of legal services to its members falls within a constitutional exception to this statutory rule, established by the United States Supreme Court in Mine Worker's v. Illinois Bar Ass’n, 389 U.S. 217, 221-22 (1967). In Mine Workers, a case strikingly similar to this case, the Court held that a union, which provided free legal representation to its members bringing workers’ compensation claims, did not engage in the unauthorized practice of law. Id. The Court reasoned that “the freedom of speech, assembly, and petition guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments gives petitioner the right to hire attorneys on a salary basis to assist its members in the assertion of their legal rights.” Id.; cf. In re N.H. Disabilities Rights Center, Inc., 130 N.H. 328, 336, 541 A.2d 208, 213 (1988) (<HOLDING>). The State argues that Mine Workers does not
recognizing legal services organizations first amendment right of associating to advocate legal rights recognizing a corporations legal rights to confidentiality and privilege holding that a prisoner has no first amendment right to provide legal assistance to other inmates and that therefore prison officials did not violate the prisoners constitutional rights when they intercepted a letter containing legal advice that he sent to another prisoner holding that there was no legal right to court review of parole board decision because there is no legal right to release on parole recognizing first amendment retaliation right