RPC RULE 6.4
          LAW REFORM ACTIVITIES AFFECTING CLIENT INTERESTS


  A lawyer may serve as a director, officer or member of an organization
involved in reform of the law or its administration notwithstanding that
the reform may affect the interests of a client of the lawyer. When the
lawyer knows that the interests of a client may be materially benefited by
a decision in which the lawyer participates, the lawyer shall disclose that
fact but need not identify the client.

Comment

  [1] Lawyers involved in organizations seeking law reform generally do not
have a client-lawyer relationship with the organization. Otherwise, it
might follow that a lawyer could not be involved in a bar association law
reform program that might indirectly affect a client. See also Rule 1.2(b).
For example, a lawyer specializing in antitrust litigation might be
regarded as disqualified from participating in drafting revisions of rules
governing that subject. In determining the nature and scope of
participation in such activities, a lawyer should be mindful of obligations
to clients under other Rules, particularly Rule 1.7. A lawyer is
professionally obligated to protect the integrity of the program by making
an appropriate disclosure within the organization when the lawyer knows a
private client might be materially benefited.


[Amended effective September 1, 2006.]