Pennsylvania Code
Title 204 - JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part V - PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND CONDUCT
Subpart C - DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Chapter 93 - ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter E - HEARING COMMITTEES AND SPECIAL MASTERS
HEARING COMMITTEES
Section 93.81 - Hearing committees

(a) General rule. Enforcement Rule 205(c)(3) provides that the Board shall appoint not less than 18 hearing committee members within each disciplinary district, and that each person appointed as a hearing committee member for a district shall be a member of the bar of this Commonwealth who maintains an office for the practice of law within the district.

(b) (Rescinded.)

(c) Terms. Enforcement Rule 206(a) provides that when a hearing committee is required to handle a matter, the Board shall appoint a hearing committee consisting of three hearing committee members from the appropriate disciplinary district. Under exigent circumstances, the Board has the discretion to appoint a hearing committee member or members from outside the appropriate disciplinary district, or to require that a matter be transferred to another disciplinary district. At least one of the members of the hearing committee shall be a senior hearing committee member, and another member shall be either a senior hearing committee member or an experienced hearing committee member; the terms of hearing committee members shall be three years; no member shall serve for more than two consecutive three-year terms; a hearing committee member who has served two consecutive three-year terms may be reappointed after the expiration of one year; and the terms of members shall commence on July 1. A hearing committee member whose term has expired may continue to serve until the conclusion of any matter commenced before the member prior to the expiration of such term, if so requested in writing by the Executive Office.