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17 Aug 2021, 4:00 am
One of my favorite jokes involves a visitor lost in rural Scotland. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 4:00 am
The Law Society is currently consulting on several different options for its lawyer licensing process (my fellow legal ethics co-columnists Noel Semple and Malcolm Mercer have written recently in Slaw about this consultation – here and here). [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 4:00 am
Ensuring the baseline competence of licensees to practice law is job #1, as Malcolm Mercer explains. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
There is no provision in the Model Code that specifically regulates non-adversarial advocacy. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 4:00 am
In spite of the duties set out in s. 4.2, in a Comment dated July 27th, in response to one of my Slaw articles,[2] LSO’s Treasurer and CEO, Malcolm Mercer, stated: The role of the Law Society is not to “deliver access to justice. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 8:47 am
The new share plan is the result of a compensation overhaul--initiated in 2007 with the help of pay consultants Mercer Human Resources Consulting--to make executive pay more "competitive," the company said. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:00 am
The fact that legal advice services cannot be automated is of critical importance in determining whether the legal profession should accept proposals for “alternative business structures” (ABS’s). [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
(For a fantastic overview of their respective histories and their differences, see Malcolm Mercer’s Slaw post here.) [read post]
1 Sep 2022, 4:00 am
In the movie Marriage Story, Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are divorcing. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
LSO’s Treasurer, Malcolm Mercer, wrote this recent, revealing post: “What Is the Mandate of the Law Society? [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 7:11 am
Small law has its own processes, and one of the reasons we have an access to justice crisis is that they are hand-crafted, inefficient processes (for a hilarious yet thoughtful send up of the way lawyers tend to think that more lawyers are the solution, see The Access to Clothing Crisis by Canadian lawyer Malcolm Mercer, which posits tailors cluelessly standing in the way of the industrial revolution the way some lawyers and law professors would stand in the way of today’s… [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 3:06 am
Jellum (Mercer). 3:30-5 p.m. ? [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 4:00 am
[See the full text article for this summary on the SSRN, using the same title] Law societies are not trying to solve the A2J problem, but instead provide “alternative legal services”[1] that merely help that majority of the population that cannot afford legal services learn to live with the problem. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 12:29 pm
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3 May 2021, 4:00 am
On April 22, 2021, the Law Society of Ontario approved a “Regulatory Sandbox for Innovative Technological Legal Services”, a five-year pilot project through which non-licensee providers will be given the LSO’s blessing to provide “innovative technological legal services” directly to consumers, under the LSO’s supervision. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 4:00 am
[The content of this article is closely related to four of my previous posts on Slaw, dated: July 25, 2019; April 9, 2020; May 29, 2020; and, August 6, 2020. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 4:00 am
[See the full text of this article on the SSRN. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 7:27 pm
It’s enough for me that the State Bar wants to do away with flat fees. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 8:55 am
I’m voting “no” to all of the State Bar’s ill-thought-out and unnecessary amendments to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. [read post]
