B-1, r. 3.1 - Code of Professional Conduct of Lawyers

Section 137 Disposition versions

2015-03-26

137. A lawyer who engages in his professional activities within a partnership or joint-stock company within the meaning of the Regulation respecting the practice of the profession of advocate within a limited liability partnership or joint-stock company and in multidisciplinarity (chapter B-1, r. 9) must cease to engage in his professional activities within the partnership or joint-stock company:

(1)  if the representative of the partnership or joint-stock company or a director, an officer or an employee thereof is still performing his duties therein more than 10 days after an executory decision ordering him to be struck off a roll for more than 3 months or revoking his permit; or

(2)  if a shareholder or partner of the partnership or joint-stock company who has been struck off a roll for more than 3 months or had his permit revoked is still directly or indirectly exercising a voting right within such partnership or joint-stock company more than 10 days after the effective date of the striking off or revocation, or has not entered into an agreement to place his shares or partnership units in escrow within 30 days following the aforementioned effective date.

O.C. 129-2015, s. 137.