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Dear Ms. McGaha:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the title for a professional accounting corporation. You indicate your office has received a request from an accounting firm to use the title "A Professional Certified Public Accounting Corporation" or "A Professional Certified Public Accounting Firm". You question whether the proposed titles are legally permissible.

R.S. 12:1013, entitled "The Corporate Name", provides that the corporate name shall consist of the full or last name or names of present or former shareholders or the…