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    This document discusses multi-disciplinary practices of law, which allow lawyers to partner with non-lawyers in providing legal and other professional services. It defines MDPs and traces their history. India's rules generally prohibit lawyers from sharing fees or partnering with non-lawyers, though some argue MDPs could benefit clients through a single integrated service provider. Concerns include protecting lawyers' independence, loyalty to clients, and maintaining client confidentiality under different professions' rules. The document examines MDP models in other countries and recommendations for regulating them.

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    This document discusses multi-disciplinary practices of law, which allow lawyers to partner with non-lawyers in providing legal and other professional services. It defines MDPs and traces their history. India's rules generally prohibit lawyers from sharing fees or partnering with non-lawyers, though some argue MDPs could benefit clients through a single integrated service provider. Concerns include protecting lawyers' independence, loyalty to clients, and maintaining client confidentiality under different professions' rules. The document examines MDP models in other countries and recommendations for regulating them.

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    UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF

    LEGAL STUDIES
    BALLB/LLB
    PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, ACCOUNTANCY FOR
    LAWYERS AND BAR BENCH RELATIONS
    -By Inderpreet
    Kaur
    DISCOVER . LEARN . EMPOWER
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    Multi-Disciplinary Practice of Law
    • A multi disciplinary practice of law is a type of alternative business
    structure that provides a mixture of reserved and non-reserved legal
    services together with other non-legal services. It is a one-spot
    service. With the globalization and recent advancement in
    technology, the system of MDP is gaining immense popularity. It has
    many advantages as it provides various services in one place and
    hence it is time as well as money saving. But with advantages come
    disadvantages.

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    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • MEANING
    • The multidisciplinary practice of law may be defined as joint
    professional practice between lawyers and members of other
    professions where their joint professional activities in pursuit of such
    joint practice involve the offer of legal services to the public.
    Depending on the context, the term may also mean the professional
    grouping or entity under which or through which such joint practice is
    undertaken. In the latter sense, it is co-terminus with the term “multi-
    disciplinary partnership”.

    4
    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • The American Bar Association defined MDP as- “a partnership,
    professional corporation, or other association or entity that includes
    lawyers and non-lawyers and has as one, but not all, of its purposes
    the delivery of legal services to a client(s) other than the MDP itself or
    that holds itself out to the public as providing non-legal, as well as
    legal services. It includes an arrangement by which a law firm joins
    with one or more other professional firms to provide services, and
    there is a direct or indirect sharing of profits as part of the
    arrangement.”

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    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • HISTORY-MDP is not new but found in a number of professions.
    • They became important during the end of the 1990s when the
    accounting firm began to expand to the legal profession.

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    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • ESSENTIALS OF MDP
    • It is a group service
    • Under this system of business, an advocate will be bound to share his
    remuneration with other professionals as it is a group service.
    • This group business may be controlled by advocate or by other
    professional.
    • Name and fame of advocates may be used by group or by any other
    member of group.

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    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • POSITION OF MDP IN INDIA
    • Part III Chapter III Rule Number 2 This rule provides that an advocate shall
    not enter into a partnership or any other arrangement for sharing
    remuneration with any person or legal practitioner who is not an advocate.
    • Part III Chapter III Rule Number 37 -This rule provides that an advocate shall
    not permit his professional service or his name to be used in advertisement
    or to make possible the unauthorized practice of law by any agency.
    • These two rules provided in the BCI Rules, 1975
    • Part vi chapter 2 rule 24 –Advocate shall not do anything whereby he
    abuses or takes advantage of the confidence reposed in him by his client.

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    Multi-disciplinary practice
    • Benefits: single window
    • Shortcomings: 1 independence, 2 loyalty to the client: other responsibilities to the
    third party, incentives, conflict of interest, 3 attorney client privilege: inconsistent
    with the rules of other professions
    • Position in other countries
    • Recommendation of the commission set up by ABA, possible, new procedure,
    rules of professional conduct, withdrawal
    • England: fast track
    • Law Commission of India-Working paper on review of the advocate act, 1961-BCI
    to devise ways
    • Canada, Belgium, France spain, Ireland, australia
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    References
    • Rai Kailash, Legal Ethics, Central Law Publications, 10th Edition, 2011.
    • Prasad Anirudh, The Ethics of Legal Profession in India, 3rd Edition,
    2012
    • Sirohi J. P. S, Professional Ethics and Accountancy for Lawyers and
    Bench Bar Relations, 5th Edition 2010.

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    THANK YOU

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