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Legal Profession Act 2006
137General obligations of legal practitioner partners—
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137 General obligations of legal practitioner partners—
(1) Each legal practitioner partner of a multidisciplinary partnership is,
for this Act only, responsible for the management of the legal services
provided in the ACT by the partnership.
(2) Each legal practitioner partner must ensure that appropriate
management systems are implemented and maintained to enable the
provision of legal services by the multidisciplinary partnership—
(a) in accordance with the professional obligations of Australian
legal practitioners and the other obligations imposed by this Act;
and
(b) so that the professional obligations of legal practitioner partners
and employees who are Australian legal practitioners are not
affected by other partners and employees of the partnership.