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 C - EXECUTIVE OFFICE › Section 93.52 - Communications and filings generally

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
General rule.
Except as
					 otherwise provided in this section, all pleadings shall be addressed to the
					 Board Prothonotary. All other communications and submittals should be addressed
					 to the Board at the Executive Office unless otherwise specially directed. All
					 communication and filings should clearly designate the docket number, or
					 similar identifying symbols, if any, employed by the Board, and should set
					 forth a short title. All communications shall include the address of the person
					 communicating, the party such person represents, and how response should be
					 sent to such person if not by first class mail.
(b)
Pleadings
. All pleadings
					 and other documents filed pursuant to any provision of Chapter 89 (relating to
					 formal proceedings) shall comply with the applicable provisions of such
					 Chapter. Electronic filing may be accomplished by accessing the electronic
					 filing system available on the Disciplinary Board website.
(c)
Incomplete documents
. In
					 any proceeding when upon inspection the Board Prothonotary or Executive Office
					 is of the opinion that a submittal or pleading tendered for filing does not
					 comply with this Subpart such Office may decline to accept the document for
					 filing and may return it unfiled, or such Office may accept it for filing and
					 advise the person tendering it of the deficiency and require that the
					 deficiency be corrected.
(d)
Disposition of complaints.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this
					 subsection all complaints received by the Executive Office against attorneys
					 shall be transmitted forthwith to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
					 Thereafter correspondence concerning the complaint, the investigation thereof,
					 and informal proceedings relating thereto should be addressed to the Office of
					 Disciplinary Counsel.
(2)
					 Complaints received by the Executive Office against Disciplinary Counsel
					 involving alleged violations of the Disciplinary Rules or the Enforcement Rules
					 shall be submitted directly to the Board and assigned to a reviewing member of
					 the Board for disposition, as provided by Enforcement Rule 209(b).
(3) Complaints received by the Executive
					 Office or the Office of Disciplinary Counsel against members of the Board
					 involving alleged violations of Chapter 81 (relating to rules of professional
					 conduct) or the Enforcement Rules shall, as provided by Enforcement Rule
					 209(b), be handled in the same manner as other complaints, except that if
					 action is required by the Board, the Executive Office shall notify the Supreme
					 Court which shall appoint an Ad Hoc Disciplinary Board comprised of five former
					 members of the Board who shall discharge the functions of the Board and have
					 all the powers of the Board with respect to that one matter only.