Rule 116. FILING THE PETITION

A petition for permission for an out-of-state attorney to assist in proceedings under this Part shall be filed by the Attorney General, a district attorney, solicitor-general, solicitor, public defender, the chief legal officer of a not-for-profit organization which provides free legal representation to indigent persons or children, or a licensed practicing attorney who works or volunteers to provide free legal representation to indigent persons or children with the Clerk of the Supreme Court, setting out the attorney's name, address, the name of the law school from which he or she graduated, and the name of each jurisdiction in which such attorney has been admitted to the practice of law. Such petition shall include:

(1) A certificate of any court of last resort in each such jurisdiction certifying that the out-of-state attorney is a member in good standing of the bar of such jurisdiction;

(2) A certificate from the disciplinary authority of each jurisdiction of admission which states that the out-of-state attorney has not been suspended, disbarred or disciplined and that no charges of professional misconduct are pending; and

(3) An affidavit by the out-of-state attorney that he or she has not within the previous five years been found to have provided ineffective assistance of counsel or personally to have committed prosecutorial misconduct by a court of law in any jurisdiction in which such attorney is admitted to practice or have been found by a court of law to have committed professional malpractice in any civil action. If the out-of-state attorney has applied to take the Georgia Bar Examination, the petition shall set forth the date application was made and the anticipated date of the examination and shall be accompanied, if available, by evidence of certification of fitness to practice law from the 72 Board to Determine Fitness of Bar Applicants issued under Part A, Section 11 of the Rules Governing Admission to the Practice of Law. If not available, the status of the out-of-state attorney's fitness application in Georgia or any other state, if any, shall be set out in the petition. An out-of-state attorney who has been denied or tentatively denied certification of fitness to practice law in Georgia, or any other state or whose certification of fitness has been suspended, shall not be eligible to practice under this rule.