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 from practicing with them and barred ABSs from having branch offices elsewhere. But innovative Arizona ABSs have devised several structures to deliver legal services in other jurisdictions and to stretch their economic activities all over the U.S. A panel of experts will describe these structures and how (and if) they work ethically and what business models are built on them, and discuss whether they are subject to attack as violating the rules and law of other jurisdictions’ traditional bans on nonlawyer ownership.
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