Alternative business structures offer that flexibility — they can be many different things.
Not exact matches
Big firms and
alternative business structures can scale to the point where they will be able to
offer superior legal help at lower prices (even access - to - justice prices).
Insurance company Direct Line Group and Parabis Law have applied to set up an
alternative business structure (ABS), DLG Legal Services,
offering before - the - event (BTE) legal insurance for personal injury, non-injury claims, employment, debt recovery and contract issues.
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....
As an «
alternative business structure» it can employ staff (including solicitors) and
offer a full range of legal services direct to the public, by no means limited to legal aid.
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.
The judgment has refocused attention on the application of LPP to partnerships between lawyers and accountants which may emerge once provisions allowing legal services to be
offered through «
alternative business structures» (or ABSs) under the Legal Services Act 2007 come into force, as anticipated for late 2011.
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).
The prospect of Tesco or the Co-op owning a law firm or
offering legal services had leader writers in the English legal press in a tizzy, but the Legal Services Board today produced a complex consultation document on
Alternative Business Structures which sets out eligibility tests for significant equity investments in firms providing legal services.
The AA has applied to become an
alternative business structure (ABS) as the motoring giant weighs up whether to expand its legal
offering to cover services such as property and employment advice.
Saga has applied to become an
alternative business structure as the company moves to broaden the range of legal services it
offers in partnership with Parabis Group.