Sentences with phrase «traditional legal profession»

Many of the acquiring companies are long time service providers of big law and the traditional legal profession.

Not exact matches

Notes to editors HMRC today announced new taskforces targeting the legal profession in London; grocery and retail in South and North Wales, the North West and the South West; hair and beauty in the North East (including tattooists and traditional hairdressers); restaurants in the South East and Solent area; and the motor trade in Scotland.

Ebadi traces her life as a dedicated human - rights advocate and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as she tries to maintain a traditional woman's role in an Arab country while defending politically charged cases that most in the legal profession refuse to touch.

I wanted to understand what the computer might mean for the legal world - how might it revolutionise this remarkably traditional profession into which I was heading?

For aspiring female lawyers in states like Illinois, women had to look outside of the traditional paths to the legal profession in order to pursue their passion for law.

While not speaking specifically about the legal profession, Williams notes traditional innovation is akin more to becoming better at spotting and reacting to trends and change.

I wanted to understand what the computer might mean for the legal world — how might it revolutionise this remarkably traditional profession into which I was heading?

Legal experts such as Richard Susskind and Jordan Furlong have long been writing about the legal profession's woes and its stubborn adherence to traditional culLegal experts such as Richard Susskind and Jordan Furlong have long been writing about the legal profession's woes and its stubborn adherence to traditional cullegal profession's woes and its stubborn adherence to traditional culture.

I've observed how some of the traditional trappings of the legal profession, like typewriters in law practice, bike couriers and fancy law firm libraries, are going extinct.

The ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services drafted a resolution urging «each state's highest court, and those of each territory and tribe, be guided by the ABA Model Regulatory Objectives» to help (1) assess the court's existing regulatory framework and (2) identify and implement regulatory innovations related to legal services beyond the traditional regulation of the legal profesLegal Services drafted a resolution urging «each state's highest court, and those of each territory and tribe, be guided by the ABA Model Regulatory Objectives» to help (1) assess the court's existing regulatory framework and (2) identify and implement regulatory innovations related to legal services beyond the traditional regulation of the legal profeslegal services beyond the traditional regulation of the legal profeslegal profession.

She shares her sister's view that there are so many different possibilities of how to enter the legal profession, aside the traditional route, than there were previously, with less differentiation of whether you are a solicitor, barrister or Chartered Legal Execulegal profession, aside the traditional route, than there were previously, with less differentiation of whether you are a solicitor, barrister or Chartered Legal ExecuLegal Executive.

During this time, the «courts, not acting as traditional regulators of the legal profession, but as appliers of external limits on the profession's power to police its members, for the first time entered the fray and forced significant change on an unreceptive legal profession.»

The Barristers» Society does not prohibit Christian law graduates of other law schools in Canada (or the U.S.) from entering the legal profession in Nova Scotia if they, as individuals, adhere to traditional Christian beliefs and practices, including those concerning sexuality and marriage.

However, the Barristers» Society this past April decided to bar graduates of TWU's law school from entering the legal profession in Nova Scotia, solely because of the law students» choice to associate together in a community that adheres to traditional Christian beliefs and practices.

«While traditional media sources often break news, law blogs dive deeper to offer insight into what the news means for clients, the legal profession and the public.

What's going to happen as different providers of legal services grow is that some students will embrace traditional opportunities, others will find alternative routes into the profession — for instance, as companies develop their in - house departments.

In 2012, technology platforms will be increasingly bundled together with traditional LPO offerings, combing two of the most important trends shaping the legal profession.

Just as Howe has put a social purpose twist on the traditional business incubator, he sees how the model could apply to the legal profession, with some caveats.

The relatively quick penetration of the social - networking trend represents a departure from the legal profession's traditional resistance to new technologies and slow rate of adoption, according to Vanessa DiMauro, author of the 2008 Networks for Counsel Survey.

I think what the Law Society of Upper Canada was facing was increasing pressure from graduates who couldn't come through traditional conduits for entry into the legal profession and they are trying to make sure those portals or entry ways remain open.

While the legal profession wrangles over the relatively minor issue of allowing testimony by Skype and other technologies, there are those that are looking at resolving millions of disputes in ways that are arguably better, faster and cheaper as compared to traditional courts.

On the impact on the legal profession as a whole, the document predicts a «reshaping of the talent pool» and a re-structuring of delivery structures: «AI - equipped legal providers will look differently to traditional firms with their pyramid - shaped hierarchies.

I recently heard a respected lawyer comment that if the legal profession allows disputes to be resolved outside of traditional legal systems, then we can not ensure that proper attention will be paid to basic legal principles of fairness, justice and the rule of law.

