Sentences with phrase «out of alternative business structures»

At this stage in the roll - out of alternative business structures, there «remained a role for the LSB», conceded Baroness Deech in a debate in the House of Lords last week kicked off by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) chair.

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Not one to mince words, he summed up his industry outlook by saying, «Retail guys are going to go out of business and ecommerce will become the place everyone buys... Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there's a viable alternative.

We now have alternative business structures out of the UK and a myriad of companies providing legal advisory and LPO services without the fee - draining partnership model.

Andy Daws, Riverview's vice-president North America, says the 2007 Legal Services Act, which was designed to promote competition, innovation and the public and consumer interest, has made the U.K. «the world's legal laboratory right now,» where experiments in ownership structure, service delivery, and alternative business models are being carried out, with varying degrees of success.

Based in London and South Africa, the alternative business structure employs around 30 lawyers out of 40 staff...

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 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.

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.