When Mauricio R. Celis, the majority partner in former Corpus Christi firm CGT Law Group International, goes to trial in Corpus Christi on Feb. 9, prosecutors will rely on a little-used law that makes it a crime to impersonate a lawyer for economic benefit.
“A criminal prosecution for holding oneself out as a lawyer is rare,” says Leland de la Garza, a partner in Shackelford, Melton & McKinley in Dallas who chairs the Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (UPLC).
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