(a) Offense defined.--Any person not an attorney at law who shall solicit or procure through solicitation a retainer, power of attorney or any agreement, written or oral, authorizing an attorney at law to perform or render legal services, or who shall solicit any person in this Commonwealth to institute any action or proceeding for damages in which the compensation of any attorney at law for instituting or prosecuting such suit, shall directly or indirectly, depend upon the amount of the recovery therein, commits a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not prohibit any bona fide labor organization from giving legal advice to its members in matters arising out of their employment or prohibit any person from engaging in any associational activity which is protected under the Constitution of the United States.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants
Section 2501 - Appearance in person or by counsel
Section 2502 - Certain persons not to appear as counsel
Section 2503 - Right of participants to receive counsel fees
Section 2504 - Letters of attorney
Section 2521 - Office of attorney at law
Section 2523 - Persons specially admitted by local rules