NY Jud L § 53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws JUD - Judiciary Article 3 - Court of Appeals 53 - Rule-Making Power of Court of Appeals as to Admission of Attorneys and Counsellors.

§  53.  Rule-making  power  of  court  of  appeals  as to admission of   attorneys and counsellors. 1. The court of appeals may from time to time   adopt, amend, or rescind rules not inconsistent with the constitution or   statutes of  the  state,  regulating  the  admission  of  attorneys  and   counsellors  at  law,  to  practice  in  all the courts of record of the   state.2. The court may make such provisions as  it  shall  deem  proper  for   admission  to practice as attorneys and counsellors, of persons who have   been admitted to practice in other states or countries.3. The court shall prescribe rules providing for a uniform  system  of   examination  of  candidates  for  admission to practice as attorneys and   counsellors, which shall govern the state board of law examiners in  the   performance  of its duties. The court shall not by its rules cause to be   barred  from  examination  or,  upon  successful   completion   of   the   examination  process, subsequent admission to the state bar, provided he   or she shall otherwise meet any requirements for admission,  any  person   who  is  currently  admitted  to practice in the jurisdiction of another   state and has received a degree from a law school which  qualifies  such   person  to  practice  law  in  such state, other than a law school which   grants credit for correspondence courses, provided that such person  has   been  engaged  in  the actual practice of law in the state in which they   are admitted for no less than five years.4. The rules  established  by  the  court  of  appeals,  touching  the   admission  of  attorneys  and  counsellors  to practice in the courts of   record of the state, shall not  be  changed  or  amended,  except  by  a   majority  of  the judges of that court. A copy of each amendment to such   rules must, within five days after it is adopted, be filed in the office   of the secretary of state.5. Nothing contained in this chapter prevents  the  court  of  appeals   from  dispensing,  in the rules established by it, with the whole or any   part of the stated period of clerkship required from  an  applicant,  or   with the examination where the applicant is a graduate of the Albany law   school,  Union  university, or of the New York university school of law,   or of the school of law of Columbia university, or of the university  of   Buffalo  school of law, or of the Cornell law school, or of the Syracuse   university college of law, or of the Brooklyn  law  school,  or  of  the   Fordham  university school of law, or of any law school, duly registered   by the regents of the university of the state of New York which requires   a three year course for graduation and produces  his  diploma  upon  his   application for admission to practice.6.  Nothing  contained  in  this chapter prevents the court of appeals   from adopting rules for the licensing, as a  legal  consultant,  without   examination  and  without regard to citizenship, of a person admitted to   practice in a foreign country  as  an  attorney  or  counsellor  or  the   equivalent.  Any  person so licensed shall not practice in the courts of   the state but may render legal services in the state within  limitations   prescribed in rules adopted by the court of appeals and shall subject to   the  foregoing  be  governed  by  the  provisions  of section ninety and   article fifteen of this chapter.