ELC 15.5
                DECLARATION OR QUESTIONNAIRE


    (a) Questionnaire.  The Association annually sends each active
lawyer a written declaration or questionnaire designed to
determine whether the lawyer is complying with RPC 1.15A.  Each
active lawyer must complete, execute, and deliver to the
Association this declaration or questionnaire by the date
specified in the declaration or questionnaire.

    (b) Noncompliance.  Failure to file the declaration or
questionnaire by the date specified in section (a) is grounds for
discipline.  This failure also subjects the lawyer who has failed
to comply with this rule to a full audit of his or her books and
records as provided in rule 15.1(c), upon request of disciplinary
counsel to a review committee.  A copy of any request made under
this section must be served on the lawyer.  The request must be
granted on a showing that the lawyer has failed to comply with
section (a) of this rule.  If the lawyer should later comply,
disciplinary counsel has discretion to determine whether an audit
should be conducted, and if so the scope of that audit.  A lawyer
audited under this section is liable for all actual costs of
conducting such audit, and also a charge of $100 per day spent by
the auditor in conducting the audit and preparing an audit report.
Costs and charges are assessed in the same manner as costs under rule 5.3(f).


[Adopted effective October 1, 2002; September 1, 2006.]