Collection Actions: 11.3.2.2 Representation by LSC-Funded Offices
Restrictions bar use of Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funds to represent clients with respect to: “criminal proceedings” in which a client has been charged with an offense punishable by “death, imprisonment, or a jail sentence”;59 actions collaterally attacking a criminal conviction such as habeas corpus proceedings;60 and the representation of people in prison and incarcerated pre-trial detainees in civil litigation.61 These LSC rules lea