Appointment of Law Assistants; Role

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  5. Appointment of Law Assistants; Role

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  1. The judge of the Georgia State-wide Business Court shall be authorized to appoint law assistants for the use of the court and to remove them at pleasure. Each law assistant of the Georgia State-wide Business Court shall have been admitted to the bar of this state as a practicing attorney; provided, however, that an individual who graduated from law school but who is not a member of the bar of this state may be appointed as a law assistant so long as he or she is admitted to the bar of this state within one year of such appointment.
  2. It shall be the duty of a law assistant to attend all sessions of the court, if so ordered, and generally to perform the duties incident to the role of law assistant.

(Code 1981, §15-5A-13, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 845, § 1-1/HB 239.)


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