Rather, law firms should be asking what is the best way to partner with clients to
solve legal problems taking into consideration possible resources outside the scope of the law firm's operations — including legal process outsourcing providers.For example, does it make sense to staff a file with juniors when work can be outsourced to an alternate legal services provider at half the cost?
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.
«While public policy and
legal approaches are important, what's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases
taking this
problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to
solve it?»»
He is a leading bankruptcy practitioner and litigator who
takes an innovative, creative approach to
legal issues and
problem solving.
Another game changing contribution is in the dispute resolution domain wherein a significant role has been carved out for
legal professionals to use their negotiating and
problem solving skills for resolving issues without
taking them to Courts.
The report suggests that we find new models for
legal education, that we reflect on our practice in order to innovate, and that lawyers
take an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to
problem -
solving — what would it mean to make these changes in a mindful way?
But if we
take the opportunity to build a new law school, free from the institutional memory / constraints and bureaucracy / opposition from existing faculty, we might just have a law school which
solves the existing
problems in the
legal community, and the ones yet to emerge.
The LSB's
take on this is to, in Passmore's words, «go back to beginning and work out what
problem (or risk) we really are trying to
solve through regulation and then apply that to the
legal services market, or each part of it, consistently».
As matters presently stand in most American law schools, it is quite possible to obtain a J.D. without ever having
taken an international law course or without having considered how other countries might approach or
solve a
legal problem.
But if they
take on the power to regulate other professions without having
solved the
problem, when the government steps in to again make
legal services available at reasonable cost, the arguments in favour of removing self - regulation will be much stronger.
Unfortunately, that will likely lead to some high - priced
legal talent
taking sides and litigating to reach a conclusion as to what your simple words might explain if only you were alive to help
solve the
problem.
Fully 65.0 % did not
take action to get
legal help to
solve legal problems.»
Do you want the peace of mind that comes from using an experienced business attorney to help you
solve your
legal problems or
take advantage of business opportunities?
During this time, you can ask: How the law applies to your situation How to use the law to
solve your
legal problem How long the
legal work may
take How much the lawyer will charge
Even if you have
taken steps to
solve the
problem yourself, you can talk with a lawyer at any step in the
legal process.
Some might say that an important difference between computer programming
problems and
legal problems is that it
takes a lot longer to know if a
legal problem is
solved than in computer programming where it is instantaneous.
Settlement Counsel
take a «big picture»,
problem -
solving approach to a dispute in which
legal rights are important — but a client's other needs and interests are also given weight.
He argues that the practice of law is itself changing The old mindset used to be: do whatever it
takes for the client, do whatever the client asks, partner profits are a function of one variable — billable hours and lawyers
solve legal problems not business
problems.