---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 1614.8"
title: "45"
number: "1614.8"
heading: "Prohibition of revolving litigation funds."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/1614.8"
---

# §1614.8. Prohibition of revolving litigation funds.

- (a) A revolving litigation fund system is a system under which a recipient systematically encourages the acceptance of fee-generating cases as defined in [§ 1609.2](/cfr/45/1609.2.md) of this chapter by advancing funds to private attorneys, law students, law graduates, or other professionals to enable them to pay costs, expenses, or attorneys' fees for representing clients.
- (b) No funds received from the Corporation shall be used to establish or maintain revolving litigation fund systems.
- (c) The prohibition in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section does not prevent recipients from reimbursing or paying private attorneys, law students, law graduates, or other professionals for costs and expenses, provided:
  - (1) The private attorney, law student, law graduate, or other professional is representing an eligible client in a matter in which representation of the eligible client by the recipient would be allowed under LSC's governing statutes and regulations; and
  - (2) The private attorney, law student, law graduate, or other professional has expended such funds in accordance with a schedule previously approved by the recipient's governing body or, prior to initiating action in the matter, has requested the recipient to advance the funds.
- (d) Nothing in this section shall prevent a recipient from recovering from a private attorney, law student, law graduate, or other professional the amount advanced for any costs, expenses, or fees from an award to the attorney for representing an eligible client.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2996g(e).

### Source

Source: 79 FR 61781, Oct. 15, 2014, unless otherwise noted.