Rule 5.3. Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistance

Category: NH Rules of Professional Conduct Section: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

With respect to a nonlawyer employed or retained by or associated with a lawyer:

(a)  Each partner, and each lawyer who individually or together with other lawyers possesses comparable managerial authority in a law firm shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the firm has in effect measures giving reasonable assurance that the person's conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer;

(b)  Each lawyer having direct supervisory authority over the nonlawyer shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the person's conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; and

(c)  a lawyer shall be responsible for conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if:<

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