Sentences with phrase «without access to the legal services»

Despite this, there is still a large percentage of the population without access to the legal services they need.

Not exact matches

«This nearly $ 2 million program is helping provide critical legal services to these children who have found themselves here, far from home and without access to a lawyer,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

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Unlike service dogs, who are allowed access pretty much everywhere by Federal law, the only legal rights ESAs have are reasonable accommodation in no - pet housing, and the right to accompany their owners in the cabin of a commercial aircraft without having to be kept in a container or to pay a pet transportation fee — typically at least $ 100 one way.

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

More recently, Emery Lee [10] published a journal article in the University of Miami Law Review entitled «Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services» [11]

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

Members of Ontario's family law bench upped the volume of their objections after Bonkalo's March 2017 report recommended paralegals be allowed to provide legal services, without supervision by lawyers, in the areas of custody, access, simple child support cases, restraining orders, enforcement and simple divorces without property.

InfoTrack specialises in a range of information services and workflow tools for conveyancers and legal professionals, and the integration allows users to access both systems with one login, and instantly share matter information between the platforms without the need for data reentry.

[ii] I examine this issue for the purposes of this column without examining two other hard access questions namely (i) the source of payment for legal services (i.e. legal aid or pre-paid legal insurance) and (ii) the extent to which the complexity of the administration of justice is part of the access problem.

Access to justice is an incredibly difficult problem not only for those who are indigent or without resources but increasingly for those in the middle class who can't afford legal services in order to meet their basic needs or find them difficult to aAccess to justice is an incredibly difficult problem not only for those who are indigent or without resources but increasingly for those in the middle class who can't afford legal services in order to meet their basic needs or find them difficult to accessaccess.

There remains lots to talk about how improved access to justice and legal services can be achieved without giving up ownership or bringing about an anti-competitive concentration of delivery (and this is where I pray the benchers will go).

Also on the basis of Simpson's models, the effect upon competition from private legal services providers (without distinguishing between informal or formal providers) is as follows: In either type of country (wealthy or poor), wealthy social groups are willing to pay hefty premiums for access to private legal institutions, whereas poor or disadvantaged groups will prefer private legal systems only if they are cheaper to access than the state's.

Opening up firms to outside investors could expand access to legal services without dragging the profession down to the level of online legal forms.

... Indeed, if weblogs are even half as important in the world of legal services as everybody says, it may be malpractice for consumer advocates, proponents of universal access to justice, law - and - technology gurus, or law firm management mavens to start the day without seeking a weblog dose of pro se and self - help news and punditry.»

Yes, the service unlike commercial services can be accessed without «direct» payment, meaning that, whether as a tax payer or a legal professional who pays fees to the law societies everyone is paying for the service in some form.

My response to the sender was that this is an exciting development in providing increased access to the consumer legal services that many are going without.

Assuming the risks can be mitigated, opening up firms to outside investors has the potential to drastically expand access to legal services without dragging the entire profession down to the level of online legal forms.

The legal knowledge gap is constantly narrowing as services like Avvo and CaseText look to democratize access to legal information, and services like LegalZoom and RocketLawyer make basic legal services accessible without much need for an attorney.

By creating a model that allows legal services to be delivered by not - for - profit organizations, with or without lawyers, in areas where there are significant access to justice or legal service needs,

[108] Others raised the objections to alternative structures that are commonly raised: [109] that they are a threat to the profession's core values, [110] that they will trigger irresolvable conflicts of interest, [111] that lawyers will lose their independence, [112] that there is no evidence that alternative structures have increased access to justice in Australia or England & Wales, [113] that law firms can attract employees by paying competitive salaries without the need to offer employee shareholding, [114] that the burden of proof lies with those who advocate for alternative structures, [115] that there is no way to regulate alternative structures, [116] that alternative structures will lead to a consolidated market for legal services, [117] that more research is required, [118] etc..

[50] The questions ranged from how, generally, clients and potential clients can be better served, to whether access to legal services can be improved by authorizing persons without a full law school education and law license to provide them, to what insights can be gained from innovations in other professions and industries.

Can access to legal services be improved if the pool of available providers is expanded to include people without a J.D. and full law license?

All in all, we are in for another round of content migration, this time to a new platform that meets the as yet unfulfilled need of institutions and researchers to own content, as well as the need of legal researchers to have convenient electronic access to selected legal treatises without having to subscribe to a major online service.

The acceptance of the ipad also provides legal practitioners with an alternative means of accessing the digital version of a legal treatise without having to subscribe to an expensive large scale online service, bloated with content of little or no interest to the legal researcher.

With over a decade of fairly fundamental regulatory challenges brought about by the Access to Justice Act 1999, s. 58 Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (Conditional Fee legislation) and more recently LASPO (Jackson and DBAs), not to mention the overhaul of the Solicitors Code of Conduct to its present guise of the Handbook in October 2011, one would be forgiven for thinking that the solicitors profession is already sufficiently regulated without yet more intricate legislation.

Prof. Conduct 123 (2001)(subject to the operational structure and content described in the opinion, a lawyer may affiliate with an online legal services website); Nebraska Op. 07 - 05 (lawyer may participate in internet lawyer directory which identifies itself as a directory, disclaims being a referral service and only lists basic information about lawyers without recommending specific lawyers and charges a reasonable, flat annual advertising fee); New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising Op. 36 (2006)(lawyer may pay flat fee to internet marketing company for exclusive website listing for particular county in specific practice area if listing includes prominent, unmistakable disclaimer stating the listings are paid advertisements and not endorsements or authorized referrals); North Carolina Op. 2004 - 1 (lawyer may participate in for - profit online service that is a hybrid referral service - legal directory, provided there is no fee - sharing with the service and communications are truthful); Oregon Op. 2007 - 180 (2007)(lawyer may pay nationwide internet referral service for listing if listing is not false or misleading and does not imply that the lawyer can represent clients outside jurisdictions of the lawyer's license, fee is not based on number of referrals, retained clients or revenue generated by listing and the service does not exercise discretion in matching clients with lawyers); Rhode Island 2005 - 01 (permitting website that enables lawyers to post information about their services and respond to anonymous requests for legal services in exchange for flat annual membership fee if website exercises no discretion over which requests lawyers may access); South Carolina 01 - 03 (lawyer may pay internet advertising service fee determined by the number of «hits» that the service produces for the lawyer provided that the service does not steer business to any particular lawyer and the payments are not based on whether user ultimately becomes a client); Texas Op. 573 (2006)(lawyer may participate in for - profit internet service that matches potential clients and lawyers if selection process is fully automated and performed by computers without the exercise of human discretion); Virginia Advertising Op.

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Bottom line: People must have access to safe, legal abortion services without interference from politicians.