Sentences with phrase «wider legal profession»

Solicitors and the wider legal profession are committed to helping them.»

Clare works on a range of strategic initiatives to help ensure fair access to the firm and the wider legal profession.

The Guardian recently published an opinion piece on diversity within the judiciary and wider legal profession.

It recognises that the wider legal profession is typically slow to adopt new tech solutions, often because they do not have the resources or internal structures needed to encourage tech innovation.

Compelling trainees to undertake pro bono work, even with the support of the wider legal profession, is no compensation for the forthcoming closures of law centres and other advice agencies, the queues outside MPs» offices and the many vulnerable, marginalised individuals who will go without legal assistance.

These changes are largely in line with shifts towards a more merit based compensation structure across the wider legal profession, and in such a competitive market.

Explore how law students, young lawyers and the wider legal profession can engage in the social justice space and understand the legal and professional skills required when embarking on related career pathways.

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Yet it's a more subtle, damning film for implicating the media as much as the church, the courts, the legal profession and other Boston institutions in the systematic, wider cultural cover - up it describes.

Technology in its various forms and permutations have and continue to transform legal practice and while this issue began with a plan for a special report on e-discovery, it organically morphed into a much wider discussion — one or all of which are going on throughout the profession.

The topics are wide ranging, including legal web development, the law librarian profession, RSS technology, Knowledge Management, and legal resources that may interest readers locally and beyond.

I will not address the articling crisis, but as the legal profession opens its doors to a wider variety of law graduates, law societies are bound for change — to include a diverse mesh of Canadian and foreign trained lawyers, all perfectly qualified for the shaping of our future legal community.

He is in great demand as a lecturer and regularly presents seminars on a wide variety of family law subjects to the legal profession, including pensions and cohabitation.

The legal profession's most authoritative directories canvass clients and the wider market each year for their opinions on our own lawyers, as well those in our peer group, and once again we have performed with distinction.

They do not seem to understand that law is different than many other professions such as the publicly employed doctors, nurses or teachers; and despite government and in - house legal jobs, law does not offer the wider array of corporate jobs available to accountants and engineers.

The demographics of the legal profession in Canada mirror that of the wider population with the proportionately large baby boom generation nearing retirement age.

She contributed immensely to improve the practice of law for individual lawyers and our whole legal community, and she will be greatly missed both within the legal profession and the wider community as well.

While the overarching purpose of the survey was to study lawyers» use of case, matter and practice management systems, the survey asks about a wide range of technology issues, from word processing to Software as a Service, all with the goal of documenting the current technology environment within the legal profession.

My point, in a nutshell, is that much of what we call legal work for the public interest is essentially selfserving: Lawyers use public interest litigation to promote their own agendas, social and political — and (on a wider plane) to promote the power and the role of the legal profession itself.

They would see nothing wrong with engendering a legal profession of four giant world - wide firms that they would control.

«Decisions concerning: (1) the problem of unaffordable legal services and its consequences to the population; (2) the great power of instant and wide - spread communications provided by the internet, the social media, and the news media in dealing with those consequences; (3) the self - regulation debate; and, (4) all matters as significant as the regulation of the provision of legal services by other professions, should each be considered as to their impact upon the other three.

Trevor, who has thirty years experience in the legal profession, has handled a wide range of personal...

The obvious real beneficiaries are the giant entities that would swallow up the wide swathes of the legal profession.

We are interested in building relationships with a wide swath of companies, people and other stakeholders focused on disrupting the legal profession in any part of the world.

But a legal career, or converting to become a lawyer, prepares you with a much wider skillset than you'd think would only be appropriate for the legal profession; training to become a lawyer requires solid communication skills, an eye for detail, the ability to think on your feet, and an analytical mindset.

We have a vested interest in the progress of the legal profession, and its future success depends on recognising and harnessing the widest possible range of talent.The profession is best served by a true meritocracy, which is built on the sincere and honest development of one's potential, and the opportunities to realise our full value professionally.

The result of this would improve the trust which clients and the wider community have in the legal profession and reduce the conflict between the economic interests of a law firm and the ethical responsibilities the legal profession places on practitioners.

By comparison, the UK - wide gender pay average is 18 %, or 26 % among the legal profession.

Focus on a wide range of emerging topics, including how new innovations are improving processes and driving efficiency in the legal profession.

Recent graduates of the law school have found success in a wide variety of careers including the legal profession.

With a growing team behind them, offering an ever - wider range of expertise, finance teams are particularly highly regarded in the legal profession as both the rocks of the business and leaders of change.

The finance team in the legal profession enjoys a wide and growing remit.

Prior to its conditional approval of TWU's application to open a law school, Council held an extensive public consultation process, receiving a wide range of input from the legal profession, the public and Trinity Western officials.

Paul, Chapman & Cutler LLP: «I loved Ross» wide breadth of knowledge of the entire legal profession and his willingness to answer any questions.»

The training is customised to the legal services environment, however allows graduates to be recognised in the wider project management profession (independent of industry), which allows for meeting educational prerequisites to sit global PM exams.

I was pleased to read that one of the purposes of the Legal Futures Initiative was: «To canvass and reflect a wide range of views both from within and outside the legal profession.&rLegal Futures Initiative was: «To canvass and reflect a wide range of views both from within and outside the legal profession.&rlegal profession.»

I use that phrase in its widest sense to include the legal profession, the conflict resolution / management field, the real estate field etc..

When asked how the new budgeting regime was working, more than half said it depended which judge they were before — reflecting wider concern in the legal profession that judicial inconsistency is undermining the regime.

The magazine publishes articles that are current and germane and a wide range of contemporary legal issues are comprehensively discussed in a manner applicable and relevant to practising lawyers while accessible to those outside the legal profession.

Although Kiser has no permanent academic affiliation, his work on the legal profession is among the most rigorous, engaging, and important currently being published, with wide - ranging implications for society, practicing lawyers, and legal education.

To be truly valuable, legal writing should serve the widest audience possible in order to make the law clear and more accessible to the public as well as to the legal profession.

But twenty years after the Touchstones Report, we still have not achieved equality for women in the legal profession, despite a wide range of efforts and initiatives designed to promote that goal.

Trevor, who has thirty years experience in the legal profession, has handled a wide range of personal injury claims and has a special interest in major trauma cases, particularly brain injury, spinal injury and amputations.

The last quarter of the year has more than hinted that the upheavals of 2008 / 2009 have now filtered through to the core modus operandi of the companies whose job it is to distribute legal content through to the professions, business, government and the wider public.

Every year Legal Week Intelligence sets out to identify the law firms that have the most satisfied fee earners by publishing the results of our annual Employee Satisfaction Survey — a comprehensive, profession - wide survey of fee earners.

It is surely unfair to burden the legal profession, and ultimately its clients, with the high costs of a system designed to promote the wider public interest.

«The awards showcase the first rate work and dedication of the profession to their clients and the wider community, and the event is one of the most rewarding and memorable days in the legal calendar.»

On a wider scale, the legal profession as a whole will benefit if we learn from our colleagues in other disciplines.

Break into Law is DLA Piper's global initiative focused on removing barriers to the wide range of legal and non-legal careers within the legal profession.

Who will present: Under the theme «Bridging the Gap between Empirical Evidence and Socio - Legal Practice», a wide range of international experts in the field of shared parenting — both from science and family professions — will present their research results and practical experience.