Sentences with phrase «nonlawyer providers»

Previously labeled the «forgotten middle class,» clients of moderate means have become an increasingly important source of revenue for the American lawyer, which (ironically) is now being threatened by the pro se movement and nonlawyer providers, also descendants of the legal clinic movement

Previously labeled the «forgotten middle class,» clients of moderate means have become an increasingly important source of revenue for the American lawyer, which (ironically) is now being threatened by the pro se movement and nonlawyer providers, also descendants of the legal clinic movement

Not exact matches

Adding in nonlawyers to the WSBA Board of Governors seems like a no - brainer to reflect the broader service providers in the state.

This notion of a niche offering by nonlawyer service providers for otherwise pro se clients provides opportunities for LLLTs and firms to leverage the unique offering because the LLLT does not need to be supervised like a paralegal.

Note About Terminology: A variety of terms are used to refer to organizations that are owned and / or managed by one or more nonlawyers and / or that are multidisciplinary practices (in other words, to refer to legal service providers that are not the traditional structures of either sole practitioner or law firm partnership).

In doing so, England and Wales now permit nonlawyers to own and manage legal service providers, subject to a fitness test, and also permit multidisciplinary practices.

Does the choice of wording for this clause imply that it is fine for nonlawyers (together or not with lawyers) to own legal service providers — regardless of how wide the range of services they provide — as long as those providers are operated as companies or not - for profit organizations and instead of as traditional «law firms?»

[25] And in its Issues Paper Concerning New Categories of Legal Services Providers, the Futures Commission made a point of explaining that the paper's concept of authorizing and regulating nonlawyer legal service providers «is consistent with the longstanding ABA policy in support of state - based judicial regulation of the legal professioProviders, the Futures Commission made a point of explaining that the paper's concept of authorizing and regulating nonlawyer legal service providers «is consistent with the longstanding ABA policy in support of state - based judicial regulation of the legal professioproviders «is consistent with the longstanding ABA policy in support of state - based judicial regulation of the legal profession.»

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.