Model Rule 6.3 - Membership in a Legal Services Organization
Channel: Professor Stevenson
Date: 2024-01-09

Video lecture for my Professional Responsibility course (and MPRE prep) about ABA Model Rule 6.3 - Membership in a Legal Services Organization. The MRPC groups this rule with the other "public service" rules, but in my course we cover it at the end of the unit on conflicts of interest, because the rule is really about a specific type of conflict.
*PREQUEL TO THIS VIDEO (watch before it): Rule 1.12 https://youtu.be/E4-XSThW9_Y 
*SEQUEL TO THIS VIDEO (watch next): Rule 6.4 https://youtu.be/xzugrrTegZY 

Rule 6.3 provides (quote):
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.
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