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36226
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Standards have been adopted to assure legal counsel for all includes those classified as LEP (Limited English Proficiency). It includes services where court interpreters may be provided and tips for attorneys assisting LEP clients. To demonstrate the need for this service these statistics: cases involving domestic violence and homelessness; children and seniors eligible for legal aid but not receiving it because of this cultural barrier.
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36227
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As public servants, attorneys are called to help all attain a better quality life. Barriers that lawyers can assist with overcoming are predatory lending, fraud, and consumer rights’ violation. Attesting the severity of and need to overcome these barriers are three attorneys’ success stories.
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36228
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The inability to achieve work-life balance and manage stress leads to burnout. Demonstrating to attorneys the need for balance is burnout’s physical and emotional consequences. To help lawyers attain a better quality life on both sides of the bench are tips for managing stress. Also offered are ways to balance the energy expended on their personal and professional lives.
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36229
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Managing time and organizing billing methods more efficiently and effectively help to delineate between good and great paralegals. To help paralegals cross that line are suggestions of professional behaviors such as communication methods and computer programs such as Needles.
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41200
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The author’s experience as a law clerk offered a good delineation between the ideal and the real. The ideal was law school (represented by discourse on justice and truth). The real was the courtroom (in Rand’s experience, real was defined by editing lawyers’ briefs containing incomplete sentences). His conclusion: the courtroom was a better of the two classrooms.
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41201
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Interview with PA attorney Erwin Spainhour addresses many law related topics: the perception of lawyers and the legal profession; the origins of the negative perceptions; ways to make legal assistance more affordable; effective ways to train trial lawyers; Spainhour’s opinion of the effectiveness of the disciplinary program of the state bar and the Grievance Committee; and goals he plans to accomplish during his tenure as President of the State Bar.
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41202
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Attorney Blount recalled the introduction and enduring place that computers and the Internet play in his life as a lawyer and on the direction that the legal profession in NC has been taking the past four decades as a result.
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41203
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Attorney Purcell recounted the positive and negative impact that implementing technology such as computers, Microsoft programs, and the Internet into the life of his firm. Included is a list of tips for successfully integrating these technological tools into day to day business operations.
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41204
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As an employee of Duke Power Company’s Legal Department, Vaughn’s work entailed little travel and the conveniences of working from the office. Then two life changes occurred: a move to the Duke Power location in Charlotte that entailed keeping another “office” in Washington DC; the birth of her first child. Also discussed were the impact of these two major professional and personal life changes.
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41205
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Sam Byasee’s recollection of how the Internet has impacted lawyers over the past two decades, particularly how the Internet has changed the attorney-client relationship through the inclusion of email as a communication tool. With the advantages of the Internet highlighted, he included two traditional (e.g. printed) resources that can be helpful to individuals in the legal profession.
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41206
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In Parnell’s account of the impact that computers have made on attorneys, his view clashed with ones his firm who had a digital native perspective on the value and purpose for this technological tool on the legal profession and a firm’s day to day operations.
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41207
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William Skeel’s support for both the Internet and CDs as complementary research tools to traditional (e.g printed) forms of research tools is underscored in his assertion of their impact on digital research and the legal profession.
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41208
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The Internet is a substantial resource for lawyers, as D’Amico acknowledged in the discussion of its purposes and resources noted, in particular listserv and fee based online services. For its importance and advantages, the author includes examples of print based legal resources for attorneys still adjusting to the inclusion of this digital resource in the legal profession.
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41209
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Lundsford related the irony of the State Bar, the watchdog for North Carolina’s legal profession, finding itself on the other side of the counsel table through lawsuits by lawyers facing charges such as disbarment and decertification.
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41210
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Though the classic film is referenced to and inspired the author’s view of the legal profession,
The executive director of the North Carolina State Bar’s account is truly about how the State Bar contributes to the value and roles of legal representatives of the Old North State.
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