Sentences with phrase «work of the legal profession»

It has nearly 1.5 million documents across over 300 case law and legislative collections, and at nearly 10 million visits in 2014 is quite likely the most used legal information resource in Canada and unquestionably essential to supporting the work of the legal profession, the courts and the public interest in free access to law.

The Worcestershire Law Society was formed in 1841 to support and promote the work of the legal profession across the county.

Established by the American Bar Association in 1942 for the purpose of»... Advancement of jurisprudence and the promotion of justice and uniformity of judicial decision throughout the United States, exclusively through education and scientific research in the field of law,» the not - for - profit American Bar Endowment provides unique opportunities for ABA lawyer members to get quality, affordable insurance, through a trusted insurer, while giving back to the good works of the legal profession.

Not exact matches

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

In working closely and personally with lawyers, I have come to see that they have been formed — by their legal education and even more by their years of professional work in the law — in a particular way of seeing and thinking that is distinctive to that profession.

Renée is currently at work on a project to understand the regulation of midwifery in the United States, and the activism of pro-midwifery advocates who seek to make the profession legal, where it isn't.

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

Outlining her qualities, «hard work, discipline, capacity for detailed research, intimate knowledge of the law, independence of mind and spirit, honesty and integrity, deep - seated respect for the rule of law and for the best traditions of the legal profession, abiding belief in the sovereignty of Almighty God», the President stated that these will serve her well in her new office.

Molo said the relationship between Taub and Silver, both members of New York City's Orthodox Jewish community, was that of remote friends, and that Silver's referral work was «very, very common thing in the legal profession.»

In announcing his choice, the governor hinted at these issues when he lauded Stein for having worked to «advance the cause of women and diversity within the legal profession.»

The latest round of START - UP participants was announced Monday in Buffalo, with companies that range from software developers for the legal profession and a biotech firm working on genetic markers for autism to a developer of brain injury drugs.

I am a lawyer by profession and have worked as a Legal Consultant for some of the leading companies in the UK.

As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

The state of Colorado offers individuals the chance to earn loan repayment if they are working in the legal profession in some capacity.

Specifically, attorneys that are eligible for this loan forgiveness must work in the legal profession in the areas of public interest.

The state of North Carolina offers a program for loan repayment for those that work in the legal profession.

I have worked in the legal profession for over 30 years and she is one of the best attorneys I've seen.

The need for a more - flexible schedule can arise from a variety of personal and professional situations, including caring for young children or aging parents, starting or growing a solo practice, moving with a spouse who is required to relocate for work, starting or growing a side business outside of the legal profession.

They, and many more equally deserving government lawyers, are some of the brightest, most hard working and honourable members of the legal profession in this country.

In their recent book The Future of the Professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts, 7 legal futurists Richard and Daniel Susskind see two distinct futures for most professions, including the legal Professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts, 7 legal futurists Richard and Daniel Susskind see two distinct futures for most professions, including the legal professions, including the legal profession.

«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»

[178] In order to maintain the integrity of the legal profession, a legal account must have some relationship to the actual work carried out.

To get a complete picture of women in law, we have to look beyond the numbers — as damning as they may be — to the innovative women, as well as men, working to increase gender diversity and empower women in the legal profession.

Lachance's email to me includes a paragraph that perfectly describes the ideal of how crowdsourcing can work within the legal profession:

For the last 10 years, I've been working mainly on Law Times, our sister newspaper that covers the newsy goings on of the legal profession in Ontario.

«Working seamlessly with Office 365, Matter Center offers those in the legal profession a way to intuitively find and organize files without leaving the familiar productivity tools they use the most — namely Microsoft Outlook and Word,» product manager Tejas Mehta said at the time of the ILTA announcement.

I've seen the profession swing from the giddy, extravagant days of $ 1,000 / hour billing rates and $ 2 million profits per partner to its current morass of massive layoffs, pathetic efforts to stem the breach in the dike by cutting back on luxury toilet paper purchases and ABA bar dues and the growth of offshoring legal contract work to India.

