Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 147

147 General obligations of legal practitioner partners

(1) Each legal practitioner partner of a multi-disciplinary partnership is, for the purposes only of this Act, responsible for the management of the legal services provided in this jurisdiction by the partnership.

(2) Each legal practitioner partner must ensure that appropriate management systems are implemented and kept to enable the provision of legal services by the multi-disciplinary partnership—

(a) under the professional obligations of Australian legal practitioners and other obligations imposed under this Act; and

(b) so that the obligations of legal practitioner partners, and employees who are Australian legal practitioners, are not affected by other partners and employees of the partnership.