Specifications include, but are not limited to: The State of Maine is seeking proposals for a case management and billing application to permit the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services to provide oversight of its attorneys, and for those attorneys to bill the Commission for the legal services they provide. MCILS will use the application for three primary areas: Administer the eligibility of counsel to participate in our program overall, and to participate in specific subject matter lists, and to communicate that eligibility to the Court for their purpose of assigning counsel. The application is used to manage attorney information, vendor code for payments, communications function to counsel. The application must be used for attorney tracking and case management. The application then compares the nature of the offense, the defendant, and compares to the attorneys on file. They match for geography (by county) and MCILS’s approval of attorneys for certain practice areas. The attorneys must record their time for the representation. They submit their voucher, and they are paid through the process discussed above. The application needs to include the suite of case management functions.
