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Maine Bar Rules

Effective November 1, 1978
Including Amendments Received through January 1, 2012

Table of Rules

  • 1. Scope of Rules
  • 2. Purpose of Rules
  • 2-A. [ABROGATED] Aspirational Goals for Lawyer Professionalism
  • 3. [ABROGATED] Code of Professional Responsibility
  • 3.1 [ABROGATED] Scope and Effect
  • 3.2 [ABROGATED] Admission, Disclosure and Misconduct
  • 3.3 [ABROGATED] Fees; Fee Arbitration; Fee Division
  • 3.4 [ABROGATED] Identifying Commencement, Continuation, and Termination of Representation
  • 3.5 [ABROGATED] Withdrawal From Employment
  • 3.6 [ABROGATED] Conduct During Representation
  • 3.7 [ABROGATED] Conduct During Litigation
  • 3.8 [ABROGATED] Advertising Fields of Practice
  • 3.9 [ABROGATED] Publicity, Advertising and Solicitation
  • 3.10 [ABROGATED] Public Interest Legal Service [DELETED]
  • 3.11 [ABROGATED] [Reserved]
  • 3.12 [ABROGATED] Professional Independence of a Lawyer
  • 3.13 [ABROGATED] Responsibility for Compliance With the Maine Bar Rules
  • 3.14 [ABROGATED] Sale or Cessation of Law Practice
  • 3.15 [ABROGATED] Definitions
  • 4. Board of Overseers of the Bar
  • 5. Bar Counsel
  • 6. Registration; List of Trust Accounts
  • 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
  • 8. [ABROGATED] Contingent Fees
  • 9. Fee Arbitration
  • 10. Assessment of Attorneys for Expenses of Administration
  • 11. Professional Ethics Commission
  • 12. Continuing Legal Education
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