O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-2-19 (2019)

Law assistants

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The Justices of the Supreme Court shall be authorized to appoint law assistants for the use of the court and to remove them at pleasure. The law assistants shall have been admitted to the bar of this state as practicing attorneys; 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. It shall be the duty of the law assistants to attend all sessions of the court, if so ordered, and generally to perform the duties incident to the role of law assistant.

History

Code 1933, § 24-4301, enacted by Ga. L. 1946, p. 102, § 4; Ga. L. 1950, p. 342, § 1; Ga. L. 1952, p. 399, § 5; Ga. L. 2016, p. 883, § 1-2/HB 927.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2016, p. 883, § 1-1/HB 927, not codified by the General

Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 2016.’ ’’

Law reviews. - For article on the 2016 amendment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 205 (2016).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 46 Am. Jur. 2d, Judges, § 26.