Rule 143 Legal Practitioners
Rule Text
(a) Only those legal practitioners currently members of the American Samoa Bar Association are permitted to practice law. No new legal practitioners will be admitted to the Bar in the future.
(b) No legal practitioner may form a professional association or a professional corporation.
(c) No legal practitioner may be associated with an attorney. However, an attorney may use the services of a legal practitioner on a case by case basis.
(d) Legal practitioners may not advertise as “legal counsel”, “counselor”, “Law office of ” or otherwise infer in any advertisement that he or she is an attorney.
(e) Legal practitioners may use the letters “L.P.” after their names for the purpose of denoting his or her profession.
(f) Legal practitioners are authorized to practice only in the Land Titles Division of the High Court, in adoption matters in the District Court, and in all matters in the Village Courts.
(g) Legal practitioners are permitted to practice in the Appellate Division of the High Court in those Appeals originating in the Land and Titles Division of the Court. Effective February 11, 1983