UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
Notice Regarding Annual Registration Fee
Please take notice that at a meeting held on November 17, 2023, the Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut approved an annual registration fee for all members of the Court's bar effective, April 3, 2024. All attorneys who were admitted by regular admission prior to December 31st of the previous year will be required to register between June 1 and August 31 annually to continue as active members of the Court's bar. A fee of $50.00 will be charged each year at the time of registration. Active status in the District Court is required for practice in both the U.S. District Court and in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut. This annual registration fee applies to all District Court and Bankruptcy Court practitioners.
The annual registration fees will support the costs essential to operating the Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Program ("FPSLAP"), which opened in October 2022 to aid the Court and pro bono lawyers in handling federal pro se legal matters and cases. The fees shall be placed in a fund maintained by the Clerk of Court, pursuant to the Plan for the Administration of the Non-Appropriated Fund and earmarked for the FPSLAP. Annual registration fees will be used solely for purposes that inure to the benefit of the FPSLAP, including but not limited to the salaries and fringe benefits of FPSLAP employees, office furnishings and equipment, office telephones and cell phones and related costs, copies, and costs of litigation.
Members of the bar will be notified before a registration fee is due through an automated email. If members of the bar fail to pay their annual registration fees, their filing privileges may be suspended, and they will be subject to removal from the rolls of the Court's bar.
Annual registration information is available on the Court’s website and instructions will be available on the Court’s website on May 1, 2024.
Dinah Milton Kinney
Clerk of Court
April 3, 2024
All posted notices are also available on the Court’s public website at www.ctd.uscourts.gov