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Report Of Committee On Unauthorized Practice, Ewing D. Colvin
Report Of Committee On Unauthorized Practice, Ewing D. Colvin
Washington Law Review
We again urge all members of the Bar who are interested in curbing the unauthorized practice of the law to submit to the local committee or to the general committee all competent evidence that they might have showing any instance of unauthorized practice. We merely urge that the lawyer submitting the instances be sure that he gives us evidence or facts and not merely rumors, upon which we can at least open communication with the parties in question. If for any reason a lawyer would be embarrassed if it became known that he was making such reports, the committee gives …
Injunctive Relief Against The Unlicensed Practice Of Law As Represented By Drafting Of Legal Instruments, Warren L. Shattuck
Injunctive Relief Against The Unlicensed Practice Of Law As Represented By Drafting Of Legal Instruments, Warren L. Shattuck
Washington Law Review
During the past several years, encroachments by notaries public, realtors, trust and title companies, and banks and others into fields of activity which the legal profession consider to be practice of law, and from which the Bar feel protection of the public requires exclusion of laymen, have reached such proportions as to create a problem calling for careful consideration by the American Bar Association and the various state and local bar associations. The field into which these encroachments have been most general is that of preparing legal instruments, particularly wills, trust agreements, deeds, mortgages, and contracts. To curb such activity, …