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Law Firm Ownership Of Ancillary Businesses In Ohio - A New Era?, Stephen R. Ripps
Law Firm Ownership Of Ancillary Businesses In Ohio - A New Era?, Stephen R. Ripps
Akron Law Review
The seeds of controversy about ancillary businesses were planted in 1983 when the American Bar Association's House of Delegates approved Model Rule 5.4 prohibiting non-lawyer participation in law firm businesses. Ohio has adopted the ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, not the Model Rules, but the Model Rules may nevertheless have an impact on the interpretation and development of ethical guidelines in Ohio and other Code states. In order to determine the status of ancillary businesses in Ohio today, analysis must proceed in this dual context.
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow: Ethics 20/20 Amidst A Changing Profession, Thomas Ross
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow: Ethics 20/20 Amidst A Changing Profession, Thomas Ross
Akron Law Review
In Part II of this paper, I will sketch briefly my sense of some of the important ways in which the practice of law seems to be evolving. Part III will revisit the work of the Ethics 20/20 Commission and suggest that the posture of the Commission and of the ABA elite in this initiative has been essentially one of accommodation and facilitation, rather than an oppositional stance. I will briefly note a historical instance of the organized bar taking such an oppositional stance and offer some hypotheses about why the organized bar has chosen these two different postures in …