Sentences with phrase «use practising lawyers»
Given the captive market, however, it's surely more profitable for CLE sponsors to use practising lawyers, who will donate their time for nothing in exchange for the publicity, rather than hiring real law professors.
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That's because, if he had, it's at least plausible the judge would have used some version of: a connection is «substantial» if it's «material» which means «if it falls outside the de minimis range», because that's where one is likely to wrongly go if one is going to err and is a lawyer who practised in common law Canada between 1997 and 2007 even if mostly on the criminal side.
Using artificial intelligence in the legal profession can aid lawyers in completing menial tasks with accuracy, which is in line with the Law Society of Ontario's mandate for lawyers to practise more efficiently and cost effectively, attendees at the Ontario Bar Association's annual Institute heard this week.
As I have said before on SLAW, most practising lawyers simply do not need to use many electronic resources.
The plaintiff's lawyer and the lawyer with whom the defendant had spoken both practised as part of a group of lawyers under the same firm name, sharing the same business address and office premises and using the same telephone number (save for three digit extensions), fax number and email domain — but who were not partners, nor members of a law firm as traditionally defined.
The SCC ruling in Delta Air Lines Inc. v. Lukács is noteworthy to lawyers who practise administrative law because the decision could be used to persuade tribunals to have a more flexible approach in who is granted standing in their proceedings.
Called to the Quebec Bar in 1949, Le Dain went on to teach law at his alma mater, McGill University, practise as a lawyer, become dean of Osgoode Hall Law School in 1967, and, perhaps most notably, chair the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs from 1969 to 1973, which recommended that cannabis be removed from the narcotic control act and be regulated provincially.
Our law societies» «initiatives» it says are of 3 types: (1) self - help; (2) the use of people less competent than practising lawyers; and, (3) pro and low bono.
Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.
Besides improving official lawyer directories, I propose that each law society offer a LinkedIn - type badge that practising lawyers could use on their websites.
In this digital information age, I don't think our «public» law libraries (law school and law society libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published law reporters and law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.
Using the Internet to deliver TitlePLUS ensures lawyers in all jurisdictions will have access to the TitlePLUS program, regardless of where they practise in Canada.
The Canadian Bar Association pointed out in its Guidelines for Practising Ethically with New Information Technologies in September 2008 that «lawyers must be able to recognize when the use of a technology may be necessary to perform a legal service on the client's behalf, and must use the technology responsibly and ethically.»
-- by the C&I Group and BDO Stoy Hayward shows that while most practising lawyers use the hourly billing system, there is a growing demand for other options.
First, the courts, and the lawyers who practise in them, should be more proactive in addressing the requirements of those who use their services.
As part of the study, they used the Sheffield legal assessment to survey 1,432 people: 973 practising lawyers, 95 who aren't practising, 225 law students, and 139 non-lawyers.
Search our lawyer directory Use the Society's online lawyer directory to look up contact information for practising lawyers in Nova Scotia and non-practising members.
A lawyer who sometimes practises injury law may not be certain if such experts are needed, know which experts to use, or even have the financial resources to pay for them.
The guidelines are based on six principles that should apply to lawyers practising in the real estate field, the society says, and provide insights on many evolving practice issues, such as the use of title insurance.