45 C.F.R. § 1604.1
Purpose
This part is intended to provide guidance to recipients in adopting written policies relating to the outside practice of law by recipients' full-time attorneys. Under the standards set forth in this part, recipients are authorized, but not required, to permit attorneys, to the extent that such activities do not hinder fulfillment of their overriding responsibility to serve those eligible for assistance under the Act, to engage in pro bono legal assistance and comply with the reasonable demands made upon them as members of the Bar and as officers of the Court.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1987–1998 · leading case: Legal Aid Soc'y v. Legal Servs. Corp., 145 F.3d 1017 (9th Cir. 1998).
Legal Aid Soc'y v. Legal Servs. Corp., 145 F.3d 1017 (9th Cir. 1998). “” 45 C.F.R. § 1604.1 . According to the LSC, the provision “is essential to insure that a legal services lawyer does not compete with lawyers in private practice, is not burdened by excessive comí; appointments,” and does not accept other commitments that might interfere with…”
David Jordan v. City of Greenwood, Mississippi, Etc. v. North Mississippi Rural Legal Servs., Inc., Movant-Appellant, 808 F.2d 1114 (5th Cir. 1987). “45 C.F.R. § 1604.1 (1985). Outside practice is thus limited to matters either highly unlikely to interfere with that responsibility or necessary to fulfill the attorneys’ professional obligations.”
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