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42 PA Cons Stat § 2302 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2302 - Maintenance of adequate county staff

§ 2302. Maintenance of adequate county staff. Whenever necessary, it shall be the duty of county officers to appoint or detail such county staff as shall enable the judges of the courts embracing the county to properly transact the business before their respective courts.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2391 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2391 - Short title of subchapter

transfer. 2397. County payments for certain leave.   Enactment. Subchapter J was added June 22, 1999, P.L.75, No.12, effective immediately.  Special Provisions in Appendix. See section 28 of Act 12 of 1999 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to nonseverability or invalidation.  § 2391. Short title of subchapter. This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unified Judicial System Transferred County-Level Administrator Leave Benefit Act.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2392 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2392 - Definitions

§ 2392. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  "Date of transfer." The date established pursuant to section 1905 (relating to county-level court administrators) for transfer of designated administrators from employment by their employing county to employment by the State government of the Commonwealth through the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.  "Employing county." The county by which a designated administrator is employed on the day immediately preceding the designated administrator's date of transfer.  "Fund." The Unified Judicial System Transferred County-Level Administrator Leave Fund established under section 2397 (relating to county payments for certain leave).  "State judicial personnel policies." Those personnel policies and procedures established and amended by or through a process created by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and applicable to personnel of the unified judicial system.  "Transferred administrator." Personnel designated under section 1905 (relating to county-level court administrators).  "Unified judicial system." The various courts and offices enumerated in Article V of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2393 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2393 - Holidays

§ 2393. Holidays. On and after the date of transfer to the State judicial personnel system, transferred administrators shall be eligible for those paid holidays specified in State judicial personnel policies.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2394 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2394 - Sick leave and annual leave

 § 2394. Sick leave and annual leave. (a) Accrued sick leave and annual leave to be transferred.--Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), sick leave and annual leave accrued by a transferred administrator prior to the date of transfer shall be transferred based upon the accrued sick leave and annual leave balances credited to the transferred administrator by the employing county as of the day immediately preceding the transferred administrator's date of transfer.  (b) Accrued sick leave and annual leave to be credited.--Credit for the sick leave and annual leave transferred under subsection (a) shall not exceed the maximum amount permitted for sick leave and annual leave carryover leave allowances from calendar year to calendar year by State judicial personnel policies in effect on the date of transfer. Accrued sick leave or annual leave transferred under this section shall be used by the transferred administrator only as a credit toward sick leave or annual leave, as the case may be, to be taken in the future. The sick leave or annual leave credited under this subsection shall not, at the time of transfer, be reimbursed to the transferred administrator in the form of a lump sum payout or other leave payout or in any other form which may be permitted by the personnel policies of the employing county in effect on the day immediately preceding the date of transfer. In the event a transferred administrator has accrued leave that is eligible for transfer and that under the employing county's personnel policies in effect on the day immediately preceding the date of transfer could be used by the transferred administrator as either sick leave or annual leave, such leave shall be credited to the transferred administrator with one-half of the leave designated as sick leave and one-half of the leave designated as annual leave.  (c) Excess leave.--Credit for accrued sick leave or annual leave which exceeds the maximum allowed by subsection (b) shall be subject to leave policies in effect in the employing county on the day immediately preceding the date of transfer. Any lump sum payments or other sick leave payments or annual leave payments made pursuant to this subsection are and shall remain the financial responsibility of the employing county.    Cross References. Section 2394 is referred to in sections 2395, 2396, 2397 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2395 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2395 - Other leave

§ 2395. Other leave. With the exception of leave specified in section 2394 (relating to sick leave and annual leave), a transferred administrator may receive a lump sum payment or other payment for other accrued leave as permitted by the personnel policies of the employing county in effect on the day immediately preceding the date of transfer. Any lump sum payment or other leave payments made pursuant to this section are and shall remain the financial responsibility of the employing county. For purposes of this section, the term "other accrued leave" shall not include accrued sick leave and accrued annual leave and shall include accrued disability leave, accrued personal leave, accrued compensatory leave and other types of accrued leave encompassed within the employing county's personnel policies on the day immediately preceding the date of transfer.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2396 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 23 - Personnel of the System|Section 2396 - Leave following transfer

§ 2396. Leave following transfer. (a) Leave accrual following date of transfer.--On and after the date of transfer, leave shall be accrued by transferred administrators as provided by State judicial personnel policies. For purposes of determining the accrual rate for annual leave, the term "service" shall mean State and county service which is creditable for retirement purposes, excluding any nonstate or noncounty service which may be creditable for State or county retirement purposes.  (b) Leave carryover following date of transfer.--On and after the date of transfer, a transferred administrator shall be permitted to carry accrued leave from calendar year to calendar year as provided by State judicial personnel policies.  (c) Leave eligible for payment.--If a transferred administrator terminates active service with the unified judicial system, such transferred administrator shall be paid for sick leave and annual leave transferred and credited under section 2394 (relating to sick leave and annual leave) and for sick, annual and other leave accrued on and after the date of transfer as permitted by State judicial personnel policies in effect on the transferred administrator's date of termination.    Cross References. Section 2396 is referred to in section 2397 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2501 - Appearance in person or by counsel

