New York Judiciary Law Article 15 - ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 466 - Attorney's Oath of Office.
Each person, admitted as prescribed in this chapter must, upon his admission, take the constitutional oath of office in open court, and subscribe the same...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 475 - Attorney's Lien in Action, Special or Other Proceeding.
From the commencement of an action, special or other proceeding in any court or before any state, municipal or federal department, except a department of...
- 475-a - Notice of Lien.
If prior to the commencement of an action, arbitration, mediation or a form of alternative dispute resolution, or a special or other proceeding, an attorney...
- 476 - Action Against Attorney for Lending His Name in Suits and Against Person Using Name.
If an attorney knowingly permits a person not being his general law partner, or a clerk in his office, to sue out a mandate, or...
- 476-a - Action for Unlawful Practice of the Law.
1. The attorney-general may maintain an action upon his or her own information or upon the complaint of a private person or of a bar...
- 476-b - Injunction to Restrain Defendant From Unlawful Practice of the Law.
In a civil action brought as prescribed in section four hundred seventy-six-a of this article, the final judgment in favor of the plaintiff shall perpetually...
- 476-c - Investigation by the Attorney-General.
1. The attorney-general is empowered to conduct an investigation of any complaint of unlawful practice of the law and in connection therewith, the attorney-general, his...
- 477 - Settlement of Actions for Personal Injury.
If, in an action commenced to recover damages for a personal injury or for death as the result of a personal injury, an attorney having...
- 478 - Practicing or Appearing As Attorney-At-law Without Being Admitted and Registered.
It shall be unlawful for any natural person to practice or appear as an attorney-at-law or as an attorney and counselor-at-law for a person other...
- 479 - Soliciting Business on Behalf of an Attorney.
It shall be unlawful for any person or his agent, employee or any person acting on his behalf, to solicit or procure through solicitation either...
- 480 - Entering Hospital to Negotiate Settlement or Obtain Release or Statement.
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter a hospital for the purpose of negotiating a settlement or obtaining a general release or statement,...
- 481 - Aiding, Assisting or Abetting the Solicitation of Persons or the Procurement of a Retainer for or on Behalf of an Attorney.
It shall be unlawful for any person in the employ of or in any capacity attached to any hospital, sanitarium, police department, prison or court,...
- 482 - Employment by Attorney of Person to Aid, Assist or Abet in the Solicitation of Business or the Procurement Through Solicitation of a Retainer to Perfo
482. Employment by attorney of person to aid, assist or abet in the solicitation of business or the procurement through solicitation of a retainer to...
- 483 - Signs Advertising Services As Attorney At Law.
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain on real property or to permit or allow any other person to maintain, on such property...
- 484 - None But Attorneys to Practice in the State.
No natural person shall ask or receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for appearing for a person other than himself as attorney in any court or...
- 485 - Violation of Certain Preceding Sections a Misdemeanor.
Except as provided in section four hundred eighty-five-a of this article, any person violating the provisions of section four hundred seventy-eight, four hundred seventy-nine, four...
- 485-a - Violation of Certain Sections a Class E Felony.
Any person who violates the provisions of sections four hundred seventy-eight, four hundred eighty-four, four hundred eighty-six or four hundred ninety-five of this article is...
- 486 - Practice of Law by Attorney Who Has Been Disbarred, Suspended, or Convicted of a Felony.
Any person whose admission to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law has been revoked or who has been removed from office as attorney and counselor-at-law...
- 486-a - Conviction for Felony of Person Who is an Attorney and Counselor At Law; Notice Thereof to Be Given by Clerk to Appropriate Appellate Division of the
supreme court. Whenever it appears from the record that a person who has been convicted of any crime which is a felony, is an attorney...
- 487 - Misconduct by Attorneys.
An attorney or counselor who: 1. Is guilty of any deceit or collusion, or consents to any deceit or collusion, with intent to deceive the...
- 488 - Buying Demands on Which to Bring an Action.
An attorney or counselor shall not: 1. Directly or indirectly, buy, take an assignment of or be in any manner interested in buying or taking...
- 489 - Purchase of Claims by Corporations or Collection Agencies.
1. No person or co-partnership, engaged directly or indirectly in the business of collection and adjustment of claims, and no corporation or association, directly or...
- 490 - Limitation.
Sections four hundred eighty-eight and four hundred eighty-nine of this chapter do not prohibit the receipt of a bond, promissory note, bill of exchange, book...
- 491 - Sharing of Compensation by Attorneys Prohibited.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, corporation, or association to divide with or receive from, or to agree to divide with or...
- 492 - Use of Attorney's Name by Another.
If an attorney knowingly permits any person, not being his general law partner or a clerk in his office, to sue out any process or...
- 493 - Attorneys Forbidden to Defend Criminal Prosecutions Carried on by Their Partners, or Formerly by Themselves.
An attorney, who directly or indirectly advises in relation to, or aids or promotes the defense of any action or proceeding in any court, the...
- 494 - Attorneys May Defend Themselves.
The last section does not prohibit an attorney from defending himself in person, as attorney or as counsel, when prosecuted either civilly or criminally.
- 495 - Corporations and Voluntary Associations Not to Practice Law.
1. No corporation or voluntary association shall (a) practice or appear as an attorney-at-law for any person in any court in this state or before...
- 496 - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
* 496. An organization described in subdivision seven of section four hundred ninety-five of this article shall file with the appellate division department in which...
- 497 - Attorneys Fiduciary Funds; Interest-Bearing Accounts.
1. An "interest on lawyer account" or "IOLA" is an unsegregated interest-bearing deposit account with a banking institution for the deposit by an attorney of...
- 498 - Professional Referrals.
1. There shall be no cause of action for damages arising against any association or society of attorneys and counsellors at law authorized to practice...
- 499 - Lawyer Assistance Committees.
1. Confidential information privileged. The confidential relations and communications between a member or authorized agent of a lawyer assistance committee sponsored by a state or...
Last modified: February 3, 2019