§ 460. Examination and admission of attorneys. An applicant for admission to practice as an attorney or counsellor in this state, must be examined and licensed to practice as prescribed in this chapter and in the rules of the court of appeals. Race, creed, color, national origin, noncitizen status or sex shall constitute no cause […]
§ 460-b. Applications for special arrangements. 1. The state board of law examiners shall provide a procedure for review of applications for special arrangements from any person applying for examination for admission to practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law which shall include provisions that if the applicant’s claim for special arrangements is denied, such board […]
§ 461. Compensation of state board of law examiners; appointment and compensation of employees. The court of appeals shall fix the compensation of the members of the state board of law examiners appointed by it as provided by section fifty-six of this chapter. The court of appeals may provide and furnish proper and suitable quarters […]
§ 462. Annual account by state board of law examiners. The state board of law examiners shall render an annual account of all its receipts and disbursements to the court of appeals.
§ 463. Times and places of examinations. There shall be examinations of all persons applying for admission to practice as attorneys and counsellors-at-law at least twice in each year in each judicial department, and at such other times and places as the court of appeals may direct.
§ 464. Certification by state board of successful candidates. Every person who shall pass the examination, and every person who has received a dispensation from the taking of the examination, shall be certified by the state board of law examiners to the appellate division of the supreme court of the department specified in the rules […]
§ 465. Fee for examinations and for credential review for admission on motion; disposition; refunds; funds. 1. Every person applying for examination for admission to practice as an attorney and counselor at law shall pay a fee of two hundred fifty dollars, or seven hundred fifty dollars if, to qualify to take the bar examination, […]
§ 466. Attorney’s oath of office. 1. Each person, admitted as prescribed in this chapter must, upon his or her admission, take the constitutional oath of office in open court, and subscribe the same in a roll or book, to be kept in the office of the clerk of the appellate division of the supreme […]
§ 467. Registration of attorneys. The clerks of each appellate division shall forward to the clerk of the court of appeals and the chief administrator of the courts a list of attorneys newly admitted to practice. Such list shall be forwarded at such times and in such form as the clerk of the court of […]
§ 468. Official registration of attorneys to be kept by the chief administrator of the courts. 1. It shall be the duty of the chief administrator of the courts to enter in a bound book or volume to be kept by him for that purpose, which shall be known and designated as and is hereby […]
§ 468-a. Biennial registration of attorneys. 1. Every attorney and counsellor-at-law admitted to practice in this state on or before January first, nineteen hundred eighty-two, whether resident or nonresident, shall file a biennial registration statement with the administrative office of the courts on or before March first, nineteen hundred eighty-two in such form as the […]
§ 468-b. Clients’ security fund of the state of New York. 1. The court of appeals shall appoint a board of trustees to administer the lawyers’ fund for client protection of the state of New York established pursuant to section ninety-seven-t of the state finance law. Such board shall consist of seven members. Of the […]
§ 469. Continuance where attorney is member of legislature. When a party to a civil action or proceeding shows by his or his attorney’s affidavit that his attorney is a member of the legislature of the state of New York, that the legislature is in regular or special session or that not more than ten […]
§ 470. Attorneys having offices in this state may reside in adjoining state. A person, regularly admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor, in the courts of record of this state, whose office for the transaction of law business is within the state, may practice as such attorney or counsellor, although he resides in […]
§ 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 […]
§ 472. Attorney who is surrogate’s parent or child prohibited from practicing berfore him. A surrogate’s parent or child shall not practice or be employed as attorney or counsel, in any case, in which his partner or clerk is prohibited by law from so practicing, or being employed.
§ 473. Constables, coroners, criers and attendants prohibited from practicing during term of office. A constable, coroner, crier, or attendant of a court, shall not, during his continuance in office, practice as an attorney or counsellor in any court, nor shall a sheriff, under-sheriff, deputy-sheriff, or sheriff’s clerk so practice in the county in which […]
§ 474. Compensation of attorney or counsellor. The compensation of an attorney or counsellor for his services is governed by agreement, express or implied, which is not restrained by law, except that no agreement made hereafter between an attorney and a guardian of an infant for the compensation of such attorney, dependent upon the success […]
§ 474-a. Contingent fees for attorneys in claims or actions for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice. 1. For the purpose of this section, the term “contingent fee” shall mean any attorney’s fee in any claim or action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice, whether determined by judgment or settlement, which is dependent in whole or […]
§ 474-b. Attorney retainer statements. The office of court administation shall make available to the department of social services copies of retainer statements or closing statements filed with the office of court administration pursuant to the rules of the appellate divisions, or relevant information contained therein, for the purpose of enabling the department to compare […]
