NY Jud L § 484 (2021)
2021 New York Laws JUD - Judiciary Article 15 - Attorneys and Counsellors 484 - None but Attorneys to Practice in the State.

§  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  before  any   magistrate,  or for preparing deeds, mortgages, assignments, discharges,   leases or any other instruments affecting real estate, wills,  codicils,   or  any  other  instrument  affecting  the disposition of property after   death, or decedents' estates, or pleadings of any  kind  in  any  action   brought  before any court of record in this state, or make it a business   to practice for another as an  attorney  in  any  court  or  before  any   magistrate  unless  he  has  been  regularly admitted to practice, as an   attorney or counselor, in the courts of record in the state; but nothing   in this section shall  apply  (1)  to  officers  of  societies  for  the   prevention  of  cruelty  to animals, duly appointed, when exercising the   special powers conferred upon such corporations under  section  fourteen   hundred  three  of  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law; or (2) to law   students who have completed at least two  semesters  of  law  school  or   persons  who  have  graduated  from  a  law  school,  who have taken the   examination for admittance to practice law in the courts  of  record  in   the state immediately available after graduation from law school, or the   examination  immediately  available after being notified by the board of   law examiners that they failed to pass said exam, and who have not  been   notified by the board of law examiners that they have failed to pass two   such   examinations,  acting  under  the  supervision  of  a  legal  aid   organization, when such students and persons are acting under a  program   approved  by  the  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court  of  the   department in which the principal office of such organization is located   and specifying the extent to which such students and persons may  engage   in  activities  prohibited  by  this statute; or (3) to persons who have   graduated from a law school approved pursuant to the rules of the  court   of  appeals for the admission of attorneys and counselors-at-law and who   have taken the examination for admission to practice as an attorney  and   counselor-at-law  immediately available after graduation from law school   or the examination immediately available after  being  notified  by  the   board  of law examiners that they failed to pass said exam, and who have   not been notified by the board of law examiners that they have failed to   pass two such examinations, when  such  persons  are  acting  under  the   supervision  of  the state or a subdivision thereof or of any officer or   agency of the state or a subdivision  thereof,  pursuant  to  a  program   approved  by  the  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court  of  the   department within which such activities are taking place and  specifying   the  extent  to which they may engage in activities otherwise prohibited   by this statute and those powers of the supervising governmental  entity   or  officer in connection with which they may engage in such activities;   or (4) an  attorney  and  counselor-at-law  or  the  equivalent  who  is   admitted  to  the  bar  in another state, territory, district or foreign   country and who has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in the  State   of  New York within the limitations prescribed in the rules of the court   of appeals; or (5) an attorney licensed  as  a  legal  consultant  under   rules  adopted  by  the  court of appeals pursuant to subdivision six of   section fifty-three of this chapter and rendering legal services in  the   state within limitations prescribed in such rules.