2022 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 6 - Superior Courts
Article 2 - Clerks of Superior Courts
§ 15-6-52. Practice of Law Restricted

1. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, the clerks of the superior courts are prohibited from practicing law in their own or another’s name, as a partner or otherwise, in any court except in their own case.
2. Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to limit in any way the ability of a clerk of a superior court to serve as or offer advice in his or her role as a judge advocate or in any other military role in an active duty or reserve component of the United States Army, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, United States Air Force, United States Space Force, United States National Guard, Georgia National Guard, Georgia Air National Guard, Georgia Naval Militia, the Georgia State Defense Force, or in the National Guard or Air National Guard of any state or territory of the United States.

History. Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 574; Code 1863, § 250; Code 1868, § 244; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 23, § 1; Code 1873, § 256; Code 1882, § 256; Civil Code 1895, § 4348; Civil Code 1910, § 4879; Code 1933, § 24-2702; Ga. L. 2022, p. 319, § 1/HB 1346.

The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a), substituted “Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, the” for “The” at the beginning of subsection (a), and added subsection (b).

Cross references.

Regulation of practice of law generally, § 15-19-50 et seq.

Law reviews.

For article surveying legislative and judicial developments in Georgia local government law for 1978-79, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 155 (1979).