Sentences with phrase «service in the legal profession»

He believes that this, in part, comes from a failure to embrace the mentality around customer service in the legal profession.

With one of the most respected and experienced leadership consulting services in the legal profession, we lead our clients away from the junk science and management myths to develop effective leadership skills that anyone can master.

One of the most respected rating services in the legal profession, Super Lawyers publishes its Rising Stars honor roll each year after putting candidates through a multiphase screening process consisting of managing partner surveys, nomination by peers, third - party feedback, and identification by a Super Lawyers research team.

One of the most respected rating services in the legal profession, «Super Lawyers» honors outstanding attorneys based on peer recognition, professional achievement, and independent research.

Not exact matches

The reforms, in essence, would create an independent panel composed mostly of laypersons to oversee the profession, and an independent office for the investigation of complaints against lawyers (a real life, «highly successful» example is the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner in New South Wales, Australia).

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

So, bright Asian students have generally disdained entrepreneurship, instead choosing more respected (and better charted) careers in public service; academia; and the medical, legal, and engineering professions.

Forrest Jack Lance received COSA's Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Both men are receiving the award in recognition of their long and outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Forrest Jack Lance is receiving COSA's Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

NSBA's Council of School Attorneys (COSA) honored Nancy Fredman Krent with the 2016 COSA Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Alexandria, Va. (May 2, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association's (NSBA's) Council of School Attorneys (COSA) honored Nancy Fredman Krent with the 2016 COSA Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

In particular, the legal profession has made great strides towards alternative legal services that allow for the «unbundling» of services which can be provided by individuals without law degrees rather than lawyers themselves.

Simon, don't you mean «marginal» rather than «paramount» in terms of use by the legal profession when compared to the commercial legal publishers competing services?

Ultimately, awarding federal QCs to deserving federal government lawyers is in the interests of the public service, the Department of Justice, the legal profession and of the government of the day.

CLP says each issue will be framed around important themes affecting the legal profession, such as disruptive innovation in legal services and professionalism in the 21st Century, and will include both feature stories and recurring features and columns.

But strong pressure to do so will exist in times of economic downturns, as the legal profession is now facing by reason of the problem of unaffordable legal services.

«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»

Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada sets out our vision for how we might educate and regulate the profession differently.

Speakers addressed topics such as why we need more hackers in the legal profession, how lawyering is like engineering, how to use design principles to enhance legal services, and IP issues in 3D printing.

In another example, the blog is purportedly written by two authors, both of whom provide services to the legal profession.

«Dedicated to the demands and desires of solos and small law firms, the clients we serve and others in the legal profession who use our services or dream of going out on their own.»

Hourly billing did not become of age in the legal profession until the 1950s, after a series of reports showed that firms that charged by the hour were more profitable than those that charged on the basis of the service sold.

(2) the population's views and desires as to this evolution in the use of the legal profession's monopoly over the provision of legal services to impose a «cutting costs by cutting competence» limitation upon people's ability to access justice;

Much like in the retail world where there are Wal - Marts and Costcos, multinational as well as local chains, online stores, and independent boutiques; there's space and need in the legal profession to provide a variety of services from a variety of service providers and in a variety of formats.

The Canadian legal profession is currently engaged in a much - needed debate about the future of legal services in general and whether to allow the use of so - called alternative business structures (ABSs) more particularly.

Beginning in July 1979, LAO LAW avoided using the profession's handcraftsman's method of providing legal research services, while CanLII in its present form serves to perpetuate the handcraftsman's method.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

The legal profession is full of luddites, everywhere; even among the younger generation and in firms that service tech clients.

In conjunction with other recent studies carried out by ourselves, and the likes of the Legal Services Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority, we are building a clearer picture of why and how the profession needs to move forward.

I would argue that a happy legal services consumer is an educated legal services consumer and that, in the end, such outreach efforts in the spirit of access to justice can only be of mutual benefit to both the public and the profession.

Knowles, who was knighted for his services to the legal profession in 2009, took up the role at DWF at the start of this month.

In 2013, the American Bar Association appointed Stu as a member of the Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, which is part of the ABA's Division for Public Services, an ABA department dedicated to applying the knowledge and experience of the legal profession to promotion of the public good.

Our mission overlaps with those of many regional, state and national organizations to promote quality legal education, provide continuing legal education; promote competence, ethical conduct and professionalism; promote pro bono and public service; eliminate bias in the legal profession and the justice system; and to advance the Rule of Law and understanding of the legal process.

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This subject is becoming more critical as the legal profession is experiencing considerable change in how legal services are delivered.

Helping the development of legal professions across all of those countries and having legal professionals who understand that they have public and fiduciary responsibilities to those who can't afford legal services and also to the broader issues of justice in the rule of law is critical.

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If you would like to know more about opportunities to promote innovation and change in law, please contact Julius Reeves, who heads up our function dedicated to emerging business services roles in the legal profession.

We now live in a time when many are questioning the time - honoured method of delivering legal services; a time when the legal profession is increasingly being forced to justify its methods - and perhaps even its existence; a time when dissent against the old order is becoming normalized and circulated globally; a time when newcomers are re-writing the script and challenging the old ways.

Ashleigh is a member of The Order of Barristers, a United States national honor society which recognizes individuals who have excelled in oral advocacy and service to the legal profession.

The goal of the Speakers Bureau is to foster public confidence in our legal system and create a more transparent profession, especially as we continue to see consumers refrain from using our services.

Technology has — and will continue to — change the profession and the delivery of legal services in many, and sometimes very disruptive, ways.

If Schraver is drawing a line in order to allocate what is the responsibility of the legal profession as opposed to what is the responsibility of the «public,» why does he draw the line at «legal services to the poor»?

The rise of unbundled legal services represents a big change in the legal profession.

Without minimizing the importance of that debate, UPL restrictions raise a second and equally important issue: The laws in place in the United States today allocate the entire legal services market to the legal profession — to the legal profession only — and those laws (more or less successfully) support bar associations and other groups of lawyers when they attempt to keep nonlawyers and nontraditional structures out of the market.

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What's going to happen as different providers of legal services grow is that some students will embrace traditional opportunities, others will find alternative routes into the profession — for instance, as companies develop their in - house departments.