Sentences with phrase «practising lawyers»

During the first 10 year period from 1989 to 1998 [xv], the number of private practice lawyers increased by a total of only 14.9 % while the number of practising lawyers in other categories increased by 79.7 %.
The hope is that the program will «increase the number of practising lawyers in Nunavut, while also meeting Sivumut Abluqta's education priority to deliver relevant programming to meet the needs of Nunavummiut,» said a statement on the University of Saskatchewan's web site.
«There are plenty of other practising lawyers who put their names to their opinions.
Search our lawyer directory Use the Society's online lawyer directory to look up contact information for practising lawyers in Nova Scotia and non-practising members.
However, if you are an existing practising lawyer from overseas, you may well have to apply for the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS).
Law society management structure is still that of the 19th century, managed by practising lawyers whose top priority is their own law offices and clients.
-- by the C&I Group and BDO Stoy Hayward shows that while most practising lawyers use the hourly billing system, there is a growing demand for other options.
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The magazine publishes articles that are current and germane and a wide range of contemporary legal issues are comprehensively discussed in a manner applicable and relevant to practising lawyers while accessible to those outside the legal profession.
Many countries require practising lawyers to carry E&O insurance, but the limits vary from one jurisdiction to the next.
Practising lawyers know that much of their work involves personal interaction and there is no practical course on «humans» in law school.
Having been practising lawyers at leading law firms and companies ourselves, we truly relate to the challenges that you face.
«What we've tried to do is when we were developing the program we asked practising lawyers who are experts in their area to tell us what every lawyer in their first five years of practice needs to know to be a successful lawyer in that field, and that's what we're teaching,» explains Leveque.
She suggested that the reason there are so few female practising lawyers outside large cities was... [more]
She suggested that the reason there are so few female practising lawyers outside large cities was the lack of support, unlike at her national firm.
It publish international work that is accessible to the full range of membership in the American Law and Economics Association, which includes practising lawyers, consulting economics and academic lawyers, and academic economists from around the world.
That tended to mean that the people involved were not practising lawyers
Given the captive market, however, it's surely more profitable for CLE sponsors to use practising lawyers, who will donate their time for nothing in exchange for the publicity, rather than hiring real law professors.
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.
«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.
Overall, the number of practising lawyers increased by 561 lawyers [xiv] or 2.3 % annually during the 1990s.
I am assured that the modern practising lawyer has a much greater interest in the business of law than in the application of individual experience and expertise, partly because increasing reliance can be put on processes, tools and artificial intelligence resources to manage access to sources and analysis.
The Society has started these conversations already with practising lawyers forming their plans to establish new firms in 2018.
Indeed, Legal Cheek's snap election poll shows practising lawyers and law students alike are wary, and would rather vote for Theresa May or Tim Farron.
Since the «association» practice structure is not unusual among practising lawyers these days, many professional indemnity and excess insurers are keen to see that active steps have been taken to avoid the types of exposures discussed here.
As I have said before on SLAW, most practising lawyers simply do not need to use many electronic resources.
There has also been a significant increase in the number of practising lawyers between the ages of
«Over 1,100 (or 10.4 %) of the 10,700 practising BC lawyers today are 65 years old of age or older, compared to only 380 practising lawyers 65 or older in 2003 (4.2 % of total).
Competent and ethically practising lawyers is their duty to ensure they say, but not affordable lawyers.
Whether we should be more of a trade school to teach practising lawyers is a debate,» says Arbuckle.
About a year after the new policies were in place, the CBA - BC conducted a survey of its members to analyze how practising lawyers found the new policies.
Practising lawyers develop their own sense of legal ethics in part from these other sources and in part from their participation in the legal... [more]
Practising lawyers please note, active participation in the Observership Program may also qualify toward the Society's CPD Requirement.
more content for practising lawyers regarding their professional and ethical obligations, such as the Society's new
Does being a former practising lawyer provide a practice manager with an advantage over their non-lawyer counterparts?
Our «Let's tal talking» article canvasses practising lawyers and a client service expert at the Rotman School of Business for their views on communication and client service, starting on page 23 of this issue.
At the same time, the LPP has involved the participation of hundreds of practising lawyers across the province in the creation and delivery of the program, as subject matter experts, mentors and assessors.
And although the number of practising lawyer full - time - equivalents... Read More»
The essential assumption made in the Prism Report is that there will be a significant decline in the number of new practising lawyer positions over the next 10 years while the number of law school graduates and new licensed lawyers will increase slightly.
The bar ad courses featured lectures in the morning and informal seminars in the afternoon all taught by local practising lawyers, not academics (the students already had had three years of being taught mostly by academics — valuable but incomplete).
I might bemoan the prospect of a future of legal work being undertaken by increasingly capable systems but then I haven't been too impressed with the clunky and amateurish processes that I witnessed in my own last few client encounters with UK practising lawyers.
Looking at the next 15 years [xvii], there were 17,032 insured practicing lawyers in Ontario in 1999 while there were 5,067 practising lawyers exempt from insurance.
The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia honours lawyers through the Queen's Counsel process, which recognizes exceptional practising lawyers who have 15 or more years at the Bar and have demonstrated professional integrity, good character and outstanding contributions to the practice of law.
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