Meanwhile, another, different, pressure is being applied as more and more people choose to
solve their legal problems without the help of lawyers.
Not exact matches
And while the de Blasio administration has increased funding for free
legal services for tenants, lawyers working with low - income New Yorkers say that isn't
solving the
problem, citing the arsenal of strategies landlords can use to evict rent - stabilized tenants since they can increase rents up to 20 percent —
without making any renovations — when units are vacant.
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.
Therefore the
problem of unaffordable
legal services can not be
solved without government intervention.
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.
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.
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.
Such investors are «another mouth to feed,»
without the ability to
solve the unaffordable
legal advice services
problem.
Lawyers are never taught this second step, which is not part of the
legal process, and so lawyers tend to believe that a group of lawyers, sitting in a conference room, can
solve firm management
problems without any additional input, learning, or testing.
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.
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.
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.
I learned about the importance of medical -
legal partnerships, where lawyers can be part of the team at VA medical facilities and I have learned that when lawyers are on the team they can often help
solve the underlying
problem that brings the veteran to the facility, such as homelessness and
without the exposure on the street the veteran has a place to live, often they don't need to come to the medical facility as often.
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.
legal problems they don't know that they have, e.g., one unserviced
legal problem often leads to several more — e.g., termination of employment
without cause or compensation, means debt, loss of property, family break - up, depression, substance abuse, and sometimes suicide, etc.; and, (3) enlist the help of the social media, news media, pressure groups, and those political parties in opposition to governments; (4) everyone should complain loudly to all of the above about law societies» failure to try to
solve the unaffordable
legal services
problem — their failure to attack it is the cause.
; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable
legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the
problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the
legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if
legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the
problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the
legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal profession, and to
legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of
legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal services for taxpayers who finance
legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal aid's free
legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?&r
legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the
problem to be its
problem and duty to
solve it, and accurately defines the
problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger»
without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the
problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your
Legal Bill - To High?&r
Legal Bill - To High?»
Legal professionals
without proven experience risk creating more
problems for you than they
solve.
Without such an institution providing permanently developing expertise and advice, they have no capacity to
solve complex
problems like the unaffordable
legal services
problem.