Abstract
This question has been brought into sharp focus by the State Bar v. Arizona Land Title & Trust Co. opinion handed down November 1, 1961, and supplemented May 31, 1962, and by the effort of the Arizona Association of Realtors to nullify that decision, insofar as it affects real estate agents, through an initiative petition for amendment of the Arizona Constitution. Briefly stated, the amendment would authorize real estate agents to draft legal instruments in connection with transactions negotiated by them.
Whether real estate agents should be permitted to prepare legal instruments by filling in blanks on printed forms, or otherwise, has been a matter of controversy since the time, in reality not so long ago, when concurrently with the tightening of requirements for admission to the bar, the courts began to restrain the performance, by laymen and corporations, of acts constituting the practice of law.
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4 Ariz. L. Rev. 188 (Spring 1963)
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