Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct (Connecticut Practice Book)
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Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct (Connecticut Practice Book) 5.5: Unauthorised practice of law and the conditions for temporary, pro bono, house counsel and remote practice

What does 5.5 require?

A lawyer may not practise where doing so breaks that jurisdiction's regulation of the legal profession, nor help anyone else do so; Connecticut defines the practice of law in Practice Book section 2-44A. A lawyer without Connecticut admission may not set up an office or a systematic, continuous presence here for law practice (unless the law authorises it) or hold out as admitted. Such a lawyer who is admitted in a United States jurisdiction that extends reciprocal privileges to Connecticut lawyers, and is not disbarred or suspended anywhere, may give temporary services here where they are undertaken together with an actively participating Connecticut lawyer, where they relate to a pending or potential proceeding before a tribunal in which the lawyer is or expects to be authorised to appear, where they relate to a mediation or other alternative dispute resolution proceeding substantially connected with the home jurisdiction and no pro hac vice admission is required, or where they arise from the lawyer's existing practice for an existing client; for the last two categories the lawyer must notify the statewide bar counsel before and after each matter and pay the Judicial Branch's fees. Lawyers in good standing elsewhere, including those who have retired, may give uncompensated pro bono help through an organised legal aid society or a bar association project. Authorised house counsel under section 2-15A, and lawyers whom federal or other law authorises, may practise within those authorities; a lawyer physically present in Connecticut who practises remotely under another United States admission is not practising law in Connecticut; and any temporary practitioner is subject to Connecticut's disciplinary rules.

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