Sentences with phrase «traditional legal answer»

«A traditional legal answer [to the previous questions] might be «Well, let me look up what the law says about it.»

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Below are some answers to these questions, and some ideas for a new - look legal business model that is more scalable, and which opens the door to rapid growth that would be unattainable through the traditional hourly billing approach.

One view — advocated most prominently by Kristen Tiscione and Ellie Margolis — suggests that e-memos constitute a new and distinct legal writing genre.23 These commentators posit that the change in medium — from paper to email — creates a fundamental shift in the way that legal analysis is conducted and communicated.24 These scholars argue, for example, that the comparative informality of the e-memo and its lack of prescribed elements creates a more organic format, where writers are free to combine traditional sections like the facts, brief answer, question presented, and conclusion in ways that are more «accessible, efficient, and appropriate.»

Perhaps driven by deadlines or by the perceived ease of drafting an email, today's real - world email assignments often come with quick turnarounds; clients and supervising attorneys expect fast answers.62 Response times are often measured in hours — not the days that a traditional first - year legal writing assignment might come with.63

In response to these shifts, sites like Avvo have blended the concept of a traditional legal directory with features borrowed from the consumer world like ratings, user - generated content, reviews, and question - and - answer forums.

Avvo, which launched in 2006, has become the most heavily trafficked legal directory — offering a modern take on the traditional lawyer listing with a host of additional features, such as online reviews, question and answers, and a proprietary scoring system.

More than this, it is often more intellectually demanding than traditional legal work, largely because it is more taxing to create a system that can solve many problems than to find an answer to a specific issue.

However, the paper also suggests that there are reasons to believe that non-lawyer ownership will not lead to significant access gains because (i) those in need of civil legal services often have few resources and, for them, legal aid is the answer, (ii) non-lawyer ownership is likely to be attracted to profitable sectors of the market, (iii) some legal services require the individualized attention of an experienced practitioner who charges high rates and the traditional worker owned partnership model may be the better approach in this context and (iv) there may be reasons other than price causing people not to address civil legal needs.

Limited to answering legal research questions, traditional tools end up presenting you with a list of cases that makes it hard to glean insightful information, unless you drill into each and every case.

In my view, the answer is not necessarily to create a second tier of legal recognition of traditional ownership, but to amend the law and make native title accessible and achievable.

As a founder of our local collaborative practice group and a matrimonial attorney since the early 1980's, I regard collaborative practice as the answer to my dreams of a better way for handling matrimonial cases, and also a tacit acknowledgement that our traditional legal system has left much to be desired in the way of accommodating the real world of emotions and personal needs of divorcing people.