Members of the ABA House of Delegates approved two resolutions as ABA policy in which CCL's Robert S. Peck played a key role. The first enacted new model rules for the governance and operation of legal referral programs, and the second reaffirmed existing ABA policy limiting the payment of legal fees to non-lawyers. 

      The first resolution, originally proposed but withdrawn in February, updated decades-old rules concerning legal referral projects. However, as proposed, the new rules would have permitted for-profit, non-lawyer legal referral programs to share contingency fees earned by the lawyers who received the referral, while imposing none of the client confidentiality or conflict of interest rules applicable to lawyers. In addition, the proposed rules had a weak transparency provision for the algorithms used by online legal platforms. Based on an amendment drafted and moved by Peck, the model rules now have a prohibition against fee-sharing with non-lawyer legal referral programs and a more demanding transparency requirement. 

       Peck was also one of the leaders of a group that proposed a reaffirmation of a 2000 policy adopted by the ABA in the face of efforts to expand fee-sharing with non-lawyers. That policy passed unanimously after opponents of the resolution agreed to an amendment that also reaffirmed a policy encouraging innovation in building greater access to justice. Peck explained that the resolution he supported did not threaten innovation or access to justice, a key part of his practice, but that permitting large corporations to practice law or take over legal practices would not benefit people in need of legal help. With agreement on the amendment, opposition evaporated, and the resolution passed.