Sentences with phrase «providing access to lawyers»

I want to speak about the representation side of things, and the implications of not providing access to lawyers.

Continue to provide access to lawyers who are outstanding in their field of expertise and are committed to supporting you.

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Contingent fees do provide many people with access to justice, but sometimes the fee is so large that the lawyer becomes the real party in interest.

«This nearly $ 2 million program is helping provide critical legal services to these children who have found themselves here, far from home and without access to a lawyer,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House that was provided by the Council, 91 percent of children facing removal proceedings without a lawyer are deported, while only 22 percent of children who have proper representation are deported.

At Laveer Legal, clients are assigned their own lawyer from the outset and have access to a helpdesk service that provides immediate and unlimited employment law and HR advice.

Walsh said that because her group was also perceived as overly aggressive in its search for data, the council had to hire lawyers in nine states to get institutions to provide access to public documents.

If those files, documents and other records are stored, either in paper form or electronically, in a way that prevents the Law Society from gaining access to those files, then the rules envision a process by which lawyers who are unable to provide such requested records can be suspended until able to do so.

(i) accessing or copying them except as is necessary to provide the service obtained by the lawyer,

No lawyer would store records — paper or electronic — with a provider that accessed them or copied them except as necessary to provide the service to the lawyer.

For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.

Access to Justice for all, in particular those who are economically weak, is at the core of this project, as is the defence of the lawyers who seek to provide it.

In STC 13/2017, published on 10 March 2017, the SCC found that the police and a lower court had violated the right to personal freedom of two detainees whose lawyer had not been given access to the arrest file, as provided by article 7 of Directive 2012 / 13 / EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings.

To the extent I am otherwise usually carrying my iPad with me most times, having these e-books available to provide easy access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the gTo the extent I am otherwise usually carrying my iPad with me most times, having these e-books available to provide easy access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the gto provide easy access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the gto the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the go.

Now ALM has launched a tool called Legal Compass that provides access to not only all of its data, but that is also pulling in data from external sources such as lawyers» LinkedIn profiles and law firm Twitter accounts and mashing it all together in a variety of useful charts, graphics and visualizations.

Drawing on the expertise of the Harvard Law community and Silicon Valley, wireLawyer provides an essential business - to - business platform, allowing lawyers to insource and outsource paid work, access thousands of peer - reviewed documents, and research curated questions, which bring big firm best practices to the entire legal community.

According to a recent study conducted in collaboration with other free access enthusiasts, free law publishing across the globe operates thanks to the efforts and capacity to innovate of small passionate organizations (LIIs) combined with the support of lawyers, donors, advertisers or any other group willing to provide the necessary resources.

Members of Ontario's family law bench upped the volume of their objections after Bonkalo's March 2017 report recommended paralegals be allowed to provide legal services, without supervision by lawyers, in the areas of custody, access, simple child support cases, restraining orders, enforcement and simple divorces without property.

It provides an audit trail of all accessed content, enabling lawyers to easily create and share an activity log of CPD activities undertaken, which is one of the SRA requirements.

The firm also sells additional services, both through monthly memberships, which provide additional access to lawyers and legal documents, and on as as - needed basis, which allows purchase of various unbundled services, such as having an attorney draft a document or argue in court.

Would this help with access to justice and allow more lawyers to provide help in simple matters?

Across the country lawyers find the time to participate in interesting and important pro bono projects that give back to their communities and aid in providing access to justice for those who might not otherwise be able to afford legal counsel.

The opinion recites four considerations that would tend to establish an ethical duty for a lawyer to warn the client against using a business device or system for electronic communication: Where the client has already communicated by electronic means or has indicated an intention to do so; where the client is employed in a position that would provide access to a workplace device or system; given the circumstances, the employer or a third party has the ability to access the email communications and; that as far as the lawyer knows, the employer's internal policy and the jurisdiction's laws do not clearly protect the privacy of the employee's personal email communications via a business device or system.

California will likely discover that the greatest service it can provide for those in need is to provide readily available public information regarding everyday legal problems, how those problems can be resolved (through diverse pathways), and how and where to access available resources, including from for - profit lawyers, non-profit organizations, and government programs.

This highly focused program — essential for employment lawyers seeking to update or sharpen their skills, in - house counsel reviewing existing handbooks and policies, business lawyers looking for more detailed insight into employment - law issues, and general practitioners improving issue - spotting skills — provides direct access to counter-balanced experts in a small, conversational setting.

chiropractors or physiotherapist) whereby treatment is advanced on our promise to reimburse them upon settlement (e) deferral payment options that can be arranged by our Vancouver office for special and pricey diagnostic tests like MRIs, CT Scans, etc so that you need not pay for these such tests until your case settles most often ICBC will actually reimburse us at the conclusion of your case for such special diagnostic tests provided they are medically necessary and you are referred by a qualified physician for greater discussion CLICK HERE (f) community based resources which can be accessed by our lawyer to pay for extraordinary medical expenses.

Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer lawyer participation, will convene local partners and provide service design expertise to execute the pilots.

Another thing that we do is give our students an education in access to justice — we help them to understand the difficulties in providing access to justice, and how lawyers fit into that picture.

Also, virtual offices that are exclusive to lawyers provide a network of legal professionals, allowing virtual tenants to gain access to referrals and practice advice that are invaluable to an attorney's revenue flow and future.

Some paid subscription materials, such as The Lawyers Weekly, provide free via RSS the latest headlines but only selective access to full - text articles.

I hope to bring together that special group of lawyers in the Self - Rep Navigators: lawyers who understand the true purpose of law, who recognize that providing unbundled services is the means to the ultimate goal of access to justice.

A not - for - profit campaign organisation, APIL's 3,800 member lawyers are dedicated to changing the law, protecting and enhancing access to justice, & improving services provided for victims of personal injury.

The ABA has begun to encourage lawyers to offer unbundled legal services as a way to boost access to justice, even providing standard contracts called limited scope engagement agreements that detail the specific tasks to be completed by the lawyer.

By helping cite check a brief or search cases in a more nuanced way than current search engines, EVA can complement the work of lawyers and law professors and provide more people with access to legal research.

Thompsons is proud to provide the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) legal service and to give members access to free legal advice and representation from our specialist personal injury and employment rights lawyers.

The Florida Bar Foundation strives to provide greater access to justice in Florida by: expanding and improving representation and advocacy on behalf of low - income persons in civil legal matters; improving the fair and effective administration of justice; and promoting public service among lawyers by making it an integral component of the law school experience.

Limited scope representation provides greater access to justice, as clients need not retain a lawyer for the whole life of a file, and can instead save money by ordering from a «menu» of legal services.

Kalajdzic finds that the all too common argument in favor of ABS, «that access to new sources of capital will allow lawyers to bring in technological innovations and adopt new business structures; firms using ABS will have a competitive advantage and will thus be able to achieve economies of scale; with economies of scale firms can lower prices and provide better quality of service,» is not supported by the available data.

The idea behind the POC is to use blockchain technology in order to provide courts, lawyers and others connected to a case with access to verifiable, untampered data on service of process, Carlyle told me.

One company's founder even bills herself as the «Fairy Godmother of Divorce» These types of financing arrangements could provide some fairness in hotly contested divorce cases when one side maintains control of bank accounts and assets during the litigation and therefore has the ability to hire lawyers, while the other side may get locked out of accessing financial assets before the divorce papers are even filed with the court.

The site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

With all members of the Christianson firm becoming TDS lawyers, rural clients will now have access to TDS Lawyers in Winnipeg, providing them with new services that include access to tax law, expropriation, labour & employment, environment law, intellectual property, and business immiglawyers, rural clients will now have access to TDS Lawyers in Winnipeg, providing them with new services that include access to tax law, expropriation, labour & employment, environment law, intellectual property, and business immigLawyers in Winnipeg, providing them with new services that include access to tax law, expropriation, labour & employment, environment law, intellectual property, and business immigration.

This historic program seeks to help bridge the access - to - justice gap by licensing non-lawyers to provide legal advice and assistance in limited areas without the supervision of a lawyer.

If the lawyer is unable to access those records and provide them on demand during an audit or Law Society investigation, however, the lawyer may be found to have lost custody or control of the records, which may lead to disciplinary consequences.

The new site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

[the] accused was not given a reasonable opportunity to exercise his right to access a lawyer, by failure of the police to provide concurrent access to the internet along with 411, the toll free number and the paper telephone directory.

Spearheaded by CEO Denise Annunciata, a former corporate paralegal in Massachusetts, LeapLaw positions itself as a sort of virtual paralegal, providing access to tools and information that will help a lawyer «leap» to completion of a task.

Through these relationships and contacts, Marks IP Law Firm has access to a large network of lawyers practising in China, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other jurisdictions worldwide and will stand out as one of the few Japanese IP firms which can provide legal services to clients who are doing or planning to do business in the growing Asian economy.

In a voir dire proceeding the accused alleged a breach of his rights under Sections 7, 8 and 10 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and specifically that he was not given a reasonable opportunity to exercise his right to counsel and that the accused was not provided with a full range of resources and access to sources of information which reasonably were or ought have been made available to him to contact a lawyer, including internet access.

As a starting point to address gaps in both access to justice and access to legal services, for example, lawyers might look to the information provided and questions posed in the excellent Canadian Bar Association Election Engagement Kit recently made available through Envisioning Equal Justice.