{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-5a-13","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 15-5A-13","heading":"Appointment of law assistants; role.","body":"(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.\n(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.","path":["TITLE 15 Courts","CHAPTER 5A State-wide Business Court"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.15.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"7eb3552416ba0802be9b4b3912c2f14d1de284fbeac8921ddb2c494e5d14c517","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-5a-12","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-5a-14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}