Sentences with phrase «when nonlawyers»

When nonlawyers manage law firms, the fur will begin to fly.

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ABS came to England when, tellingly, a nonlawyer, an accountant, delivered a report to the Government that the Government wanted him to produce.

The opinion also says that, when retaining a nonlawyer from outside the firm, the lawyer has further obligations to ensure that the nonlawyer's services are provided in a manner that is compatible with the lawyer's professional obligations.

Without minimizing the importance of that debate, UPL restrictions raise a second and equally important issue: The laws in place in the United States today allocate the entire legal services market to the legal profession — to the legal profession only — and those laws (more or less successfully) support bar associations and other groups of lawyers when they attempt to keep nonlawyers and nontraditional structures out of the market.

These include personalized user interfaces; automatic display of citing sources when a cursor is placed over a passage of a primary legal document; automatic display of relevant commentaries below or alongside a primary legal text; and user ratings of user - contributed commentary, to help nonlawyers assess the quality of content.

For a lawyer's duties when sharing information with nonlawyers outside the lawyer's own firm, see Comments [3] and [4] to Rule 5.3.

When I asked Freeman what nonlawyers should understand about their lawyer - spouse's world, she said:

Under Model Rules 5.1 (c) and 5.3 (c), a lawyer is responsible for the conduct of another person — lawyer or nonlawyer — in the firm if either (i) the lawyer ordered the conduct or knowingly ratified the conduct, or (ii) the lawyer, in a partnership or managerial role, or with «a direct supervisory authority,» knew of the conduct at a time when its consequences could have been avoided or mitigated but failed to take reasonable remedial action.

Indeed, when Legal Disciplinary Partnerships (LDPs), which allow nonlawyers to hold equity within law firms, became permitted under an earlier stage of the LSA in March 2009, Irwin Mitchell was among the first to convert to this new status.

When significant changes to that structure are proposed and nonlawyers enter into the mix, some folks may feel uneasy.

When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyWhen I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawywhen I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawywhen I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.

(See my article at http://www.florida-attorneys-at-law.com/therapeutic-jurisprudence.htm The problem is particularly bad when advertising solicits members of the public to «contact any professional» — including nonlawyers — to obtain legal information.