Rule 1302 - Compulsory Arbitration - Arbitrators(a) A list of available arbitrators shall be prepared by the Court Administrator. The list shall consist of a sufficient number of members of the bar of Lehigh County who express a willingness to serve and who are actively engaged in the practice of law primarily in Lehigh County in accordance with Pa.R.C.P. 1302(a).(b) Each attorney who satisfies the requirements of Rule 1302(a) may submit his or her name to the court administrator who shall, with the approval of the administrative judge-civil division, assign said attorneys to various permanent arbitration panels. The composition of the panels may be changed from time to time as may be deemed appropriate by the court administrator, with the approval of the administrative judge-civil division.(c) Each panel so comprised shall consist of five (5) attorneys, three (3) of whom shall be the assigned arbitrators, and two (2) of whom shall be substitutes. The chairperson of each panel shall have been actively engaged in the practice of law in this court for at least three (3) years. Should a substitution of an assigned arbitrator be necessary, he or she shall arrange for one of the two substitutes to be present at the arbitration. Should neither of the two substitutes of the panel be able to sit, the assigned arbitrator may arrange for a substitute from a list of court-approved permanent substitute arbitrators. A panel member who cannot sit and who has made the proper arrangements for a substitute shall notify, in writing, the other panel members and counsel for all parties or the parties themselves if unrepresented by counsel. In addition, a copy of this writing shall be mailed to the court administrator.(d) Each arbitrator will be compensated such rate as may be set by the court from time to time by administrative order.Amended effective 1/1/2020; amended effective 7/1/2023.