scholarly journals Professional Competence Is a Condition Precedent to Effective Management-An Argument for Practice Leaders in Legal Service Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Primary Element ◽  
Practice Leader

There is an unstated argument with an unsettling currency in today’s organizations: Those that can’t do, lead. The concept of management has devolved from a position that facilitates productivity and navigates workplace challenges, to a type of “bullshit job.” To adherents of this philosophy, competence in one’s vocation, profession or business is unnecessary in order to excel as a manager in that vocation, profession or business.In professional environments technical competence in one’s occupation is a condition precedent to good management. Technically competent managers come to positions of leadership with occupational gravitas. Occupational gravitas is forged from experience and imbues those who possess it with the confidence to effectively navigate the challenges confronting their organization. It is earned from experience dealing with the particular challenges of one’s occupation.Leadership skills are an adjunct to the occupational competence necessary for good management in professional environments. The concept that leadership skills are separate and apart from occupational competence, rather than ancillary to it, in the execution of good management is herein explicitly rejected.People placed in positions of authority who lack experience, or are otherwise incompetent, bring with them not gravitas, but fear. Fear is the primary element from which springs management failures, and through which such failures are expressed. Incompetent leadership is not only dangerous to legal service provider organizations and their employees, but also exposes clients to dire consequences. In a legal services environment, bad management really is a public protection issue.The model of a “practice leader,” is the paradigm through which legal service organizations can model their management style. A practice leader is both an accomplished attorney as well as a leader. Practice leaders understand the work and the environment in which it is produced. This is important because it is they and the organization that are ultimately responsible for the work of their subordinates. Failure of leadership in a legal service environment can not only lead to litigation but could also lead to professional discipline when subordinates engage in misconduct.

Study intentions to stick with the profession of legal counselors at legal service organizations in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Trương Duc Thao ◽  
Vu Quang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equations ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Model Estimation ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Survey Results

This study is based on the survey results of 398 legal counselors working at 50 organizations providing legal services (law firms, law firms, notary offices, etc) in Vietnam. intention to stick with the job under the influence of a number of factors. Data collection was conducted during the period from March 7 to 8, 2020, the data collected is processed in software on SPSS2 0 and AMOS24, model estimation and testing hypotheses by structural equations (SEM). Research has identified four factors affecting the intention to stick with a career of legal counselors in legal consulting service organizations in Vietnam. On that basis, the study gives some recommendations to improve policies and legal regulations on developing a contingent of legal advisors in law firms in Vietnam.

On Introducing New Information Technologies in Jurisprudence

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Mitin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Electronic Trading ◽  
New Information ◽  
Legal Space

The article discusses the possibilities of automation of legal activities. Special attention is paid to the new branch of the business LegalTech, which allows providing legal services using information technology. Some projects in this area are briefly described: FreshDoc document designer, VideoContract app, and electronic trading platforms such as Legal Space and Pravoved.Ru. Although the legal community is not quite ready to work in such conditions, higher education institutions are already reforming their curricula, developing disciplines that allow gaining professional competence in introducing technologies that automate legal work, and so on. The author, in turn, offers using chat bots in legal clinics, gives examples of new disciplines for master’s degree programs, considers the idea of passing final examinations outside universities in certification centers, etc. It is emphasized that in jurisprudence there are a lot of typical situations in which typical decisions need to be made, and here artificial intelligence will be a good helper, and scientists will have more time to undertake a comprehensive analysis of law. Thus, even with the advent of new technologies, the creative work of lawyers will always be in demand.

Big 4 Firms as Legal Service Providers: Implications for Audit Practice and Future Research Directions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Herda ◽  
Jonathan H. Grenier ◽  
Billy E. Brewster ◽  
Mary E Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The U.S

The Big 4 accounting firms have expanded their legal service arms to historic proportions over the last decade, employing thousands of lawyers around the world. Although most of the Big 4's revenue from legal services is presently generated outside the U.S., they are now making inroads into the U.S. legal market, and rule changes are being considered that would further allow the Big 4 to offer legal services in the U.S. This essay summarizes the current status of Big 4 firms as legal service providers, discusses potential implications of legal offerings for their U.S. audit practices, and suggests directions for future research. Our proposed research questions are informed by several literatures, interviews with former Big 4 partners and practicing attorneys, and a survey of the general public. They center on the fundamental difference between audit and law practices, brand equity considerations, and culture changes within the Big 4.

