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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Legal Profession"”.
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Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession
The organization of professional work-that of lawyers, doctors, and accountants, among others-is undergoing change. One of the most notable changes is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into component tasks and their allocation to different sources of labor. The legal …
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The Manx Bar: The History and Development of a Unique Legal Profession
… of the Irish sea, shaped its own independent legal profession, whilst being less than 30 miles from three developed legal professions: England, Ireland and Scotland. It charts how Manx lawyers developed from a small group of self-taught men into a unique legal well-trained profession. It …
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Socialisation problems of entrants into the legal profession during articles of clerkship
… integration of entrants into the South African legal profession. Two types of problems were investigated. Firstly, typical entrant problems; that is, problems which typically are experienced by newcomers into organisations. Secondly, problems which are specifically related to the race and/or …
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The impact of anti-money laundering legislation on the legal profession in South Africa
… approach lawyers to assist them in their illegal endeavours. The legal profession is almost tailor-made for abuse by launderers, because lawyers work with huge amounts of money, clients are entitled to legal professional privilege and the right to legal representation is guaranteed …
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Gender at Work: A Mixed Methods Study of Workplace Inequalities in the Quebec Legal Profession
The legal profession in Canada was traditionally occupied by men. A sweeping feminization of the legal profession occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing more women to the practice of law. Quebec was the last province to admit women to law. Today, Quebec—with its bi-juridical system of avocat.e.s …
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Women in the legal profession in South Africa: traversing the tensions from the bar to the bench
… the experiences of women who have entered the profession, specifically the advocate’s profession, more commonly known as the Bar. Closer scrutiny of women in the profession in this way will determine whether and to what extent patriarchal normative attitudes still operative in the legal …
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Same action, different reaction? Exploring the impact of legal profession, defendant race, and prospective juror race on perceptions of juror excusals
… students (N = 574) assumed the role of a legal professional (Crown vs. defense vs. judge) in a (Black vs. White) defendant’s trial and excused any number of prospective jurors from a panel of 20. All three hypotheses derived from Sommers and Norton (2007) were supported: mock-Crown …
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Caseflow management and the politics of professionalism : lawyers and independent paralegals
… that political will has been dominated by the legal profession which has influenced the Ministry of the Attorney General to limit the term~ of reference for caseflow management and its application to a narrow range of alternatives which are primarily in the interest of the legal profession. …
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The effects of culture on attorney preservation of the confidentiality of client information
… others. The rules, practices and values of the legal profession in Chile, India and the United States were studied in respect to two dimensions of culture: individualism-collectivism and power distance. The content analysis of the three ethics codes studied supported the research hypothesis that …
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Salient professionals, a silent profession: the rise, prominence, and marginalization of lawyers in Korea under Japan’s rule 1906-1945
… examines how lawyers emerged as powerful professionals during the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea (1906-1945) even as the legal profession, as a whole, remained relatively disempowered. After the registration of the first three Korean lawyers as litigation experts in 1906, lawyers …
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Doing justice?: towards a new understanding of the lawyer-client relationship
… disciplines for over half a century. The legal profession has received significant academic attention from many different quarters for many years. Authors have approached the field motivated by myriad concerns and from radically different perspectives, and have often presented strikingly …
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Lawyers, Legal Executives and Competing Claims for Professional Jurisdiction: A Study of Professional Organisations and Occupational Roles within a Legal Marketplace in Transition
… that solicitors maintain with their auxiliary profession - legal executives, and the strategies the professional associations seek to invoke to enable them to keep abreast of a changing legal marketplace. Recent years have seen considerable changes in the way that legal services are delivered …
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The emergence of the forensic and legal project manager
The worldwide emergence of the distinct legal project manager role is symbolic of the evolving shifts in the management structure of legal projects within all legal service provider entities and brings a new career path for legal environments. This context statement offers a self-reflection of my …
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Continuity and change: the professional lives and culture of self-employed barristers in England and Wales
… responded to the reforms that have reshaped the profession in the last 25 years, to assess if and how their professional lives and perceptions of Bar identity and culture have changed as a result. The loss of its advocacy monopoly, cuts to legal aid, the liberalisation of the rules governing the …
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The Law Society of Ontario’s Assessment of Capacity in Relation to Mental Illness: A Critical Analysis
… of psychopathology—are especially acute in the legal profession. The Law Society of Ontario (“Law Society”), the regulator of the legal professions in the province, has a role to play in addressing these issues, particularly due to its statutory jurisdiction over the capacity of lawyers and …
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Courting gender bias: an examination of women’s experiences in the profession of law in Kansas
… bias and other gendering processes within the profession of law in Kansas. Although women have made great strides toward equality within the law profession, there are still glaring disparities between men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Women enter law school at similar rates as men do; …
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Lawyers in New South Wales, 1856-1914 : the evolution of a colonial profession
Between 1856 and 1914 the character of the legal profession in New South Wales changed markedly. It evolved from being a small group of primarily British practitioners with no real foundations in the colony into an independent and cohesive colonial profession strongly conscious of the need to …
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Lawyers in New South Wales, 1856-1914 : the evolution of a colonial profession
Between 1856 and 1914 the character of the legal profession in New South Wales changed markedly. It evolved from being a small group of primarily British practitioners with no real foundations in the colony into an independent and cohesive colonial profession strongly conscious of the need to …
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Contract Law in the Age of Complexity
… century. This wave of law deeply affected the legal system: the procedures, legal methods, reporting, weight and nature of precedent, court hierarchy, and underlying philosophy were all radically transformed. It began a new period termed ‘the Age of Complexity’ in which the total volume of …
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