Sentences with phrase «teach practising lawyers»

Whether we should be more of a trade school to teach practising lawyers is a debate,» says Arbuckle.

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Young lawyers are not getting enough exposure to the real world,» says Thomas Zuber, a retired superior and appeal court judge who also practised law and taught at the University of Windsor for many years.

In 1985, Canadian Clive Ansley became the first foreign lawyer to open an office in Shanghai, practising law and teaching it at a university there.

Called to the Quebec Bar in 1949, Le Dain went on to teach law at his alma mater, McGill University, practise as a lawyer, become dean of Osgoode Hall Law School in 1967, and, perhaps most notably, chair the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs from 1969 to 1973, which recommended that cannabis be removed from the narcotic control act and be regulated provincially.

Since lawyers practise in a wide variety of areas, not only in big firms, who should be responsible for teaching these basic business skills?

So the eight or so exams following substantive law classes taught by lawyers who actually practised in the field was replaced with a five - week skills and responsibilities program with assignments and assessments, and two licensing exams.

Programs to teach law students, bar admission candidates and practising lawyers about electronic discovery are sorely lacking in Canada — and there seems to be little desire to fix the problem, Toronto eDiscovery lawyer Crystal O'Donnell tells AdvocateDaily.com.

«What we've tried to do is when we were developing the program we asked practising lawyers who are experts in their area to tell us what every lawyer in their first five years of practice needs to know to be a successful lawyer in that field, and that's what we're teaching,» explains Leveque.