New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 22 - JUDICIARY
Subtitle B - Courts
Chapter I - Court of Appeals
Subchapter C - Rules for Admission of Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law
Part 520 - Rules of the Court of Appeals for the Admission of Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law
Section 520.7 - Certification by Board of Law Examiners

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024

(a) Except as provided in section 520.10 of this Part, no applicant for admission to practice in this State shall be admitted unless the New York State Board of Law Examiners shall have certified to the Appellate Division of the department in which, as shown by the papers filed by the applicant with the Board, the applicant resides, or if not a resident of the State, in which such papers show that the applicant is employed fulltime, or, if the applicant does not reside and is not employed fulltime in the State, to the Appellate Division of the Third Department, that the applicant

(1) has passed the New York State bar examination prescribed in section 520.8 of this Part or has satisfied the requirements for transfer of a Uniform Bar Examination score as set forth in subdivision (b) of section 520.2 of this Part, and

(2) has demonstrated compliance with the requirements of section 520.9 of this Part.

(b) Applicants who seek admission in New York based on passage of the New York State bar examination administered prior to July 2016 need not demonstrate compliance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a) of section 520.9 of this Part.

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