Sentences with phrase «prohibiting fee sharing»

New York was the third state to issue an opinion addressing the potential conflict between Groupon, which takes a percentage of every transaction, and rules prohibiting fee sharing or paid referrals.

Not exact matches

Instead, let's re-evaluate the specific prohibitions on sharing fees with non-lawyers that prohibit us from bringing in outside help as a partner and owner, not simply as a consultant.

This section of the Code prohibits pharmacists from sharing profits from the sale of medications, or from their fees, with a non-pharmacist.

In the United States, lawyers are prohibited from splitting legal fees with nonlawyers and therefore banned from sharing ownership of a law firm.

PwC's decision to open a law firm in the United States, which was first disclosed this week in The American Lawyer, faced another restriction: Most American jurisdictions prohibit nonlawyers from owning or operating law firms or sharing fees with nonlawyers.

The law governing lawyers, that prohibits lawyers from sharing legal fees with nonlawyers and from directly or indirectly transferring to nonlawyers ownership or control over entities practicing law, should not be revised.

What's more, there are rules that prohibit fees from being shared by lawyers and non-lawyers.

In fact, the opposite is true: rules prohibiting fee - sharing with non-lawyers can make private litigation funding a tricky proposition in the United States.