Rule 92. ACTIVITIES PERMITTED BY A REGISTERED LAW STUDENT

An eligible law student registered for student practice pursuant to this rule, when under the supervision of a member of the State Bar of Georgia, 57 may, as if admitted and licensed to practice law in Georgia, advise, prepare legal instruments, appear before courts and administrative agencies, and otherwise take action on behalf of:

(1) Any state, local, or other government unit or agency;

(2) Any person who is unable to pay for the legal services of an attorney; or

(3) Any non-profit organization the purpose of which is to assist low or moderate income persons. When a registered law student appears before a court or agency, the judge or presiding officer has authority to prescribe the form and manner by which such student may participate in proceedings. A registered law student may neither ask for nor receive any compensation or remuneration of any kind from any client for whom the student renders services; but this shall not prevent the student from receiving compensation, or a scholarship, stipend or other remuneration from a law school, governmental entity, or other non-profit agency in acknowledgment of the services the student is performing. Nothing in this rule prohibits a supervising attorney, or organization employing such supervising attorney, from applying for, charging, or collecting a fee relating to activities of the registered law student authorized by this rule that the attorney or organization otherwise may properly apply for, charge, or collect. Communications between the client of a supervising attorney and a registered law student shall be privileged to the same extent as communications protected by the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine and protected as confidential under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, and the presence of a registered law student during communications between the supervising attorney and the client shall not waive any otherwise applicable evidentiary privilege or duty of confidentiality. Nothing contained in this rule shall affect the right of any person who is not admitted to practice law to do anything that he or she might lawfully do prior to the adoption of this rule nor the right of lawyers to use assistants in their practice as permitted by the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct. 58