Sentences with phrase «sole practitioners»

a loose confederation of sole practitioners sharing office space.

The report states at 9 that «one - fifth (19 %) of in - house counsel are sole practitioners in their organization and another 23 % report that their law department is comprised of 2 - 3 lawyers.»

Optional for all lawyers practising in association or partnership (including MDPs, licensee firms, and LLPs), law corporations (with more than one lawyer) and sole practitioners practising with employed lawyers.

A third profile is sole practitioners.

This allowed the Executive Director, the Officers and members of Council to engage with lawyers and managers from every type of legal practice: sole practitioners; small, medium and large firms; corporate counsel and public sector legal departments.

The start - up was launched in response to the increasing number of women lawyers striking out as sole practitioners and who also wanted to embrace flexible working conditions.

Eligibility Optional for all lawyers and eligible paralegal licensees practising in association or partnership (including MDPs, LLPs, and lawyer / paralegal partnerships), law corporations (with more than one lawyer and / or paralegal shareholder) and sole practitioners practising with employed lawyers.

Required of all lawyers practising in association or partnership (including general, MDP and LLP partnerships), law corporations (with more than one lawyer) and sole practitioners practising with employed lawyers.

Eligibility: Optional for sole practitioners, licensee firms with only one lawyer, and lawyers practising alone in a law corporation.

Eligibility: Required of all lawyers practising in partnership (including in MDPs or LLPs), in association, in law corporations with more than one lawyer, or as sole practitioners practising with employed lawyers.

Eligibility Optional for all lawyers and eligible paralegal licensees practising in association or partnership (including MDPs, licensee firms, LLPs, and lawyer / paralegal partnerships), law corporations (with more than one lawyer or paralegal shareholder) and sole practitioners practising with employed lawyers.

* Tabs3 integrates with Practice Master to give a single source solution that addresses the front office and back office needs of law firms from sole practitioners up to 100 + attorney firms.

The inspiration for the Oregon program was the same as what led to similar programs in Georgia and Utah, namely, to help new lawyers develop the practical and professional skills they need to be successful and ethical practitioners, and to make sure that new sole practitioners are connected to other lawyers in the legal community.

With the number of inexperienced sole practitioners on the increase, the need for mentoring has become more urgent.

The access - to - justice issue in Canada is twofold: First, sole practitioners, small firms and legal clinics do most of the legal work for low - and middle - income people and they do not have the resources to provide articling opportunities.

Meet your «senior partners» Perhaps the most important category of connections new sole practitioners can make are with lawyers who have many years of experience.

This could explain why the average age of sole practitioners in Ontario is 51, with only 12 % under 35, according to a Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) survey in 2005.

Burn - out and stress are other often cited complaints of sole practitioners.

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.

All barristers practising from these chambers are self - employed individuals who provide their professional services as sole practitioners in their own name.

Of those active attorneys, approximately 16,500 are in private practice, either as sole practitioners or with a small, medium or large firm (the remaining active lawyers work either as in - house counsel or in government positions).

Our subcommittee for PMBR is comprised of a broad range of lawyers (sole practitioners, small, medium and large firms) and of the voluntary bar associations, including some who are opposed to LLLT.

One of the most important initiatives of this Convocation has been to help sole practitioners and small firm lawyers to survive and thrive.

The LSUC report on sole practitioners highlights mentoring as one of the major areas of need.

For sole practitioners and small firms without the benefit of a business management team, this exercise is critical to the future productivity and profitability of your firm.

It seems likely that there is going to be a squeeze on smaller firms and sole practitioners to undertake personal injury work.

As the article notes, the inflation - adjusted average income for sole practitioners has been flat since the mid-1980s.

«Evidence of a squeezed market among the majority of private lawyers in the U.S., who work as sole practitioners or at small firms, is growing.

It looks as though ABS affects only solicitors, as barristers are required to be sole practitioners and not employees.

He anticipates greater specialization, both among sole practitioners and high - quality project lawyers who rotate on teams.

Secondly, small and middle - sized law firms and sole practitioners aren't going to survive by becoming investment vehicles.

Velawsity has its sights on a rather specific inefficiency in the practice of law encountered by a growing number of sole practitioners.

Our representative clients range from sole practitioners to the largest international law and accounting firms, among others.

While this year's drop could be partially due to the inclusion of sole practitioners for the first time, it is also the result of soft demand, as many firms still have more lawyers than work for them.

My per diem legal services provide a local resource for small New York firms, sole practitioners and out - of - state law firms and sole practitioners seeking per diem assistance or local counsel.

However, Grech's endorsement of the Taskforce's proposals differed from Briton's in two ways: The first difference was that Grech was concerned that «from a practical perspective the requirements may prove unnecessarily cumbersome» for sole practitioners or small firms, and thus he proposed «an arbitrary cut off point as a definition of small firm,» for whom the implementation of AMS would not be required.

Indeed, most of the literature in the Australian press and issued by commentators and the competent regulatory bodies at the time the LPUL was adopted and then entered into effect in New South Wales and Victoria either does not refer to ILPs specifically, [28] or mentions them grouped together with other types of «law practices» (sole practitioners, law firms), without a specific focus on how or why the regulatory framework for ILPs has changed, or what the consequences of those particular changes may be.

I previously campaigned for a robust mentoring program for small firm and sole practitioners.

Their income is also falling, with firms of 11 - 25 partners recording the biggest drop last year — 11 % — compared to only 1 % for sole practitioners.

Besides representing and counseling small businesses, sole proprietors and other individuals throughout the city, I work on a contract basis as a per diem lawyer to other New York sole practitioners, law firms and out - of - state attorneys.

Assuming we all manage to retrain ourselves to be personal injury sole practitioners (I do, admittedly, have the time), I'm not sure how that's going to pay off our debt any time soon.

Small firm lawyers and sole practitioners received tips yesterday on how to get properly paid by clients and the government.

These lawyers may have difficulty obtaining quality articles and proper mentorship, might not participate in mainstream CPD programs, and may end up as sole practitioners without adequate support from colleagues in the profession.

My experience in private practice — and from my conversations with other sole practitioners in smaller markets, it was a common one — was that it was, at times, a roller - coaster.

Running a practice with my husband meant that taking holidays together resulted in no one minding the shop, something all sole practitioners can relate to.

There are two sides to the coin here: the first is that law students need to get creative and second, that small law firms and even sole practitioners need to get on board.

«There were people from every corner, and every kind of lawyer from the biggest firms to the sole practitioners,» says Shefman.

That is complicated by the fact that many of the smaller communities are serviced by these small firms and sole practitioners.

To distinguish firms that have nonlawyer owners or managers, or that engage in multidisciplinary practices, from traditional law firms and sole practitioners, the U.K. rules provide for a new kind of legal company, referred to as an alternative business structure.

If you need a model for that task, look at sole practitioners: this is the life they lead.