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.