20 C.F.R. § 501.11 Appearances.
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
(a) Representation. In any proceeding before the Board, a party may appear in person, or by counsel or any other duly authorized person, including any accredited representative of an employee organization. No person shall be recognized as representing an appellant or intervenor unless there shall be filed with the Board a statement in writing, signed by the party to be represented, authorizing such representation. Such representative when accepted shall continue to be recognized unless he should abandon such capacity, withdraw, or the appellant or intervenor directs otherwise. (b) Former members of the Board; other employees of the Department of Labor. A former member of the Board shall not be allowed to participate as counsel or other representative before the Board in any proceeding until two years from the termination of his status as a Board member. The practice of other former employees of the Department of Labor are governed by 29 CFR 2.2 and 2.3. (c) Debarment of counsel or other representative. Whenever in any proceeding the Board finds that a person acting as counsel or other representative for any party to the proceeding is guilty of unethical or unprofessional conduct, the Board may order that such person be excluded from further acting as counsel or other representative in such proceeding. An appeal may be taken to the Secretary of Labor from such an order, but the proceeding shall not be delayed or suspended pending disposition of the appeal, although the Board may suspend the proceeding for a reasonable time for the purpose of enabling the party to obtain different counsel or other representative. Whenever the Board has issued an order precluding a person from further acting as counsel or other representative in a proceeding, the Board shall within a reasonable time thereafter submit to the Secretary of Labor a report of the facts and circumstances surrounding the issuance of the order, and shall recommend what action the Secretary of Labor should take in regard to the appearance of such person as counsel or other representative in other proceedings before the Board. Before any action is taken debarring such person as counsel or representative from other proceedings, he shall be furnished notice and opportunity to be heard on the matter. (d) Fees. No claim for legal or other service rendered in respect to a proceeding before the Board to or on account of any person, shall be valid unless approved by the Board or by a member thereof. No contract for a stipulated fee or for a fee upon a contingent basis shall be recognized by the Board, and no fee for service shall be approved except upon an application to the Board supported by a sufficient statement of the extent and character of the necessary work done before the Board on behalf of the interested party. Except where such representation is gratuitous, the fee approved by the Board, or by a member thereof, shall be reasonably commensurate with the actual necessary work performed by such representative, taking into account the capacity in which the representative has appeared, the amount of the compensation involved, and the circumstances of the appellant.
Title 20: Employees' Benefits
PART 501—RULES OF PROCEDURE
§ 501.11 Appearances.
