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LAW OFFICE

- Collective form of realization of lawyer activity, established by two or more lawyers on the basis of a partnership agreement.

By the relations arising in connection with the establishment and activities of the law office, the position of the Bar Association shall apply, except for the specific provisions applying to the law office.

Differences in the organization and activities of the law office of the board is as follows:

1) Law Office established by the conclusion of a partnership agreement, which does not require notarization, and the Bar Association shall be established on the basis of the memorandum of association and articles of association;

2) legal aid bureau is on behalf of all the partners, and not a single lawyer, as is the case in the Bar;

3) an agreement with the customer, draw in

Bureau, is on behalf of all the lawyers managing partner or other partner on the basis of powers of attorney issued to all partners. The Bar Association said the agreement is the name of a lawyer.

According to para. 3, Art. 23 of the Law "On Advocacy and the Legal Profession in the Russian Federation" lawyers have established law firm, entered into between the partnership agreement, under which lawyers are partners undertake to combine their efforts to provide legal aid on behalf of all partners.

The partnership agreement contains information:

1) the period of validity of the contract;

2) on the procedure for the adoption of partner solutions;

3) Procedures Managing Partner recognition, etc..

Maintaining the common affairs of the law office made managing partner, unless otherwise provided by the contract.

Agreement on legal assistance with the client is the managing partner or other partner on behalf of all on the basis of power of attorney. The power of attorney contains all of the limited partners of competence, to enter into agreements and transactions with the principal and the third

persons. The client enters into a contract should be familiar with trusted partners.

Partnership Agreement is terminated in the following cases:

1) the expiry of the partnership agreement;

2) termination or suspension of the status of the lawyer, which is one of the partners unless the partnership agreement does not provide preservation of the contract in the relations between the other partners;

3) termination of the partnership agreement at the request of one of the partners, unless the preservation of a contract between the other partners.

After the termination of the partnership agreement, the participants are jointly and severally liable for the general obligations unfulfilled. When you exit an attorney from the contract, he shall be liable to the principal and the third party in the general obligations which have arisen during his participation in the partnership agreement.