Does context really matter? The influence of deficient legal services on the intensity of political ties in the regulatory and legal arenas

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
George O. White III ◽  
Thomas A. Hemphill ◽  
Tazeeb Rajwani ◽  
Jean J. Boddewyn
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Foreign Subsidiary ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Foreign Subsidiaries ◽  
Institutional Voids ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Ties ◽  
Managerial Perceptions

Purpose The purpose of this study is to apply the institution-based view and resource dependence theory in arguing that perceived deficiencies in a legal service sector where a foreign subsidiary operates will influence the intensity of its political ties with actors in both the regulatory and legal arenas. The authors further theorized that these relationships will vary across governance environments. Design/methodology/approach The research context for this study was multinational enterprises (MNE) wholly owned foreign subsidiaries and international joint ventures (IJVs) operating in the Philippines and Thailand. Data for most variables in this study came from primary survey data collected in 2018 from senior managers of MNE WOSs and IJVs operating in the Philippines and Thailand. Findings The authors’ analysis of 352 foreign subsidiaries operating in the Philippines and Thailand show that, in a flawed democracy, perceived deficient legal services enhance the intensity of foreign subsidiary political ties with government actors in both the regulatory and legal arena. However, in a hybrid regime, perceived deficient legal services enhance only the intensity of foreign subsidiary political ties with government actors in the regulatory arena. The authors’ findings also suggest that the relationship between perceived deficiencies in legal service sector and the intensity of political ties is stronger for foreign subsidiaries that operate in heavily regulated industries across both a flawed democracy and hybrid regime. Conversely, the authors do not find the market orientation of these foreign subsidiaries to play a role in this process. Research limitations/implications The authors’ study was unable to control for whether managerial perceptions of deficient legal services were well informed at the local or federal level. This issue raises the question of will the presence of an in-house legal department influence managerial perceptions with regard to deficiencies within a legal service sector? Based on these limitations, the authors suggest that future research can further extend political ties research by using a fine-grained analysis in investigating the antecedents of managerial perceptions of legal services within different legal jurisdictions. Originality/value The political ties literature has largely argued that political ties are more prevalent in environmental contexts comprising institutional voids as MNEs attempt to mitigate volatility associated with the lack of developed institutional infrastructure (e.g. Blumentritt & Nigh, 2002; Bucheli et al., 2018). However, the concept of institutional voids is very broad and still rather abstract in nature. Hence, scholars have yet to fully understand what types of institutional voids may drive MNE foreign subsidiary political tie intensity in varying governance contextsThe authors’ study attempts to contribute to this important line of research by investigating how one type of institutional void, namely, perceived deficiencies in the legal service sector, can influence the intensity of political ties in varying governance environments.

Toward Improved Legal Service Delivery: A Look at Four Mechanisms

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barlow F. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Private Practitioners ◽  
Referral Service ◽  
Specialty Certification ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Do So

A legal service delivery system intended to facilitate the providing of services by private practitioners should, to be complete, include among its functions three that are of special importance. First, it should diagnose legal problems. Second, it should make available to a person with a legal problem the information needed for informed selection of a lawyer. And third, it should, when necessary, help the prospective client to make the initial contact with a lawyer. Lawyer advertising, specialty certification, lawyer directories, and lawyer referral services perform some of these functions, but no one mechanism performs all three adequately. A system combining the lawyer directory with an expanded lawyer referral service might do so and thus might be a more complete answer to the problem of delivery of legal services.

Legal Systems & Skills

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Slorach ◽  
Judith Embley ◽  
Peter Goodchild ◽  
Catherine Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Finance Law ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Essential Knowledge

Legal Systems & Skills provides essential knowledge and skills for underpinning legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students’ understanding in three core areas: legal systems, legal skills, and professional development and commercial awareness. The first part of the book looks at legal systems, sources of law, legislation, case law, and legal services. The next part considers how to read and understand law, legal research, problem solving, communication, and writing and drafting. The final part examines employability skills, business, economics and finance, law firms, and clients.

scholarly journals Risk factors for the emergence of moral alienation of students in the educational environment of a modern university

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08029
Author(s):  
Zalina Malieva ◽  
Boris Takhokhov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychological Risks

The problem of alienation of youth from traditional cultural and moral values is one of the urgent in the modern information world. For a comprehensive solution to this problem in the educational process of the university, it is necessary to determine the risk factors emergence for the moral alienation of students. The article reveals the content of the main risk groups: 1) external risks caused by the general cultural tendencies of the modern world (the sociocultural crisis of the information civilization associated with the loss of a stable worldview by a person); 2) information risks arising from the use of information technology (massive impact of rapidly growing volumes of heterogeneous information; attractiveness of the virtual world); 3) organizational and pedagogical risks caused by negative phenomena in the educational space (low level of professional competence; irrational organization of the educational process); 4) psychological risks associated with factors of causing psychological damage to students in the process of interpersonal relations (professional burnout of a teacher; authoritarian management style; psychological violence, low self-esteem of a student). The results of the study allow us to identify the main areas of pedagogical activity on the prevention of moral alienation of students at a university.

