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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » JUD - Judiciary » Article 15 - Attorneys and Counsellors » 471 – Attorney Who Is Judge’s Partner or Clerk Prohibited From Practicing Before Him or in His Court.

§ 471. Attorney who is judge's partner or clerk prohibited from practicing before him or in his court. The law partner or clerk of a judge shall not practice before him, as attorney or counsellor in any cause, or be employed in any cause which originated before him. A law partner of, or person connected in law business with a judge, shall not practice or act as an attorney or counsellor, in a court, of which the judge is, or is entitled to act as a member, or in a cause originating in that court; except where the latter is a member of a court, ex officio, and does not officiate or take part, as a member of that court, in any of the proceedings therein.