And if we're not certain whether the best legal services are any good, what does
that say about the legal services that we know are less good?
Not exact matches
Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when
services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute
about property rights or some other
legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it
say?
Now the tenants, upset
about paying rent to a management company they claim failed to provide basic
services and communicate with them throughout the ongoing ordeal,
say they will be exploring
legal avenues to get a break in their rent payments.
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«What LawWithoutWalls has done is opened my mind to the idea that people around the world have ideas
about how
legal services and education can be approached differently,»
says DeStefano.
The same can't be
said about lawyers and
legal services.
Says Linna, «Where law schools really have and have had an innovation deficit since the beginning of time is thinking
about how we can improve the delivery of
legal services; not working in the business as lawyers, but working on our business.
Certainly Charles Christian has
said that ABS
services are due to bring
about untold changes to the shape and structure of the
legal market.
«I think this process gives the client a degree of control that lawyers don't normally give clients,» Joel Miller is quoted as
saying about unbundled
legal services.
Last month, I wrote
about the fact that hourly billing isn't going away, no matter what the industry predictors
say about alternative fees, new ways of showing value, and new paradigms for delivering
legal services.
Spies, unlikely to be British or American or Russian, also camped out in an apartment near that of his assistant to record goings - on,
says Stephens, who spoke
about one of the world's most closely watched
legal cases in a session called the «WikiLeaks Case: What You're Not Reading in the Paper» at the annual meeting of Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, the global alliance of independent full -
services law firms, in Montreal on Friday.
About 12,000, or more than half of all private practitioners in Ontario, work in firms with five lawyers or fewer, while 86 per cent of all firms in the province contain five lawyers or less, Pawlitza
said, noting they are also responsible for almost all
legal services in languages other than English.
But some lawyers
say the debate around the topic singles out a cosmetic issue and ultimately distracts from harder conversations
about how
legal services are delivered.
The Law Society
said it was «gravely concerned»
about the first consultation, which would cut 300 pages from the Handbook, including the «qualified to supervise» rule, and free up solicitors to provide reserved
legal services on a freelance basis.
After writing here Monday
about Richard Susskind's predictions for the future of
legal services and the importance that multisourcing will come to play, I heard from Bloomberg
legal reporter Cynthia Cotts, who wrote a story this week that is right in line with what Susskind
said.
People often
say 80 % of the
legal need goes unmet, and what they're almost always talking about when they say that, is this Legal Services Corporation study that is probably getting a little bit long in the tooth, but was a well done study that shows that about 80 % of the people who qualify for legal aid and have a legal problem that legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resou
legal need goes unmet, and what they're almost always talking
about when they
say that, is this
Legal Services Corporation study that is probably getting a little bit long in the tooth, but was a well done study that shows that about 80 % of the people who qualify for legal aid and have a legal problem that legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resou
Legal Services Corporation study that is probably getting a little bit long in the tooth, but was a well done study that shows that
about 80 % of the people who qualify for
legal aid and have a legal problem that legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resou
legal aid and have a
legal problem that legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resou
legal problem that
legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resou
legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resources.
The reason those three were speaking was because they're kind of the businesses testing the limits of what it means to practice law and using the internet to provide
legal services, and Mark Britton from Avvo
said, «Look, to the extent that regulations are
about ethics,
about protecting people from fraud, from incompetence, those are the most important rules and to the extent they are
about protecting lawyers or regulation for regulations sake, it's fucking bullshit.»
Kimberly Sanchez, of Community
Legal Services, said in her introduction that about 25 percent of Marion County residents would financially qualify for services through the organ
Services,
said in her introduction that
about 25 percent of Marion County residents would financially qualify for
services through the organ
services through the organization.
«We think constantly
about how do we reach out to the law - practicing community and help them and provide insight into the disruption that is taking place in
legal services and technology,» Bridgesmith
says.
