General Order 12.4: Bar Admission Fees
Circuit Rules and General Orders of the Ninth Circuit — General Orders — Chapter XII: Miscellaneous Provisions
a. Bar Admission Fees
The admission fee to the bar of this Court is set at $230.00 (effective 11/01/11). The fee is waived for attorneys who are employed by the federal government or community public defender program; such attorneys are conditionally admitted. If the attorney leaves government service but wishes to practice before the Court, that attorney must then satisfy the fee requirement. Court employees are exempt from the admission fee. (Rev. 9/17/14)
b. Expenditures from the Attorney Admission Fund
All expenditures must be in accordance with the Plan for Administration of the Attorney Admission Fund.
The circuit executive or the Clerk, may authorize expenditures from the Fund for items contained in the approved annual budget and for revolving fund expenditures that do not exceed $1,500 per item. Any single expenditure for a budgeted or revolving fund item exceeding $1,500 requires the additional approval of the Chief Judge or the Chair of the Committee.
The Chief Judge is authorized to approve expenditures from the Fund in any amount within the Chief Judge's annual budget limit. The Chief Judge may delegate this authority to the circuit executive or to the Clerk. See Plan for Administration of Attorney Admission Fund.