Appeals Court Rejects Challenge to Ban on Non-Lawyer Firm Ownership

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Law firms don’t have a constitutional right to share their profits with non-lawyer investors, a federal appeals court in New York ruled. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld New York’s ban on non-lawyer investment in law firms, throwing out a challenge by a firm that argued the prohibition violated its First […]

(via WSJ)


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