Is it illegal to omit partners' names on advertising documents?
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The answer is simple.
There is no legal requirement to put the names of individual partners on advertising material or any material.
Look at the headed notepaper of a large law firm - they don't have the partners listed there and law firms are subject to much more rigorous scrutiny than a 'normal' business partnership (known in legal terms as a 'firm' as opposed to a company or plc).
The law society has a provision requiring solicitors firms to provide the full list of partners upon request and under the Partnership Act a business is required to disclose the names of all partners in the event of actual or threatened legal proceedings involving the firm.
So the answer to your question is - no.
Yes- All documents MUST HAVE both parters names on them.
Unethical maybe, but not necessarily illegal unless the name/names are being deleted due to discrimination of some sort.
In fact, it is quite common in some areas to have a "legal name" and a "trade name" where the legal name is HUGE with all the partners named, and the trade name is only the first 2-4 names.
Also, if partners are requested to pay for the advertising out of their own "draw", and some don't and are left off the advertising, I can see that not being an issue either.
A partnership or other entity can register a fictitious name, a "doing business as" name, and can identify the entity by that name. Notice that a large law firm could have hundreds of partners but need not list them all in the add in the yellow pages.
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