North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE BAR › Chapter 01 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Subchapter D - RULES OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Section .1700 - THE PLAN OF LEGAL SPECIALIZATION › Section 01D .1716 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
Subject to the general jurisdiction of the council and the
					 North Carolina Supreme Court, the board shall have jurisdiction of all matters
					 pertaining to regulation of certification of specialists in the practice of law
					 and shall have the power and duty
(1)
				  to administer the plan;
(2) subject
				  to the approval of the council and the Supreme Court, to designate areas in
				  which certificates of specialty may be granted and define the scope and limits
				  of such specialties and to provide procedures for the achievement of these
				  purposes;
(3) to appoint,
				  supervise, act on the recommendations of and consult with specialty committees
				  as hereinafter identified;
(4) to
				  make and publish standards for the certification of specialists, upon the
				  board's own initiative or upon consideration of recommendations made by the
				  specialty committees, such standards to be designed to produce a uniform level
				  of competence among the various specialties in accordance with the nature of
				  the specialties;
(5) to certify
				  specialists or deny, suspend or revoke the certification of specialists upon
				  the board's own initiative, upon recommendations made by the specialty
				  committees or upon requests for review of recommendations made by the specialty
				  committees;
(6) to establish and
				  publish procedures, rules, regulations, and bylaws to implement this
				  plan;
(7) to propose and request
				  the council to make amendments to this plan whenever appropriate;
(8) to cooperate with other boards or
				  agencies in enforcing standards of professional conduct and to report apparent
				  violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct to the appropriate disciplinary
				  authority;
(9) to evaluate and
				  approve, or disapprove, any and all continuing legal education courses, or
				  educational alternatives, for the purpose of meeting the continuing legal
				  education requirements established by the board for the certification of
				  specialists and in connection therewith to determine the specialties for which
				  credit shall be given and the number of hours of credit to be given in
				  cooperation with the providers of continuing legal education; to determine
				  whether and what credit is to be allowed for educational alternatives,
				  including other methods of legal education, teaching, writing and the like; to
				  issue rules and regulations for obtaining approval of continuing legal
				  education courses and educational alternatives; to publish or cooperate with
				  others in publishing current lists of approved continuing legal education
				  courses and educational alternatives; and to encourage and assist law schools,
				  organizations providing continuing legal education, local bar associations and
				  other groups engaged in continuing legal education to offer and maintain
				  programs of continuing legal education designed to develop, enhance and
				  maintain the skill and competence of legal specialists;
(10) to cooperate with other organizations,
				  boards, and agencies engaged in the recognition of legal specialists or
				  concerned with the topic of legal specialization including, but not limited to,
				  utilizing appropriate and qualified organizations that are ABA accredited, to
				  prepare and administer the written specialty examinations for specialties based
				  predominantly on federal law;
(11)
				  notwithstanding any conflicting provision of the certification standards for
				  any area of specialty, to direct any of the specialty committees not to
				  administer a specialty examination if, in the judgment of the board, there are
				  insufficient applicants or such would otherwise not be in the best interest of
				  the specialization program.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 84-23;
Readopted Eff. December 8,
					 1994;
Amendments Approved by the Supreme Court: November 16, 2006;
					 December 14, 2021.