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Fee Splitting
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Legal Profession Blog
Generous But With Prior Discipline
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department has imposed a public censure of an attorney who had split fees with a non-lawyer.The court considered the following:In determining…
Legal Profession Blog
Fee Split Draws Suspension With Fitness
In New York, fee sharing with nonlawyers is not only unethical, it's a crime.An attorney convicted of misdemeanor fee-splitting has been suspended for two years and until further order by…
Legal Profession Blog
Fee Splitting Draws Proposed Suspension
An Illinois Hearing Board has recommended a one year suspension of an attorney for misconduct found in his dealings with a company ("CCDN") that offered services to people who were…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
Lawyers in Alabama Can’t Use Groupon
According to Alabama State Bar Disciplinary Commission, Op. 2012-01, Alabama lawyers can’t use group coupon websites, because the arrangement violates ethics rules against fee-sharing with nonlawyers and the rule requiring…
Legal Ethics and Marketing
When is the cost of advertising reasonable?
A recent article in the ABA Journal discusses the use of what it calls "deal-of-the-day" coupons, in other words, the GroupOn model, as a method of client development. The article…
Cam Law
Management services model for medical spas: legal issues
Medical spas and integrative care centers can often benefit from management services models to structure arrangements in light of Stark, anti-kickback and fee-splitting legal rules. Our law firm has detailed…
Legal Profession Blog
“He Said, She Said”
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a suspension of six months of an attorney who had relocated his South Carolina practice to Maryland. The misconduct at issue involved his…
Cam Law
Medical Spa Legal Issues
So you want to own a medi-spa. Because state law determines what parts of the business you can own, you have to put the puzzle of legal rules together in…
Cam Law
Medical spas face fee splitting issues
California Medical Board cautions medical boards against "renting a license" by hiring doctors to run weight loss clinics and day spas owned and operated by laypersons. In California, laypersons cannot employ…
Legal Profession Blog
Insufficient Discipline
The Georgia Supreme Court rejected a petition for voluntary discipline of a three-month suspension in a matter where the attorney paid a non-lawyer a percentage of fees. When the non-lawyer…