We are seeing an explosion of unfair competition law claims against lawyers, by lawyers, and
against online legal service providers.
Not exact matches
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«Companies like Apple should not be able to censor
online discussions by making baseless
legal threats
against services like BluWiki that host the discussion,» OdioWorks owner Sam Odio said in a statement.
«For example, the federal government's shared
services administrators might have access, through shared data storage and management infrastructure, to a federal court's records pertaining to an ongoing
legal challenge
against a federal law or the federal government,» he tells the
online legal news publication.
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 lawyers.