Petitions for admission pro hac vice may be filed conventionally (in paper form delivered to one of our staffed courthouses) by the applicant, or electronically by the petitioner’s designated local counsel.

Pro Hac Vice Admission: see SDGA Local Rule 83.4

(a) Georgia bar members who reside in this district or maintain their principal place of business in this district shall not appear before this Court via pro hac vice admission, but instead must join this Court's bar, even to represent someone in one (or an occasional) case. 

(b) Any attorney not subject to LR 83.4(a), but who is in good standing with the bar of another federal district court, may be permitted to appear and participate in a particular case before this Court, whether civil or criminal, with the prior approval of this Court, subject to the following conditions: 

(1)  pro hac vice counsel must designate, by a writing filed in the case in which appearance is sought, some willing member of this Court's bar upon whom motions and papers may be served and who shall be responsible for and have full authority to act for and on behalf of the client in all proceedings related to the case including hearings, pretrial conferences, and trials, should the petitioner fail to respond to any court order for appearance or otherwise.  For that designation to be effective, such local counsel must enter a written appearance in the case. 

(2)  pro hac vice counsel also must: (i) certify, in a writing filed with this Court, membership in good standing of a federal district court; (ii) file with the Clerk of this Court a certificate of good standing from that court; and (iii) provide a list of all cases filed in this Court in which petitioner has appeared as counsel.

Upon the granting of the PHV entry into the case, the attorney may register for E-Filing privileges:

In  PACER,  

Log in to Manage My Account.  

Follow instructions to complete the E-File Registration process for permission to file electronically in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, a NextGen CM/ECF court.

You will receive email notification from the Southern District of Georgia regarding your registration.

Attorney Registration Coordinator
attysupport@gas.uscourts.gov