95-004-E     1. A member of the Mississippi Legislature may share office space and telephone lines with a registered lobbyist in the state of Mississippi.

2. A member of the Mississippi Legislature may own part of a business that is also owned in part by a person who is a registered lobbyist in the state of Mississippi. The Legislator must recuse himself/herself from voting on all action directly concerning a business with which he/she has a pecuniary interest. {F, L]

95-026-E     A salaried associate for a law firm may serve on the state legislature when a partner/shareholder of the law firm is a registered lobbyist and is paid an annual flat fee by his lobbyist client which is placed into the law firm's funds to be distributed among the partners/shareholders, provided the legislator recuse himself from actions concerning legislation the partner/shareholder lobbied for or against on behalf of the lobbyist client. [1, F, L, M]

95-051-E     1. A legislator/attorney's law partner's providing of legal representation to a state agency that receives money appropriated by the legislature results in a violation of Constitutional Section 109 even if the legislator/attorney does not share in the fees received by his law firm for that particular representation.

2. If the law partner of a legislator/attorney represents a client in such ways as drafting legislation which the client then tries to have introduced and passed by the legislature, the legislator/attorney may avoid a violation of Code Section 25-4-105 by:

a completely recusing himself/herself as a legislator from any action or consideration of the particular piece of legislation which his law partner has drafted; and

b. not sharing in the fees generated from the representation by the attorney/legislator's partner (although this would not remove a potential violation of Constitutional Section 109). [1, B, F, L]