 § 2501. Appearance in person or by counsel. (a) Civil matters.--In all civil matters before any tribunal every litigant shall have a right to be heard, by himself and his counsel, or by either of them.  (b) Criminal matters.--In all criminal prosecutions the accused has a right to be heard by himself and his counsel.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2502 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2502 - Certain persons not to appear as counsel

 § 2502. Certain persons not to appear as counsel. (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise prescribed by general rule, an attorney at law who is an employee of a court shall not appear as counsel in such court. An attorney at law shall not appear in any court or in any matter in violation of any general rule relating to the practice of law or the conduct of courts, magisterial district judges and officers serving process or enforcing orders of courts.  (b) Law clerks.--Except as otherwise prescribed by general rules, a law clerk serving on the personal staff of a judge of a court of common pleas may appear in such court as an attorney at law before other judges of such court notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a).  (Apr. 6, 1980, P.L.100, No.38, eff. imd.; Nov. 30, 2004, P.L.1618, No.207, eff. 60 days)    2004 Amendment. Act 207 amended subsec. (a). See section 29 of Act 207 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to construction of law.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2503 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2503 - Right of participants to receive counsel fees

§ 2503. Right of participants to receive counsel fees. The following participants shall be entitled to a reasonable counsel fee as part of the taxable costs of the matter:  (1) The holder of bonds of a private corporation who successfully recovers due and unpaid interest, the liability for the payment of which was denied by the corporation.  (2) A garnishee who enters an appearance in a matter which is discontinued prior to answer filed.  (3) A garnishee who is found to have in his possession or control no indebtedness due to or other property of the debtor except such, if any, as has been admitted by answer filed.  (4) A possessor of property claimed by two or more other persons, if the possessor interpleads the rival claimants, disclaims all interest in the property and disposes of the property as the court may direct.  (5) The prevailing party in an interpleader proceeding in connection with execution upon a judgment.  (6) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees as a sanction against another participant for violation of any general rule which expressly prescribes the award of counsel fees as a sanction for dilatory, obdurate or vexatious conduct during the pendency of any matter.  (7) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees as a sanction against another participant for dilatory, obdurate or vexatious conduct during the pendency of a matter.  (8) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees out of a fund within the jurisdiction of the court pursuant to any general rule relating to an award of counsel fees from a fund within the jurisdiction of the court.  (9) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees because the conduct of another party in commencing the matter or otherwise was arbitrary, vexatious or in bad faith.  (10) Any other participant in such circumstances as may be specified by statute heretofore or hereafter enacted.    Saved from Suspension. Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 3159(b)(6), adopted April 20, 1998, provided that section 2503(2) and (3) shall not be deemed suspended or affected by Rules 3101 through 3149 relating to enforcement of money judgments for the payment of money.  Cross References. Section 2503 is referred to in section 1726 of this title; sections 1512, 1554, 5512 of Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations).
42 PA Cons Stat § 2504 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2504 - Letters of attorney

 § 2504. Letters of attorney. (a) General rule.--All letters of attorney authorizing acts relating to instruments or judgments may, if duly acknowledged, be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of any county. Such filing shall be deemed a recording for the purposes of section 6106 (relating to certified exemplifications of records).  (b) Duration.--A letter of attorney shall remain in effect until a written revocation by the grantor thereof is filed in such office, but this subsection shall not prevent the prior termination by operation of law of the agency evidenced thereby.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)   1978 Amendment. Act 53 added section 2504.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2521 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2521 - Office of attorney at law

§ 2521. Office of attorney at law. Persons admitted to the bar of the courts of this Commonwealth and to practice law pursuant to general rules shall thereby hold the office of attorney at law.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2522 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2522 - Oath of office

§ 2522. Oath of office. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each attorney at law shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before a person authorized to administer oaths:  "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity, as well to the court as to the client, that I will use no falsehood, nor delay the cause of any person for lucre or malice."  Any person refusing to take the oath or affirmation shall forfeit his office.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2523 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2523 - Persons specially admitted by local rules

§ 2523. Persons specially admitted by local rules. Any person specially admitted to practice law on or before April 23, 1968 may continue to practice in the court of common pleas or in that division of the court of common pleas and the Philadelphia Municipal Court which substantially includes the practice for which such person was previously specially admitted.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2524 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2524 - Penalty for unauthorized practice of law

