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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