DR 2-104. SUGGESTION OF NEED OF LEGAL SERVICES

A lawyer who has given unsolicited advice to a nonlawyer that the nonlawyer

should obtain counsel or take legal action shall not accept employment resulting from that

advice, except that:

(1)

A lawyer may accept employment by a close friend, relative, former client, if the

advice is germane to the former employment, or one whom the lawyer reasonably believes to be

a client.

(2)

A lawyer may accept employment that results from the lawyer's participation in

activities designed to educate nonlawyers to recognize legal problems, to make intelligent

selection of counsel, or to utilize available legal services if the activities are conducted or

sponsored by any of the offices or organizations enumerated in DR 2103(D)(1) through (4), to

the extent and under the conditions prescribed in these rules.

(3)

A lawyer who is recommended, furnished or paid by a qualified legal assistance

organization enumerated in DR 2-103(D)(1) through (4) may represent a member or beneficiary

of the organization, to the extent and under the conditions prescribed in these rules.

(4)

Without affecting the lawyer's right to accept employment, a lawyer may speak

publicly or write for publication on legal topics so long as the lawyer does not emphasize the

lawyer's own professional experience or reputation and does not undertake to give individual

advice.

(5) If success in asserting rights or defenses of the lawyer's client in litigation in the

nature of a class action is dependent upon the joinder of others, a lawyer may accept, but shall

not seek, employment from those contacted for the purpose of obtaining their joinder.

(B) Nothing in this rule prohibits a lawyer from accepting employment received in

response to the lawyer's own advertising, provided the advertising is in compliance with DR 2-

101.