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title: "Queensland legal profession: conduct categories and who can be investigated"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/qld-lpa-conduct-categories"
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area_id: "A63"
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task_ids: ["A63-H20261018-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Queensland legal profession: conduct categories and who can be investigated

> Checklist of the conduct definitions and the classes of person the Legal Services Commission says a Queensland complaint or investigation can be about.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/qld-lpa-conduct-categories  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Queensland
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Queensland.

## When to use it

Use when a complaint or investigation matter in Queensland is about a lawyer, a law practice employee, or a person said to be operating unlawfully, and the file needs the Commission's published categories.

## Used for these tasks

- [Map the allegations against the governing conduct standard](https://ailawframework.com/practice/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/map-the-allegations-against-the-governing-conduct-standard.md)

## How AI may be used

The tool may place each allegation against the definition the Commission publishes, and the lawyer decides the characterisation.

**AI may:**

- Record which class of person the Commission lists is said to be the subject.
- Set out the Commission's definitions of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct without applying them.
- Record the four step names on the process page, and leave the content of each step unread.
- Note whether the matter began as a complaint or as an investigation the Commissioner initiated.

**AI must not:**

- Do not decide that conduct is unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct.
- Do not describe what happens inside each of the four process steps. Those step pages were not opened.
- Do not cite a section of the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld). The Act was not opened.
- Do not use the Uniform Law definitions. This note is the Queensland Commission's page.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Read the current complaints page before the definitions are used in advice.
- Open the four step pages before any deadline or submission is planned. They were not opened.
- Confirm the subject falls within a class the Commission lists.
- Keep the response to the complaint out of this checklist.

## Authorities

- [Legal Services Commission Queensland, Complaints and investigations (read 22 October 2026)](https://www.lsc.qld.gov.au/for-the-profession/complaints-and-investigations)
- [Legal Services Commission Queensland, The complaints process (step names only; step pages not opened; read 22 October 2026)](https://www.lsc.qld.gov.au/for-the-profession/the-complaints-process)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/qld-lpa-conduct-categories and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*