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Part 520 - Rules of the Court of Appeals for the Admission of Attorneys and Counselors at Law
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PART 520. RULES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS AND
§ 520.1 General
§ 520.2 Admission Upon Examination
§ 520.3 Study of Law in Law School
§ 520.4 Study of Law in Law Office
§ 520.5 Study of Law in Law School and Actual Practice
§ 520.7 Certification by Board of Law Examiners
§ 520.8 New York State Bar Examination
§ 520.9 Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination
§ 520.10 Admission Without Examination
§ 520.11 Admission Pro Hac Vice
§ 520.12 Proof of Moral Character § 520.13 Designation of Agent for Service of Process
§ 520.14 Application for Waiver of Rules
§ 520.15 Rules of the New York State Board of Law Examiners
(1) the applicant attended and was graduated with a first degree in law from an approved law school; or
(2) the applicant attended and successfully completed the prescribed course of instruction required for a first degree in law at an approved law school, but has not been awarded the degree as of the date proof of eligibility to sit for the bar examination is required to be filed with the State Board of Law Examiners. The State Board of Law Examiners shall not certify the applicant for admission to the bar pursuant to section 520.7(a) of this Part until the applicant has presented satisfactory proof that the applicant has been awarded a first degree in law.
(b) Approved law school defined. For purposes of these rules, an approved law school is one:
(1) that is approved by the American Bar Association at all times during the period of the applicant's attendance;
(2) that is located in the United States or its territories; and
(3) whose program and course of study meet the requirements of this section, as shown by	the law school's bulletin or catalogue, which shall be filed annually with the Clerk of the Court of Appeals and the State Board of Law Examiners, or the publicly available pages of the law school's website, which shall adequately describe each course offered and completely set forth the law school's academic calendar and graduation requirements.
(c) Instructional requirements.
(1) The law school shall require for its first degree in law the successful completion of a program that prepares its students for admission to the bar and effective, ethical and responsible participation in the legal profession, and meets each of the following requirements:
(i) a minimum of 83 credit hours must be required for graduation, including substantial instruction in substantive and procedural law and professional skills;
(ii) a minimum of 64 of the required 83 credit hours must be earned by attendance in regularly scheduled classroom courses at the law school; and
(iii) a minimum of two credit hours must be earned in a course or courses in professional responsibility. (2) Clinical courses. Credit may be granted toward the 83 credit hours required for graduation for law school clinical courses. Such credit may be counted toward the 64 classroom credit hours required by paragraph (1)(ii) of this subdivision, provided:
(i) the course includes adequate classroom meetings or seminars during the same semester in which the clinical work is completed in order to ensure contemporaneous discussion, review and evaluation of the clinical experience;
(ii) the clinical work is conducted under the direct supervision of a member of the law school faculty; and
(iii) the time and effort required and anticipated educational benefit are commensurate with the credit awarded.
(4) The total number of credit hours granted for law school clinical courses, field placement programs and externships, including classroom components, may not exceed 30 of the 83 credit hours required for graduation.
(5) Joint degree or other courses taught outside the law school. The law school may grant credit for up to 12 of the 83 credit hours required for graduation for courses taught by members of the faculty of any university or college with which the law school is affiliated or offers a joint degree program, or with which the law school has an agreement which allows courses to be taken at such university or college for credit at the law school. Credit granted for such courses may not be counted toward the 64 classroom credit hours required by paragraph (1)(ii) of this subdivision. (6) Distance education. Distance education is an educational process in which more than one-third of the course instruction is characterized by the separation, in time or place, or both, between instructor and student, and technology is used to deliver instruction.
(i) Up to 12 credit hours for distance education courses may be counted toward both the 83 credit hours required for graduation and the 64 classroom credit hours required by paragraph (1)(ii) of this subdivision, provided that:
(a) the study is offered in a primarily synchronous manner, such that students and the instructor simultaneously interact in a regularly scheduled class, albeit from separate locations, by means of on-line web-conferencing, video-conferencing, or other means, so as to provide students opportunities to interact with instructors and other students that are comparable to opportunities for such interaction in non-distance learning settings; and
(b) there is regular monitoring of student effort and accomplishment as the course progresses.
(ii) No credit shall be allowed for correspondence courses.
(iii) No credit shall be allowed for distance education courses offered principally by asynchronous means, where students and the instructor are separated in time as well as in place, including pre-recorded, non-interactive technologies, such as on-line courses, internet videos, videocassettes or discs.
(iv) No credit shall be allowed for distance education courses until the student has completed the equivalent of 28 credit hours toward the first degree in law, and no more than four credit hours shall be allowed for such courses in any semester of study.
(7) The law school certificate of attendance filed with the State Board of Law Examiners must list separately the credit awarded for:
(i) clinical courses under paragraph (2) of this subdivision;
(ii) field placement programs and externships under paragraph (3) of this subdivision and, if credit is separately awarded for a classroom instructional component of such a program taught by a member of the law school faculty, such credit shall be separately listed;
(iii) joint degree or other courses taught outside the law school under paragraph (5) of this subdivision; and
(iv) distance education courses under paragraph (6) of this subdivision.
(d) Course of study and academic calendar. An approved law school shall meet the following academic schedule and credit hour requirements:
(1) the law school's academic year must consist of no fewer than 130 days on which classes are regularly scheduled, during no fewer than eight calendar months;
(2) a minimum of 700 minutes of instruction time, exclusive of examination time, must be required for the granting of one credit hour; (3) an approved law school on an academic calendar other than a conventional two-semester schedule must require a course of study consistent with the credit hour, class days and minutes of instruction required in this Rule;
(4) an approved law school shall require that the program and course of study leading to a first degree in law be completed no earlier than 24 months and no later than 60 months after a student has commenced law study at the law school or a law school from which the school has accepted transfer credit; and
(5) an approved law school shall not permit a student to be enrolled at any time in coursework that, if successfully completed, would exceed 20 percent of the total coursework required by that law school for graduation (or a proportionate number for law schools on other academic schedules).
(e) Credit for law study in foreign country. An approved law school may, in its discretion, grant such credit as it may deem appropriate toward the total credits required for a first degree in law, but not exceeding one-third of the total credits required for the degree, to an applicant who has studied law in a law school in a foreign country.
(2) following the threshold period, two weeks of credit shall be allowed for every additional successfully completed credit hour at an approved law school, but only if at the conclusion of the semester in which the credits were earned the applicant was in good academic standing, was not on academic probation and was eligible to continue in the school's degree program.