In the past, companies provided employees
with access to lawyers for personal services at a reduced rate.
«Rocket Lawyer is a great benefit for our employees because it provides
them with access to lawyers and legal documents that they need in terms of meeting their personal legal needs,» said Deanna Grams, Senior Resources Manager at TuneIn.
For Roy Johnston & Co. managing partner Paul Roy, the merger is a way for the six - lawyer firm to provide clients who have gotten «bigger, more complicated»
with access to lawyers with a more targeted practice focus.
The Right to Counsel Coalition estimates that half of evictions would be prevented
with access to a lawyer — which could make a significant dent in the record 60,000 homeless New Yorkers currently staying in shelters at a cost of nearly $ 2 billion per year.
Their purpose was to provide the poorest residents
with access to a lawyer and the justice system.
Meaningful access to justice requires more than just providing women and children
with access to any lawyer, or any judge.
Not exact matches
No matter what kind of resource you might need
access to — from a recruiter or
lawyer to a wealth manager — chances are your peer network will know who
to put you in touch
with.
B.C. has commenced a cat - and - mouse game
with people
with extremely deep pockets and
access to very smart accountants and
lawyers, a valid point the provincial NDP raised.
The firms that do it well give
access to the
lawyers —
with a link
to the experience database on their intranets,
access to reporting features, even the ability
to enter in details about a new matter.
Contingent fees do provide many people
with access to justice, but sometimes the fee is so large that the
lawyer becomes the real party in interest.
Wagner, a Hudson Valley
lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week
with the state Board of Elections in order
to achieve ballot
access.
The speaker and the mayor have also sparred over the budget,
with the speaker appearing
to blindside the mayor
with a last - minute maneuver this week meant
to insure that immigrants facing deportation, even those convicted of serious crimes, get
access to city - funded
lawyers.
It found that the process of indefinite detention
with heavily - restricted
access to a
lawyer was mentally traumatic for many detainees and that there should be a «presumption against detention» for victims of rape and sexual violence, people
with learning difficulties, and those
with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions
to the right of individuals
to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on
access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on
to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up
to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders
to commercial enterprises.
«This is the first
access matter that I can recall in my career,» the NBC
lawyer, Daniel M. Kummer, told the judge, «in which we came in
with absolutely no idea what it is we are seeking
access to.»
In a statement, Amnesty called on the public
to write Iran's top leaders
to ask that Djalali be released or «charged
with a recognizable criminal offense,» and
to ensure that he has
access to medical care and
to his
lawyer.
Monthly premiums are as low as $ 18 per month, and members have
access to lawyers who can help
with everything from divorces
to debt settlements.
United Spay Alliance (USpA), whose purpose is
to eliminate pet suffering and homelessness by promoting affordable
access to spay / neuter resources in partnership
with state referral programs, has hired experienced Washington, DC
lawyer Bruce Myers
to lead the recently formed nonprofit organization.
When you are in a bad spot while traveling anywhere, you have
access to this hotline any time
to be connected
with someone who can find you the services you need, whether this is a
lawyer, medical assistance, or anything else.
Secondly, the other comments were about the front «
access» page, which ahd a lot more
to do
with (A) corporate
lawyers and (B) the legal minefield that is internation liquor laws... both which IMHO they addressed upfront in this comment section, and
with candor.
One of the greatest challenges of dealing
with legal reform and public members demanding
access to justice is the perception that
lawyers are rather indifferent
to the problems.
Last year, SFO Director David Green QC, complained that some companies are obstructing investigations by hiding behind LPP, preventing
access to all communications
with their
lawyers.
The annual LSUC filing does not require
lawyers to attest that they have abided by the terms of the oath they swore when they were called
to the bar, it does not require them
to attest that they have generally complied
with the Rules of Professional Conduct, nor does it require them
to attest that they have sought
to advance any other principles or goals (e.g., justice,
access to justice, fairness, quality client service, etc.).
With the Directives on the right
to information in criminal proceedings and the right
to access to a
lawyer successfully passed, the Proposal for a Directive on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and the right
to be present at trial in criminal proceedings marks a new step in the recent efforts of the Commission
to create common EU framework of defence rights which minimally need
to be respected by the Member States.
It is variously seen as an operating expense, a library service, and
access to justice contribution, support of legal studies, a contribution
to lawyer competence and professionalism, or as overhead associated
with membership in the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.
After all, we would argue that being able
to read at an advanced level, or having
access to a
lawyer are far greater advantages than
access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic
with regard
to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards
access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.
