Sentences with phrase «situation access to lawyers»

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Our lawyers are able to you in determining the best route to protect your custody and access rights based on your unique situation.

The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email to or from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password to the email account, or to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email from a public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may access it on devices that are potentially accessible to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.

Like the situation Lear describes in the U.S., there remain multiple and significant gaps in access to justice across Canada, none of which seem to be shrinking despite increased awareness of the issues, better data and significant commitment of pro bono hours by lawyers.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

We believe that it is permissible to «friend» X in this situation in order to access nonpublic information only when the lawyer has been able to send a message that discloses her identity as the plaintiff's lawyer.

The selling of legal services can not be allowed to block access to the law in situations wherein the assistance of a lawyer is necessary in order to avail oneself of the rule of law and constitutional rights and freedoms.

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In the situation where a youth really has stepped out of line and committed what potentially is a criminal act, lawyers need to be well aware that the Youth Criminal Justice Act gives them a whole host of tools and access to potential resources that are not necessarily available to somebody who's 18 or over.

So, if this new proposal applies to lawyers, it should also apply to other professions like doctors in particular, where lack of access to adequate care could really be a life or death situation.

Unfortunately as Savannah car accident lawyers, we sometimes have to explain to clients that the law makes an exception for situations where minor's are given access to dangerous things like cars, boats, guns, knives etc..

It's unfortunate that Bill's brother Jim created his situation by corruptly taking a few thousand dollars «on the side» from lawyers who wanted access to the confidential police information that Jim Van Allen illegally provided.

In other situations access to justice may be achieved without needing to reach the courts, and access to lawyers may or may not have been key to that achievement.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

But those are rare situations, and there are narrower remedies for dealing with rogue lawyers than making it more difficult for all citizens to obtain public records by effectively limiting their access to the courts.

There will be no obligations when you come in and you'll have access to a medical malpractice lawyer who will assess your situation and inform you of your options.

This might be better stated more simply: «Whenever a lawyer communicates with a client, the lawyer must first consider whether, given the client's situation, there is a significant risk that third parties will have access to the communications.»

We have a surfeit of trained lawyers, but a huge deficit in access to justice — a situation which simply does not make sense.