Legal services are jurisdiction-specific
A lawyer is responsible for proposing only where the lawyer is licensed.
Legal-service Providers are individually responsible for limiting their Proposals to Requests in jurisdictions where they are licensed to practise, in order to avoid the unauthorised practice of law. Rbundle routes on the credentials a firm has given us and verified, but the professional responsibility remains the Provider's.
A legal-service Provider responding to a Request should state the jurisdictions in which it is licensed and its geographic location, so that a Buyer in another jurisdiction is not misled.
No attorney-client relationship with Rbundle
We are not your lawyer, and the RFP form is not legal advice.
Creating or submitting a Request for legal services does not form an attorney-client relationship with Rbundle. Rbundle does not itself provide legal services.
The Common RFP is designed to collect the information a Provider needs in order to prepare a proposal. It is not, and should not be read as, legal advice. Any fit indication the Marketplace returns is preliminary and is not a determination about your matter.
Rbundle does not recommend any Provider
No rankings, no endorsements, no analysis of your matter to pick a lawyer for you.
Rbundle makes no representation that is intended as a referral, endorsement, ranking or recommendation of any Provider. We do not analyse a Buyer's legal problem in order to decide which lawyer should receive it. Routing is structural — service, credentials, jurisdiction — and a Buyer's stated preferences affect ordering, not permission to respond.
Verification is a screening gate, not an endorsement. We check that a firm is who and what it says it is. We do not vouch for the quality of its work.
Except for violation of the Terms or other good cause, any qualifying legal-service Provider may join and compete for Requests.
Lawyers are not solicited, and retain their own judgement
Buyers solicit proposals. Lawyers decide what to say and whether to respond.
No Provider solicits business through the Marketplace. A Buyer solicits proposals from Providers.
Rbundle does not direct or regulate a legal-service Provider's professional judgement. The lawyer controls what is communicated to a prospective client and how, from the first proposal onward. Rbundle's own communications with a Buyer are transactional email — sign-in links and service notices. A Provider is not penalised for declining to propose on any Request.
A Provider that does not wish to create a client-lawyer relationship by responding may say so expressly in its Proposal. For example: “Although this proposal responds to the specific request, there may be other facts and law relevant to the issue. The solicitor of this proposal should not base any decision on this response and specifically understands and agrees that no client-lawyer relationship has been established with any lawyer at this firm.”
Ethics rules are the Provider's to satisfy
We make no representation that joining Rbundle complies with your professional obligations.
Rbundle makes no representation to any legal-service Provider that participating in the Marketplace complies with that Provider's own professional duties or the ethical codes to which it is subject. A legal-service Provider should participate only after considering those duties in the relevant jurisdictions, and should take its own ethics advice.
The restriction that most often matters is the rule against sharing legal fees with non-lawyers, and its interaction with the advertising-cost and lead-generation exceptions. The rules differ materially by state, and they are moving.
How legal services are priced
Free during validation; any later fee on thirty days' notice.
During validation, Rbundle charges no fee for legal services. Any fee introduced later must comply with the rules of professional conduct and will be introduced on thirty days' notice.
No fee is being charged today. Where fees begin, the terms applicable to each Listed Service will be stated in the Provider Service Agreement for that service before any charge is incurred.
Rbundle takes no position on whether any particular fee arrangement is permitted in your jurisdiction, and nothing here is legal advice about your own obligations.
CONFIRM with counsel, per jurisdiction, before the legal vertical goes live: the subscription structure against the local rule, whether platform registration or certification is required, and the treatment of any Direct Invitation flow. The project's own 50-state survey is research, not advice, and does not replace outside ethics counsel.
Conflicts and independence
The Provider runs those checks. We do not clear conflicts.
Providers are responsible for running their own conflict-of-interest and independence checks before engaging. Rbundle may screen on attributes before proposals are written, so that an obviously conflicted firm is not routed the work, and the selected Provider runs its check once identity is revealed; if it must decline, the Buyer's next choice is engaged. Rbundle does not clear conflicts and renders no independence opinion.