15-5A-13. Appointment of law assistants; role.

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(a)
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.#
(b)
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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

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

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Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, pages 198 to 199; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.