Sentences with phrase «thing the legal world»

After all, access to information is access to justice, and if there's one thing the legal world needs, it's increased access to justice!

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But things are changing fast: on New Year's Day, recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California, creating the world's largest legal market.

Will Horter, formerly the executive director at DogwoodBC and a staff lawyer at EcoJustice (then Sierra Legal Defence Fund), is an activist and writer whose work focuses on reinvigorating democracy, redefining citizenship and pondering things that matter in the world.

Brennan's pursuit of amending the Constitution through interpretation by unelected officials would cause him, among other things, to vote repeatedly to strike away the legal protections that a world dead and gone had traditionally afforded unborn human beings.

Also, polygamous and polyandrous relationships were the norm for thousands of years, and are still practiced in many parts of the world, so, if they become legal (which to you would be truly anathema, I know) it won't change things very much.

[28] Many laws around the world make public breastfeeding legal and disallow companies from prohibiting it in the workplace, but the reaction of some people to the sight of breastfeeding can make things uncomfortable for those involved.

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W's 4 — JW says in the professional world I was in for 40 years, auditability (QA, NRC, financial, legal, environmental, international trade law) was never a thin thing.

One thing I've learned writing Legal Blog Watch is that there are a million old law books in the world that nobody wants.

At some point, a decade or two into one's legal career, you start to think that even if you don't know a fraction of everything there is to know in the legal world, you at least know the basic, structural things in the profession.

The significance of the offer by Maritime Law Book of free access to its collection of over 215,000 cases under the name «Raw Judgments» has not yet been given the attention it deserves in the world of Canadian legal information as a portent of things to come.

Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.

I think part of the resistence of lawyers hiring non-lawyers stems from situations where a professional from outside the legal industry is hired, not given training on how things work in the legal environment, and then ultimately «fails» because they don't understand how things are done in our world.

The basic idea (see their «Mission Statement» here) of this Journal of Things We Like (Lots) is that in today's world of legal mass production / publication, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay on top of tThings We Like (Lots) is that in today's world of legal mass production / publication, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay on top of thingsthings.

That's kind of my theory is that... I try to keep one ear on the big law world and it's my understanding that in - house legal departments are demanding that their outside law firms do more high - tech, advanced things.

Since almost any information about the world can be useful to a lawyer's practice, the most important thing is that the lawyer's knowledge be expanded, not that it be expanded in a particular and obviously - relevant - to - legal - practice way.

There are also laws that can delay when the limitation period clock starts ticking, but as with many things in the legal world, those laws are not consistent.

Here's the thing: for all the worrying about robot lawyers, AI is but one tool in repaving the entire legal service world.

I've been following for years because I do appeals, and motion practice is my favorite of law practice and it's one of the things that I still do, and you know Garner set the world of legal writing on fire by suggesting that all citations should be in footnotes.

At the end, we did have to do a pitch with a PowerPoint presentation which is not my strongest suit — the PowerPoint — but it was really great because it gave me the opportunity to step out of legal world where we spend most of our time reading, researching, dealing with other attorneys, it was a great way to think about things from a different perspective.

RBC's legal group, with 315 people including lawyers, paralegals, and finance and administrative staff at more than 20 locations around the world, decided that the way they had always been doing things no longer met all those demands.

New things come along from time to time, but we're still living in a legal world established by legal practice and tradition (warts and all) since the Magna Carta.

Three things strike me about international law in the work of a government lawyer today: first, it is all - pervasive; second, the questions that arise and the context in which they are considered are extraordinarily complex; and, finally, I am struck by the intense scrutiny these legal issues are subjected to by states and courts around the world, academics and the public.

We are gearing up to be the largest meeting place of lawyers and clients all over the world and the marketplace for all things legal.

«All things legal relating to the sports world.»

I notice that none of that needed ABS, so I ask again, why in the name of all things holy would we ever sell our ownership of the no - worse - than - second - most - important profession in the World to an extra layer of entirely profit motived remote investors when (a) we do not have to, (b) every last benefit claimed for ABS can be achieved without ABS, and (c) it would be utterly irreversible when it proves to be, as it most assuredly will prove to be, the most colossal, short - sighted, cynical, profiteering at the expense of the public, and unnecessary blunder in the history of the legal profession dating back 800 years?

Actually, two of the most striking things about the current situation seem to me (by comparison with recent history) the convergence of interest by people and institutions traditionally separate within jurisdictions (e.g. inhabiting the worlds of PLE, legal aid, self represented litigants) and the degree of international linking helped by HiiL's entrepreneurialism (you can go to few countries in the world and not find that they have been there the week before) but also exampled by links the licensing of material from the Justice Education Society of British Columbia by California courts.

For lawyers entering the world of legal marketing, social media and web 2.0, the concept of blogging is a tough thing to grasp.

If law is going to be made computable then the world needs two things: lawyers who can code and a legal computer language that is an improvement on today's legalese.

These days, however, legal consumers are online consumers, and in an online world, things go slightly differently.

Some things that are broken in the legal world: Disclaimers Practice management software Procedural rules Online marketing firms

I get third dimension legal value - add reports monthly from my lawyers around the world that say: «These are three, four things we've done over the last month that are adding value above and beyond the day job.»

When we attended LSC's TIG conference in San Antonio in January, one thing really stood out: There was almost no overlap between the for - profit legal tech world and the legal aid tech...

As the legal industry continues shifting and adapting to an increasingly technology driven world, many of us in the legal industry like to speculate about what things will look like in the future.

A conversation I had with Dera Nevin on her World #ToTheMars tour in support of the Global Legal Hackathon touched on presentations before the time of PowerPoint, when some of us wrote or printed things called «foils» or overhead transparencies and displayed them on devices called overhead projectors (OHP).

If the legal world could learn one thing from the corporate world, it's the beauty of bullet points and lists.

The advice we've given is current as we write, but as we know too well, things change in one heck of a hurry in the legal tech world.

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I haven't done this every year as things move very slowly in the world of legal practice and I would just find myself repeating myself Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) didn't feature in -LSB-...]

There is one thing though that has become clear — there is a place in the legal services world for tech skills like Joan's.

If this could be somehow proved during a legal lawsuit, I think it would change a great deal of things in the world of copyright infringements.

Four years ago for World Cup 2006, I had some fun posting about the legal aspects of FIFA's World Cup, so here in 2010, I thought I would do the same thing, a quadrennial tradition, if you will.

On the legal information side, Hugh Lawford was at Quicklaw, the klugy world leader in computer - assisted legal research; Stewart Morrison was at Canada Law Book, while my mentor Gary Rodrigues was stirring things up at Carswell.

My personal favourite quote from Katherine herself, which nicely concludes why she is an important Game Changer in the legal field and human rights: «Look after the world, all living things alike.

The legal world is, unfortunately, renowned for being a tough industry to crack, but of course, the good things in life do not come easy.

«Some posts are interesting things we see in the news that have a legal angle, some are interviews with staff, many are about the Law Library, and others are photos from here and law libraries around the world.

Either way, the key thing is that Artificial Lawyer's global audience of highly engaged readers, across all parts of the legal tech world, will have a chance to read your advert and respond to it.

Like so many things in the «legal» world, the answer is «yes» and «no.»

The line - up of speakers includes keynotes by John McAfee (cybersecurity legend, co-founder of McAfee Associates), Tim Draper (world - famous venture capitalist, founder of Draper Associates), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topics.

A good thing to know: Japan is among the earliest countries in the world to recognize and acknowledge bitcoin as a legal method of payment, following legislation that kicked in earlier this year.