Arizona Moves to Limit Law Firms Shipping Work to Other States

Law firms that want to use Arizona’s alternative business structure program solely to generate leads for lawyers in other states face possible new limits.

A committee helping to oversee the program recommended a rule Tuesday that requires firms to provide legal services—not to just make referrals. The panel also moved to require that firms devote at least part of their business to serving people in the state.

The goal at least in part is to clamp down on firms that set up operations in Arizona only to drum up business elsewhere, according to comments by some members of the Committee ...