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(a) The chief court administrator shall appoint, as set forth below, attorneys to serve either on a part-time or full-time basis as grievance counsel for grievance panels, and shall appoint one or more investigators either on a full-time or parttime basis. The investigators so appointed shall serve the Statewide Grievance Committee, the reviewing committees and the grievance panels and shall be under the supervision of the statewide bar counsel. Compensation for these positions shall be paid by the Judicial Branch.
(b) The chief court administrator shall determine the number of grievance counsel to serve one or more grievance panels.
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(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 27D; amended June 12, 2025, to take effect Jan. 1, 2026.)
HISTORY-2026: In the first sentence of subsection (a), "judges of the Superior Court" was deleted and replaced with "chief court administrator." Additionally, what had been the third, fourth, and sixth sentences of subsection (a) were deleted. Furthermore, what had been subsection (b) was deleted and what had been subsection (c) was redesignated as subsection (b). In what had been subsection (c), "executive committee of the Superior Court" was deleted and replaced with "chief court administrator."
COMMENTARY-2026: Number 24-108 of the 2024 Public Acts, An Act Concerning Court Operations and Administrative Proceedings, among other things, consolidated under the Chief Court Administrator the responsibility for many personnel and administrative matters that historically were acted on by the Executive Committee and/or the judges of the Superior Court but which now are consistent with the current duties and responsibilities of and properly undertaken by the Chief Court Administrator. The changes to this section conform to the provisions of that public act.