When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly
independent opinion on the subject.
[42](Later,
on August 19, 2013, the ABA Standing Committee
on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal
Opinion 464, which clarifies that a lawyer
subject to Model Rule 5.4 may share fees with a law firm practicing in a jurisdiction that permits nonlawyer ownership, even if those fees might be distributed to a nonlawyer, provided that there is no interference with the lawyer's
independent professional judgment).