Supervision In Law Firms

Author : Nicola Laver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law offices
ISBN : 1783581239

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Supervision in Law Firms by Nicola Laver Pdf

Author : Michael John McNamara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811541599

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Supervision in the Legal Profession by Michael John McNamara Pdf

This book is about supervision in the legal profession with a focus on the experience of novice lawyers. It is the first of its kind. Until now there have been a range of books dedicated to professional supervision in many disciplines, but not law. Supervision is an important link between formal university-based legal education and independent practice and is relevant to a range of contemporary legal practice issues including changes driven by technology, workplace culture, regulating law firm management, and well-being. This book aims to be scholarly and practical. It provides an overview of how supervision is positioned in the legal regulatory framework; it describes how supervision is conceived in the legal profession and practice management literature; and draws lessons from clinical legal education and other professional disciplines. By reporting on survey data, this book also provides insights into practitioners’ attitudes and perceptions about supervision in legal practice.

Author : Singh Dharamveer
Publisher : Éditions Larcier
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782879748481

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The outsourcing of legal services by Singh Dharamveer Pdf

Economic globalization is transforming practically every service sector. The legal industry that has long remained insulated too has not remained untouched by the effects of globalization. The outsourcing of legal services in the past one decade has transformed the legal landscape. Legal outsourcing to India is becoming increasingly popular among U.S. and European law firms and corporations. This book broadly seeks to discuss three main topics surrounding legal process outsourcing (LPO): its emerging trends, the legal challenges it raises and the hitherto unrecognized potential it holds. Firstly, this book clarifies concepts of LPO and its operating models practiced by U.S. and U.K. law firms and corporations. Secondly, the outsourcing of legal services creates significant challenges for ethics rules including conflict of interests, attorney-client privilege, supervision and fee sharing. Thirdly, this research explores the hidden potential of LPO to improve access to justice. This book develops an altogether new proposal where Indian LPO professionals could help alleviate the access to justice problem among indigent and low-income populations of the United States.

Author : Adrian Evans,Anna Cody,Anna Copeland,Jeff Giddings,Peter Joy,Mary Anne Noone,Simon Rice
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781760461041

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Australian Clinical Legal Education by Adrian Evans,Anna Cody,Anna Copeland,Jeff Giddings,Peter Joy,Mary Anne Noone,Simon Rice Pdf

Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from case book method to the 50-minute lecture. And it can challenge a contemporary overemphasis on screen-based learning, particularly when those screens only provide information and require no interaction. Australian Clinical Legal Education comes out of a thorough research program and offers the essential guidebook for anyone seeking to design and redesign accountable legal education; that is, education that does not just transform the learner, but also inculcates in future lawyers a compassion for and service of those whom the law ought to serve. Established law teachers will come to grips with the power of clinical method. Law students struggling with overly dry conceptual content will experience the connections between skills, the law and real life. Regulators will look again at law curricula and ask law deans ‘when’?

Author : Arthur G. Greene,Therese A. Cannon
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590311590

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Paralegals, Profitability, and the Future of Your Law Practice by Arthur G. Greene,Therese A. Cannon Pdf

This book provides advice on how to hire and use top notch paralegals to achieve success in providing clients with quality service.

Author : Thomas E. McClure,Thomas E. Eimermann
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543858600

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Fundamentals of Criminal Law and Procedure for Paralegals by Thomas E. McClure,Thomas E. Eimermann Pdf

"Introductory text on criminal law and procedure"--

Author : Michael P. Downey
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 1604428244

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Introduction to Law Firm Practice by Michael P. Downey Pdf

For both the law student and young lawyer, this guide provides an introduction to the basics of working in a law firm. It discusses how a lawyer can get around within the firm to succeed in law firm practice.

