Is it illegal to omit partners names on advertising documents?
The answer is simple. There is no legal requirement to put the names of individual partners on advertising material or any material. Look at the headed notepaper of a large law firm – they don’t have the partners listed there and law firms are subject to much more rigorous scrutiny than a ‘normal’ business partnership (known in legal terms as a ‘firm’ as opposed to a company or plc). The law society has a provision requiring solicitors firms to provide the full list of partners upon request and under the Partnership Act a business is required to disclose the names of all partners in the event of actual or threatened legal proceedings involving the firm. So the answer to your question is – no.
