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Incorporated Legal Practices and Multi-Disciplinary Partnerships

The Legal Profession Act 2007 (the Act) like its counterpart legislation in the other states and territories allows law firms in Queensland a wider choice of business structures than the traditional sole practitioner and partnership arrangements. It allowed law firms from 1 July 2007 to form multi-disciplinary partnerships (MDPs) or to form companies and to trade as incorporated legal practices (ILPs), and it established a new framework for regulating their delivery of legal services. The relevant sections of the Act implement national model laws and are all but identical with the arrangements that either have or soon will come into effect in the other states and territories.     

• What is an ILP, and what is a MDP?
• The regulatory framework – an overview 
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See also:                      

• The changing face of lawyer regulation: a paper presented to the 47th Annual Vincents' QLS Symposium 2009, 28 March 2009 
• Research report: Assessing the impact of management-based regulation on NSW incorporated legal practices, 25 September 2008
• Our performance - the Commission’s monthly performance reports and annual reports contain up to date statistical information about ILPs
• Queensland Law Society   

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