Sentences with phrase «smaller number of lawyers»

Martindale has invited a small number of lawyers to register for the site as beta testers.

All of the accused seemed to be represented by a small number of lawyers from what was then the criminal bar.

For instance, if a person has been involved in a minor car accident and is looking to get an attorney involved, he or she will likely reach out to a small number of lawyers for quotes.

Our hope is that all small firms will benchmark themselves using our Small Firm Scorecard even though we will only choose to work directly with a small number of lawyers each year.

A small number of our lawyers are regulated by other professional legal bodies including The Bar Standards Board, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and in the case of lawyers admitted in other jurisdictions, the relevant regulatory body of their place of admission.

Both these areas and a few others at the top of the tables represent the more specialized areas populated by smaller numbers of lawyers.

Many other asbestos firms have a small number of lawyers who handle a large number of cases that they can not possibly be personally involved in due to time constraints.

In complex injury litigation, federal judges often select a small number of lawyers to conduct the national investigation on behalf of the thousands of people injured.

Research indicates that it is very difficult for people to find a lawyer offering limited scope assistance, in part because of the small number of lawyers offering such services and in part because lawyers who are offering such services do not always advertise it.

I did not say that a small number of lawyers would decrease costs.

A small number of lawyers would create a monopoly on the profession and may increase legal costs.

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In New England the first group consisted of a small number of people such as the magistrates and other political officers, the ministers, the merchants, and the slowly increasing number of professional people such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

Bogin and Eig represent a relatively small but growing number of private lawyers specializing in special - education law.

For clients that produce a large number of documents with only small variations — such as employment contracts or non-disclosure agreements — providing technology to automate their production can save in - house lawyers a significant amount of time.

Because personal recommendations and referrals just happen to be the way most consumers and small businesses (and a number of large companies too, I'll wager) choose a lawyer.

Most lawyers and paralegals are increasingly able to focus on a smaller number of legal niches.

But if you are a solo or small - firm lawyer who collaborates on documents often, has a number of files, and relies on Microsoft Office, Box could be the solution.

The mainstream lawyers and others would probably have use of just components of it as, in fact, it was more of an academic, scholarly or theoretical tool; the market might have ended up as a very small number of law faculties and specialist researchers.

Hopefully a smaller number of applicants will sufficiently impact the number of practitioners in the coming years to help restore the balance between the number of practicing lawyers and the legal work available (if such a thing ever existed).

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.

Where small firm lawyers who are overwhelmed by administrative tasks would not need to do them: They could join a franchise, which, benefitting from external investment, would have the resources to develop and offer to a large number of small firms streamlined IT infrastructure, billing, marketing and file management, advertising, and a branded name and logo, freeing the lawyers to practice law.

Yet the system does not provide them with the lawyers they need to navigate it, treating representation as a privilege for the wealthy or as charity for a small number of the very poor.

But, of course, law firm attrition numbers aren't just explained by job trends in other fields but by the fact that few lawyers find the career satisfaction they crave working 60 - hour weeks on small bites of large cases.

Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago - based company that provides services like office management and business development for solo and small firm lawyers, runs a number of practice - specific blogs — from lemon law to DUI.

The result of these two trends is a dwindling number of lawyers practicing in small communities and rural areas of Canada and a looming access to justice crisis if large numbers of lawyers decide to retire without replacements in place.

Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com and author of Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, discussed how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your bottom line,» given at the Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov. 2.

The fourth is at the post-call stage when squads of less well - trained new lawyers, unable to find jobs and saddled with debts that would make US Congresspeople chew their nails to the knuckles, open their own firms and resort to churning, roiling and boiling their mostly family and civil litigation files to make whatever money they can however they can from a small, sliced and diced number of clients per lawyer — ethics, wisdom, logic, and good sense be damned.

With the advent of full legal aid the workload on that small number of criminal lawyers increased, and in response they took on associates or started new firms.

I suspect that a large number of small and large office lawyers were intellectually slighted in some way and went into the practice of law as a way to get social redemption.

In a very short period of time, I've developed a small following of other lawyers, interested non-lawyers, and a sizeable number of law students who follow the feed.

As with lawyers, priests, doctors, soldiers, professional athletes, or people in a great many occupations there are a relatively small number of bad apples who can have a very - outsized impact on the general reputation of those who work in the occupation.

Friedrich Blase, Legal X @ MaRS Discovery District executive in residence and the Un-Firm of the Future managing director, recommends stoking innovation by having lawyers find a small number of «meaningful, sizeable» client relationships.

I've written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve sucSmall Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve sucsmall firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.

Yes, worse than hugely increasing the number of small firm solicitors would be to allow the decimation of them by the proven and consistent predatory practices of a handful of giant corporations who, having gotten rid of the multi-thousands of lawyer competitors, would then have the public at their rapacious mercy.

Go into litigation, of course, further diluting the number of clients per lawyer and further forcing up the cost of each file in order to make a decent living off a smaller number of clients.

Now the ABS supporters want to add yet another layer, and more likely two more layers, of overhead to cover: (1) the return to the lawyers running the smaller number of big or franchised law firms, and (2) the return on capital investment to the venturers.

You are wrong if you think that Walmart law for personal injury or any litigation is going to be cheaper than going to any one of the large number of independent small firm litigation lawyers.

There is no question that many small Canadian cities and towns are doing without a sufficient number of lawyers.

There is part of me that suspects (without having the quantitative analysis to back it up) that this is why we can see the seemingly conflicting scenarios of a glut of young lawyers contrasted with an apparent shortage in rural / small urban settings — that is we now have a lot of students / young lawyers targeting a small geographical area with a small number open to practice outside of the major centres.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

The Firm's lawyers accept only a small number of high - stakes cases at any given time so that they can dedicate their full attention to every client.

However, it's important to note that actual lawyer salaries vary massively depending on a number of factors: the area of law they work in (for example, corporate lawyers are known to earn a little more than criminal), where in the world you work and the type of law firm you work in — whether it be a bigger, City firm or a smaller, local firm.

This tool (under development, expected release: December 2017) generates a small number of forms that a tenant without a lawyer can use in court: Answer and Counterclaims; Request for Discovery; Notice of Interpreter; Transfer to Housing Court; and a limited Motion to Dismiss.

«Solos and small - firm attorneys make up 70 percent or more of all lawyers in America and, therefore, by sheer numbers alone rack up more discipline cases.

«Government lawyers are relatively small in number and they work in obscurity,» says Laval Dallaire, a partner in the Quebec City firm of Gagné Letarte avocats and a specialist in the negotiation of collective agreements.

Surveys show that in Canada, a very small number of legal problems — as little as 1 in 7 — are addressed by a lawyer.

Exclusing Heenan Blaikie again, we see a small decrease in total number of lawyers at the big firms in Toronto and Ottawa (53 fewer lawyers in total).

A number of lawyers feel alienated by the size and types of practice of large firms, and choose to practice in small firms or as sole practitioners.

The number of lawyers at the big firms is a relatively small percentage of the number of lawyers practising across the country, so I wouldn't read too much into what these numbers might mean.

For example, many Partnerships have a small segment of good rainmakers, a majority of decent rainmakers, and a small subset who are good lawyers but can not make rain under the easiest of circumstances (for any number of valid reasons; these are not necessarily «bad» or «lazy» Partners).