"Zealous advocacy" refers to passionate and enthusiastic support or defense of a cause or client. It means giving your utmost effort, showing dedication, and vigorously promoting or protecting someone or something.
Full definition
This year's conference was titled «50 Years after Gault: Continuing to Fulfill the Promise of
Zealous Advocacy for Juveniles.»
So then, how should defense counsel approach mediations that involve subjective injuries in a way that balances
zealous advocacy on behalf of the insurer with a way that furthers the objective of mediation?
The ethical requirement of
zealous advocacy does not mean you should be rude or angry during a deposition.
The attorneys of the Firm have earned a reputation for
zealous advocacy in complex domestic relations litigations involving business, professional and estate interests, multi-jurisdictional and international disputes, and digital discovery.
None of these cases are simple and each of them require strategic litigation, many witnesses, competent expert testimony, and
zealous advocacy by an attorney who truly cares about the client.
The debate on finding the ideal balance
between zealous advocacy and maintaining civility in the courtroom continued this week at the Law Society of Upper Canada discipline hearing for Toronto securities lawyer Joe Groia.
Lash & Goldberg LLP brings the
same zealous advocacy skills to arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution («ADR») that we apply to trials and appeals.
cautions that the institutionalizing of ADR without attempting to change underlying culture will likely lead to a corruption of ADR mechanisms and the wider civil justice system as there remains the possibility that good settlement process will be marred by
over zealous advocacy or over zealous desire to close cases.
While it is regrettable that poor defendants in criminal cases don't have access to
such zealous advocacy against the state, that should not be held against the individual lawyers who ply their trade well.
In particular, Gordon argues that a lawyer's right to engage in
zealous advocacy only makes sense to the extent that lawyers also help support the system within which such advocacy ends up being constructive:
While our Rules of Professional Conduct no longer
require zealous advocacy, we should all strive to represent our clients with passion, devotion, enthusiasm and eagerness, and avoid assuming the role of crusader, fanatic, or militant partisan.
We are offering quality aggressive representation,
zealous advocacy as well as ingenious strategies.
They therefore possess the skills of
zealous advocacy honed in litigation, but couple those skills with the more subtle approaches employed in international arbitration.
Secondly, there is a debate about
whether zealous advocacy and the duty of civility are mutually exclusive or whether they are two components of good lawyering.
«The trial judge is the person best placed to determine whether a barrister's conduct is approaching or has crossed over the all - too - grey line that
separates zealous advocacy from impermissible courtroom conduct.»
But an accused person is not entitled to a boundless defence; the lawyer's duty is one of
zealous advocacy within the bounds of legality, not zeal unbounded.
In this position, she assists all facets of the firm in operating efficiently to
promote zealous advocacy for all clients of the firm.
We believe that every defendant should not only
receive zealous advocacy but respect and dignity as they deal with the potential loss of their liberty.
It is where persuasive lawyering and
zealous advocacy intersect with efficient research and effective legal writing to meet the demands of each new case.
With caseload controls, staff investigators and a solid litigation budget, the program
emphasizes zealous advocacy in a rural environment.
However, a lawyer and a client may determine
what zealous advocacy means by spelling out in advance the ground rules for the lawyer's representation of the client.
In 2017, Allison C. Reppond joined Baron & Budd's Mesothelioma Litigation Group, where she continues a career devoted to
zealous advocacy on behalf of injured individuals.
On this point, the Court of Appeal again sided with the law society, quoting favourably from the appeal panel's decision, in which it wrote that «
zealous advocacy did not require Mr. Groia to make unfounded allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
At BASTA, we pride ourselves in treating every client's case with the
same zealous advocacy that a «big» firm would provide to a paying corporate client.
However, we believe that
such zealous advocacy must occur in the context of the client's long term interests as a member of a restructuring family system.
The award has been presented each year since 1988 to the public defender who best
represents zealous advocacy — the central principle governing the representation of indigents (continue reading here)
«Balancing
Zealous Advocacy With Civility Main Lawyers Suffering From Stress at Work Need to Set Boundaries; Life Isn't Just About «Getting Things Done»»
Attorney Karp's commitment to
zealous advocacy for children and parents is evident through her exemplary work with CAFL, which began in 1995, and her service as training director since 2000, where she developed a model program for providing counsel in child welfare / state intervention cases and established, and continues to oversee, the certification training program for CAFL's private attorneys.
BLAG's
zealous advocacy in support of Section 3, along with the myriad other cases winding their way through the federal courts challenging that section, convinced a majority of the Supreme Court to address the constitutional issue.
So the morality of the system effectively stands or falls with the practice of
zealous advocacy.
Now, it's widely recognized among legal scholars that there are limits to
zealous advocacy.
At about the 3 - minute mark, Parker offers «my sincerest apology for
my zealous advocacy» to the extent that it «brought commotion and emotion to this house in ways that may distract or divide us, or divert us from the important work the people of New York sent us here to accomplish.»