Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 15 - ELECTED OFFICIALS
Division 60 - Attorney General
Chapter 14 - Legal Expense Fund Coverage
Section 15 CSR 60-14.020 - Contract Procedures
Universal Citation: 15 MO Code of State Regs 60-14.020
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule prescribes contract procedures for purposes of section 105.711, RSMo, as amended by Senate Bill No. 1247, 92nd General Assembly (2004).
(1) An attorney practices law at or through a nonprofit community social services center or through any agency of any federal, state, or local government if:
(A) The attorney provides to the center or
agency in writing his or her name, address, place of employment, if any,
daytime telephone number and Missouri Bar number;
(B) The attorney is assigned clients, cases
or matters by the center under procedures adopted by the center or agency, not
to include clients assigned by court order;
(C) The attorney has no preexisting attorney
client relationship with any client under which a fee has been collected or
contracted for;
(D) The attorney
agrees in writing at the outset of any representation or consultation that no
fee will be charged, sought or accepted for representation or consultation
regardless of the outcome of the representation or consultation; and
(E) The attorney does not discriminate in
providing legal services on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin
or ethnic background.
(2) An attorney practices law without compensation at or through a nonprofit community social services center or through any agency of any federal, state, or local government if:
(A) Neither the attorney nor the center
receives, or contracts for the receipt of a fee, donation or contribution of
money, goods, services or any other thing of value in any way related to the
attorney's legal representation;
(B) The attorney does not receive a salary,
hourly wage or any other thing of value from the center or agency;
(C) The attorney does not receive a salary,
hourly wage or any other thing of value from any person, firm, corporation,
partnership or any other source in any way related to the attorney's practice
of law at or through the center or agency; and
(D) No other individual or entity, other than
the client and/or his or her heirs, assigns and beneficiaries, receives
anything of value in any way related to the attorney's services at or through
the center.
*Original authority: 105.711 , RSMo 1983, amended 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004.
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