Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 170

170 Designation

(1) An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may use only the following designations—

(a) the lawyer’s own name;

(b) a title or business name that the lawyer is authorised by law to use in a foreign country where the lawyer is registered by a foreign registration authority;

(c) subject to this section, the name of a foreign law practice with which the lawyer is affiliated or associated whether as a partner, director, employee or otherwise;

(d) if the lawyer is a principal of any law practice in Australia whose principals include both 1 or more Australian-registered foreign lawyers and 1 or more Australian legal practitioners—a description of the practice that includes reference to both Australian legal practitioners and Australian-registered foreign lawyers.

Examples for paragraph (d)—

• solicitors and locally registered foreign lawyers

• Australian solicitors and US attorneys

(2) An Australian-registered foreign lawyer who is a principal of a foreign law practice may use the practice’s name in or in connection with practising foreign law in this jurisdiction only if—

(a) the lawyer indicates, on the lawyer’s letterhead or another document used in this jurisdiction to identify the lawyer as an overseas-registered foreign lawyer, that the foreign law practice practises only foreign law in this jurisdiction; and

(b) the lawyer has provided the law society with acceptable evidence that the lawyer is a principal of the foreign law practice.

(3) An Australian-registered foreign lawyer who is a principal of a foreign law practice may use the name of the practice as mentioned in this section whether or not other principals of the practice are Australian-registered foreign lawyers.

(4) This section does not authorise the use of a name or other designation that contravenes any requirements of the law of this jurisdiction concerning the use of business names or that is likely to lead to any confusion with the name of any established domestic law practice or foreign law practice in this jurisdiction.