RPC RULE 6.3
               MEMBERSHIP IN LEGAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION


  A lawyer may serve as a director, officer or member of a legal services
organization, apart from the law firm in which the lawyer practices,
notwithstanding that the organization serves persons having interests
adverse to a client of the lawyer. The lawyer shall not knowingly
participate in a decision or action of the organization:

  (a) if participating in the decision or action would be incompatible with
the lawyer's obligations to a client under Rule 1.7; or

  (b) where the decision or action could have a material adverse effect on
the representation of a client of the organization whose interests are
adverse to a client of the lawyer.

Comment

  [1] Lawyers should be encouraged to support and participate in legal
service organizations. A lawyer who is an officer or a member of such an
organization does not thereby have a client-lawyer relationship with
persons served by the organization. However, there is potential conflict
between the interests of such persons and the interests of the lawyer's
clients. If the possibility of such conflict disqualified a lawyer from
serving on the board of a legal services organization, the profession's
involvement in such organizations would be severely curtailed.

  [2] It may be necessary in appropriate cases to reassure a client of the
organization that the representation will not be affected by conflicting
loyalties of a member of the board. Established, written policies in this
respect can enhance the credibility of such assurances.


[Amended effective September 1, 2006.]