N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 22 § 522.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 522.1 - Registration of In-House Counsel

(a) In-House Counsel defined. An in-house counsel is an attorney who is employed full time or part time in this State by a nongovernmental corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity, including its subsidiaries and organizational affiliates, that is not itself engaged in the practice of law or the rendering of legal services outside such organization. An attorney is not required to reside in New York State or an adjacent state in order to register under this Part.

(b) In its discretion, and in accordance with Section 522.1(a), the Appellate Division may register as in-house counsel an applicant who:

(1)

(i) has been admitted to practice in the highest law court in any other state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia; or

(ii) is a member in good standing of a recognized legal profession in a foreign jurisdiction, the members of which are admitted to practice as lawyers or counselors at law or the equivalent and subject to effective regulation by a duly constituted professional body or public authority where such an authority both exists and holds in good standing compliant members employed as in-house counsel; or

(iii) where no such authority exists, or where such authority exists but suspends the membership of members employed as in-house counsel, is trained and licensed as a lawyer in a foreign jurisdiction and eligible to join the bar of such foreign jurisdiction, if such bar exists, or is otherwise eligible to engage in the private practice of law in such jurisdiction, upon ceasing to be employed as in-house counsel;

(2)

(i) is currently admitted to the bar as an active member in good standing in at least one other jurisdiction, within the United States, which would similarly permit an attorney admitted to practice in this State to register as in-house counsel;

(ii) was admitted to the bar in at least one other jurisdiction outside the United States and either is a current active member in good standing or has a bar membership that has been suspended because the applicant is employed as in-house counsel, but the applicant is eligible to again become an active member in good standing upon a showing that the applicant is no longer working as in-house counsel; or

(iii) is otherwise trained as a lawyer and permitted to provide legal services in a foreign jurisdiction and eligible to join the bar of such foreign jurisdiction, if such a bar exists, upon ceasing to be employed as in-house counsel; and

(3) possesses the good moral character and general fitness requisite for a member of the bar of this State.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 22 § 522.1

Amended New York State Register December 30, 2015/Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, eff. 12/30/2015

Amended New York State Register April 15, 2020/Volume XLII, Issue 15, eff. 4/15/2020