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Conn. Practice Book § 2-79
Enforcement of Payment of Fee
(a) The client security fund committee shall
send a notice to each attorney who has not paid
the client security fund fee pursuant to Section 2-
70 of these rules that the attorney’s license to
practice law in this state may be administratively
suspended unless within sixty days from the date
of such notice the client security fund committee
receives from such attorney proof that he or she
has either paid the fee or is exempt from such
payment. If the client security fund committee
does not receive such proof within the time
required, it shall cause a second notice to be
sent to the attorney advising the attorney that he
or she will be referred to the Superior Court for
an administrative suspension of the attorney’s
license to practice law in this state unless within
thirty days from the date of the notice proof of the
payment of the fee or exemption is received. The
client security fund committee shall submit to the
clerk of the Superior Court for the Hartford Judicial
District a list of attorneys who did not provide proof
of payment or exemption, within thirty days after
the date of the second notice. Upon order of the
court, the attorneys so listed and referred to the
clerk shall be deemed administratively suspended
from the practice of law in this state until such
time as payment of the fee and the reinstatement
fee assessed pursuant to Section 2-70 is made,
which suspension shall be effective upon publication of the list in the Connecticut Law Journal.
An administrative suspension of an attorney for
failure to pay the client security fund fee shall not
be considered discipline, but an attorney who is
placed on administrative suspension for such failure shall be ineligible to practice law as an attorney admitted to practice in this state, and shall
not be considered in good standing pursuant to
Section 2-65 of these rules until such time as the
fee and reinstatement fee are paid. An attorney
aggrieved by an order placing the attorney on
administrative suspension for failing to pay the
client security fund fee may make an application
to the Superior Court to have the order vacated,
by filing the application with the Superior Court for
the Hartford Judicial District within thirty days of
the date that the order is published, and mailing
a copy of the same by certified mail, return receipt
requested, to the office of the client security fund
committee. The application shall set forth the reasons why the application should be granted. The
court shall schedule a hearing on the application,
which shall be limited to whether good cause
exists to vacate the suspension order.
(b) If a judge, judge trial referee, state referee,
family support magistrate or administrative law
judge has not paid the client security fund fee,
the Office of the Chief Court Administrator shall
send a notice to such person that he or she will
be referred to the Judicial Review Council unless
within sixty days from the date of such notice the
Office of the Chief Court Administrator receives
from such person proof that he or she has either
paid the fee or is exempt from such payment. If
the Office of the Chief Court Administrator does
not receive such proof within the time required, it
shall refer such person to the Judicial Review
Council.
(c) Family support referees shall be subject to
the provisions of subsection (a) herein until such
time as they come within the jurisdiction of the
Judicial Review Council, when they will be subject
to the provisions of subsection (b).
(d) The notices required by this section shall
be mailed to the last address registered by the
attorney and sent by email to the last email
address registered by the attorney pursuant to
Section 2-26 and Section 2-27 (d), and mailed to
the home address of the judge, judge trial referee,
state referee, family support magistrate, family
support referee or administrative law judge.
History
(Adopted June 29, 1998, to take effect Jan. 1, 1999; amended June 20, 2005, to take effect Jan. 1, 2006; amended June 15, 2012, to take effect Jan. 1, 2013; amended June 9, 2023, to take effect Jan. 1, 2024.)
Provenance
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