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Legal Profession Uniform Law
A link to the Legal Profession Uniform Law its subordinate Rules can be found on the Rules and compliance page.
Forms
Law practice forms
- Notification of new law practice (Not ILP or ULP)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services – corporation (ILP)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services – unincorporated legal practice (ULP)
- Notification of change information- law practice
- Notice of termination of provision of legal services – law practice (not ILP)
- Notice of termination of provision of legal services – corporation (ILP)
Legal costs
Trust account forms
- Opening a trust account (online form)
- Closing a trust account (online form)
- Request for approval of termination of External Examiner
- External examiner appointment, modification or cessation
- Record of Controlled money movements
- Record of Controlled Money movements, other than by EFT
- Record of Investment Money
Other forms
- Notice of show cause event – local legal practitioner and locally registered foreign lawyer
- Template exemption undertaking for PII
- Notification of change of information - Australian registered foreign lawyers
- External examiner checklist
- Template plan for remote supervision of Supervised Legal Practice
End of year examination reporting
Final audit forms
- External Examiner’s report – when a law practice ceases legal practice or authorisation to receive trust (updated October 2018)
Statutory deposit account forms
- Authorisation to operate SDA (non-legal practitioner) Form
- Authorisation to operate SDA (legal practitioner) Form
- Direct Debit Request Form
- Notification of persons no longer authorised to operate SDA
Regulatory guidance
- Complaints by lawyers about lawyers operational guidance
- Compliance and Enforcement policy
- Continuing Professional Development
- Electronic conveyancing (e-conveyancing) Regulatory Guidelines (See also Electronic conveyancing FAQs)
- Exemption from Statutory Deposit Accounts
- Fit & Proper Person
- Foreign Lawyer Registration
- Grant of a Principal Practising Certificate
- Grant of Trust Authorisation
- Lay Associate Guidelines (See also FAQs – Prohibited Lay Associates)
- Mental Health
- Overpayment and Refunds
- Practice Contingency Planning
- Professional Indemnity Insurance exemptions
- Risk-based Regulation – Trust Accounts
- Supervised Legal Practice
- Trust Account Regulations exemptions
Fact sheets
Practice management and avoiding complaints
- Acting in Motor Vehicle Accident Claims
- Delays: Common issues in legal practice
- FAQs – Costs disclosure
- FAQs – Prohibited Lay Associates
- Good practice management: Lessons for all law practices
- Letters of Demand: traps for lawyers
- Working with your client
Legal Profession Uniform Law
- Barristers and the Uniform Law
- Corporate Lawyers and the Uniform Law
- Foreign Lawyers and the Uniform Law
- Government lawyers and the Uniform Law
- Government lawyers, supervised legal practice and the Uniform Law
- Incorporated Legal Practices and the Uniform Law
- Lawyers and the Uniform Law
- Unincorporated Legal Practices and the Uniform Law
Supervised legal practice
The Fidelity Fund
Trust accounts
Other fact sheets
- Reasonable steps to take in costs disclosure (produced by the New South Wales Law Society)
Other useful resources
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