Legal Services

The vendor required to provide legal services for include:
•    Upon assignment by the cabinet, and subject to the attorney's rights to decline any such assignment for any reason whatsoever, the attorney shall perform such legal services as requested by the cabinet, including, but not limited to, performing legal research, rendering legal opinions, and representing the cabinet and its employees in litigation before the courts, actions before boards and actions before administrative bodies until the matter is completed, concluded or withdrawn.
•    The cabinet agrees to prepare exhibits, provide witnesses, photographs, documents and information for use in representation of assigned actions. 
•    The facilities of the cabinet shall be made available for use of the attorney, if feasible, in order to avoid incurring expenses from outside sources. 
•    Where additional assistance for the representation in any action is necessary in the preparation of exhibits, obtaining photographs, hiring expert witnesses, or obtaining documents or information and said assistance cannot be supplied by the cabinet, the attorney shall request approval of the cabinet prior to incurring any expenses from outside sources. 
•    The attorney agrees that any and all information obtained by the attorney in connection with the preparation of litigation is the property of the cabinet and will not be divulged or used in any manner except by the specific written direction of the cabinet.
•    The cabinet shall make direct payment for approved services from outside sources, upon submission of a statement, which has been approved for payment by the attorney.
•    All such statements shall be identified by the style of the action, the civil action number and the name of the responsible staff attorney in the cabinets of legal services.
•    The cabinet shall first give a written response to a proposed settlement or agreed final disposition of any litigation and the attorney shall make no agreement or commitment in connection with the final disposition of any action without said prior written approval.
•    The cabinet shall direct the attorney to appeal or not to appeal any appealable order entered by a court. 
•    The attorney agrees to perfect an appeal or defend an appeal when so directed at the fee described in this contract.
•    The cabinet shall make direct payment for costs incurred in an appeal, i.e., transcripts of record. 
•    Reproduction and printing of briefs shall be performed by the cabinet or paid directly by the cabinet. 
•    Where additional assistance for the representation in any action is necessary in the preparation of exhibits, obtaining photographs, hiring expert witnesses, or obtaining documents or information which cannot be supplied by the cabinet, the attorney shall request and receive written approval of the cabinet prior to incurring any expenses from outside sources. 
•    Statements of all outside costs incurred in an appeal shall be reviewed and approved for payment by the attorney and submitted to the designated supervising or responsible attorney in the office of legal services. 
•    Statements shall be identified as to style of action, type of case and civil action number.