§ 2524. Penalty for unauthorized practice of law. (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any person, including, but not limited to, a paralegal or legal assistant, who within this Commonwealth shall practice law, or who shall hold himself out to the public as being entitled to practice law, or use or advertise the title of lawyer, attorney at law, attorney and counselor at law, counselor, or the equivalent in any language, in such a manner as to convey the impression that he is a practitioner of the law of any jurisdiction, without being an attorney at law or a corporation complying with 15 Pa.C.S. Ch. 29 (relating to professional corporations), commits a misdemeanor of the third degree upon a first violation. A second or subsequent violation of this subsection constitutes a misdemeanor of the first degree.  (b) Practice by associations.-- (1) An association does not violate subsection (a) if it provides legal services only through officers, employees or agents who are duly admitted to practice law. The association may employ persons not admitted to practice law, but those persons shall not render any legal services rendered or to be rendered by the association.  (2) This subsection shall not be interpreted to preclude the use of clerks, secretaries, administrators, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by law, custom and practice to be rendering legal services nor to preclude the use of any other person who performs all his employment under the direct supervision and control of a person duly admitted to practice law. A person shall not, under the guise of employment, render legal services unless duly admitted to practice law.  (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an association may charge for the legal services of its officers, employees and agents, may collect those charges and may compensate those who render the professional services.  (c) Injunction.--In addition to criminal prosecution, unauthorized practice of law may be enjoined in any county court of common pleas having personal jurisdiction over the defendant. The party obtaining such an injunction may be awarded costs and expenses incurred, including reasonable attorney fees, against the enjoined party. A violation of subsection (a) is also a violation of the act of December 17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387), known as the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law.   (Dec. 21, 1988, P.L.1444, No.177, eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Dec. 7, 1994, P.L.703, No.106, eff. 60 days; July 11, 1996, P.L.607, No.104, eff. 60 days)    1996 Amendment. Act 104 amended subsec. (a) and added subsec. (c).
42 PA Cons Stat § 2525 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 25 - Representation of Litigants|Section 2525 - Unauthorized solicitation prohibited

 § 2525. Unauthorized solicitation prohibited. (a) Offense defined.--Any person not an attorney at law who shall solicit or procure through solicitation a retainer, power of attorney or any agreement, written or oral, authorizing an attorney at law to perform or render legal services, or who shall solicit any person in this Commonwealth to institute any action or proceeding for damages in which the compensation of any attorney at law for instituting or prosecuting such suit, shall directly or indirectly, depend upon the amount of the recovery therein, commits a misdemeanor of the third degree.  (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not prohibit any bona fide labor organization from giving legal advice to its members in matters arising out of their employment or prohibit any person from engaging in any associational activity which is protected under the Constitution of the United States.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2701 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 27 - Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas|Section 2701 - Scope and purpose of chapter

 § 2701. Scope and purpose of chapter. (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this chapter is to facilitate the prompt, fair and efficient administration of justice by specifying the respective powers and duties of prothonotaries, clerks of the courts and clerks of orphans' court divisions.  (b) Effect of other provisions of law.--The provisions of this chapter shall be subject to any inconsistent statute, home rule charter or optional plan of government, and to any inconsistent general rule or rule of court heretofore or hereafter adopted pursuant to and subject to the limitations of constitutional authority.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2702 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 27 - Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas|Section 2702 - Place of filing of documents

§ 2702. Place of filing of documents. Where jurisdiction of any matter is by law vested in a court of common pleas or in the Philadelphia Municipal Court, all applications for relief or other documents relating to the matter shall be filed in or transferred to the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas and handled by the appropriate office specified by or pursuant to this chapter.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2703 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 27 - Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas|Section 2703 - Notice of transfer of functions and duties

§ 2703. Notice of transfer of functions and duties. Whenever pursuant to section 2756(b)(2) (relating to exceptions) a clerk of the courts files a waiver of any functions and duties ordinarily incident to his office, the order of court appointing another officer or other person to perform such functions and duties entered pursuant to this chapter shall not be valid for any purpose until filed in the Administrative Office. The Administrative Office shall cause all such orders to be published in the Pennsylvania Code.
42 PA Cons Stat § 2704 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 27 - Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas|Section 2704 - Responsibility for entry, maintenance and certification of data and certification of amicable judgments

§ 2704. Responsibility for entry, maintenance and certification of data and certification of amicable judgments. The prothonotary, clerk of the courts and clerk of the orphans' court division shall: (1) Be responsible for the accurate and timely creation, maintenance and certification of the record of matters pending before or determined by the courts of common pleas and the Philadelphia Municipal Court, including data and reports relating thereto.  (2) Within 30 days after the entry of any money judgment, other than upon a verdict or after decision by a court, deliver to the authorities who assess for county tax purposes in the county where the judgment was entered a written report of the docket number where the judgment was entered, the date the judgment was entered, the amount of the judgment, the names of all parties to the proceeding in which the judgment was entered, the addresses of the persons in favor of whom the judgment was entered and the names and addresses of all assignees of the judgment. Failure to perform the duties imposed by this paragraph shall not impair the validity of any judgment or the lien thereof.   (Oct. 5, 1980, P.L.693, No.142, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 2731 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 27 - Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas|Section 2731 - Prothonotary

 § 2731. Prothonotary. (a) General rule.--In each county of this Commonwealth there shall be one prothonotary for the court of common pleas, who shall be known as the "Prothonotary of (the respective) County."  (b) Multicounty judicial districts.--In multicounty judicial districts the prothonotary shall be the prothonotary of the branch of the court of common pleas established for the county.  (c) Philadelphia.--In the first judicial district there shall be one prothonotary for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County and the Philadelphia Municipal Court, who shall be known as the "Prothonotary of Philadelphia."