Because of the forces that are greatly increasing the volume of laws and their complexity, people are progressively less able to
solve their legal problems by themselves, and are forced to accept law society programs that «cut costs by cutting competence» (e.g., law students, paralegals, self - help, and «unbundling» of legal services).
Not exact matches
Where appropriate, he invites clients to take a step back from the
legal issues in front of them and invites them to ask themselves better questions
by using the Osborne - Parnes Creative
Problem Solving methodology.
The church can
solve this
problem by a «render unto Caesar» approach
by relinquishing the
legal role that the state has lumbered it with, and gets back to the basics of celebrating who God puts together — which, as stated in the previous verse, was between a man and woman instinct-wise.
And the administration hopes to have
solved the multimillion - dollar
problem of commercial tax refunds
by that point — though many expect
legal challenges to stall that deal.
«Many ethical and social
problems are not
solved by experts in a single discipline alone,» said Joy Boyer, senior program analyst in NHGRI's Ethical,
Legal and Social Implications Research Program.
However, the sound advice and deft
legal drafting skills of an experienced real estate attorney may pay for themselves several times over
by solving problems before they ever arise.
Two decades of debate over assigning blame for emissions,
legal responsibility for reducing them and allocating per capita rights to use the atmosphere for disposing of heat trapping gases have created a zero - sum game without opportunities for
solving problems by creating mutual gains.
In the
legal world, the next
problem the alarmists have to
solve is to get the US Supreme Court to make all the
legal «let's pretends» concerning the CPP «
legal»
by declaring them to be so.
«A new study
by LawGeex pitted 20 experienced lawyers against the LawGeex AI, which was designed to
solve legal problems.
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.
(A
problem that could easily be
solved for
legal proceedings
by amending subsections such as, s. 31.5 CEA and s. 34.1 (8) OEA, and s. 41.6 of the Alberta Evidence Act (AEA), to state that «systems integrity» can be established
by proof of compliance with 72.34.)
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's page.
Given: (1) the misery and damage caused to the majority of the population
by the
problem; and, (2) the law societies» refusal to try to
solve the
problem, the commercial producers have a strong argument that they should be treated as equal to the ABSs in providing relief from the consequences of the law societies» breach of trust, i.e., their failure to perform the duties attendant to their monopoly over the provision of
legal services.
But that
problem can not be
solved by turning ownership of the
legal profession over to investment houses.
(1) management
by part - time amateurs (benchers), whose work is mostly charity — «amateurs» because they don't have the expertise necessary for
solving difficult
problems such as the unaffordability of
legal services (and they don't try to get it);
The probability of wrongful convictions is increased
by increasing numbers of defendants in the courts without lawyers, which is due to: (a) very poor government funding of
legal aid programs; and, (b) law societies» failure to attempt to
solve the unaffordable
legal services
problem — the one aggravates the damage done
by the other.
Best Practices for
Legal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educa
Legal Education, published
by the Clinical
Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educa
Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in
legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educa
legal problem -
solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real
legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educa
legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in
legal educa
legal education.
First articulated forty years ago
by Marjorie Rombauer in her text
Legal Problem Solving, 103 this four - step research process was adapted slightly
by Joseph Kimble and F. Georgeann Wing for use at Thomas Cooley Law School: 104
As a seasoned attorney, you can help us
solve these
problems by agreeing to mentor new lawyers who volunteer for pro bono cases through Volunteer
Legal Services.
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.
The course is aimed at introducing law students to the changing
legal landscape and helping them understand how technology can be applied to law
by teaching basic technology skills, showcasing available
legal technologies and developing technical
problem -
solving abilities.
By using lawyers to
solve legal problems that can cause illness — from fixing faulty furnaces to navigating immigration rules that may make patients afraid to apply for food or housing assistance — doctors believe they can prevent more serious health crises, such as malnutrition, job loss, and domestic violence.»
The «cost of
legal services»
problem solved by LAO LAW for LAO, is a smaller version of, but exactly the same
problem as, the majority of the population can not obtain
legal services at reasonable cost.
