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Maine Bar Rules
Effective July 1, 2015 (Including July 2018 Amendments)
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Preamble and Terminology
I. Board of Overseers of the Bar
II. Maine Bar Administrative Rules
- RULE 4. Registration
- RULE 5. Continuing Legal Education ("CLE")
- RULE 6. Maintenance of Trust Accounts in Approved Institutions: IOLTA
III. Commissions
- RULE 7. Fee Arbitration Commission
- RULE 8. Professional Ethics Commission
- RULE 9. Grievance Commission
IV. Maine Disciplinary Rules
- RULE 10. Jurisdiction
- RULE 11. Statute of Limitations
- RULE 12. Immunity
- RULE 13. Disciplinary Rules of Procedure
- RULE 14. Additional Rules of Procedure
- RULE 15. Service and Notice
- RULE 16. Subpoena Power
- RULE 17. Discovery
- RULE 18. Access to Disciplinary Information
- RULE 19. Dissemination of Disciplinary Information
- RULE 20. Failure to Answer/Failure to Appear
- RULE 21. Sanctions
- RULE 22. Reimbursement of Costs
- RULE 23. Lawyers Found Guilty of a Crime
- RULE 24. Interim Suspension
- RULE 25. Discipline by Consent and Surrender of License
- RULE 26. Reciprocal Discipline
- RULE 27. Proceedings in which Lawyer is Determined Incapacitated
- RULE 28. Reinstatement Following a Disciplinary Suspension of Six Months or Less
- RULE 29. Reinstatement after Disciplinary Suspension for more than Six Months
- RULE 30. Abatement or Modification of Conditions of Discipline or Reinstatement
- RULE 31. Notice to Clients, Adverse Parties, and other Counsel
- RULE 32. Receiver
- RULE 33. Transition
