94-649-303 Me. Code R. § 2

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024
Section 649-303-2 - ACCESS TO LEGAL RESEARCH SERVICES
1. Any eligible attorney may apply to MCILS for access to legal research services. If MCILS grants that eligible attorney access to legal research services, those services shall be used exclusively for the benefit of consumers of indigent legal services.
2. Access to legal research services may be granted from month to month and shall be limited to those eligible attorneys who bear present professional responsibility for one or more matters on behalf of at least one consumer of indigent legal services.
3. Eligible attorneys shall not access MCILS contracted legal research services when an attorney does not bear present professional responsibility for one or more matters on behalf of at least one consumer of indigent legal services.
4. Eligible attorneys who have received access to MCILS contracted legal research services shall inform MCILS if an attorney no longer bears present professional responsibility for one or more matters on behalf of at least one consumer of indigent legal services within seven calendar days. At that time, MCILS may terminate access to its legal research provider for that attorney.
5. As a condition of use of MCILS contracted legal research services, each eligible attorney agrees to log the client for whom that attorney accesses that service in the manner prescribed by MCILS, including through the service itself, if so directed.
6. Eligible attorneys who wish to be granted access to MCILS contracted legal research services shall apply in the manner directed by the Executive Director, which may include a prescribed form and may also include a directive to apply through the MCILS secure website.

94-649 C.M.R. ch. 303, § 2