N.M. R. Gov. Paral. Serv. 20-109
The lawyer will not permit, encourage or influence the paralegal for whose work the lawyer is responsible to recommend that the lawyer or the lawyer's firm be retained by any person or entity, nor shall the lawyer condone such activity on the part of a paralegal.
N.M. R. Gov. Paral. Serv. 20-109
Committee commentary. - Rule 16-702 NMRA of the Rules of Professional Conduct prohibits a lawyer from recommending to a nonlawyer who has not sought advice employment of the lawyer or his or her partners or associates, from giving anything of value for having recommended employment of the lawyer or from requesting others to promote the lawyer's services. These prohibitions apply with equal force to a paralegal who attempts to influence others to select the paralegal's employer.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2004 amendment, effective January 30, 2004, substituted "paralegal" for "legal assistant" throughout the rule, and "paralegal" for "legal assistant" and "paralegal's" for "legal assistant's" in the last sentence of the committee commentary.