(Credit: BreizhAtao/Adobe Stock) State of the Judiciary: Legal Professional Shortage Impacting Administration of Justice
"[W]ithin the Supreme Court, we have experienced a staff attorney turnover rate of over 57 percent since January 2019," said Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs Wednesday.
February 07, 2024 at 04:47 PM
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What You Need to Know
- Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs delivers State of the Judiciary address before Georgia General Assembly.
- As resolutions of backlogged criminal cases improve, legal staffing shortages hinder efforts to administer justice.
- Legal salaries, judicial security concerns and emergence of generative artificial intelligence among topics highlighted during annual address.
Efforts to "uphold the rule of law" continue to improve after 46 of Georgia's 50 judicial circuits leveraged federal grant money to address cases backlogged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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