Legal Profession Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9A · Law Practice Entities
154. Name of law corporation
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The Director of Legal Services must not approve the name or proposed name of a law corporation if in his or her opinion that name or proposed name fails to satisfy such criteria as may be prescribed by rules made under section 166.
Director of Legal Services
“Director of Legal Services” means the Director of Legal Services appointed under section 2A(1);
Despite section 27 of the Companies Act 1967, a law corporation which is a limited company need not have the word “Limited” or “Berhad” as part of its name and a law corporation which is a private company need not have the word “Private” or “Sendirian” as part of its name.
law corporation
“law corporation” means a company licensed as a law corporation under section 153;
Every law corporation must have either the words “Law Corporation” or the acronym “LLC” as part of its name; and no person, firm or group practice other than a law corporation may have those words or that acronym as part of the name of the person, firm or group practice.
The directors of a law corporation must ensure that every invoice or official correspondence of the law corporation bears the statement that it is incorporated with limited liability.
No name of a law corporation may be changed without the prior written approval of the Director of Legal Services.
Despite anything in this section or section 27 of the Companies Act 1967, where the Director of Legal Services is satisfied that the name of a law corporation has been approved (whether through inadvertence or otherwise and whether originally or by change of name) in contravention of subsection (1) —
the Director of Legal Services may direct the law corporation to change its name; and
the law corporation must comply with that direction within 6 weeks after the date of the direction or such longer period as the Director of Legal Services may allow.