Model Rules of Professional Conduct
LAW FIRMS AND ASSOCIATIONS
RULE 5.7 RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING
LAW-RELATED SERVICES
(a) A lawyer shall
be subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct with respect
to the provision of law-related services, as defined in
paragraph (b), if the law-related services are provided:
(1) by the lawyer
in circumstances that are not distinct from the lawyer's
provision of legal services to clients; or
(2) in other
circumstances by an entity controlled by the lawyer
individually or with others if the lawyer fails to take
reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining
the law-related services knows that the services are
not legal services and that the protections of the client-lawyer
relationship do not exist.
(b) The term "law-related
services" denotes services that might reasonably be
performed in conjunction with and in substance are related
to the provision of legal services, and that are not prohibited
as unauthorized practice of law when provided by a nonlawyer.
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