A group from the New York City Bar Association, which has previously opined that litigation funding can run afoul of the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct, proposed changes to the rules on Monday that would clearly allow lawyers to work on such cases.

Rule 5.4, which prohibits sharing legal fees with nonlawyers, “should be revised to reflect contemporary commercial and professional needs and realities,” the bar’s litigation funding working group said in a report that has been months in the making. The report put forward two proposals for changes to the rule that would give lawyers “less restricted” access to funding.

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