Add to ORKGAccess to justice, particularly access to civil legal services, is a well-recognized problem for the Canadian legal system, with a recent estimate suggesting that 44.6 per cent of Canadians over the age of 18 – approximately 11.6 million people – have experienced a civil legal problem over the last three years, but also that less than 10 per cent of those individuals obtained legal assistance for that problem. Another problem for the Canadian legal system is the high rate of dissatisfaction among young lawyers – particularly the high rate of attrition among women and minorities. This thesis suggests a corrective for both these problems: an innovative type of law firm that provides accessible civil legal services while also providing an att...
abstract: This thesis serves as a business plan for an intellectual property law firm, Starr PLLC. T...
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access t...
For decades, the discussion about access to justice has primarily focused on the ability of low–inco...
Access to justice, particularly access to civil legal services, is a well-recognized problem for the...
Recent research on unmet legal need in Canada suggests that access to justice problems may represent...
While the profession focuses on ways to meet the critical legal needs of low-income citizens, the ne...
This dissertation draws upon a mixed-method research design to propose a person-centred conception o...
With law school graduates encountering increased difficulty in securing articling positions, legal i...
With law school graduates encountering increased difficulty in securing articling positions, legal i...
Over the last decade, the Canadian corporate law firm, like its counterparts in other industrialized...
While the greatest number of lawyers practice in solo and small firms, law schools do not devote suf...
The civil access to justice problem in Canada is recognized as a crisis, but even with widespread ju...
The article examines two interrelated issues attracting attention from the legal academy, the profes...
Could non-lawyers own law firms? According to a recent report by the Canadian Bar Association (CBA),...
For decades, lawyers have been complaining that they hate working at law firms, and clients have exp...
abstract: This thesis serves as a business plan for an intellectual property law firm, Starr PLLC. T...
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access t...
For decades, the discussion about access to justice has primarily focused on the ability of low–inco...
Access to justice, particularly access to civil legal services, is a well-recognized problem for the...
Recent research on unmet legal need in Canada suggests that access to justice problems may represent...
While the profession focuses on ways to meet the critical legal needs of low-income citizens, the ne...
This dissertation draws upon a mixed-method research design to propose a person-centred conception o...
With law school graduates encountering increased difficulty in securing articling positions, legal i...
With law school graduates encountering increased difficulty in securing articling positions, legal i...
Over the last decade, the Canadian corporate law firm, like its counterparts in other industrialized...
While the greatest number of lawyers practice in solo and small firms, law schools do not devote suf...
The civil access to justice problem in Canada is recognized as a crisis, but even with widespread ju...
The article examines two interrelated issues attracting attention from the legal academy, the profes...
Could non-lawyers own law firms? According to a recent report by the Canadian Bar Association (CBA),...
For decades, lawyers have been complaining that they hate working at law firms, and clients have exp...
abstract: This thesis serves as a business plan for an intellectual property law firm, Starr PLLC. T...
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access t...
For decades, the discussion about access to justice has primarily focused on the ability of low–inco...