Towards the end of last year, national spinal injury charity, Aspire, entered into
an Alternative Business Structure with legal firm, Moore Blatch, to create a Social Enterprise Model called Aspire Law.
Not exact matches
With the United Nations celebrating 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, we also looked into which MBA programs champion cooperative
business management as an
alternative to a more traditional
business structure.
«We are pleased to assist CNY Pipeworx
with their new
business enterprise,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. «This
business can provide Oneida County residents and
businesses with an
alternative to using high priced fossil fuels to heat and cool their
structures.»
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The Group's expansion plans included the provision of legal services through an
Alternative Business Structure (ABS)
with the advent of the Legal Services Act rather than having to outsource such activities.
There are signs that this concept of a total change in culture and working patterns is becoming more popular,
with the Law Society survey reporting that 475
alternative business structures (ABSs) were in operation: 116 more than a year earlier making up 5 % of all firms.
The Court also enacted new attorney Rules of Professional Conduct in March 2015, which allows LLLTs to own a minority interest in law firms
with lawyers, making Washington the first U.S. state to formally permit
alternative business structures (ABSs), which is generally defined as non-lawyer investment and / or ownership in law firms.
Why do you think that firm failed and did it have anything at all to do
with being an
alternative business structure in your judgment?
The first law firms
with non-attorney ownership (
Alternative Business Structures, or ABS) began to open in late 2011 and 2012.
Washington State is now the first state [1] to allow
alternative business structures (ABSs), whereby non-lawyers are authorized to share fees
with lawyers and have ownership interests in law firms via the recently approved Limited License Legal Technician (LLLT) Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC).
Sharon Nelson: Well, David, I know some of our listeners won't have a lot of familiarity
with Alternative Business Structures or ABS as that term applies to law firms.
Broadly these are legal disciplinary practices (LDPs) which are expected to start in the spring of 2009 and
alternative business structures (ABSs) which will not be
with us until 2011 or 2012.
The retailer, together
with two high street firms (John Welch & Stammers and Lawbridge Solicitors Ltd), became the first Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) licensed
alternative business structure (ABS).
The BSB is not yet proposing to authorise
Alternative Business Structures (ABSs)-- entities
with non-lawyer owners and managers — but will in 2015 apply separately to the Legal Services Board to become a licensing authority of ABSs.
For Higgins, an elocution teacher who traded in British class prejudice by offering to improve clients» social standing through posh talk, the education of a woman was essentially a troublesome
Alternative Business Structure (ABS)-- he could work
with the moving parts but the brain remained a mystery....
Reed Smith is considering converting its London office to an
alternative business structure (ABS) as the firm eyes up the possibility of joint ventures and profit - sharing arrangements
with non-lawyer
businesses.
And that fascination developed into an in - depth analysis of
alternative business structures and two very American
businesses — Jacoby & Meyers and LegalZoom — that are trying their hands at ABS
with plans to use what they learn both internationally and (when they can) back in the U.S.A..
Citing globalization, technology, market competition and a need for expanded access to justice, the report says lawyers must be able to work «through new
structures and in conjunction
with other professionals (including
alternative business structures).»
This might sound spooky or even scary to many Canadian lawyers but could become a reality in England and Wales
with the launch of
Alternative Business Structures (ABS) under the UK Legal Services Act.
Irwin Mitchell LLP paid # 5.8 m of its profits into Irwin Mitchell Holdings, the company it set up as part of plans to restructure as an
Alternative Business Structure (ABS), according to limited liability (LLP) accounts recently filed
with Companies House.
Andy Daws, Riverview's vice-president North America, says the 2007 Legal Services Act, which was designed to promote competition, innovation and the public and consumer interest, has made the U.K. «the world's legal laboratory right now,» where experiments in ownership
structure, service delivery, and
alternative business models are being carried out,
with varying degrees of success.
With the Scottish Government currently working on a new regulatory framework that should see so - called
alternative business structures (ABS) introduced in the near future, Mr Boyd said that «ABS is something we would obviously use».
The CMA's study is also good news for newlaw providers and
alternative business structures (ABSs),
with the report saying: «Given that around 600 ABSs have now been licensed, the CMA considers that this is an appropriate time to look again at their impact.»
Update: Another insurer to enter the legal market is RSA, which in 2015 announced that it had been granted
alternative business structure status and had entered into partnership
with Parabis.
A new legal firm, Aspire Law, which is dedicated to providing a specialist service to people
with Spinal Cord Injury, has received approval from the Solicitors Regulation Authority for its
Alternative Business Structure (ABS).
