What is
your view of alternative business structures for law firms like those that you find in the UK?
Not exact matches
As an exception to the universally accepted
view that law society committees are «all form and no substance» in regard to the «unaffordable legal services problem» («the problem»), there is one Law Society
of Upper Canada (LSUC) committee that has produced a Discussion Paper that has great substance, although some ingrates are so inconsiderate as to say that it's not «the right stuff»; see:
Alternative Business Structures and the Legal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion Paper.
Pro and con arguments about
alternative business structures and ownership
of law practices by people other than lawyers are, in our
view, secondary questions.
From the outset, the Commission has been transparent about the broad array
of issues it is studying and evaluating, including those legal services developments that are
viewed by some as controversial, threatening, or undesirable (e.g.,
alternative business structures).