Sentences with phrase «to train lawyers»

A growing concern is the increasing numbers of internationally trained lawyers seeking entry to the Canadian bar.

If there's a hearing, you are assured to have a highly trained lawyer in attendance — we are one of the few national firms that only use lawyers to represent clients.

Both clients select collaboratively trained lawyers who blend the communication skills of mediators with the problem - solving skills of lawyers.

I have not practiced since 1991, so I should be asking your readers what advice they would give me in training lawyers who might practice products liability in 2010.

Most law schools don't train lawyers for in - house positions due to the relatively small market.

Well here's a few new innovative fellowship programs for practicing attorneys, that focus on training lawyers around the use of technology in delivering legal services.

She says clients will always be given the most up - to - date advice by a highly trained lawyer with specialist knowledge.

The collaborative divorce process uses an interdisciplinary team composed of specially trained lawyers, a trained mental health professional, and a financial professional.

Collaborative law is a dispute resolution process, facilitated by trained lawyers who assist participants in resolving conflict using cooperative strategies rather than adversarial techniques.

Many fully trained lawyers switch to family mediation after 10 to 14 years of practice.

I'm still not convinced this revolution will happen quickly as law schools don't train lawyers to be entrepreneurs at the forefront of technology innovation.

I only open a collaborative file if there is a properly trained lawyer representing the other party.

She also said the traditionally trained lawyer must embrace technology and be open to acquiring other skill sets.

She has experience training lawyers, judges, lawmakers, and business professionals around the world.

I have worked with foreign - trained lawyers looking for ways to transition their credentials and tackle the issue of «over qualification» for entry - level Canadian jobs.

Under collaborative law, both parties retain separate, specially trained lawyers whose only job is to help them settle the dispute.

Interested but not quite ready to talk to a collaborative trained lawyer?

At the same time, firms will need to be much more disciplined about training lawyers to identify and qualify opportunities.

The issue now is that large firms are making fewer associate slots available, so there are fewer well - trained lawyers available for those other opportunities.

We are able to offer the expertise of city trained lawyers without the same price tag.

Every year law firms lose millions of dollars when highly - trained lawyers walk out of the door.

It elevates the importance of these values in the law and consciously trains lawyers to effectively deal with them.

In Collaborative Practice, each party has their own collaboratively trained lawyer present at all times, maintaining the same commitment to settlement as their sole agenda.

In conclusion, internationally trained lawyers and students can play an instrumental role in a law firm or in - house environment.

(1) A party meets with a collaboratively trained lawyer where the pros and cons of all processes, including litigation, mediation, and collaborative divorce, are explained.

These courses provide foreign - trained lawyers with a foundation in American common law doctrine as well as legal writing and research skills.

Luckily, there are several options for foreign - trained lawyers who choose not to seek full admission to the bar, including jobs as foreign legal consultants and in - house counsel.

At first, the push to train lawyers in practical skills makes sense.

Collaborative law is an out - of - court legal process that allows each party to retain a specially trained lawyer whose job is to help them settle their dispute without court involvement.

The program attempts to serve a population that can not afford, and probably does not need, a fully trained lawyer.

My advice to firms is to properly train lawyers to engage appropriately online and then trust them.

At the earliest opportunity I reduced what happened on 13th January 2012 into writing as most well trained lawyers would have done.

As trained lawyers, we knew what we were really being asked was two-fold: «What should I be concerned about (i.e. what are the potential risks)?»

The Distance Learning Program is designed specifically for foreign trained lawyers looking meet their NCA subject requirements.

Many New Law firms hire only highly trained lawyers from Big Law who can do complex work for sophisticated clients at much lower rates.

An added benefit of dictation, they say, is that it helps train lawyers in the fundamental skill of oral communication.

Law school trains lawyers toward a rights - based orientation to conflict resolution.

GLC members believe that by providing a forum for internationally trained and Canadian trained lawyers to engage, all lawyers will be able to realize the inherent value and skills that each of us can bring to the Canadian legal market, and in turn allow us to excel in global legal markets.

In addition, RBC lawyers have continued to mentor and supervise interns from the University of Toronto Internationally Trained Lawyers Program and the LLM Program for International Business Law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Those spammy marketing materials, unsolicited emails, selling links based on PageRank, training lawyers how to show «link love» and apply link text, and just generally having the feel of a total Machiavellian manipulation of the system.

In regards to the legal profession, Augustine says she was pleased to see the changes made by the National Committee on Accreditation, which have increased the number of internationally trained lawyers seeking to practise in Ontario.

Recently a further challenge has hit the traditional business model — the old model in which partners were expected to build increasingly large teams of trained lawyers working below partner level and to leverage work down to them, at high charge out rates.

He says we should stop training lawyers to do 1 - on - 1 consultative representation and start training them to provide legal services the market wants, in the way it wants.

London - based Linklaters, which administers a harrowing aptitude test, and San Francisco - based Orrick Harrington, which trains its lawyers in behavioural interviewing, are two outstanding examples.

While it is likely true that law schools generally place greater emphasis on experiential education than they did two decades ago, I'm not aware of good evidence that law schools are now training lawyers to practice law.

The event was webcasted to CBA Alberta Internationally Trained Lawyers Section members outside of Calgary.

My «trend watch» antennae are going up as I see at least two Big Law firm are now trying to formally train their lawyers to be better project and quality managers.