the ratio of time spent to income received.

Even if you are a lawyer, the law is so complicated that to understand niche practice areas you often need the help of yet another lawyer with suitable training.

It would be amazing and important if they could standardize these systems so lawyers practicing in multiple jurisdictions could benefit.

So there you have it — a list of some of the newer legal apps available to assist lawyers in the day - to - day practice of law.

So, in just 3 years» time, nearly 50 % of lawyers now use tablets in their law practice, an impressive statistic considering that lawyers are sometimes perceived to be a bit slow to adapt to new technologies.

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?

In a typical law firm, the owners are the partners (or shareholders if a professional corporation), and those partners (or shareholders) are also practicing lawyers, so they are affected (along with all other employees) by all management decisions.

Similarly when new lawyers join, we don't place them into a practice group so they must decide «who do I like working with?

Aaron Street: Yeah, so I am on the ABA's law practice division Legal Futures Initiative, which is kind of a gathering of a bunch of innovators in the profession talking about the future of law and the future of law practice, and at the meeting in Miami last week we all got there and realized that, setting aside the future of law practice, there were some more pressing issues in law that needed some innovators to work on — namely the travel ban, immigration ban, Executive Order from President Trump — and so our committee spent a couple of hours thinking about how we, as a group, could help lawyers solve that issue.

This maybe goes hand - in - hand with what you're saying about the problem with mentorship, because while I do think that experienced lawyers have so much advice to give, I think that the world facing new lawyers and what their practices are going to look like are quite different than what those more experienced lawyers, what their trajectory their career has taken.

Doing so will give you access to a resource you will likely have in practice, as well as a great place to start learning some of the things you'll need to know as a transactional lawyer.