Is Legal Practice a Business or a Profession?
For some reason, this is an evergreen topic in Malaysian practice. Those who pose this question often think they discovered some great irreconcilable schism in legal practice between the two. Those who ask this question often leave the impression that if legal practice is a business, then lawyers may do whatever they need to do to earn a fee. However, if legal practice is a profession, then lawyers are severely restricted in how they earn …