Law firms cannot use “officer” or “principal” in job title for non-lawyers or pay them bonuses contingent upon the firm’s achieving of certain revenues. Texas Ethics Opinion 642
A Texas law firm which employs non-lawyers to perform, among others, “marketing, advertising, IT services, and search-engine optimization” asked whether these non-lawyers could be given the job title “chief executive officer” and “chief technology officer” and be identifed as “principals”. The law firm also asked whether it could pay them “specified bonuses if the firm […]