Part II examines
what legal services organizations deliver, and how they do it.
Not exact matches
Also provide a description of your business operation's structure (i.e. wholesale, retail or
service - oriented), who you will sell to, how you will distribute your products /
services, the products /
services itself (
what gives you the competitive edge), your business's
legal structure, your principals and
what they bring to the
organization.
Officials have also said the mayor's office has yet to determine
what organization will receive the funding to provide the
legal services.
The rules only require that all Florida Bar members report annually
what, if any, pro bono
legal service the member has provided or whether the member has provided (a) a contribution to a
legal aid
organization in lieu of
service, (b) is deferred, or (c) has not provided pro bono
service or made a contribution.
In contrast,
what you don't see today is the material relief that these social
service organizations provided, in addition to
legal assistance.
«
What makes the NYSBA interesting as a partner is that they play a statewide coordination role, not just within their bar, but also for other county and
legal services organizations,» Lai told me in a recent conversation.
Providing strategic
legal support to a startup in its early stages is, in my opinion, qualitatively different than backing a late - stage startup or a mature
organization in that it requires a significantly diverse mindset (e.g. acceptance of ambiguity and risk, perseverance, and curiosity) and
service model (e.g. acute understanding of the business, anticipation of needs, and alignment of
legal work with
what is likely to be a dynamic investment thesis).
So as we close the book on another LegalTech, it's time to do
what we do every year, which is take the themes and topics that emerged over the last few days in icy NYC and apply them to our particular patch of the
legal technology world — whether that be representing clients, creating policy, protecting an
organization, building technology or providing
services.
That question is this: to
what extent does the role the ABA and state and local bar associations play in excluding nonlawyers, be they individuals or nonlawyer - owned
organizations, from the
legal services market violate unfair competition and antitrust laws and policies?
At
what point does an
organization that provides
legal services cross the line into constituting a «law firm,» and vice-versa?
even for those lawyers and people who are not interested in
legal innovation per se, design holds potential... As they construct
legal documents, define
what services they offer to clients, and form
organizations, design can guide them to better outcomes.
It will be interesting to see to
what extent this rule may be used in the future and to exactly
what organizations it refers to, as the commentary specifically references
legal aid, community
legal services and pro bono work.
We met with Student
Legal Services of Edmonton's Executive Coordinator, Neil Thomson, to find out more about the
organization,
what they do, and hear about just how much work they do by the numbers.