Sentences with phrase «alternative business structures issued»
the Law Society of Upper Canada working group on alternative business structures issued a report advising that it «does not propose to further examine any majority or controlling non-licensee ownership models for traditional law firms in Ontario at this time» but it will continue to explore options for «more limited non-licensee ownership models.»
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For example, LSUC ignores the problem and its duties as set out in s. 4.2 of the (Ontario) Law Society Act, while «fast - tracking» the Alternative Business Structures issue (ABS issue) to the quick creation of: (1) an ABS Committee (2) a (biased) ABS Discussion Paper written by the Committee; (3) the online publication of the responses thus obtained; (4) the online publication of a summary of those responses — all done by the work of those self - interested benchers who have campaigned hard to have ABSs made legal; and (5) a proposed vote in 2016 to determine the law society's position as to making ABSs legal.
Not exact matches
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.
«Response to Commission's Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures dated April 8, 2016.»
-- «Comments On: Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures.»
Leech, William M. «Comment: Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures April 8, 2016.»
«Standing Committee on Professionalism Comment on Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures.»
«Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures.»
«New York State Bar Association's Comments on the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services» Issues Papers on Legal Checkups, Unregulated LSP Entities and Alternative Business Structures.»
«For Comment: Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures (ABS).»
«Comments on Issues Paper on Alternative Business Structures.»
-- «For Comment: Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures.»
The law society has been exploring alternative business structures since 2012 when the provincial regulator convened a committee to look into the issue.
According to David, the UK Legal Services Act, passed in 2007, and subsequent regulations issued in 2012, resulted in hundreds of law firms applying for Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licenses.
And the issue as to whether to legalize ABSs (alternative business structures, i.e., commercial & other investors able to own law firms) is very relevant to law societies» ability to prosecute them in Canada for UPL (the unauthorized practice of law).
The BMO report is somewhat timely as it comes just before the Canadian Bar Association is expected to release its much - anticipated Futures report at its annual meeting next month, which will address the issue of alternative business structures for law.
As is apparent from the OTLA, and the many comments on my previous post, the upcoming Bencher elections in Ontario finally have an issue that has grabbed the attention of lawyers across the province: Alternative Business Structures.
There are a variety of issues tied up here, including providing accessible legal services to survivors of domestic abuse, multi-disciplinary partnerships, alternative business structures, and crowdfunding.
[The Commission's Issues Paper regarding alternative business structures] seems to stray from the core of ABA Goal 1 and risks further alienation of our membership.»
In the third of these three Issues Papers («Alternative Business Structures»), the Commission appeared to openly defy the House of Delegates.
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.»
From the outset, the Commission has been transparent about the broad array of issues it is studying and evaluating, including those legal services developments that are viewed by some as controversial, threatening, or undesirable (e.g., alternative business structures).
Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver, Ellyn Rosen, Carol Needham, Robert E. Lutz, Peter D. Ehrenhaft, Transnational Legal Practice: 2006 - 07 Year - in - Review, 42 Int» l L. 833 (2008)(discusses recent alternative business structure developments, including MDP issues)
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.
In November, the Prairie law societies issued a discussion paper in relation to entity regulation, compliance - based regulation and alternative business structures.
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».
While the question of alternative business structures dominated the recent Law Society of Upper Canada bencher elections, there's another major issue about to take centre stage: the decision to accredit or not Trinity Western University's planned law school.
It's the jump - off point for a series of research papers on the future of the profession and looks at three key areas: education; innovation and alternative business structures; and ethics and regulatory issues.
On behalf of the more than 9,000 members and 6,000 firms represented by the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), we believe the benefits of alternative business structures as described in the issues paper outweigh any potential risks.