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Paying non-lawyer colleagues is tightrope walk (access required)

Posted: 12:59 pm Fri, October 12, 2012
By Dolan Media Newswires

The Wisconsin Supreme Court held recently that a law firm could pay a paralegal a percentage of the gross proceeds from cases on which the paralegal worked. The Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation had argued that the compensation plan violated the prohibition on sharing legal fees with a non-lawyer.
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