First Page
304
Date Created
10-2017
Publisher
St. Mary's University School of Law
Editor
Marissa E. Olsen
Last Page
353
Abstract
There has been a shift in consumer behavior over the last several decades. To keep up with the transforming consumer, many professions have changed the way they do business. Yet lawyers continue to deliver services the way they have since the founding of our country. Bar associations and legal ethicists have long debated the idea of allowing lawyers to practice in “alternative business structures,” where lawyers and nonlawyers can co-own and co-manage a business to deliver legal services. This Article argues these types of businesses inhibit lawyers’ ability to provide better legal services to the public and that the legal profession’s resistance to change is not in the best interest of the public nor the profession.
Recommended Citation
Jayne R. Reardon,
Alternative Business Structures: Good for the Public, Good for the Lawyers,
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St. Mary's J. on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
304
(2017).
Available at:
https://commons.stmarytx.edu/lmej/vol7/iss2/5
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