But even if Sir David's proposals are enacted, will the legal profession become much more consumer-oriented?
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If discretion is a signature imperative of the legal profession, Donziger is a rather unorthodox lawyer.
Take, for example, the legal profession, which has varying requirements for a baseline amount of pro-bono services.
While women have made strides in the legal profession, at law firms few are taking management positions.
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Wall Street ranks alongside the legal profession and Hollywood as a plank in almost any presidential candidate's fund-raising.
Similar problems are bedevilling the legal profession, which is suffering from a grave shortage of lawyers and judges.
That being said, there are far too many criminals and liars in the legal profession and in government.
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His approach to consulting was heavily influenced by the legal profession, which had been his first choice of career.
Still the number of minorities entering the legal profession is remarkably low and the problem is especially bad for African-Americans.
Yet, providing professional skills to meet critical community needs is a win for any industry, not just the legal profession.
It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
During the campaign, she met Steven Brill, who had recently started an irreverent magazine on the legal profession, The American Lawyer.
But perhaps this scorn for the legal profession, and these proposals, are not only the product of populism combined with pragmatism.
In the legal profession, an impressive 26% said they would add jobs starting April 1, and none said they'd be eliminating them.
Professional rules governing the legal profession force lawyers into a narrow groove, scriveners who don't attend to a deal's underlying business aspects.
The bill also proposes a new regulatory framework for the legal profession.
The idea has been popular with some top names in the legal profession, who are keen to see the gender imbalance redressed.
But I never achieved anything near her stature in the legal profession.
"That's a historic low, " said James Jones, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law.
The programme confirms a problem which I experienced in over 25 years in the legal profession - attaching proper weight to expert evidence.
Brickman starts with a simple example that says much of what you need to know about how the legal profession works in this country.
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Not surprisingly, given the legal profession, Altera is also suing Xilinx.
Meanwhile, the public can decide whether the lawyers at Paul, Weiss who are volunteering at Guantanamo are an example of the legal profession's noblest traditions.
And anti-tobacco lawsuits are the legal profession's equivalent of Silicon Valley.
Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System explains that the legal profession has self-serving tendencies.
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The solicitor told a jury how he was "excited" to be part of Stirling-based clothing firm Labarito Limited as it was "different from the legal profession".
But he instead opted for a career in the legal profession, going to Aberyswyth University and later Downing College, Cambridge University, before qualifying as a barrister.
Trevor Lunn of the Alliance party, a former insurance agent, criticised the part of the legal profession that published advertisements "touting for business" for personal injury claims.
They may even split the legal profession in two: big corporate clients will pair off with the big-five firms, leaving independent law firms with private clients only.
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