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unauthorized practice of law<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n (1928)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0The practice of law<\/a> by a person, typically a nonlawyer, who has not been licensed or admitted to practice law in a given jurisdic<\/strong><\/span>tion.<\/strong> \u2014 Abbr.<\/span> UPL<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Conducting the practice of law<\/a> without the license required by law.\u00a0 7 Am J2d Attys \u00a7 73<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Engaging in the practice of law<\/a> without the license required by law.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Restatement (Third) of tie Law Governing Lawyers<\/em><\/a> (1998):<\/span><\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe definitions and tests employed by courts to delineate unauthorized practice by non-lawyers have been vague or conclusory, while jurisdictions have differed significantly in describing what constitutes unauthorized practice in\u00a0particular areas… .<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCertain activities, such as the representation of another\u00a0person in litigation, are generally proscribed.\u00a0 Even in that area, many jurisdictions recognize exceptions for such matters as small-claims and landlord-tenant tribunals and certain proceedings in administrative agencies.\u00a0 Moreover, many jurisdictions have authorized law students and others not locally admitted to represent indigent persons or others as part of clinical legal education programs.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cControversy has surrounded many out-of-court activities such as advising on estate planning by bank trust officers, advising on estate planning by insurance agents, stock brokers, or benefit-plan and similar consultants, filling out or providing guidance on forms for property transactions by real estate agents, title companies, and closing-service companies, and selling books or individual forms containing instructions on self-help legal services accompanied by personal, non-lawyer assistance on filling them out in connection with legal procedures such as obtaining a marriage dissolution.\u00a0 The position of bar associations has traditionally been that non-lawyer provisions of such services denies the person served the benefit of such legal measures as the attorney-client privilege, the benefits of such extraordinary duties as that of confidentiality of client information and the protection against conflicts of interest, and the protection of such measures as those regulating lawyer trust accounts and requiring lawyers to supervise non-lawyer personnel.\u00a0 Several jurisdictions recognize that\u00a0many such services can be provided by non-lawyers without\u00a0significant risk of incompetent service, that actual experience in several states with extensive non-lawyer provision of traditional legal services indicates no significant risk of harm to consumers of such services, that persons in need of legal services may be significantly aided in obtaining assistance at a much lower price than would be entailed by segregating out a portion of a transaction to be handled by a lawyer fo<\/span>r a fee, and that many persons can ill afford, and most persons are at least inconvenienced by, the typical higher cost of lawyer services.<\/span>\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/strong>[4]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a>with Pronunciations
\n<\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Doctored<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[4<\/span>]: Restatement (Third) of tie Law Governing Lawyers<\/em><\/a> 5 4 cmt. c (1998).<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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