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The official source of information about the suit filed by Jacoby & Meyers, LLP that seeks to change the landscape of the business of law by overturning state regulations that impede the ability of law firms to raise capital. The
ability of small and medium-sized law firms to raise the capital necessary to pay for improvements in technology and infrastructure and to hire additional personnel to serve the public is severely restricted by an out-dated Rule of Professional Conduct.

01/09/2013

Jacoby & Meyers, the discount law firm with storefront offices across the U.S., won an appeals court ruling reinstating its legal attack on a New York statute barring nonlawyers from owning interests in law firms.

12/07/2011

The American Bar Association appears to be warming to the idea of allowing non-lawyers to hold a stake in law firms.

11/07/2011

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11/03/2011

A fight against a New York state rule barring non-lawyer ownership of law firms was pushed back to a later date on Thursday.

09/26/2011

Final submissions will be made this week in a landmark legal action which experts believe could open up the US legal market to alternative business structures.

08/15/2011
06/14/2011

The old adage "that's the way it's always been" may not hold up much longer for non-lawyers seeking to own equity stakes in law firms.

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