Sentences with phrase «real change in the legal profession»

That said, Ellis is confident that social media will continue to drive real change in the legal profession, and that change will benefit both those who are members of the profession and those they serve.

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The real thrust of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history, library collections and archival resources into the life and work of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic changes in legal education and the profession over the course of the past century and document Osgoode's role in them.

When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.

But it does not require real change in the court system or the legal profession, because nobody in the system is dependent on small claims.

As mentioned early in this piece, «The Changing face of the legal profession» (LawPro Magazine, Winter 2007), a Canadian study suggests that the trend of lawyers deferring retirement is more prevalent in small firms, and in non-urban areas, with the trend being «particularly apparent in the personal legal services fields (real estate, family law, wills, criminal law).»