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Democratizing Legal Services : Obstacles and Opportunities.
This book responds to the common objections to alternative business structures, describes the opportunities that such structures offer, exposes how lawyer self-regulation operates to obstruct the modernization of legal services, and includes interviews with persons who have experience with alternati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Blue Ridge Summit :
Lexington Books,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Manner of Regulation Today; Why Changing the Regulatory Framework is Difficult; The Approach of this Book; Notes; Part I: The Opposition to Alternative Structures; 1 Alternative Structures Will Undermine Professionalism and Ethics; Stories; Notes; 2 There Is No Way to Regulate Alternative Structures; Stories; Notes; 3 The Adoption of Alternative Structures Will Jeopardize Self-Regulation of the Profession; Stories; Notes; 4 There is No Demonstrated Need, Demand, or Problem; Notes.
- 5 New Delivery Models Can Be Developed Without Changing Rule 5.4Stories; Notes; 6 The Payment of Salary Is Adequate Compensation for Nonlawyers; Stories; Notes; 7 No One in Their Right Mind Would Want to Invest in a Law Firm; Stories; Notes; 8 Alternative Structures Will Lead to a Consolidated Market Controlled by Large Firms; Stories; Notes; 9 Alternative Structures Cannot Help Those Who Cannot Pay for Legal Services; Stories; Notes; 10 Alternative Structures Will Make Things Harder for Un- and Underemployed Lawyers; Stories; Notes; 11 The Burden of Proof Has Not Been Met; Stories; Notes.
- Part II: The Opportunities Offered by Alternative Structures12 Opportunities for Legal Aid; Stories; Notes; 13 Opportunities for Downstream Markets and the Economy as a Whole; Stories; Notes; 14 Opportunities for Lawyers; Stories; Notes; 15 Opportunities for In-House Legal Departments in the Private and Public Sectors; Stories; Note; 16 Opportunities for an Improved Regulatory Approach; Stories; Notes; 17 Opportunities for Failure; Hacking Ashton; ILH Group Ltd.; Quindell Legal Services and Slater and Gordon; Notes; Part III: Access to Justice; Notes; 18 Unacknowledged Complexity.
- Motivations for the Regulatory Changes in England and Wales and AustraliaWhat is Access to Justice?; How Can Access to Justice Be Measured?; What Evidence is There?; Stories; Notes; 19 Access to Justice Comes in All Shapes and Sizes, Sometimes Obvious and Sometimes Not; Notes; 20 Unmet Need as Human Rights Crisis; Notes; Part IV: The (Non) Regulation of Legal Services and the World Stage; 21 Abdication of Regulatory Power; One Example on a State Level; Two Examples on a National Level; Notes; 22 International Obligations and Commitments; "Ensure Equal Access to Justice For All."
- "Effective, Accountable and Transparent Institutions at All Levels"Notes; 23 Endless Objections and Calls for Evidence and the Lawyer Monopoly on Legal Services (Or, Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too); Notes; 24 Good Governance Requires ... Actual Governance; Notes; Part V: Stories; 25 Letting the Old Lady Scream; Using Business and IT Processes to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs; Business Outsourcing; Adopting a Corporate Structure to Foster Growth; Holistic Services; Dispersed Law Firms; Turning Employees into Owners; Opposites Attract? Law, Charity, and Free Legal Services.