Not only does this
structure permit us to meet our founding purpose — namely, high quality work for substantially less cost — but it also accelerates our evolution into an exceptional national — and to some extent international — law firm that provides
businesses, law firms and attorneys
with a viable
alternative to traditional opportunities.
Many agreed
with the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, which said the role of
alternative business structures in fostering innovation is «overstated.»
As we're on the topic of
alternative business structures (ABS) in the legal profession, I'm just curious as to whether there is any speculation
with regard to the new ``.
Alternative Business Structures (ABS) is all the debate right now in Ontario,
with a current discussion paper released by the law society.
But, while ignoring this problem, which afflicts the majority of the population, the
alternative business structures proposals (ABS proposals) are being very much «fast - tracked» by LSUC to a law society decision —
with comparative lightning speed to serve the interests of commercial investors.
Lawyers On Demand (LOD) is no stranger to
Alternative Business Structure (ABS) innovation, having been the first flexible legal service provider in the UK — pairing freelance lawyers
with clients who need a more versatile legal offering.
Flick is not the only attorney
with concerns, other attorneys have voiced their concern of the interest in
alternative business structures.
It will also move forward contemporaneously
with its study and analysis of developments relating to
alternative business structures.»
At the same time, the Working Group would «also move forward contemporaneously
with its study and analysis of developments relating to
alternative business structures.»
We have been working
with our counterparts in Saskatchewan and Alberta in order to explore how law societies can appropriately and effectively implement entity regulation and allow for
alternative business structures in a coordinated way.
[53] «The following entities are registered
with IPReg as at 30 May 2017,» IPReg, http://ipreg.org.uk/wp-content/files/2017/05/Registered-Bodies-List-170530.pdf; Bar Standards Board, «Entities, Including
Alternative Business Structures,» accessed June 19, 2017, https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/regulatory-requirements/entities,-including-
alternative-
business-
structures/.
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With over twenty - five years of experience representing
businesses and investors from a variety of industries, Mr. Peffer is able to efficiently analyze complex transactions and present clients
with alternative structures to provide tax efficient, pragmatic solutions to achieve the desired business res
with alternative structures to provide tax efficient, pragmatic solutions to achieve the desired
business result.
More specifically, the Issues Paper describes that the group «Regulatory Opportunities» is charged
with studying existing regulatory innovations, such as
alternative business structures and the Canada Bar Association's Legal Futures Initiative Report, and then recommending «regulatory innovations that improve the delivery of, and the public's access to, competent and affordable legal services.»
The work in the Prairie provinces began
with a focus on
alternative business structures (ABS).
David Beech, CEO of Knights discusses his professional services firm
with a successful
alternative business structure (ABS) in the U.K.
And you don't have to be an
alternative business structure to partner
with somebody to have a course.
The ACTLA Board of Directors has serious concerns regarding
Alternative Business Structures (ABS), Non-Lawyer Ownership of law practices (NLO) and other changes being brought forward by the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) including reducing the number of benchers representing its growing membership as well as the lack of full consultation
with the profession on these issues.
A widespread rejection of the hourly rate billing model leaves many firms struggling to come up
with a viable
alternative and without the capability to re-engineer their
business model to support these new fee
structures.
The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (
alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits)
with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.
Law providers, both existing and start - up, operating in the
alternative business structures landscape — and global legal market place for that matter — will require a different type of approach to their
business: even more client - focused but
with a far lower cost - base to enable them to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities that lie ahead.
With alternative business structures adding to the competitiveness of the marketplace, this is becoming increasingly important for all practitioners.
This second offering deals
with the first practical opportunity for changing
businesses under LSA 2007, namely legal disciplinary practices (LDPs); the third will look at the ultimate in opening up of the legal services market,
alternative business structures (ABSs).
As McCarthy Tetrault General Counsel Malcolm Mercer pointed out to me and members of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics on our listerv,» the approval of nearly 50 ABSs [
Alternative Business Structures]... in England and Wales in 2012 (
with the counterpoints of [the ABA's Ethics 2020 Commission] electing to do nothing on the issue in the US and New South Wales in Australia having permitted non-lawyer ownership of ILPs [Incorporated Legal Practices] for the last decade without a «fitness to own» requirement) is important context and perhaps impetus for Canada».
Insurance giant Direct Line Group is set to launch a new legal services venture after applying to the Solicitors Regulation Authority to form an
alternative business structure (ABS) in partnership
with Parabis Law.
With the debate on
alternative business structures heating up, a University of Windsor Faculty of Law professor has prepared a study — commissioned by the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association — that questions one of the benefits touted by proponents: improved access to justice.