Sentences with phrase «unmet needs for lawyers»
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Many new lawyers are un - or under - employed, even though there is a substantial need for legal services that is unmet.
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Lawyers should consider unbundling or limited scope retainers as there are opportunities to help large numbers of clients who can pay for help on a part of their matter (visit practicepro.ca / limitedscope) for tools and resources to help you provide limited scope services), but unbundled services can only chip away at part of the unmet legal needs problem.
At the same time, there is a huge unmet need for legal services — lawyers are unable or unwilling to meet the need — they don't even come close to meeting it.
If lawyers are not able or willing to meet 100 % of our country's needs for legal services, then they need to get out of the way — they need to stop blocking others who would like to step up and try meet some of those unmet needs.
It was clear to me that there was a huge unmet need, for clients as well as for lawyers.
Because of the unique perspective lawyers of colour bring to any practice area, especially in areas dealing with finance and business development in communities of colour, I firmly believe there is a severely unmet need for female bankruptcy judges of colour.
[6] See, for example, Malcolm Mercer, «So Many Lawyers, So Many Unmet Legal Needs,» Law Practice Magazine, July / August 2015, 44 - 47, https://malcolmmercer.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/lawpracticemagazine.pdf; and Malcolm Mercer, «Utopia, Dystopia and Alternative Business Structures,» Slaw, November 11, 2013, http://www.slaw.ca/2013/11/11/utopia-dystopia-and-alternative-business-structures/.
And I think that if you look at the market generally, with 40,000 law school graduates for 20,000 law firm jobs in the US in 2014 and 2015, there's a vast kind of oversupply of lawyers, but at the same token, there is a huge unmet legal need among middle class people especially for legal services.
Solo and small firm lawyers represent individuals and businesses, providing access to justice for clients whose needs would otherwise go unmet.
Concerned about the issue of the unmet legal needs of the public, I served on the boards of legal services programs, created referral programs for the Massachusetts Bar Association and the National Lawyers Guild, started an association of legal clinics, and served as president of a family mediation association.
Rather, limiting the means of production of legal service to spending lawyer time (or time directly supervised by a lawyer on a problem) is inherently limiting and so needs for some legal services are unmet.