§ 11-27-7 - Filling out and signing of process and communications – Business association with laymen.
SECTION 11-27-7
§ 11-27-7 Filling out and signing ofprocess and communications – Business association with laymen. – No attorney at law shall sell any writ of judicial process to any person,except to a member of the bar under § 11-27-5, nor shall he or she deliverany writ or judicial process to another person, and authorize him, her, or itto fill out and issue the writ or judicial process with his or her name on itas the attorney at law, except that the attorney may so authorize any clerkemployed by him or her or registered student in his or her office, acting underhis or her direction, or any person who is a member of the bar under §11-27-5, and no person, who is not a member of the bar under § 11-27-5, ornot a clerk or student so acting, shall fill out or issue any writ or judicialprocess for another person, except that nothing in this section shall apply toany justice, or judge or clerk of court, or any notary public or justice of thepeace or other official or public boards or commissions acting within his, her,or their authority under the laws of this state. No attorney at law shallauthorize any person, except a clerk employed by him or her or a registeredstudent in his or her office acting under his or her direction, or a member ofthe bar, to use or sign the attorney's name in writing or print in or to anyletter or communication calling for the payment of any bill or account orthreatening any suit or legal proceeding. No attorney at law shall, togetherwith any other person who is not a member of the bar under § 11-27-5, haveor conduct, or advertise or represent in any manner, that they have or conducta law office or a law and collection office.