(a) If an attorney admitted to practice in this State has been, because of mental condition, judicially declared to be a person under legal disability or in need of mental treatment, or has been involuntarily committed to a hospital on such grounds, the court shall enter an order transferring the attorney to disability inactive status until the further order of the court. If the Administrator files a motion to transfer an attorney to disability inactive status pursuant to this rule, the Administrator shall serve the motion upon the attorney in any manner in which service of process is authorized by Rule 765(a).
(b) Any disciplinary proceeding which may be pending against the attorney shall be stayed while he is on disability inactive status.
(c) No attorney transferred to disability inactive status may engage in the practice of law until restored to active status by order of the court.
Adopted March 30, 1973, effective April 1, 1973; title amended September 8, 1975, effective October 1, 1975; amended May 28, 1982, effective July 1, 1982; amended June 29, 1999, effective November 1, 1999; amended Dec. 28, 2017, eff. Feb. 1, 2018.