Sentences with phrase «owned by nonlawyers»
Washington, however, does not ban firms owned by nonlawyers.
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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).
ABSs may be owned or managed, in whole or in part, by nonlawyers.
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»?
The U.K. had a similar rule barring nonlawyer ownership, but under reforms implemented by the Legal Services Act of 2007 law firms have been able to take on a limited number of non-lawyer partners and lawyers have been allowed to enter into a wide variety of business relationships with non-lawyers and non-lawyer owned businesses.
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.