Rule 20-103 NMRA

Rule 20-103. Conduct prohibited.

Last amended: 2004Year: 2004Length: 298 wordsOfficial source
A paralegal shall not: A. provide legal advice; B. represent a client in court except to the extent authorized by law; C. select, explain, draft, or recommend the use of any legal document to or for any person other than the attorney who supervises the paralegal, unless the supervising attorney or judge, in the case of paralegals employed by the courts, so directs; D. engage in conduct that constitutes the unauthorized practice of law; E. contract with, or be employed by, a natural person other than an attorney to perform paralegal services except to the extent authorized by law; F. in connection with providing paralegal services, induce a person to make an investment, purchase a financial product or service or enter a transaction from which income or profit, or both, purportedly may be derived; G. establish the fees to charge a client for the services the paralegal or the attorney performs. Such fees shall be established by the attorney who supervises the paralegal's work. This paragraph does not apply to fees charged by a paralegal in a contract to provide paralegal services to an attorney, law firm, corporation, governmental agency or other entity; or H. perform any services for a consumer except as performed under the supervision of the attorney, law firm, corporation, government agency, or other entity that employs or contracts with the paralegal. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a paralegal who is employed by an attorney, law firm, governmental agency, or other entity from providing services to a consumer served by one of these entities if those services are expressly allowed by statute, case law, court rule or federal or state administrative rule or regulation. As used in this paragraph, "consumer" means a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation or public entity.
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