Author : Philip G. Schrag,Michael Meltsner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555533396

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Reflections on Clinical Legal Education by Philip G. Schrag,Michael Meltsner Pdf

Influential articles on the evolution of clinical legal education over the past three decades, by members of the founding generation of clinical law professors.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318730

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct by American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association) Pdf

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Susan G. Manch,Marcia Pennington Shannon
Publisher : Law Journal Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1588520536

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Maximizing Law Firm Profitability by Susan G. Manch,Marcia Pennington Shannon Pdf

Maximizing Law Firm Profitability: Hiring, Training and Developing Productive Lawyers shows you how to manage your own practice and how to develop the potential of the people reporting to you.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451832631

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Qatar by International Monetary Fund Pdf

This paper is focused on a detailed assessment report on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism for Qatar. There is no fundamental principle in Qatari law that would prohibit the courts from applying the money laundering offense to the person who has committed the predicate crime. Qatar has adopted a comprehensive confiscation, freezing, and seizing framework under the AML Law, which enables the authorities to remove all assets linked with a money laundering offense or its predicate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590312430

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Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct by Anonim Pdf

This definitive resource for information about lawyer ethics has been updated and expanded to include all the amendments the ABA made to the Model Rules in 2002.

Author : David Hempleman-Adams
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Walking on Thin Ice? by David Hempleman-Adams Pdf

"Walking on Thin Ice?" is a lesson requiring students to examine the scientific evidence of changes in the Arctic ice cover, intended for use with students in grades 6-12. Eric J. Miller and Andrea J. Perelman created this lesson, which is based on a "New York Times" article. The lesson includes objectives, procedures, and extension activities. The Learning Network, a service of the New York Times Co., provides the lesson online as part of the Daily Lesson Plan Teacher Connections resource.

Author : Jerry Van Hoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313035326

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Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services by Jerry Van Hoy Pdf

As lawyers, legal scholars, and academics throughout the social sciences debate the future of legal work and the legal profession itself, they turn their attention inevitably to the rise of the franchise law firms. Founded in response to the changing market for legal services, franchise law firms have grown dramatically in recent years, but at what cost to clients and lawyers alike? This book focuses on how professional organizations (and the related work experience) are influenced by economics and the way various firms have excelled by mass producing a basic menu of services—by placing their offices at strategic locations, hiring inexperienced new law school graduates, and using television and other hard-sell means to attract clients. Van Hoy's impeccable sociological research, presented in a clear, readable, anecdotal style, will be fascinating and useful reading, not only for members of the legal profession and their academic colleagues, but also for aspiring lawyers and their future clients. Van Hoy shows that franchise law firms are a competitive innovation in the market for personal legal services—an innovation that has served to standardize lawyers' work and to dehumanize lawyers themselves. Precisely because the work of attorneys can be standardized and mass produced, a finding that may astonish some and dismay others, attorneys may be even more alienated from their chosen profession than their clients suspect. Van Hoy analyzes these matters and captures the broader context in which prepackaged firms operate; indeed, he compares franchised attorneys to lawyers in different types of firms who are also competing for the same business. Van Hoy is convinced that many attorneys are not only alienated but are ripe for unionization. He shows that collegiality no longer insulates attorneys from the pressures and dissatisfactions of the outside world, a research finding that in itself may seriously challenge prevailing viewpoints and shake confidence in the belief that legal work is not just a profession, but also a calling.

Author : Robert L. Nelson,Ronit Dinovitzer,Bryant G. Garth,Joyce S. Sterling,David B. Wilkins,Meghan Dawe,Ethan Michelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Discrimination in employment
ISBN : 9780226828923

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The Making of Lawyers' Careers by Robert L. Nelson,Ronit Dinovitzer,Bryant G. Garth,Joyce S. Sterling,David B. Wilkins,Meghan Dawe,Ethan Michelson Pdf

"How do hierarchies of race, class, gender, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do individual lawyers strategically navigate the constraints and opportunities of their environments? Where do they find professional satisfaction? This book offers an unprecedented account of opportunity structures and social stratification within the early 21st century American legal profession, combining unique longitudinal survey data with interviews, storytelling, and insights from social theory. Starting in 2000, the authors collected over 10,000 survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers, following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also conducted in-depth interviews with more than 200 lawyers. They contextualize their findings through attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession, in particular the growth in recent decades of the private sector relative to the public sector and corresponding disparities in earnings and status between these different segments. The analysis in this book reveals a legal profession that is highly stratified. Although individual lawyers exercise agency and often find satisfaction in their work, there are deep divisions within the profession by client type and practice setting, and women and attorneys of color face discrimination and persistent barriers to advancement. The careers of lawyers both reflect and reproduce inequalities in law and society writ large"--