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7 Feb 2015, 6:28 pm
Start by looking at the CBA Futures Report on “Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada” and come up with the regulatory rules and guidance you consider necessary if anything other than absolute prohibition of ABS comes to pass. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 4:00 am
Start by looking at the CBA Futures Report on “Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada” and come up with the regulatory rules and guidance you consider necessary if anything other than absolute prohibition of ABS comes to pass. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:05 am
The CBA’s Futures report is generating a lot of conversation around its recommendations permitting alternative practice models, including alternative business structures. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 4:00 am
In August of last year, however, the CBA Legal Futures Initiative released its report Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada on alternative business structures (ABSs) and multi-disciplinary practices (MDPs). [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 1:20 pm
The idea of experimenting as a means to innovation in legal practice comes up several times in the CBA’s Futures Final Report. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 6:00 am
In advancing these arguments, this article seeks not only to present a more accurate picture of the current status of lawyer regulation in Canada but also to provide a better foundation from which to discuss future reforms. [read post]
4 Jan 2015, 3:54 pm
There is plenty of discussion about the future of the profession, including the CBA Futures Report and debates over Alternative Business Structures (ABS). [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 10:01 am
OTLA’s recent pronouncements in the Law Times on December 29, 2014, are particularly troubling: “We have studied ABS from the time it was first raised by the law society in the summer of 2013, through the release of the CBA Futures report, to the LSUC paper released just this past fall,” said Charles Gluckstein, immediate past-president of the OTLA. [read post]
29 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm
What is the Future for Genetic Testing and Personalized Medicine? [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 4:00 am
As an exception to the universally accepted view that law society committees are “all form and no substance” in regard to the “unaffordable legal services problem” (“the problem”), there is one Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) committee that has produced a Discussion Paper that has great substance, although some ingrates are so inconsiderate as to say that it’s not “the right stuff”; see: Alternative Business Structures and the Legal Profession… [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 4:00 am
Without both, I fear that the momentum toward change encouraged by the work of the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family Justice and the CBA’s Access to Justice Committee will be lost and the status quo will prevail until change is rudely forced upon us. [read post]
27 Nov 2014, 4:00 am
Professors Alain Roussy and Michelle Flaherty are currently conducting a study of the University of Ottawa LPP, which is delivered only in French and which has a mandate “to promote access to justice for francophones and other marginalized groups by training future lawyers to provide high quality legal services in French. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 2:36 pm
Murphy hosted a keynote at the conference, but was also exposed to the CBA’s Futures Initiative, which released its final report that weekend. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 1:11 am
CMS will initially test this payment model in no more than 12 CBAs in conjunction with competitions that begin on or after January 1, 2015; any expansion of the program would follow program evaluation and future notice and comment rulemaking. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 7:16 am
Here at the CBA Legal Futures Initiative, we’ve sought to demonstrate to the Canadian legal profession that great opportunities await those who embrace change; opportunities to put clients at the centre of our work, to better serve Canadians, to provide new kinds of services, to open up new models of legal service delivery, to work in conjunction with others, and most importantly, to creatively re-imagine what it means to “be a lawyer” in the future. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 4:00 am
In August 2014, the CBA published its final report entitled “Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada”. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 6:13 am
Kris volunteers on the national stage with the CBA, currently sitting as a member of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee and on the Ethics and Regulatory Issues team of the Futures Initiative. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 11:56 am
It’s a very fun hour, and all feedback will greatly advance the CBA’s Legal Futures Initiative. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 4:00 am
On this basis, efforts like the CBA Legal Futures Initiative and the National Self-Represented Litigants Project are to be commended because they advance the “what if” analysis, identify milestones and propose actions to move forward. [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 1:46 pm
Such an interpretation of the CBA and the CSAs, as documents that commit the State to nothing, cannot stand. [read post]
