Penalty for Prohibited Conduct

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  1. Any person, corporation, or voluntary association violating Code Section 15-19-51, 15-19-53, 15-19-54, or 15-19-55 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
  2. Every officer, trustee, director, agent, or employee of a corporation or voluntary association who directly or indirectly engages in any of the acts prohibited in Code Section 15-19-51, 15-19-53, 15-19-54, or 15-19-55 or assists a corporation or voluntary association in performing the prohibited acts shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The fact that the person is a duly and regularly admitted attorney at law shall not be held to permit or allow the corporation or voluntary association to do the acts prohibited in such Code sections, nor shall the fact be a defense upon the trial of any person mentioned therein for a violation of those Code sections. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent any court having jurisdiction from punishing the corporation or its officers for contempt.

(Ga. L. 1931, p. 191, § 1; Code 1933, § 9-9903; Ga. L. 1975, p. 755, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 7 Am. Jur. 2d, Attorneys at Law, §§ 135, 136.

C.J.S.

- 7 C.J.S., Attorney and Client, § 41.

ALR.

- Right of one not admitted to practice, or unlicensed, to recover compensation for legal services, 4 A.L.R. 1087; 118 A.L.R. 646.

Practicing or pretending to practice law without authority as contempt, 36 A.L.R. 533; 100 A.L.R. 236.

Liability of attorney for services rendered to him by one not admitted to bar as affected by the fact that they amounted to practice of law by the latter, 90 A.L.R. 288.

What amounts to practice of law, 151 A.L.R. 781.

Right of corporation to perform or to hold itself out as ready to perform functions in the nature of legal services, 157 A.L.R. 282.

Operations of collection agency as unauthorized practice of law, 27 A.L.R.3d 1152.

Right of party litigant to defend or counterclaim on ground that opposing party or his attorney is engaged in unauthorized practice of law, 7 A.L.R.4th 1146.

Unauthorized practice of law as contempt, 40 A.L.R.6th 463.


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