Sec. 961.301. CONTRACTS WITH ATTORNEYS. (a) A nonprofit legal services corporation may contract with attorneys as provided by this chapter to ensure to each participant legal services performed by the attorneys under the contract for legal services between the corporation and the participant. A contracting attorney must be licensed to practice law in the jurisdiction in which legal services are to be provided.
(b) Before issuing a contract for legal services and while the corporation continues to issue those contracts, the corporation must maintain the number of contracting attorneys that the department determines is necessary to service the participant contracts contemplated by the corporation's plan of operation.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
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