Sentences with phrase «violates fee sharing»
It's come up so far and I think six or seven different state ethics boards where you write in a letter and ask a question and they send back and answer five of the six have said that it violates fee sharing and unauthorized practice law and a bunch of other different things.
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In August, a South Carolina Bar ethics panel issued an opinion concluding that Avvo Legal Services (or at least something that sure sounded like it) violates the prohibition of sharing fees with a non-lawyer.
South Carolina found that this arrangement violates Rule 5.4 (a) of the South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct, which says that a «lawyer or law firm shall not share legal fees with a nonlawyer.»
And that irks Loyola University College of Law ethics professor Dane S. Ciolino, who tells the newspaper that Lemelle's order violates not only the public's right of access to court records but also legal - ethics rules that say a client is entitled to know how his lawyer shares fees with other lawyers.