The following provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners apply to Corporate Law Practice:
1)
Rule 3(1)(a) and (b) – A lawyer shall not aid
a non-lawyer in the unauthorized practice of law; nor permit his professional
services or his name to be used in aid of or to make possible, the unauthorized
practice of law by any person not qualified to practice or disqualified from
practice.
2)
Rule 4 – A lawyer shall not
permit his professional service to be controlled or exploited by any lay agent;
personal or corporate, which intervenes between him and the client; except
charitable societies.
3)
Rule 3(2) – A lawyer shall not, in
return for a fee write or sign his name or permit his name to be written or signed
on a document prepared by a non-lawyer as if prepared by him.
4)
Rule 8(2) – a lawyer whilst a
servant or in a salaried employment, shall not prepare, sign or grant
pleadings, applications, instruments, agreements, contracts, deeds, letters,
memoranda, reports, legal opinion or similar instruments or processes or file
any such document for his employer.
5)
Rule 9(2) – A lawyer shall not sign
documents, pleading, affidavits, depositions, instruments, agreements, deeds,
letters, memoranda, reports, legal opinions or similar documents, or processes
or file such documents as a legal practitioner, legal officer or adviser of any
governmental department or ministry or any corporation when he is in default of
payment of his annual practicing fees.
6)
Rule 10(1) – A lawyer acting in his
capacity as a legal practitioner, legal officer or adviser of any governmental
department or ministry of any corporation, shall not sign or file a legal
document unless there is affixed on such document a seal and stamp approved by
the Nigerian Bar Association.
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