Commercial Development

[Daniel Berlin]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Joe Buck wrote:

> 
> > > There is a distinction between "unauthorized practice of law" and "giving
> > > legal advice".
> > 
> > Not in most cases.
> 
> Nolo Press has won several court cases overturning many restrictions on
> giving legal advice as first amendment violations.  

Actually, they lost.
What happened, as i said, is that a law was passed saying it's okay to 
produce products like they did, as long as they state it's not a 
substitute for an attorney.
Since they did, the case was dropped by the UPL.

Nowhere, did the first amendment come into play.

 > 
> See for example http://www.nolo.com/texas/index.cfm
I'm quite aware of Nolo, actually, but thanks.

> 
> But this is off topic, so if folks want to argue with me, we can do so
> by mail.
> 

Works for me.

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