Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 An introduction to domestic regulation and GATS
- Part I Impediments to services trade, regulatory theory and principles
- Part II Legal perspectives on WTO principles and domestic regulations
- Part III Case studies
- 8 Legal services in the United States
- 9 Telecommunications reform in China: fostering competition through state intervention
- 10 Information communications technology: the Mauritian experience of regulation and reform
- 11 Regulation of postal services in a changing market environment: lessons from Australia and elsewhere
- 12 Mobile money services provision in East Africa: the Ugandan experience
- 13 Financial services liberalization and regulation in Japan: implications for future negotiation on market access and domestic regulations
- 14 Domestic regulations in Malaysia’s higher education sector
- 15 Domestic regulations and India’s trade in health services: a study of hospital and telemedicine services
- 16 Operating integrated logistics services in a fragmented regulatory environment: what is the cost?
- 17 Domestic regulation of retail food distribution services in Israel: the missing link between food prices and social protest
- 18 Regulatory impact analysis: addressing the trade and regulatory nexus
- Part IV Concluding remarks
- Index
- References
8 - Legal services in the United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 An introduction to domestic regulation and GATS
- Part I Impediments to services trade, regulatory theory and principles
- Part II Legal perspectives on WTO principles and domestic regulations
- Part III Case studies
- 8 Legal services in the United States
- 9 Telecommunications reform in China: fostering competition through state intervention
- 10 Information communications technology: the Mauritian experience of regulation and reform
- 11 Regulation of postal services in a changing market environment: lessons from Australia and elsewhere
- 12 Mobile money services provision in East Africa: the Ugandan experience
- 13 Financial services liberalization and regulation in Japan: implications for future negotiation on market access and domestic regulations
- 14 Domestic regulations in Malaysia’s higher education sector
- 15 Domestic regulations and India’s trade in health services: a study of hospital and telemedicine services
- 16 Operating integrated logistics services in a fragmented regulatory environment: what is the cost?
- 17 Domestic regulation of retail food distribution services in Israel: the missing link between food prices and social protest
- 18 Regulatory impact analysis: addressing the trade and regulatory nexus
- Part IV Concluding remarks
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction: an evolving regulatory environment
Globalization of the legal profession is understandably affecting the regulatory structure governing access to the practice of law in the United States. The currents are running strongly in the direction of creating greater opportunities for lawyers to engage in trade in legal services and to practise their profession across both state and national borders.
To understand the currents and cross-currents affecting legal practice in the United States, however, one must recognize certain factors. First, the practice of law is regulated by each of the fifty US states, the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) and US territories. Second, access to practise normally requires formal permission to practise on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. Third, there are formal structures regulating lawyers once they are admitted. The latter include registration requirements, continuing education requirements and disciplinary structures, to name a few. Some or all of these regulatory structures do not exist in the design of the legal profession in other nations. And, of course, institutions are slow to change as a general matter.
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- WTO Domestic Regulation and Services TradePutting Principles into Practice, pp. 129 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014