A lawyer should render public interest legal service. A lawyer may discharge this responsibility by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or charitable groups or organizations, by service in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession, and by financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means.

Comment to RPC 6.1

The Court has adopted ABA Model Rule 6.1, rather than the version recommended by the Debevoise Committee (which would have put a minimum limit on the amount of financial support to a legal services organization that would satisfy the attorney's public interest legal service obligation). The Court retitled this rule so as to reflect its content more accurately. This rule has no counterpart in the prior Disciplinary Rules.

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