But such improvements in the delivery of
traditional legal services do not fundamentally challenge what kinds of work lawyers (or their supervised outsourced staffing companies or LPOs) provide, or whether lawyers should be involved at all, or whether a large variety of legal services they spend a lot of money on are either necessary or valued.
Not exact matches
This ability strengthens the value of DHC's
traditional legal services when clients»
legal matters intersect, as they often
do, with governmental concerns.
So, either Vanguard's
Traditional IRA Agreement (ditto Roth IRA Agreement) doesn't allow direct Vanguard - initiated transfers of IRA assets to another custodian (but will accept requests initiated by the recipient custodian), or the IRA owner has to hassle with Vanguard's Customer
Service to demand that such a transfer be
done because it is
legal and not explicitly forbidden in the IRA agreement.
The delivery of
legal services does not follow the
traditional economics of supply and demand to the same degree as most sectors of the economy.
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.
Alternative
legal services providers are here to stay and that means
traditional providers will need to develop skill sets to manage them, integrate them into their own workflow and recognize when bringing an alternative provider to a client relationship is the right thing to
do.
The move also suggests that if «
traditional» law firms don't accelerate their adoption of AI systems, such as document review in this case, then other providers already skilled in project management and process level work will deliver AI - augmented
legal services to corporates instead.
Reduced demand for
traditional legal services (typically billed by the hour) also means there is less demand for articling students and a tendency towards over-supply of lawyers (while paradoxically at the same time, many rural and smaller communities don't have enough lawyers).
(I can't help but noting that there also is a lack of empirical data about the effectiveness of «
traditional»
legal services around the country — except for the fact that it doesn't serve large swaths of society.)
Perhaps these changes
do not go as far as the
Legal Services Act in the UK, but they do represent a break in terms of BC, from the traditional view that only lawyers can be an owner of any entity that delivers legal services (and share in the reven
Legal Services Act in the UK, but they do represent a break in terms of BC, from the traditional view that only lawyers can be an owner of any entity that delivers legal services (and share in the re
Services Act in the UK, but they
do represent a break in terms of BC, from the
traditional view that only lawyers can be an owner of any entity that delivers
legal services (and share in the reven
legal services (and share in the re
services (and share in the revenues).
While this arrangement is convenient, it
does not reflect the
traditional context for the provision of professional
legal services.
The high - end transaction will need full
service, but the smaller client, in or outside urban centres, may want to rely on something cheaper — whether or not consciously sacrificing the depth or subtlety that a
traditional legal education allows a real lawyer to offer (whether he or she
does or not, in a fee - cutting pratical world.)
What's enjoyable about the site, in my view, is that it doesn't just feature the
traditional working mom with a full - time nanny or daycare watching kids but also includes lots of examples of moms (including Keroes herself who runs her site and provides freelance
legal service to The Gap) experimenting with flex - time hours, writing books or striking out on their own so that they can tip the work - life balance scales in their favor.
The Louis M. Brown Award recognizes programs and projects that employ innovative means to enable affordable access to
legal services for those of moderate income, who
do not qualify for
legal aid yet lack the discretionary funds to pay the
traditional costs of
legal services.
«Take
traditional legal services lawyers perform, siphon off some of that for the dentist to
do, and bring in the lawyer for the heavy lifting at the end.»
1) As I illustrated recently to a law class at UBC,
legal services don't necessarily follow
traditional supply - demand curves.
The
traditional law practice, then, doesn't translate all that well into affordable
legal services.
This is what I was referring to when I stated that
legal services do not follow
traditional supply / demand models.
The rub is that we'll have to
do it in the context of a
traditional market for
legal services that is not just tightening but also evolving rapidly.
Does the choice of wording for this clause imply that it is fine for nonlawyers (together or not with lawyers) to own
legal service providers — regardless of how wide the range of
services they provide — as long as those providers are operated as companies or not - for profit organizations and instead of as
traditional «law firms?»
Does it — could it — also encompass structures, be they companies or other types of organizations, that are owned in whole or in part by nonlawyers, and that provide
legal services outside the limited contexts of existing companies like the ones listed above, but in «nontraditional» manner such that it could be difficult to describe the structure as a
traditional «law firm»?
Edmundson stated that the new company doesn't «see itself as a
traditional law firm» who view
legal services as one offering amongst many.
An essential claim in the article is that the decline of
traditional lawyers will impact the business model of law schools — and, indeed, will put largely out of business those schools who aspire to become junior - varsity Yales, that is, who don't prepare their students for a marketplace in which machine learning and big data pushes
traditional legal services to the curb and, with it, thousands of newly - minted lawyers.
ALSs, (with the commendable but tiny exceptions of pro bono for small and short cases, and perhaps targeted
legal services),
do not provide a
traditional solicitor - client relationship, involving a fiduciary duty that requires a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client, backed - up by a law society complaints department and every lawyer's mandatory professional insurance.
However, direct access
does provide an alternative way for the public to access
legal services rather than via the
traditional route.»
PLC is not a
traditional legal publisher in that it
does not publish primary sources or
traditional secondary sources such as textbooks or practice manuals; instead, it provides web - based subscription
services to law firms and law departments on specialist business law topics.
And, if your personal injury lawyers are worth their salt and actually
do a really great job for clients and deserve to be getting recognised for their
legal services, you really have to be getting testimonials and feedback published in local reviews sites like Google My Business (formerly Google + Local), Yelp, TrustPilot, Feefo or others such as the traditional legal services recommendation portals of Legal 500 and Cham
legal services, you really have to be getting testimonials and feedback published in local reviews sites like Google My Business (formerly Google + Local), Yelp, TrustPilot, Feefo or others such as the
traditional legal services recommendation portals of Legal 500 and Cham
legal services recommendation portals of
Legal 500 and Cham
Legal 500 and Chambers.