At an in - house panel in late October, Nikki Latta, associate general counsel of Deloitte Canada, agreed there are multiple pressures presented by various regulatory demands and various disrupters to businesses but
said that for Deloitte's
legal department the focus is on providing «disruptive
service» — understanding and managing for things no one thought
about a year ago.
[vii] That is to
say, law societies asking that more money be taken from taxpayers so that those law societies would have fewer poor people to worry
about providing
legal services for, while making it more difficult for governments to take more money from taxpayers whom law societies had failed to provide affordable
legal services for.
One
says, «The firm genuinely cares
about the client and provides great
legal services for a reasonable price.»
While very little has been
said so far
about exactly what swung it for LexisNexis, the award recognises the contribution suppliers make to improving the delivery of
legal services, and the judges were looking for «expertise and professionalism; innovation; value for money; customer care and satisfaction; and measurable success.»
Community
Legal Services has to turn away
about two - thirds of those who request help, he
said, either because the litigants do not qualify based on their income or because the organization lacks the funds and staff to help them.
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John Warchus, Partner in the Commercial team
said: «The Business Club gives Moore Blatch an opportunity to reach a potential new client base and we would be really happy to speak to any London Scottish member
about our high quality
legal services and what we could offer them or their business.»
She
said: «If you give people opportunity and power and learning they will come to the table engaged
about delivering
legal services and that's when the technology can come into play.
It's no defence to
say, «
Legal services today are as good as we can make them,» because (a) we don't know whether that's true, (b) we've never tried very hard to discover whether it's true, and (c) read the paragraph
about Joseph Lister again.
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Indiana
Legal Services says the two - year grant will allow it to help
about 400 seniors age 60 or older who've been victimized by helping them avoid eviction, seek protective orders against abusers and arrange other assistance for them.
The story
says the accounting firms are «quietly» taking the more commoditised work away from mid-tier firms, and, according to the head of
legal services at the Royal Bank of Scotland, are
about to move up the law firm food chain.
One senior figure in the field of online
legal services once
said the secret is this: do not even think
about doing something online unless you are sure that clients are going to want to pay for it.
I will
say that from now on, I will consider Ms Sawatzky's points and think
about using provincial
services for
legal research, and I would expect her counterparts in other provinces offer similar
services.
Instead, in the present circumstance wherein the majority of the population can not obtain affordable
legal advice
services provided by lawyers, an attitude and performance that
says, «let them use alternative
legal services,» is an invitation to a brutal revolution — a revolution that will bring
about the amputation, if not the complete elimination, of law society powers, purpose, and prestige.
«It's that ability to think
about how to provide
legal services in a way that someone actually wants them, will pay for them and is looking to you to actually deliver them because they feel [that] «these lawyers get us» — that's effective lawyering,» she
says.
«Firms need to embrace a longer - term, fundamental shift in the way that they think
about their markets, their clients, their
services and their futures,»
said James W. Jones, lead author of the Georgetown Law Center's «Report on the State of the
Legal Market.»
«We strongly supported measures in the
Legal Services Act to establish a new body for dealing with all consumer complaints
about lawyers that will be wholly separate from all the professional bodies,» he
says.
72 % of clients and lawyers who had used the
service said that they would speak highly or neutrally
about the
Legal Ombudsman.
Calling alternative fees «ludicrous,» Luftspring
said nowadays clients are more concerned
about how much value they can get from
legal services so it's important that lawyers have that conversation with clients at the outset.
«Peremptory challenges just are really asking lawyers to rely on their stereotypes
about the person they see,»
said Jonathan Rudin with Aboriginal
Legal Services in Toronto.
When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking
legal action against the providers of reputable online
legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have
said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver
legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a
legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is
about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.
When asked
about the highlight of his career Hilbers
says: «Client satisfaction is one of the biggest measures of value added
legal services.
Gippsland Community
Legal Service Development Worker Bruce Mapperson
said it's a fantastic opportunity for the community to see how a real courtroom works and to learn
about important issues discussed in court.