Mental Health and Wellness in the Legal Profession is a self - directed educational tool that has its roots in a 2013 survey of Canadian lawyers that suggested mental health was a far bigger concern than the profession's traditional alcohol and addiction issues.

So here is the leader of the nation's largest legal journalism company, someone who is ahead of the curve in thinking about the interplay of traditional media and new media and their application to the legal profession, asking why anyone outside Incisive would care what he had to say.

The traditional career route isn't a path as well travelled as it used to be in the legal profession.

The legal sector has long struggled to shake off the view that it is traditional and elitist, but plans announced in August to introduce a solicitor apprenticeship could fundamentally overhaul entry to the profession.

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

The «traditional» route into the legal profession is only one route of many, as Polly Taylor explains...

But advertising in law isn't going away, and as we see more examples of boundary - pushing (or exploding) ads both from within the profession and from non-lawyer entities competing against traditional legal service providers, the conflicts between lawyers over what is and is not «appropriate» marketing are sure to grow.

The Illinois State Bar Association Report contains a well - documented description of what it calls «The Big Picture» affecting the profession, including: the economic challenges plaguing lawyers, the lack of training for law students in the skills needed to succeed in the current climate, the reluctance of the population to use traditional legal services, and the technological changes redefining the way people work and enabling new actors to reshape the legal marketplace.

Uebergang urges lawyers and firms to act now, believing the main threat to the legal profession comes from clients seeking advice from sources other than traditional law firms, due to convenience and cost.

The mandate of the new Commission was to seek input from the public and the legal profession to learn their vision for more efficient and effective ways to deliver legal services, to analyze and synthesize the insights gained, and, on that basis, to «propose new approaches that are not constrained by traditional models for delivering legal services and are rooted in the essential values of protecting the public, enhancing diversity and inclusion, and pursuing justice for all.»

I know this has nothing to do with the legal profession because I know that the NewLaw pioneers couldn't be aiming to ebb the flow of graduates trained as «traditional» lawyers to prevent a glut.

In a letter of intent published in October, the university said its program will be a departure from traditional law schools found in Canada and focus on innovation in legal education that addresses changes in the profession.

Ten professionals with vast and varied traditional and alternative experience in the legal profession, coast - to coast, have joined Morris to serve on the LCC's board.

Lawyers of faith chafe at the profession's traditional emphasis on role - differentiated morality — i.e., the suggestion that lawyers should facilitate client conduct as long as it is legal, regardless of its compatibility with the lawyer's own moral convictions.

Digital disruption is here and it's happening — even within the seemingly conservative and traditional judicial element of the legal profession.

Crispin Passmore, Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority (in book): Passmore explains how the SRA inherited a «traditional and old - fashioned» regulatory system driven by the needs of the legal profession, and the SRA's ongoing journey to transform the system to one focused on consumers of legal services.

First, it introduces law students to public service as one of the traditional hallmarks of the legal profession.

With over 1,300,000 lawyers practicing in the United States as of 2016, the legal profession is beginning to look less traditional as supply and demand needs shift.

In previous articles, we highlighted that only 40 % of lawyers who are practicing are opting for full - time, long - term work within traditional legal environments, signalling a definite change of course for those in the legal profession towards alternative careers.

From project management skills to modern business methods and design thinking, lawyers must adapt in order to survive the impact that the disruption of traditional legal services will have on the legal profession.

What government designs do you have in mind that were inspired by government's own «desires», as distinct from what the legal profession has wanted or what was in direct line of descent from traditional methods of doing things?

Legal education and the legal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the maLegal education and the legal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the malegal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the market.

We talk of many things — including, Andrew's writing, e-publishing v traditional publishing, law blogging and social «meedja», Libertarianism (whatever that is) and the state of the nation generally with reference, en passant, to the legal profession.

In this thought - provoking CLE presentation, attorney Mark Lassiter presents his vision of how the legal profession can «rise like the great Phoenix out of the ashes» of its current malaise — all without traditional law firms.

You've enjoyed your work and learned a lot, but there were some things that you weren't quite satisfied with or thought could be done better, and you have some concerns about the ability for traditional firms like your old one to adapt to the evolving challenges facing the legal profession.

... the digital revolution and the modern social and economic forces it has unleashed are creating new modes of delivery of traditional legal services, creating new demands and expectations for meaningful access to justice, and eroding the fundamental assumptions upon which the legal profession of the past was built.

The Law Society of Upper Canada, the governing body for the legal profession in Ontario, has stepped in to form an alternative legal articling experience for those law graduates who are not able to secure a traditional legal articling position.