Clients now wield more power in the relationship
with their
lawyer, as they have benefited from greater
access to information about cost, greater ability
to unbundle services and an expanding array of alternative law firms from which
to source work.
No
lawyer would store records — paper or electronic —
with a provider that
accessed them or copied them except as necessary
to provide the service
to the
lawyer.
The conversations that
lawyers should be having about
access to justice should be about the law itself — the stuff that other people don't understand and can't work
with.
Vijaya has been charged
with possessing and
accessing child pornography and is set
to begin trial in provincial court in January 2019, says his
lawyer, Scott Hutchison of Henein Hutchison LLP in Toronto.
With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to just
With respect
to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous
to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist
lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to just
with ideological agendas and patron funding)
with justice system reform or access to just
with justice system reform or
access to justice.
Lawyers have a love - hate relationship
with PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic
access to records.
Mr. Bilinski's comment assumes that
lawyers have
access to professional IT consultants who act without special interest... My experience has been the exact opposite
with most IT providers simple peddling the product that produces the most profit for the IT provider.
In contrast
to lawyers, who must toil three long years for a degree, anyone can start blogging
with an Internet account and
access to a blogging service.
Students and
Lawyers with Disabilities - Increasing
Access to the Legal Profession Report of the Disability Working Group - 2005
Adding Rocket
Lawyer to your site is a great way
to give your visitors
access to the legal help they need
with our easy legal documents and find a
lawyer service.
To the extent I am otherwise usually carrying my iPad with me most times, having these e-books available to provide easy access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the g
To the extent I am otherwise usually carrying my iPad
with me most times, having these e-books available
to provide easy access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the g
to provide easy
access to the applicable court rules or legislation (along with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for lawyers in court or otherwise on the g
to the applicable court rules or legislation (along
with some commentary) is useful and would be useful for
lawyers in court or otherwise on the go.
This past weekend, the Sacramento Bee carried a lengthy article, Visionary law's litigious legacy (11/12/06), on how California's implementation of the federal Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) has lead
to litigation over ADA violations, which end in payouts
to individual plaintiffs and
lawyers rather than
access for the disabled.
Restrictions include: limiting
lawyers to three visits
with existing clients and permitting military
lawyers and intelligence officers not involved in the case
to read
lawyers» mail
to clients and allowing government officials
to decide, on their own,
to deny
lawyers access to evidence used
to determine a detainee's enemy combatant status.
According
to a recent study conducted in collaboration
with other free
access enthusiasts, free law publishing across the globe operates thanks
to the efforts and capacity
to innovate of small passionate organizations (LIIs) combined
with the support of
lawyers, donors, advertisers or any other group willing
to provide the necessary resources.
The news will come as a relief
to many
lawyers, who feared fixed costs for all cases up
to # 250,000 — as previously suggested by Jackson LJ — would make many cases commercially unviable, curbing
access to justice for many people
with valid claims.
For this reason,
lawyers must establish policies and procedures, and periodically train employees, subordinates and others assisting in the delivery of legal services, in the use of reasonably secure methods of electronic communications
with clients, as well as on reasonable measures for
access to and storage of those communications.
Hogan Lovells» partnership
with the alternative legal services provider gives it
access to the company's 1,500
lawyers to use when needed.
The debate around ABS focuses on their risks and rewards,
with opponents suggesting that ABS pose significant risks
to lawyers» integrity and their provision of services
to clients, while creating few real benefits
to access to justice.
Trebilcock did not «conflate
access to the justice system
with access to full representation by a
lawyer.»
Would this help
with access to justice and allow more
lawyers to provide help in simple matters?
An enhanced clinic system would solve that as the clinic
lawyer would come from an experienced clinic environment, would have ready
access to the mentors s / he had come
to know while working in the clinic, and would return
to the clinic after the period of secondment
to seed the clinic
with their experiences for the benefit of future
lawyers to be seconded.
That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the
access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions, debt collections, foreclosures — even
lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly,
with both sides of a dispute having
access to an attorney.
Lawyers will now be able
to advise their clients
with greater certainty, and this will help reduce litigation costs and ultimately promote greater
access to justice for meritorious claims.
«One of the reasons I started this campaign was because I kept getting calls from litigants looking for services at a lower price, so I'm excited that we're finally going
to get
access to justice for people
with family law problems who can't afford a
lawyer,» says Yarmus, who runs Toronto - based Civil Litigations Paralegal Services.