Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 173

173 Foreign lawyer employing Australian legal practitioner

(1) An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may employ 1 or more Australian legal practitioners.

(2) Employment of an Australian legal practitioner does not entitle an Australian-registered foreign lawyer to practise Australian law in this jurisdiction.

(3) An Australian legal practitioner employed by an Australian-registered foreign lawyer may practise foreign law.

(4) An Australian legal practitioner employed by an Australian-registered foreign lawyer must not do either of the following—

(a) provide advice on Australian law to, or for use by, the Australian-registered foreign lawyer;

(b) otherwise practise Australian law in this jurisdiction in the course of that employment.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to an Australian legal practitioner employed by a law firm, a partner of which is an Australian-registered foreign lawyer, if at least 1 other partner is an Australian legal practitioner.

(6) Any period of employment of an Australian legal practitioner by an Australian-registered foreign lawyer can not be used to satisfy a requirement imposed by a condition on a local practising certificate to complete a period of supervised legal practice.