Sentences with phrase «over unauthorized practice»

In fact, in Estate of George Mounts v. Barrett, a Missouri Court of Appeals case from 2000 on UPL (note — I found it on GoogleLegal, haven't shepardized it), a concurring judge expressed surprise at the relatively few complaints raised over unauthorized practice:

Not exact matches

The disclosures signal that the bank's problematic sales practices go further than investors and analysts had expected after Wells Fargo reached a settlement with regulators in September over unauthorized customer accounts.

In 2017, the bank also reached a preliminary class - action settlement of $ 142 million over concerns about retail sales practices and unauthorized accounts from 2002.

In comments on the story over at WSJ Law Blog, a few participants call for the American Bar Association to take a more protectionist approach and prohibit firms from off - shoring work, while others decry use of Indian lawyers as «unauthorized practice of law» since decisions about whether documents are privileged requires legal judgment.

Presiding Disciplinary Judge The Presiding Disciplinary Judge presides over attorney discipline and disability matters and unauthorized practice of law matters, among other functions.

Of course, what we really have here sounds like a young man engaging in the unauthorized practice of law and a bit of extortion, which probably won't go over well when the authorities get wind of Randazza's broadside assault on his «business.»

In the interim, should they be allowed to prosecute the offence of «the unauthorized practice of law,» given that such prosecutions now aim to protect a monopoly over the provision of legal services that is greater than that granted them by law?

And there are serious questions about unauthorized practice when non-lawyers in effect give legal advice via software, or lawyers advise people over the Internet concerning jurisdictions in which they are not admitted to practice.

Additionally, Lorelei has helped forge positive business resolutions of complex matters, including a long - standing dispute and litigation between a Palm Beach County hospital and a group of physicians who held a ground lease on hospital property and provided services at the hospital; a long - standing lawsuit between two groups of physicians over the breakup of their practice group; a prominent sports figure's multimillion dispute over a license agreement; a sports broadcaster's claims against a video company for unauthorized use of his name and likeness; and class actions involving consumer debt collection services.

on The End of the Monopoly Over the Provision of Legal Services and Prosecutions for the «Unauthorized Practice of Law», Part 2 of 2

[Part 1, last week, questioned the propriety of law societies» exclusive control of their monopoly over the provision of legal services, and their prosecution of offences of «the unauthorized practice of law,» given the many reports documenting the fact that the majority of the population can not afford legal services at reasonable cost, particularly so for litigation.

Public interest concerns arose from evidence that V had been engaging in unauthorized practice, and a misleading (over) statement that he made in an affidavit supporting the stay application.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

While the purveyor of online self - help documents LegalZoom was still probably celebrating the South Carolina Supreme Court's approval of its business model in March, two weeks later, just over the border in North Carolina, a judge breathed extended life into a case claiming the company engages in the unauthorized practice of law, Robert Ambrogi's Lawsites reports.

In other words, what was a shadowy, unacknowledged and unauthorized practice over a decade ago, when Maher Arar, Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin were tortured in Syrian (and in Mr. Elmaati's case, Egyptian) jail cells; is now official.

(This was originally posted as a guest post on the MyCase blog on August 28, 2013) There has been a lot of talk over the last few years regarding the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) and use of technology — in particular, document automation systems.