Legal Service Plans: A Typology

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-509
Author(s):  
Werner Pfennigstorf ◽  
Spencer L. Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
Optimal Efficiency

Serious questions have been raised of late both within and outside the legal profession about the adequacy of the bar's organization for the delivery of legal services. It is thought that business enterprises and affluent individuals get the service they need-although perhaps at excessive cost and with less than optimal efficiency-but that most of the population are underserved and have serious difficulty in finding legal assistance at all or at an affordable cost.

Reflection on nursing management: are we all competent?

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
Luiza De Oliveira Pitthan ◽  
Laura De Azevedo Guido ◽  
Graciele Fernanda da Costa Linch
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Specialized Unit ◽  
Theoretical Reflection ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACTObjective: to reflect on competencies of the nurse in managing health services. Methods: Theoretical reflection. As source of attainment of the data one used articles argued in disciplines “Theoretical Conceptions in Management and Work” of the Program of masters degree in nursing/UFSM and other articles selected in the databases Lilacs and Medline, combined the experiences manager of a specialized unit. Results: it is observed that most of the nurses is not prepared to accept other organization forms, different from the classic structure, adopted for many years in the nursing. Some characteristics of that management style, as the fragmentation of the activities, the impessoalidade in the relation, the centralization of the power and the rigid hierarchy are still outstanding in the nurse work. Conclusion: it is highlighted that the development of competencies depends on the situations lived and the exchanges that are made in the search for a common ideal, which is the assistance to the individual. Descriptors: nursing; management; practice management; professional competence. RESUMOObjetivo: refletir sobre as competências do enfermeiro para a gerência dos serviços de saúde. Métodos: reflexão teórica. Como fonte de obtenção dos dados tilizaram-se artigos discutidos na disciplina “Concepções Teóricas em Gestão e Trabalho”, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem/UFSM, e outros artigos selecionados nas bases de dados Lilacs (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde) e Medline (Literatura Internacional em Ciências da Saúde), aliados às vivências como gerente de uma unidade especializada. Resultados: observa-se que a maior parte dos enfermeiros não está preparada para aceitar outras formas de organização diferentes da estruturação clássica, adotada por muitos anos na enfermagem. Algumas características desse estilo de gerência, como a fragmentação das atividades, a impessoalidade nas relações, a centralização do poder e a rígida hierarquia ainda são marcantes no trabalho do enfermeiro. Conclusão: destaca-se que o desenvolvimento das competências depende das situações vividas e das trocas que realizamos com os nossos pares, na busca por um ideal comum, que é a assistência ao indivíduo de quem cuidamos. Descritores: enfermagem; gerência; gerenciamento de prática profissional; competência profissional. RESUMENObjetivo: reflexionar sobre las competencias del enfermero para la gerencia de los servicios de salud. Métodos: reflexión teórica. Para la obtención de los datos fueron utilizados artículos discutidos en la asignatura “Concepciones Teóricas en Gestión y Trabajo” (Concepções Teóricas em Gestão e Trabalho) del Programa de Pos-Grado en Enfermería/UFSM y otros artículos seleccionados en las bases de datos Lilacs y Medline, juntamente con la experiencia que se ha obtenido al ser gerente de una unidad especializada. Resultados: se observa que la mayoría de los enfermeros no está preparada para aceptar otras formas de organización, diferentes de la estructura clásica, adoptada por durante muchos años en enfermería. Algunas características de ese estilo de gerenciamiento, como la fragmentación de las actividades, la impersonalidad en las relaciones, la centralización del poder y la rígida jerarquía aún son preponderantes en el trabajo del enfermero. Conclusión: se destaca que el desarrollo de las competencias depende de las situaciones vividas y de los cambios que realizamos con nuestros pares, en la búsqueda de un ideal común, que es la asistencia al individuo a quien cuidamos.  Descriptores: Enfermería; Gerencia; Manejo práctico; Competencia profesional. 

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