Supreme Court of Missouri
en banc

In re:

Repeal of subdivision 13.02, entitled “Requirements and Limitations,” and subdivision 13.03, entitled “Certification,” of Supreme Court Rule 13, entitled “Legal Assistance by Law Students,” and in lieu thereof adoption of a new subdivision 13.02, entitled “Requirements and Limitations,” and a new subdivision 13.03, entitled “Certification.”

1.  It is ordered that effective July 1, 1999, subdivision 13.02 and subdivision 13.03 of Supreme Court Rule 13 be and the same are hereby repealed and a new subdivision 13.02 and a new subdivision 13.03 adopted in lieu thereof to read as follows:

13.02 REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
In order to make an appearance pursuant to this Rule 13, the law student shall:

(a) Be duly enrolled in a law school approved by the American Bar Association;
(b) Have completed legal studies amounting to one-half of the credits required for graduation;
(c) Have filed a law student registration.  In the alternative, if the student does not intend to take the examination prescribed by Rule 8.08 and has not filed a law student registration, the student shall file an application under this Rule 13 and pay the prescribed fee.  The application and any information concerning the student, including background investigation and any reports concerning the student's conduct under this Rule 13, shall be available upon request to the bar licensing agency, character and fitness agency, or bar disciplinary agency of any jurisdiction where the student seeks or gains admission to the bar;
(d) Be certified by the dean of the law school at which the student is a degree candidate as being in good standing.  The dean also shall certify that the student has not been accused or found guilty of violating the law school's ethical standards, and that the dean does not have knowledge or notice of any information that would cause the dean to doubt the student's character, fitness, or moral qualifications to practice law.  The dean shall not certify any student who has been denied registration as a law student in any jurisdiction on the basis of the student's character or fitness until the denial has been resolved in the student's favor;
(e) Neither ask for nor receive any compensation or remuneration of any kind for services from the person on whose behalf the student renders services, but this shall not prevent a lawyer, legal aid bureau, law school, public defender agency, or the state from paying compensation to the eligible law student, nor shall it prevent any agency from making such charges for its services as it may otherwise properly require; and
(f) Certify in writing that the student has read and is familiar with the rules of professional conduct in Rule 4 and that the student will abide by them.  Said certification is to be filed with the clerk of this Court together with the certification by the law school dean.

13.03  CERTIFICATION

(a) The certification of a student by the law school dean:

(1) Shall be filed with the clerk of this Court and, unless it is sooner withdrawn, it shall remain in effect until the expiration of eighteen months after it is filed or until the announcement of the results of the first bar examination following the student's graduation, whichever is earlier.  For any student who passes that examination, the certification shall continue in effect until the date he is admitted to the bar.
(2) May be withdrawn by the dean at any time by mailing a notice to that effect to the clerk of this Court.  It is not necessary that the notice state the cause of withdrawal.

(b) The authority to appear pursuant to this Rule 13 may be denied or terminated by this Court at any time without notice or hearing and without any showing of cause.

2.  It is ordered that the prescribed fee required by Rule 13.02(c) is $50.00.

3.  It is ordered that notice of this order be published in the Journal of The Missouri Bar.

4.  It is ordered that this order be published in the South Western Reporter.

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DUANE BENTON, Chief Justice