Do you support legislation allowing law firms to accept external capital investment?

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions

No question divides traditionalist from modernises quite so profoundly and controversially. Australia led the way, and now England appears to be embracing external capital like a long lost lover – or should that be like an illicit mistress. Europeans – and for the most part, Americans – still shout ethical foul when the prospect of non-lawyer investment is raised. Indeed, only a few days ago, a New York court dismissed an application from one law firm seeking to overturn state legislation forbidding non-lawyer investment. Our survey of law firms from around the world illustrates just how split the profession is on this fundamental issue.

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