Sentences with phrase «producing legal opinions»

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW was producing legal opinions for lawyers in private practice at the rate of 5,000 per year — because those lawyers could make more money using LAO LAW instead of billing Legal Aid for their own legal research hours.

By its ninth year of development, 1988, LAO LAW was producing legal opinions at the rate of 5,000 per year.

By 1988, my staff was producing legal opinions at the rate of 5,000 per year for lawyers in private practice who did legal aid cases.

For example, legal research, as a specialized support service provided by career research lawyers, is a far more competent and cost - efficient way of producing legal opinions than relying of students» legal research.

By 1988, LAO LAW was producing legal opinions at a rate of more than 5,000 per year for legal aid lawyers (lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases).

By its 9th year of development (1988) it was producing legal opinions at the rate of 5,000 per year.

Not exact matches

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

The guidelines will provide for a sequential course of study for each of the grades kindergarten through 12 and must include, at a minimum, the following: (1) knowledge of the research process and how information is created and produced; (2) skills in using information resources and critical thinking about those resources; (3) the abilities to evaluate information critically and competently, to recognize relevant primary and secondary information, and to distinguish among facts, points of view, and opinions; (4) access to information and information tools; and (5) an understanding of economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and how to use information ethically and legally.

If such technology were used by CanLII, in addition to legal opinions, from its large databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized databases and projects such as databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.

The Court of Justice of the European Union shall review the legality of legislative acts, of acts of the Council, of the Commission and of the European Central Bank, other than recommendations and opinions, and of acts of the European Parliament and of the European Council intended to produce legal effects vis - à - vis third parties.

Until you know what the productivity per researcher is, and other variables, and fixed costs, you can't know the cost per legal opinion produced.

Last but not least, the same reasoning must prevail regarding the fact that HTSs are producing «legal effects in the internal market» (see para. 62 of the AG Opinion): National bodies, either public or private, adopting (voluntary or compulsory) acts with legal effects in the internal market can not be considered EU bodies within the meaning of Article 267 TFEU.

By its 9th year (1988), LAO LAW was producing over 5,000 legal opinions per year.

As a learning and redemption experience, Andy is put in charge of the team producing the first checklist, which will be for legal opinions in SEC - registered and Rule 144A bond offerings.

If there is little evidence for you to produce an opinion, is there anything that could be done by the legal side?

By specializing my staff, materials used, and principles of database management, by 1988 we were producing more than 5,000 complete legal opinions for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

When I was LAO LAW's first Director of Research (1979 - 1988), my staff was producing close to 5,000 legal opinions per year for lawyers in private practice.

Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.

Lawyers fear that if they do not produce justifying legal opinions on demand, they'll lose the client.

Its technology of centralized legal research has enabled it to produce close to 5,000 complete legal opinions per year, thus saving its government - financed legal aid organization millions of dollars that would otherwise have had to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research services rendered.

The Court of Justice shall review the legality of acts adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council, of acts of the Council, of the Commission and of the ECB, other than recommendations and opinions, and of acts of the European Parliament intended to produce legal effects vis - a-vis third parties.

Unfortunately, law practices are accepting such cases in volume, in part because a document purporting to be a legal opinion is produced purporting to «prove» that the claim is irredeemably unenforceable.

By its 9th year of development, 1988, it was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for lawyers in private practice for their legal aid cases.

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW, the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for Ontario lawyers in private practice to service legal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor peolegal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for Ontario lawyers in private practice to service legal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor peoLegal Aid Ontario (LAO), was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for Ontario lawyers in private practice to service legal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor peolegal opinions per year for Ontario lawyers in private practice to service legal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor peolegal aid clients (the judicare model of providing legal services to poor peolegal services to poor people).

The most obvious of these skills is the ability to produce certain genres of legal documents, usually including predictive memoranda and briefs, and also (in some programs) case briefs, letters, file memos, contracts, or judicial opinions.

Numerous commentators have bemoaned both the FISA courts» secretive nature and the content of specific legal interpretations revealed in their leaked opinions.2 But an overlooked yet fundamental problem with the FISA courts» work is that judge - made law can be generated only through stare decisis, 3 a doctrine that we argue is not justified when applied to secret opinions of the type the FISA courts produce.

In its 9th year of development, 1988, LAOLAW was producing 5,000 legal opinions per year for legal aid lawyers in private practice.

Googling «socio - legal studies canada law reform» may produce some interesting results, but without the seal of approval from a reputable source, such as a university - based repository, what clues are there for a student to distinguish a balanced opinion from a PR firm's rhetoric?

Law schools need to do more than teach the legal basics — they also have a moral obligation to produce healthy and satisfied lawyers, a recent law grad asserts in an opinion column.

The legal research and opinions that your team produced was, essentially identical, with the exception of the price tag.

When I left, it was producing close to 5,000 legal opinions a year for Ontario lawyers in private practice who did legal aid cases.

Prof. Conduct 123 (2001)(subject to the operational structure and content described in the opinion, a lawyer may affiliate with an online legal services website); Nebraska Op. 07 - 05 (lawyer may participate in internet lawyer directory which identifies itself as a directory, disclaims being a referral service and only lists basic information about lawyers without recommending specific lawyers and charges a reasonable, flat annual advertising fee); New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising Op. 36 (2006)(lawyer may pay flat fee to internet marketing company for exclusive website listing for particular county in specific practice area if listing includes prominent, unmistakable disclaimer stating the listings are paid advertisements and not endorsements or authorized referrals); North Carolina Op. 2004 - 1 (lawyer may participate in for - profit online service that is a hybrid referral service - legal directory, provided there is no fee - sharing with the service and communications are truthful); Oregon Op. 2007 - 180 (2007)(lawyer may pay nationwide internet referral service for listing if listing is not false or misleading and does not imply that the lawyer can represent clients outside jurisdictions of the lawyer's license, fee is not based on number of referrals, retained clients or revenue generated by listing and the service does not exercise discretion in matching clients with lawyers); Rhode Island 2005 - 01 (permitting website that enables lawyers to post information about their services and respond to anonymous requests for legal services in exchange for flat annual membership fee if website exercises no discretion over which requests lawyers may access); South Carolina 01 - 03 (lawyer may pay internet advertising service fee determined by the number of «hits» that the service produces for the lawyer provided that the service does not steer business to any particular lawyer and the payments are not based on whether user ultimately becomes a client); Texas Op. 573 (2006)(lawyer may participate in for - profit internet service that matches potential clients and lawyers if selection process is fully automated and performed by computers without the exercise of human discretion); Virginia Advertising Op.