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This, the third in a series of videos in which law students put questions to Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg, looks at the impact of alternative business structures on the legal market, and the ways in which big law firms are developing innovative ways of delivering value to their clients.

She is at work on a book - length look at the effect of alternative business structures on legal practice in the U.K., Australia and the U.S., to be released by ABA Publishing.

Not exact matches

Blake counsels asset managers and broker - dealers on all aspects of the development and distribution of alternative investment products, including registered investment companies, business development companies, and other permanent or long - term capital structures, as well as hedge funds and private equity funds.

In August of last year, however, the CBA Legal Futures Initiative released its report Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada on alternative business structures (ABSs) and multi-disciplinary practices (MDPs).

, at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811627; (2) «Alternative Business Structures» «Charity Step» to Ending the General Practitioner» (SSRN, pdf), at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020489; and, (3) my forthcoming post on Slaw for Tuesday, October 3rd, «' Apps» and the Waning of the Solicitor - Client Relationship.»

It would be really easy to read last week's report from the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures as thoughtful and considered.

Memo to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

«ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services — Alternative Business Structures.»

Gehl, Nicholas E. Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

[19] Women's Paralegal Association of Ontario, Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures, January 30, 2015, 2 - 3, http://www.lsuc.on.ca/uploadedFiles/Womens%20Paralegal%20Association%20of%20Ontario.pdf.

«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.»

Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

Technology, the glut of new lawyers, structural changes in BigLaw, alternative business structures, the growth of intelligent forms — all are leaving a lasting impression on the practice of law.

A noteworthy aspect of the Canadian debate on whether to introduce alternative business structures into the legal services sector is the emphasis being given to the potential of ABS to improve access to justice.

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.»

Looking further ahead, when alternative business structures come into effect, which is currently predicted for 2011, there will presumably be the need for a major overhaul of the rules on separate businesses and recognised bodies.

This, the third in a series of videos in which law students put questions to Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg, looks at the impact of alternative business structures and the return of the big accounting firms to law on the legal market of the future.

Looking at current initiatives like the Nova Scotia's Barristers» Society's Transforming Regulation consultation and the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business structures, it is apparent that right now there is significant «big picture» thinking going on at Canadian law societies about how to innovate and modernize lawyer regulation.

As we're on the topic of alternative business structures (ABS) in the legal profession, I'm just curious as to whether there is any speculation with regard to the new ``.

Another take on this is the formation of Kim Technologies, which has helped its parent Riverview Law (an alternative business structure in the U.K.), transition away from being a legal services provider enabled by technology that is unable to carry on business in North America.

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.

And it is done on terms not materially different from those of «alternative business structures» in the UK and Australia.

Last year, the University of St. Mary's School of Law selected Jayne Reardon, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, to write a piece about the possibility of lawyers practicing in an alternative business structure (ABS) for the school's law review.

Scotland, for example, allows up to 49 % non-lawyer ownership in order to maintain lawyer control, and British Columbia's 2011 report on Alternative Business Structures spoke approvingly of this middle way.

He was the keynote speaker in 2012 at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada on Alternative Business Structures, and subsequently made presentations on ABS to Benchers at Law Society of British Columbia and Barreau du Québec, and three times to Benchers of Law Society of Upper Canada.

Keen students of the changing legal services market will recall that we launched on the very day that alternative business structures (ABSs) were introduced under the Legal Services Act.

On 6 April 2011, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) published its new Handbook, six months ahead of what it fanfares will, from next October, be «the advent of a new type of law firm, alternative business structures, and a radically new approach by the SRA to its work».

Especially if you insist on repeating the same argument about evils of alternative business structures and legal advice services that will destroy the profession ad nauseam.

There has been a lot of debate over what adverse effects alternative business structures and ownership models will have on the core values of the legal profession, including lawyer independence, client confidentiality, and the duties owed by lawyers to a client — particularly the duty to avoid conflicts of interest.

You say that allowing for alternative business structures would lead to «anti-competitive consolidations, loss of very hard - won independence of the legal profession as lawyers become the puppets of outside profit seekers, an irreversible compromising of legal ethics, and so on».

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.

But, as revealed by the Initiative's consultations, Canadian lawyers are divided on the current state of legal market as well as the benefits of Alternative Business Structures («ABS»):

The judgment has refocused attention on the application of LPP to partnerships between lawyers and accountants which may emerge once provisions allowing legal services to be offered through «alternative business structures» (or ABSs) under the Legal Services Act 2007 come into force, as anticipated for late 2011.

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».

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.»

Prior to the election, the Ontario Trial Lawyers» Association published on its web site a list of benchers who opposed the introduction of alternative business structures, urging its members to vote for those candidates opposed to ABS.

The prospect of Tesco or the Co-op owning a law firm or offering legal services had leader writers in the English legal press in a tizzy, but the Legal Services Board today produced a complex consultation document on Alternative Business Structures which sets out eligibility tests for significant equity investments in firms providing legal services.

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.

With the debate on alternative business structures heating up, a University of Windsor Faculty of Law professor has prepared a study — commissioned by the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association — that questions one of the benefits touted by proponents: improved access to justice.

An illustration of how quickly organisations and entrepreneurs have capitalised on the deregulation of the legal industry is the rise in alternative business structures (ABSs).

The Law Society of Upper Canada will continue to dither on Alternative Business Structures and will make no decision on this creature in 2015;

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.

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