Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 4240 - Public Service Commission
Chapter 2 - Practice and Procedure
Section 20 CSR 4240-2.040 - Practice Before the Commission
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule sets forth who may practice as an attorney before the commission.
(1) The staff counsel represents the commission staff in investigations, contested cases, and other proceedings before the commission.
(2) The public counsel represents the interests of the public before the commission.
(3) Attorneys who wish to practice before the commission shall fully comply with its rules and also comply with one (1) of the following criteria:
(4) An eligible law student certified under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13 may appear before the commission as an attorney. The student must comply with any applicable rules or statutes.
(5) Practice by Nonattorneys. A natural person may represent himself or herself. Such practice is strictly limited to the appearance of a natural person on his or her own behalf and shall not be made for any other person or entity.
(6) After an attorney has entered an appearance for any party, the attorney may withdraw only by leave of the commission.
*Original authority: 386.410, RSMo 1939, amended 1947, 1977, 1996.
Smith v. Public Service Commission, 336 S.W.2d 491 (Mo. 1960). Com mission Rule 12.07 allowing individual party before commission held not to authorize non-lawyer individual to act as attorney for twenty-five other individuals. See also Reed v. Labor and Industrial Relations, 789 S.W.2d 19 (Mo. banc 1990) and Clark v. Austin, 340 Mo. 647, 101 S.W.2d 977 (Mo. 1937).