Job Shadowing Project By: Meg Gilliam This summer I had the privilege of job shadowing a great lawyer and family friend‚ Nancy Bonilla. I have nearly always wanted to be a lawyer‚ and in all honesty I was a little concerned that after watching a real court hearing‚ and seeing all the work that lawyers actually have to put into each and every case‚ I would no longer wish to become a lawyer. However my fears were removed entirely as soon as I walked into her downtown Fort Worth office; the day
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take a settlement offer or pursue litigation is a difficult decision to make. One must weigh the cost of retaining services of a counsel versus the complexity of the case or the amount of compensation. Mainly a lawyer can spot strengths and weaknesses‚ which affects the value of a case. Lawyers have the education‚ knowledge‚ and skills to evaluate the case accurately. They can compare the case with similar cases thereby determine if settlement offer is fair. They have the expertise to dissect the evidences
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United Nations or the World Bank as an international lawyer. I believe that as a lawyer‚ no matter what kind of lawyer‚ in order to be successful you have to be very open minded and view life from other perspectives. Semester at Sea will give me a first-hand experience to witness some of the social inequalities that many times serve as the basis of crime and will also give me a global perspective that will benefit me as an international lawyer. I originally wanted to study abroad in Spain but as
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Memo Introduction: Now I am working at “Beijing Sino Lawyers’ Firm”. My duty is to assist lawyer Tao Feng in dealing with the paperworks and clients. To be specific‚ my job is to act as an information collector‚ a law documents writer‚ a cases assistance‚ a data organizer‚ and a clients communicator. Our firm consist of several senior partners‚ normal lawyers‚ and many assistances. In order to work more conveniently and effectively‚ every lawyer has a team that includes one to two assistances. Due
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1.0 ETHICS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION 1.1 Ethics 1.11 What is Ethics? Ethics‚ also known as moral philosophy‚ is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is‚ concepts such as good and evil‚ right and wrong‚ virtue and vice‚ justice and crime‚ etc. 1.11 Why is Ethics important? Ethics is a requirement for human life. It is our means of deciding a course of action. Without it‚ our actions would be random and aimless. There would be no way to work towards a goal
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of Robertson people have the opportunity to see the ‘truth’ in these highly publicised cases from the perspective of a learned and involved man. Robertson is assumed to be a reliable source of truth by the average reader‚ because he is a celebrated lawyer and has been chosen to represent people as high profiled as the “Princess of Wales”. The genre and format of the text represent certain qualities to the reader‚ along with the social status of Robertson which in turn‚ act to convince them that what
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most everyday settings. The courtroom layout had significant levels of environmental cues relating to the power of the active individuals in the courtroom. The Judge’s bench was elevated and Coat of Arms was placed behind him‚ the bar table for the lawyers and barristers was at the same elevation as each other‚ there was deliberate positioning of the court staff between the judge and all others in the courtroom. The components of the setting and use of traditional wooden furniture made the courtroom
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MANU/SC/1059/2002 Equivalent Citation: AIR2003SC308‚ 2003(1)ALLMR(SC)777‚ 2003 1 AWC(Supp)422SC‚ 2003(1)CGLJ117‚ 95(2003)CLT273(SC)‚ 101(2002)DLT164(SC)‚ JT2002(9)SC619‚ (2003)1MLJ184(SC)‚ (2003)1SCC384‚ 2003(1)UJ331‚ 2003(2)WLN706 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Decided On: 29.11.2002 Appellants: Vikas Deshpande Vs. Respondent: Bar Council of India and Ors. Hon’ble Judges/Coram: V.N. Khare and Ashok Bhan‚ JJ. Counsels: For Appellant/Petitioner/Plaintiff: Party in perso For Respondents/Defendant:
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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY LAW 208 Law‚ Laywers and Society 3 Credit points Unit Guide Semester 1‚ Year 2010 Macquarie Law School Part 1 General information Unit convenor and teaching staff Position: Unit Convenor Name: Therese MacDermott Email: therese.macdermott@law.mq.edu.au Phone: 9850 7067 Office: W3A Room 520 Consultation times: Tuesday 1.30pm-3.30pm and other times by appointment Teaching Staff Name: Lise Barry Email: lise.barry@law.mq.edu.au Phone: 9850 4237 Office:
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arrangements (CFAs) are the most important ways of access to justice in legal aid system. The legal aid also called public funding was introduced after World War II to enable people who could not have access to justice such as affording the services of lawyers‚ solicitors or legal representative to be provided with those services by the State. One of the essential ways of access to justice to people is via CFA. The latter are mostly increasing in terms of funding and it has become popular in England and
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