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Table of Rules

Rules 1 - 12
(full text version)

 

 


Maine Bar Rules

Effective November 1, 1978
Including Amendments Received Through
January 1, 2008

Table of Rules 

Rule 1. Scope of Rules.

Rule 2. Purpose of Rules.

Rule 2-A Aspirational Goals for Lawyer Professionalism.

Rule 3. Code of Professional Responsibility.

--3.1 Scope and Effect.

--3.2 Admission, Disclosure and Misconduct.

--3.3 Fees; Fee Arbitration; Fee Division.

--3.4 Identifying Commencement, Continuation, and Termination of Representation.

--3.5 Withdrawal From Employment.

--3.6 Conduct During Representation.

--3.7 Conduct During Litigation.

--3.8 Advertising Fields of Practice.

--3.9 Publicity, Advertising and Solicitation.

--3.10 Public Interest Legal Service.

--3.11 [Reserved].

--3.12 Professional Independence of a Lawyer.

--3.13 Responsibility for Compliance With the Maine Bar Rules.

--3.14 Sale or Cessation of Law Practice.

--3.15 Definitions.

Rule 4. Board of Overseers of the Bar.

Rule 5. Bar Counsel.

Rule 6. Registration; List of Trust Accounts.

Rule 7. Grievance Commission, Procedures and Discipline.

--7.1 Disciplinary Proceedings Before the Commission and the Board.

--7.2 Disciplinary Proceedings Before the Court.

--7.3 Disciplinary Proceedings: Other Provisions.

Rule 8. Contingent Fees.

Rule 9. Fee Arbitration.

Rule 10. Assessment of Attorneys for Expenses of Administration.

Rule 11. Professional Ethics Commission.

Rule 12. Continuing Legal Education.

 

 
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