Sentences with phrase «solve access to justice problems»

I can see how this argument makes fiscal sense for OTLA lawyers — but how does it solve access to justice problems (eg.

Ending the lawyer monopoly on legal services will not, by itself, solve the access to justice problem in its entirety, but it is an important and necessary element.

So there are lots of opportunities to use your existing firm model to help in some way solve the access to justice problem.

The steady increase in lawyer numbers nationwide has not solved the access to justice problem, mainly because the underlying economics of law school and law practice have not changed.

could ever solve the access to justice problem.

I think you're right that pro bono is important and that it is an expression of our highest aspirations as a profession, but I challenge the notion that it's a sustainable model for solving the access to justice problem we are facing in this country.

I agree that in promoting the «right to» lexicon, the dove - tailing of pro bono / legal aid services might articulate a long - term perspective, in helping to solve the access to justice problem, only if a critical mass of lawyers buys into the plan.

Unbundling legal services or providing clients with assistance à la carte can go a long way in helping to solve the access to justice problem that is so apparent in family... Read more

Unbundling legal services or providing clients with assistance à la carte can go a long way in helping to solve the access to justice problem that is so apparent in family law, says Toronto - area family lawyer

Not exact matches

The necessary solution is set out in my Slaw blog dated August 9th; «Government Intervention to Solve the «Access to Justice» Problem is Inevitable.»

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

A recent report by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, stated nearly 12 million Canadians will experience at least one legal problem in a three - year period, and few will have the resources to solve them.

While it could be argued that wholesale distribution of law will create more retail (free or low cost) legal information distribution points and thus increase access to justice — indeed, it would solve many of the closed problems of legal information that I listed above — I'm now not entirely convinced that this is the only way to go for state government publication efforts.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

This paragraph in particular of Malcolm Mercer's article obscures the law society's great negligence in failing to try to solve the problem, «If we are serious about the access to justice gap, we should accept that no one solution will slay the access dragon.

To solve a complex social problem like access to justice, we need to learn to work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we dTo solve a complex social problem like access to justice, we need to learn to work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we dto justice, we need to learn to work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we dto learn to work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we dto work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we dto justice problem (and solution) that we do.

Ill - conceived remedies for the access to justice problem will create more problems than they solve.

A primary purpose of ReInvent Law is to provide a new element of education through research and experimentation on endeavors designed (1) to solve problems faced by the legal profession including access to justice concerns and (2) to create new vehicles for the delivery of legal services.

I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your legal problem or your life problem with legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice problems are access to lawyer problems.

Today were replaying a conversation with Brad Clark about building websites that let him solve potential clients problems before they meet him and about his creative access to justice efforts from Mobile legal clinics to financial aid for criminal expungement.

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

Can legal insurance help solve the nation's access to justice problem?

The theme of my paper is that unless law societies solve the, «access to justice, unaffordable legal services causing lawyers to be short of clients problem,» they will never have a persuasive answer to the argument that the resulting conflict of interest should bar them from being the regulators of non-lawyer providers of legal services.

And on the Access to Justice in Canada blog, «The Failure of Law Societies to Accept Their Duty in Law to Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» Part 1 on August 12, 2014, & Part 2 on August 14, 2014.

It is about protecting ordinary and vulnerable people and solving their problems» (see «Access to justice is a fine concept.

Margaret Hagan, through Stanford's d.school and her Open Law Lab blog is contributing to projects across North America using a design - based approach to access to justice problem solving.

She is a co-editor of the Journal for Arbitration and Mediation and she frequently speaks and writes on the topics of innovation and creative problem solving, technology and access to justice.

Luckily, law provides a number of touchpoints where we can engage and support entrepreneurs to identify and solve problems that have long gone unnoticed — especially around access to justice.

Sebastian Ko, Regional Director and Senior Legal Counsel of integrated legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring about transformational change and solve long unresolved problems in the law, such as access to justice.

With new tools to address access to justice challenges comes a key turning point in the application of data to solve complex social problems.

They will also enable the legal industry to solve some wicked problems like the access to justice crisis.

The social objective is to solve the legal industry's «wicked problems» — access to justice and defending the rule of law, among others — by the rapid development of solutions that will improve the legal industry globally.

The problems of access to justice are not solved by ABS; they ultimately are exacerbated.

Our self - governing status at risk; see: «Alternative Business Structures Proposals or Solving the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» on the, «Access to Justice in Canada» blog, March 6, 2015: http://accesstojusticeincanada.blogspot.ca/

As both reports highlight, access to justice is a complex problem that involves multiple actors, is interwoven with personal, social and political issues, and can not be solved without working collaboratively.

An innovative startup harnesses technology and big data to solve the access - to - justice problem.

The odd legal industry culture has received some attention, especially in recent years, as its idiosyncrasies have impeded progress in solving society's problems (e.g., poor access to civil justice, quality issues, affordability issues).

A global, all - virtual multidisciplinary collaboratory solving tomorrow's social justice problems in legal education and practice related to issues around youth advocacy, juvenile justice, human rights, and / or access to education and justice for vulnerable client populations.

The access to civil justice problem identified by the Honourable Judge Cromwell can not be solved without using the right tool.

However, perhaps a prosecution of a law society under Criminal Code s. 122 for its failure to perform its duties in regard to access to justice by at least trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem would fail because, even if an official knows that a decision does affect his / her personal interests, there is no offence, «if the decision is made honestly and in a genuine belief that it was a proper exercise of his jurisdiction.

The ethical approach to the A2J problem is first to determine if the problem can be solved, and if clearly it can not be solved, only then to engage in programs such as: the law societies» «alternative legal services»; [5] «Access to Justice Week»; an A2J committee; and, comparable efforts such as the NSRLP (the National Self - Represented Litigants Project).

Were it otherwise, there would be none of the many «futures initiatives» trying to solve this «access to justice» problem, and no need for CBA Futures Chats.

Across the globe, networks of legal hackers, bloggers, and innovators are collaborating to improve legal delivery and to solve some of law's wicked problems, notably access to justice.

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