Sentences with phrase «whether nonlawyers»
This is not about whether nonlawyers are «trained enough» to be as good as lawyers.
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Instead there was a meeting of the WSBA Board of Governors to discuss whether board will include two members of the «public» or nonlawyers such as LLLTs as full voting board members.
What matters is not whether we doom our profession to the diktats of nonlawyer owners.
That 1992 report notes that at that time, California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Washington, Wisconsin, and Ontario were considering whether «nonlawyers should be licensed to perform limited legal services.»
During the conversation, Grech described the immediate aftermath of his firm going public, what obligations the firm holds to investors versus clients, the reasons for the IPO, whether the IPO process was more difficult than expected, the post-IPO firm culture and the benefits of nonlawyer regulators.
Notably, however, the Opinion declined to address whether Avvo Legal Services» model constituted impermissible fee sharing with nonlawyers — an issue central to the debate in other jurisdictions.
«Has your firm designated a person (whether lawyer or nonlawyer) to vet, test or evaluate the AI products (and technology products generally) before using them to serve clients?»
When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.