Like many in the legal profession, I spend a significant proportion of my days working at the craft of writing.

In Condé Nast Portfolio, writer Karen Donovan (with whom I've worked in the past) does a great job of portraying the legal profession's ambivalence about one in particular of these rankings, Super Lawyers, which she says «may just be the cheesiest example of this phenomenon.»

Although issues of exclusion are not unique to the legal professions, they are certainly among the worst offenders, which has been substantiated by the Working Group's investigations.

Earlier this week, I spoke with Nitin Gupta, the former lawyer who is director of the professional services group at Box, who said that Box is working towards the goal of providing a strong cloud - collaboration platform that will serve all segments of the legal profession — large firms, small firms and corporate counsel.

After years of making lawyer jokes to his wife, who worked as a corporate attorney, Jansen now has the job of transforming the legal profession.

The IAALS is a think tank working on the development and application of innovative solutions for the toughest problems facing the US courts and legal profession... [more]

Andrew Langdon QC, Bar Chairman, said Jackson LJ's review «indicates that he has listened carefully to the views of the legal profession and accepted proposals from the Bar Council and others that multi-track cases are so varied in character that they do not lend themselves to any rigid costs matrix, and that cost management is working better than had been supposed.

Incentive bonuses, ex post facto bonuses, and salary increases work perfectly well but without the evil of giving up ownership of the legal profession to nonlawyer profit seekers.

But for someone working on the ground within the legal profession, the ill - defined provisions concerning Legal Professional Privilege are also of grave conlegal profession, the ill - defined provisions concerning Legal Professional Privilege are also of grave conLegal Professional Privilege are also of grave concern.

Inspired by the good work of Justice Douglas Miller and others in the Desert Bar Association, the Adopt - a High School program is aimed at introducing 12th grade students to the legal profession.

The legal profession is less than a trailblazer in terms of flexible working practices.

The profession rejected this strictly «formalist» approach to teaching writing processes as inadequate preparation for independent legal writing and analysis.44 The shift away from models in legal writing instruction accompanied a shift to teaching students to write from the social perspective.45 The social perspective integrates into writing processes an understanding of the purposes for which a particular document is written, the identities of its audiences, and the needs of those audiences.46 Part of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's needs.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

For many years, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Professionalism has sought to improve the legal profession by promoting greater competence, civility, and a higher level of ethical conduct — a mission that aligns with work of the Illinois... Read More

A champion for legal ethics in the profession, Rich is an author of more than 30 published works, serves as an adjunct professor of legal ethics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and is a frequent speaker on the subject matter.

Flexible software designed to suit your needs: Our time recording solution is designed to suit the different ways of working that exist in the legal profession.

Susan Duncan works on the business, strategy and management side of the legal profession at RainMaking Oasis and has been doing so since 1980.

«Many of the challenges facing the legal profession can be reduced to supply and demand: too many lawyers chasing too little work, which itself results from too many people going to law school.

Stress, lack of support and juggling legal aid work with other responsibilities are affecting retention in the profession: 21 % of respondents said this is their greatest challenge.

The one thing I would push back about is that most of the factors that go into their score are more about your engagement in the profession than they are about the quality of your legal work.

There are lots of great reasons to do pro bono work: you get to help clients, the legal profession's reputation is enhanced, and you may learn some new skills doing work that you haven't done before.

Aaron Street: Yeah, so I am on the ABA's law practice division Legal Futures Initiative, which is kind of a gathering of a bunch of innovators in the profession talking about the future of law and the future of law practice, and at the meeting in Miami last week we all got there and realized that, setting aside the future of law practice, there were some more pressing issues in law that needed some innovators to work on — namely the travel ban, immigration ban, Executive Order from President Trump — and so our committee spent a couple of hours thinking about how we, as a group, could help lawyers solve that issue.