Alice, I agree entirely that removing lawyers» monopoly on
legal services (as,
by the way, Ontario has already done with the licensing of paralegals) won't
solve all our A2J
problems.
But their purpose is to make money
by controlling the
legal services market, and not to
solve social welfare
problems such as the unaffordability
legal advice services.
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.
Melissa Hall is a general practice «primary care» attorney who helps clients navigate the
legal system
by solving legal problems, helping clients
solve their
legal problems, or helping them find someone who can.
But the
problem is not a
legal problem, nor one
solved by a more intensive use of previously used solutions, which is what is recommended.
And so, the only way that the
problem of unaffordable
legal services will be
solved is
by way of government programs for socialized law.
Until the
problem of «the unavailability to the majority of the population of
legal services at reasonable cost» is
solved, the prosecutors of this offence should be Crown counsel, or at the least such prosecutions should require approval
by Crown counsel.
I guess maybe what I'm thinking is that
by opening up the window,
by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and
solving legal problems, and part of me thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients
by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop thinking about serving just one client's
legal needs, and start thinking about
solving that
legal problem for anyone who comes to you.
When «dear» is an opinion on pricing held
by the 80 % of society who do not use a lawyer to
solve a
legal problem, then we have a challenge and an opportunity.
The SRL has unfortunately become typecast as a disgruntled and, often incorrigible
problem to be
solved by those within the
legal profession.
As a result, many people (and this includes many in the public sector) would rather
solve their own
legal problems by using Google in a haphazard and dangerous way.
Inspired
by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived
legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help
solve human
problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to
solve legal puzzles.»
I think they apply whether we're talking about individuals who definitely are under - served
by lawyers today, but I think it goes all the way up to the largest clients, too, where there are large corporates that have all these
legal needs that aren't being met because it's just not either packaged or priced in a way that works for them to get these
problems solved.
Indeed, it is patently unjust to expect that LPP graduates, themselves often in precarious financial positions, will
solve this
problem by offering affordable
legal services that the remainder of the profession has been unwilling to provide until now.
These great successes prove that the «unaffordable
legal services
problem» can be
solved with the power of a collectively as represented
by a law society, rather than attempting to do so
by way of the very limited powers and resources of individual law firms negotiating with high - powered investors.
We can wow our clients
by shifting our mindset when we
solve legal problems.
As Artificial Lawyer has remarked several times over the course of this year on seeing pioneers
solve new
problems using AI systems, the limits of AI in the
legal world are mainly set
by our imaginations, not the technology.
Then focus ultimate qualification on candidates» ability to actually listen to
solve real
legal problems encountered
by real clients.
Consumers can be easily misled into thinking a document produced
by an ILSP through an automated question and answer system
solves their
legal problem or advances their interests when it does not.
The nonprofit
legal aid advice and referral center, available
by phone to low - income people throughout Connecticut, helps clients
solve their
legal problems for free.
Recently recognized
by the ABA as a
Legal Rebel, Michele is a Professor at the University of Miami and the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a multi-disciplinary, international think - tank of over 1000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and law and business students who collaborate to
solve problems and create innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology.
The restrictions are so severe that the result is to deprive North Carolina's citizens of low cost solutions to
solving many
legal problems, inhibits innovation in developing
legal solutions
by an emerging self - help
legal software industry, stifles competition to attorneys from self - help
legal software publishers in the State of North Carolina, and will eliminate any possibility of private investment in self - help
legal software development.
The task is to
solve the identified
problem by developing a business plan for a
legal start - up.
And it wouldn't
solve the
problem of people who are not barred anywhere, such as the many paralegals who do doc review side
by side with licensed lawyers, or the thousands of foreign lawyers who do offshore outsourced
legal process work.
In other places where there are already robust law and technology communities
by the time a
Legal Hackers chapter forms (as was the case in DC), it's really about creating a forum for those existing communities to convene and
solve problems together.
That could help the clients have a better life
by helping them
solve their
legal problems.