Sentences with phrase «alternative business structures represent»

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However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

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 result.

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.

(3) its recent handling of the «alternative business structures proposals» (ABS proposals) for the potential millions of dollars in legal fees to be earned by representing investors eager to own law firms.

As a result, all lawyers in Canada are vulnerable to the opportunism that «alternative business structures» represent.

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.