RPC RULE 6.2
                        ACCEPTING APPOINTMENTS


  A lawyer shall not seek to avoid appointment by a tribunal to represent
a person except for good cause, such as:

  (a) representing the client is likely to result in violation of the
Rules of Professional Conduct or other law;

  (b) representing the client is likely to result in an unreasonable
financial burden on the lawyer; or

  (c) the client or the cause is so repugnant to the lawyer as to be
likely to impair the client-lawyer relationship or the lawyer's ability to
represent the client.

Comment

  [1] [Washington revision] A lawyer ordinarily is not obliged to accept a
client whose character or cause the lawyer regards as repugnant. The
lawyer's freedom to select clients is, however, qualified. A lawyer may be
subject to appointment by a court to serve unpopular clients or persons
unable to afford legal services.

Appointed Counsel

  [2] For good cause a lawyer may seek to decline an appointment to
represent a person who cannot afford to retain counsel or whose cause is
unpopular. Good cause exists if the lawyer could not handle the matter
competently, see Rule 1.1, or if undertaking the representation would
result in an improper conflict of interest, for example, when the client
or the cause is so repugnant to the lawyer as to be likely to impair the
client-lawyer relationship or the lawyer's ability to represent the
client. A lawyer may also seek to decline an appointment if acceptance
would be unreasonably burdensome, for example, when it would impose a
financial sacrifice so great as to be unjust.

  [3] An appointed lawyer has the same obligations to the client as
retained counsel, including the obligations of loyalty and
confidentiality, and is subject to the same limitations on the client-
lawyer relationship, such as the obligation to refrain from assisting the
client in violation of the Rules.


[Amended effective September 1, 2006.]