Ind. R. Prof'l. Cond., Use of Non-lawyer Assistants, Guideline 9.8

As amended through November 4, 2024
Compensation

A lawyer may not split legal fees with a non lawyer assistant nor pay a non-lawyer assistant for the referral of legal business. A lawyer may compensate a non-lawyer assistant based on the quantity and quality of the non-lawyer assistant's work and the value of that work to a law practice, but the non-lawyer assistant's compensation may not be contingent, by advance agreement, upon the profitability of the lawyer's practice.

Ind. R. Prof'l. Cond., Use of Non-lawyer Assistants, Guideline 9.8

Adopted effective 1/1/1994; amended Sep. 30, 2004, effective 1/1/2005.