Arizona Green Lights Combined Elevate Entity as Its First Nonlawyer-Owned Law Firm | The American Lawyer - The American Lawyer

What You Need to Know

• Elevate has become the first non-lawyer firm to be granted a license in Arizona.
• Last year, the state eliminated American Bar Associate Rule 5.4, which prohibits fee-sharing and nonlawyer ownership.
• The news comes as other states such as Florida and California mull their own changes to rule 5.4.

The Arizona Supreme Court is allowing alternative legal services provider Elevate and law firm ElevateNext to merge. The combined company, Elevate, is the first “alternative business structure” to be a granted a license in the state, which allows the law company to be owned by nonlawyers.

Elevate, in an announcement Thursday, asserted that this makes it “the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States with an integrated law firm.”

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source: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2022/01/13/arizona-green-lights-combined-elevate-entity-as-its-first-nonlawyer-owned-law-firm/

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