What professionally a lawyer can do other than job?

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 27 December 2011 This query is : Resolved
Can a lawyer be an in-active partner in a partnership firm.

Can a lawyer invest and get profit out of a project in which someone else as an individual or as a pvt. ltd. company is acting as an active partner?

What else is allowed for a lawyer or what r the options available for a lawyer to get involved indirectly in any business?

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adv. rajeev ( rajoo ) (Expert) 27 December 2011
If he is partner before the enrollment to the bar council then he can, but after enrollment he cannot.
If he wants to join firm in a business then he has to surrender his sanad to the bar council.

Sailesh Kumar Shah (Expert) 27 December 2011
Answer of three question is that "Lawyer can do".

Lawyer means who is not member of State Bar Council.

if you mean "Advocate" then answers are:-

Ans of 1st question:An advocate shall not personally engage in any business; but he may be a sleeping partner in a firm doing business provided that in the opinion of the appropriate State Bar Council, the nature of the business is not inconsistent with the dignity of the profession.

Ans of 2nd question: about Invest and get profit out of a project, there is no restrictions subject to advocate is not directly engage.

Ans of 3rd question: read 1st and 2nd.

prabhakar singh (Expert) 27 December 2011
Expert : Shailesh Kr. Shah has very competently replied,nothing to add.

Deepak Nair (Expert) 27 December 2011
Agree with Mr. Shailesh. nothing more to add.

Shonee Kapoor (Expert) 27 December 2011
Nothing more to add.

Regards,

Shonee Kapoor
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V R SHROFF (Expert) 27 December 2011
Agree with Mr. Shailesh. nothing more to add.

Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 27 December 2011
Yes very rightly advised and hardly left anyhting for more.

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