LD 2213
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Page 5 of 6 An Act to Create and Regulate the Profession of Legal Document Technician LD 2213 Title Page
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SUMMARY

 
This bill creates and regulates the profession of legal
document technician. A legal document technician is a person who,
for compensation, provides a legal form to a client or fills in,
files or serves a legal form pursuant to a specific request by a
client. Under this bill, a legal document technician may not
provide advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation to a
client concerning legal rights, remedies, defenses, options,
strategies or selection of forms or any other service that the
legal document technician is not specifically authorized to
provide. In addition to specifying the types of services that
legal document technicians may provide, the bill enacts penalties
for legal document technicians who provide unauthorized services.


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