The Texas State Bar Ethics Committee recently issued an opinion saying that a law firm can't hire a nonlawyer to serve as Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, or an "officer" or "principal" of any other kind.
According to this story in Law Technology News, five organizations will soon submit a letter to the Texas Ethics Committee criticizing the opinion and urging that it be reconsidered. To its credit, the Committee appears to be open to revisiting the opinion at its next meeting. For the reasons I mentioned in this earlier post, I agree that the opinion is seriously flawed and should be withdrawn or substantially revised.