Sentences with phrase «listing nonlawyer»
Larger firms, on the other hand, may suffer from their own caste system that keeps them from listing nonlawyer tech experts on EDD practice pages, Friedmann predicts.
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The ABA's Commission on the Future of Legal Services may play a role in this game as it considers the new practices nonlawyers are using to deliver legal services — something the U.K. has through its list of reserved activities only licensed lawyers may do.
For example, if a firm lists its partners on its letterhead or on its website, then the nonlawyer's name must be included, or that would be considered a misrepresentation or omission in violation of Rules 7.1 and 7.5.
Does it — could it — also encompass structures, be they companies or other types of organizations, that are owned in whole or in part by nonlawyers, and that provide legal services outside the limited contexts of existing companies like the ones listed above, but in «nontraditional» manner such that it could be difficult to describe the structure as a traditional «law firm»?
Lawyers in most places are not permitted to share fees with nonlawyers, practice in firms owned by both lawyers and nonlawyers, use nonlawyers to feed business to lawyers, or list unlicensed nonlawyers as legal practitioners on stationery or advertising.