Rule 26-103 NMRA
Rule 26-103. Scope of practice.
A registered foreign legal consultant may render legal services and give professional
legal advice on the law of the foreign country where the legal consultant is admitted to
practice subject, however, to the following limitations that such a foreign consultant may
not:
A.
appear as an attorney in any court or before any magistrate or judicial
officer, except as permitted pursuant to rules applicable to nonadmitted counsel, but
may appear before any administrative agency of the State of New Mexico in compliance
with agency rules;
B.
prepare any pleadings or other papers or issue subpoenas in any action or
proceeding brought in any such court, before any such magistrate or other judicial
officer, except as permitted pursuant to rules applicable to nonadmitted counsel;
C.
render professional legal advice on the law of the State of New Mexico or
of the United States whether rendered incident to the preparation of legal instruments
except when such law is applicable also to the foreign country where the legal
consultant is admitted to practice or on the basis of advice from a person duly qualified
or entitled, other than by virtue of having been licensed under these rules, to render
professional advice in the State of New Mexico;
D.
in any way hold himself or herself out as an attorney licensed in New
Mexico, as a member of the State Bar of New Mexico, or as an attorney licensed in any
United States jurisdiction; or
E.
use any other title other than "Foreign Legal Consultant", the foreign legal
consultant's authorized name, or firm name in the foreign country of the consultant's
admission, although a business card or letterhead may contain additional information
relating to the legal consultant's practice in the foreign country where the legal
consultant is licensed to practice.