a) The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is responsible for recruiting attorneys licensed to practice in the State who would agree to serve as probation monitors. All actions of probation monitors shall be pursuant to Rule XIX. Probation monitors shall be considered as members of the Disciplinary system.b) Selection of the probation monitor shall be made by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Under no circumstance shall the probation monitor be engaged in any representation of the respondent or be related to respondent by blood or marriage to the third degree nor be engaged in legal or professional practice, business or social concerns with the respondent.c) The probation monitor shall be a resident of the State of Louisiana.d) While respondent's input into the selection of the probation monitor may be considered, the respondent shall have no right to approve or veto the selection of the probation monitor.e) Unless otherwise specified in the order imposing probation, all terms of probation shall be written and agreed to by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, the probation monitor and the respondent prior to the commencement of the probation period. In cases of supervised probation where a monitor is appointed, probation shall be terminated by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel upon the submission of a report by the probation monitor stating that probation is completed, no longer necessary and summarizing the basis for that statement.La. R. Sup. Ct. app C r. 1
Amended April 25, 2019, effective 5/15/2019.