§ 484 — None but attorneys to practice in the state

§ 484. None but attorneys to practice in the state. No natural person\nshall ask or receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for appearing\nfor a person other than himself as attorney in any court or before any\nmagistrate, or for preparing deeds, mortgages, assignments, discharges,\nleases or any other instruments affecting real estate, wills, codicils,\nor any other instrument affecting the disposition of property after\ndeath, or decedents' estates, or pleadings of any kind in any action\nbrought before any court of record in this state, or make it a business\nto practice for another as an attorney in any court or before any\nmagistrate unless he has been regularly admitted to practice, as an\nattorney or counselor, in the courts of record in the state; but nothing\nin this section shall apply (1) to officers of societies for the\nprevention of cruelty to animals, duly appointed, when exercising the\nspecial powers conferred upon such corporations under section fourteen\nhundred three of the not-for-profit corporation law; or (2) to law\nstudents who have completed at least two semesters of law school or\npersons who have graduated from a law school, who have taken the\nexamination for admittance to practice law in the courts of record in\nthe state immediately available after graduation from law school, or the\nexamination immediately available after being notified by the board of\nlaw examiners that they failed to pass said exam, and who have not been\nnotified by the board of law examiners that they have failed to pass two\nsuch examinations, acting under the supervision of a legal aid\norganization, when such students and persons are acting under a program\napproved by the appellate division of the supreme court of the\ndepartment in which the principal office of such organization is located\nand specifying the extent to which such students and persons may engage\nin activities prohibited by this statute; or (3) to persons who have\ngraduated from a law school approved pursuant to the rules of the court\nof appeals for the admission of attorneys and counselors-at-law and who\nhave taken the examination for admission to practice as an attorney and\ncounselor-at-law immediately available after graduation from law school\nor the examination immediately available after being notified by the\nboard of law examiners that they failed to pass said exam, and who have\nnot been notified by the board of law examiners that they have failed to\npass two such examinations, when such persons are acting under the\nsupervision of the state or a subdivision thereof or of any officer or\nagency of the state or a subdivision thereof, pursuant to a program\napproved by the appellate division of the supreme court of the\ndepartment within which such activities are taking place and specifying\nthe extent to which they may engage in activities otherwise prohibited\nby this statute and those powers of the supervising governmental entity\nor officer in connection with which they may engage in such activities;\nor (4) an attorney and counselor-at-law or the equivalent who is\nadmitted to the bar in another state, territory, district or foreign\ncountry and who has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in the State\nof New York within the limitations prescribed in the rules of the court\nof appeals; or (5) an attorney licensed as a legal consultant under\nrules adopted by the court of appeals pursuant to subdivision six of\nsection fifty-three of this chapter and rendering legal services in the\nstate within limitations prescribed in such rules.\n