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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 97-545

THE COURTS

Title 249--PHILADELPHIA RULES

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

Directive Concerning Location of Principal Office of Court Appointed Counsel; Directive No. 2 of 1997

[27 Pa.B. 1790]

   On March 25, 1997, the Administrative Governing Board, upon review of the appropriate rules, regulations and practice utilized in appointing counsel for indigent parties determined that, in addition to other applicable requirements, appointed counsel must maintain a principal office in Philadelphia County to be eligible to receive court appointments. All counsel who receive court appointments shall forthwith advise the Court if they do not maintain a principal office in Philadelphia County.

   In the meantime, effective immediately, the applicable appointment units shall remove from the various court-appointment lists those attorneys who, according to the records maintained by the Court, do not maintain a principal office in Philadelphia County.

   Any counsel who is removed from any court appointment list pursuant to this Directive, may only be reinstated upon proof of the existence of a principal Philadelphia County office submitted to the President Judge of Municipal Court, or the appropriate Administrative Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

   This directive is issued consistent with the Order of the Supreme Court dated March 26, 1996, at No. 164 Judicial Administration Docket No. 1, and shall become effective immediately. As required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 6, the original Directive shall be filed with the Prothonotary in a docket maintained for Directives issued by the Administrative Governing Board of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and copies shall be submitted to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, the Legislative Reference Bureau and the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee. Copies of the Directive shall also be submit-ted to Legal Communications, Ltd., The Legal Intelligencer, Jenkins Memorial Library, and the Law Library for the First Judicial District.

ALEX BONAVITACOLA,   
President Judge

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 97-545. Filed for public inspection April 11, 1997, 9:00 a.m.]


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