Sentences with phrase «principles of any good lawyer»

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After all, we would argue that being able to read at an advanced level, or having access to a lawyer are far greater advantages than access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic with regard to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.

Best Practices for Legal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal education.

A recent BC case which applied both federal and provincial legislation and which cited the key principle from Young v. Young gives a nice snapshot of the law for clients as well as for our top rated custody and parenting arrangement lawyers.

Mind you, that's not nearly as harsh as one recent comment by a (B.C.) corporate lawyer, who described the Quebec Court of Appeal decision as «poorly reasoned, spectacularly wrong in its conclusions and generally reflect [ing] a lack of understanding of both corporate law principles and commercial realities», adding that «parties to sophisticated business agreements will be far better served by agreeing to adjudicate their disputes in Ontario, where the courts generally have much greater commercial sophistication.»

For lawyers seeking to establish or retain an edge in a green - building practice, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) makes the perfect accessory by demonstrating to clients a deep understanding of green building best practices and principles established by the United States Green Building Council.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

I've been really fascinated learning more and more about org design and how those principles could be applied to help law firms, legal departments, any sort of group of lawyers that are working together as a team do better.

(The issue is) better resolved relying on the principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege

The court found that the lawyer's statements violated Rule 6.03 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and ran contrary to Principle 27 of the Principles of Civility published by The Advocates» Society, which provide that a lawyer should not: ``... attribute bad motives or improper conduct to opposing Counsel, except when relevant to the issues of the case and well - founded.»

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Jim's article, «Teaching Lawyers to Revise for the Real World: A Role for Reader Protocols,» 7 offered an important contribution, not only because it focused specifically on how judges read and understand briefs, but also because it implicitly nudged us away from teaching platitudes about good legal writing and more toward looking at how real readers respond to the principles of writing that we commonly teach.

Most firms that place a premium on revenue from partners» personal production find that partners tend to hold their client relationships too close to their vests; they frequently hoard client work rather than spread it around to other partners — because the former wants to receive full credit; partners perform work that could be performed by associates because the former wants to receive full credit; partners do billable work when their higher and better use for the law firm is to generate additional business from existing and potential clients; and lawyers may perform work outside of their principle areas of expertise that others in the firm could perform more effectively and efficiently.

Finally, and not for nothing; but, in attempting to write for an entire nation of lawyers, where various jurisdictions may expand on the principles outlined in this opinion, it's probably better to go broad anyway.

If you have some resources, perhaps are a small business and don't want to take on a lawyer to run the whole case for you, you would be well advised to still invest in some advice, behind the scenes on your case, on key aspects of it such as the basis of your claim or defence in law, ensuring that your formal particulars of claim or defence contain the right legal principles and to gain an understanding of the key elements of the Civil procedure rules.

Law Consulting Blog Lawyers: Use Persuasion Principles to Develop Business September 22 by Cordell Parvin «Years ago I read a well known book titled Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

As public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the public.

It is absurd in principle and this case is a good example of why: person X makes accusations publicly about person Y then gets lawyers to tell Y «you can't answer these accusations in a way that reveals anything about my sex life even if it's directly relevant to the accusations».

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Mr. Hunt is a member and trustee of the Center for Principled Family Advocacy, an initial member of the Cleveland Collaborative Practice Group, and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) as well as the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (formerly, the Cleveland Bar Association and the Cuyahoga County Bar Association) and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese.