Sentences with phrase «see nonlawyer ownership»

They are not able to see nonlawyer ownership and management as the fantastic advantage that it is.

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The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

Having experienced it here in the UK, I think that they should see how other countries, like the UK, work because nonlawyer ownership has worked for my firm.

I have heard the arguments that bringing a nonlawyer into the ownership or management of a law firm will erode ethics, but I see no reason why that should be the case.

The D.C. approach does not place a cap on nonlawyer ownership (although, as seen below, regulators in D.C. esteem that a cap applies nonetheless), nor does it impose a «fit to own» test on nonlawyers).