HB4360 S JUD AM #1
Lovell 7908
The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
ARTICLE 2. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
§30-2-4. Practice without license or oath; penalty; qualification after institution of suits.
(a) It shall be is unlawful for any natural
person to practice or appear as an attorney-at-law for another in a court of
record in this state or to make it a business to solicit employment for any
attorney, or to furnish an attorney or counsel to render legal services,
or to hold himself or herself out to the public or any member thereof
as being entitled to practice law, or in any other manner to assume, use or
advertise the title of lawyer, or attorney and counselor-at-law, or
counselor, or attorney and counselor, or equivalent terms in
any language, in such manner as to convey the impression that he or she
is a legal practitioner of law, or in any manner to advertise that he or
she, either alone or together with other persons, has, owns, conducts or
maintains a law office, without first having been duly and regularly licensed
and admitted to practice law in a court of record the courts of
this State, and without having subscribed and taken the oath required by the next
preceding section provisions of section three of this article.
(b) Any person violating the provisions of this section
subsection (a) of this section shall be is guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000
$5,000, or confined in jail not more than ninety days, or both fined and
confined, and on any subsequent offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
be fined not more than $10,000, or confined in jail not more than one year, or
both fined and confined: but this penalty shall not be incurred by any
attorney who institutes suits in the circuit courts after obtaining a license,
if he or she shall qualify at the first term thereafter of a circuit
court of any county of the circuit in which he or she resides: Provided,
That nothing herein prohibits a lawyer from advertising services or hiring a
person to assist in advertising services as permitted by the Rules of
Professional Conduct.
Adopted
Rejected