Sentences with phrase «practising lawyers taking»
«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.
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In 1997, Alexander, then a practising lawyer in Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll lead.
By stating that they are not practising law or providing legal advice, legal service providers shrewdly aim to take themselves out of the current legal services regulatory scheme and nicely avoid all the education, admission, ethics and insurance obligations that lawyers must fulfill.
A sole practitioner who often practised in association with other lawyers, Sack took on several high - profile criminal cases in Toronto.
I'd also be interested in whether law will be practised differently in this firm in order to take into account seriously the needs and wishes of women lawyers.
«Every practising lawyer knows dozens of guys who are the senior lawyer with kids in private schools, they have paid for university educations for their kids and take nice trips and really can't afford to retire because they've consumed all their capital as they've gone along and have not properly planned.»
While Amey admits it may take some time to get in - house departments interested in what TheJudge has to offer, those who have immediate need for such insurance products are practising law firm litigators and arbitration lawyers.
Likewise, regardless of cultural norms related to agency, a lawyer practising in Canada will be held to the prevailing standard of care about from whom to take instructions, and will not be able to rely, as a defence, on the traditional practice of a particular community.
In recommending a reprimand and that the lawyer be restricted to practising under supervision and taking on new client matters only with a supervisor's approval, the committee found that the lawyer was competent in his own area — commercial litigation — but noted that he «ran into trouble when he exercised poor judgment and took on cases outside his area of practice.»
After all, who (amongst those of you who are or were practising lawyers and took plaintiffs» cases) ever said that you'd chosen judge alone because the judge might ignore the facts because your client was «likeable».