As they move from
providing routine legal services to legal advice services, they will gradually replace the general practitioner.
They could finance the automation for
providing routine legal services, but such automation is something that the legal profession can provide for itself, better by itself without: (1) law offices having to be owned by investors; and, (2) the risk of the fiduciary duty owed to clients being suppressed by the resulting profit duty owed to investors.
Those lawyers and investors who wish to have ABSs made legal are looking to make a return on investment by way of
providing routine legal services in greater volume.
To be valid it has to mean that a «charity ABS» can
provide routine legal services, and provide legal advice services below cost as a service of the charity, union, not - for - profit organization, or other CSO, that is providing them.
Our Belfast office tackles high - volume, large - scale projects such as document review, e-discovery, due diligence and legal research to enable our Firm to
provide routine legal services to clients quickly and cost effectively.
Not exact matches
Such an institute could
provide a single bargaining agency on behalf of all lawyers in Canada, by which to obtain the automation of
routine legal services, and not have to endure ownership by a commercial investor to get it, as proposed by the ABS investors.
Over 150 paralegals and managers
provide a comprehensive range of
routine legal services in either a standalone capacity or integrated alongside AG's lawyers and, increasingly, as part of clients own internal teams.
They have three parts: (1) law firms can be invested in (owned — up to 49 % or 100 %) by non-lawyer people and entities; (2)
legal services be enabled to be
provided with related non-
legal services; and, (3)
routine legal services be automated by software applications.
Many of the
services that law firms now
provide, such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for
Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better, cheaper» than a full -
service law firm.
In addition to
legal research, there are many other specialized support
services that can be
provided with such expert advice, including the automation of
routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client
services and satisfaction.
They can perhaps speed the adoption of innovations such as the «packaging» of those
routine legal services that can be
provided more cost - efficiently by software applications such as for writing simple wills and incorporating small companies.
Whether we are defending against a
routine slip and fall liability claim or a complex construction litigation case, our
legal professionals are committed to
providing personalized
service.
We can negotiate as a single unit to obtain the automation of
routine legal services, and obtain changes to law society bylaws allowing related non-
legal services to be
provided with
legal services.
The solution, if there is one, is either to (i)
provide greater public subsidies for
legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «
routine»
legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).
Dye & Durham's emarket includes our cloud - based suite of
legal software, an all - in - one solution for
legal professionals looking to automate
routine document production —
providing significant time savings, efficiency, superior work flow process improvement, and the ability to improve their
service levels.
Emarket, Dye & Durham's single cloud - based gateway, is the complete all - in - one solution for
legal professionals looking to automate the collection and filing of Public Records Data and the automation of
routine document production —
providing significant time savings, efficiency, superior work flow process improvement, and the ability to improve their
service levels.