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
Not exact matches
No matter
how you bill, what types of
legal problems solve, or what types of clients you serve, Clio can be used to fit your workflow.
As in the example above, look beyond the specific
legal problem you hope your clients will hire you to
solve to find earlier opportunities to show them
how you can help.
Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane
legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students
how to identify issues or
problems, but not
how to
solve them.
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.
Good ad copy articulates and defines
legal problems and shows
how you're the lawyer to help
solve them.
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.
So
how should we start thinking about that when we think about the construction of the
legal system and
how to
solve that
problem?
Then I think there's kind of this parallel track of issues to unpack where there's a distinction between small firms that have built their business model around being able to help
solve problems of access, whether that's around unbundling their services or
how they do their pricing, or giving away some free do it yourself content on the front end, whether that's also as part of their lead acquisition strategy or just as a service to people who need it, is I think separate from people who then volunteer their time in pro bono efforts, or people who donate their money to
legal charitable causes.
That's
how I learned
how Science Citation Indexes really worked, courtesy of a law - student friend who sat me down in the law library and showed me
how the
legal community
solved a harder version of the very same
problem.
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.
(2) I believe that trying to find a just solution to a contentious matter is as if not more demanding than arguing for its resolution according to
legal precedents (I always tell my students that they are mistaken if they believe that mooting is the pinnacle of intellectual achievement in law school — in fact it is learning
how to negotiate, mediate and
problem -
solve)(3) Learning
how to
problem -
solve (which includes relating to the people as well as the
problem) is a good deal more practical and important for prospective lawyers than being able to find and apply
legal precedent, any well - trained monkey can learn to do that and (4) I think we make the mistake all the time of imagining that knowledge and skills are somehow binary processes.
Participating in critical reflection and rounds encourages students to help one another and themselves in learning
how to
problem solve, situate their
legal practice within a broader social context, and support their self - care.
But what makes them useful in
solving real
problems for consumers and businesses just as LISA does, resides in the imagination of the new
legal service creators in
how they use these technologies and their willingness and ability to go there.
They want to know
how to
solve a
legal problem, and they want to know why you are the best attorney for them.
The consequences of not learning
how to
solve the
problem are very destructive consequences to: (1) the population; (2) the courts and the justice system; and, (3) the
legal profession.
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.»
For all of that, what I most value about my
legal training is that it taught me
how to
solve problems and help others
solve theirs.
But after reading their new Rule creating «Limited License
Legal Technicians (LLLT's)» I wondered
how it would
solve either of those
problems.
However, the building of this kind of process requires a knowledge about substantive
legal problems and
how people practically can
solve them which would go beyond what a court in this country would normally hold themselves out as holding.
Despite these limitations, AttorneyFee.com is making a major contribution towards providing a visible data base about
how much it costs to
solve legal problems.
Lisa Needham's Lawyerist column, «
Legal Tech Is
Solving All the Wrong
Problems,» laments that despite the rich array of technology available to law firms, attorneys «seem unable to figure out
how to leverage technology for the greater ease of the profession.»
Henderson said he is studying different examples of
how innovators in the law are seeking to have their ideas adopted, such as a
legal group trying to
solve the
problem of banks and private equity firms paying too much for ordinary contract services.
This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as
legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and
how people access
legal education, where and
how people learn about law, and where and
how people
solve the
problems that matter most in their lives.
We invite you to consider
how you might join us in highlighting the many ways that you assist clients in
legal problem -
solving.
We discussed the genesis of Sadie Blue Software, the
problems that Agility Blue
solves, why project management has become so important in efficiently managing
legal projects, and
how the development of tools like Agility Blue reflect where the
legal market is headed in 2017, among other topics.
The latest
legal needs survey in the Netherlands (Geschilbeslechtingsdelta 2014) suggests that 48 per cent of people seeking assistance in the
legal sector want advice about
how to
solve problems; 45 per cent advice about their rights and obligations; 24 per cent help with approaching the other party; 20 per cent mediation; 18 per cent some kind of financial advice; and 16 per cent help with starting a procedure.
In a broader way, it could change
how we
solve many routine
legal problems.
This course explores
how human centered design and other creative
problem solving methods and mindsets inform three areas: (1) the delivery of
legal services, (2)
how we
solve clients» (
legal)
problems, and (3)
how law students can intentionally shape their professional journeys.
And the emergence of «
legal wellness checkups» illustrates
how this new
problem -
solving approach might work in practice.
I have always liked this book and use it in training, particularly for the sections on learning
how to analyze facts in
legal problem solving and then applying the law to the facts, often a challenge for rookie
legal researchers.
In retrospect, I realize that I in fact don't necessarily address this challenge head on in my book, aside from citing some of the suggestions on
how to analyze the facts and the law made by Maureen Fitzgerald in her
Legal Problem Solving — Reasoning, Research & Writing (now in a 2010 5th ed from LexisNexis Canada).
The mediators can demystify the divorce process, organize the material that needs to be addressed, provide basic
legal information, and offer examples of
how other families have
solved the
problems that must be addressed in moving to, or formalizing, separate lives.
You need to know
how consumers are changing the industry,
how to
solve their
problems better than the competition and
how to avoid
legal pitfalls.