Emil Speaking – ABA: Taking Nonlawyer Ownership National: How ABSs May Ethically Extend their Reach Beyond their Home Jurisdictions
ABOUT THIS EVENT With the 2021 reforms in Arizona, more than 100 nonlawyer law firms, or alternative business structures (ABSs), have been licensed by the Arizona Supreme Court. But since nonlawyer-owned firms debuted in D.C. in 1991, ABA ethics opinions (including ABA Formal Op. 91-360) and authorities from many jurisdictions have barred other jurisdictions’ lawyers […]