Cowap, who has not had a licence to practise law since January 2004, was given a six clause order.

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Finally, American states do not allow non-lawyers to manage or invest in law firms, nor can companies not run by lawyers practise law in any form.

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Many people practise customary law alongside the Western kind and take traditional as well as Western medicine.

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He also suggested she should take a secretarial course and practise her shorthand in the magistrate's court, which led to her career in law.

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