The General Attorney occupation covers
professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial
of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview
of a Federal Government agency (this may include
conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders,
rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions
of governing statutes or other requirements
of law;
drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities;
drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions
of a court, commission, or board;
drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.
As recently reported by ABA Journal, The Commission issued a
draft white paper (PDF) concluding that there is not a need for any adjustment in the
rules of professional conduct for lawyers relating to ALF.
Interviews with 253 SRL's in my recent study (http://www.representing-yourself.com/PDF/reportM15.pdf) expose the reality that despite a decade
of provincial Law Societies
drafting new
rules of professional conduct on limited scope retainers (LSR's) or unbundled legal services — when lawyers provide services on an hourly basis for specific contracted tasks — lawyers who regularly offer their clients LSR's are still about as rare as a shooting star on a cloudy night.