NY Jud L § 478 (2021)
2021 New York Laws JUD - Judiciary Article 15 - Attorneys and Counsellors 478 - Practicing or Appearing as Attorney-at-Law Without Being Admitted and Registered.

§  478.  Practicing  or  appearing  as  attorney-at-law  without being   admitted and registered. It shall be unlawful for any natural person  to   practice  or  appear  as  an  attorney-at-law  or  as  an  attorney  and   counselor-at-law for a person other than himself or herself in  a  court   of  record  in  this  state,  or  to  furnish attorneys or counsel or an   attorney and counsel to render legal services, or  to  hold  himself  or   herself  out  to  the  public  as  being  entitled  to  practice  law as   aforesaid, or in any other manner, or to assume to  be  an  attorney  or   counselor-at-law,  or  to assume, use, or advertise the title of lawyer,   or   attorney    and    counselor-at-law,    or    attorney-at-law    or   counselor-at-law,  or attorney, or counselor, or attorney and counselor,   or equivalent terms in any language, in such manner  as  to  convey  the   impression  that  he  or  she  is  a legal practitioner of law or in any   manner to advertise that he or she either alone  or  together  with  any   other persons or person has, owns, conducts or maintains a law office or   law  and  collection  office,  or office of any kind for the practice of   law, without having first been duly and regularly licensed and  admitted   to  practice  law  in  the  courts  of record of this state, and without   having taken the constitutional oath. Provided, however, that nothing in   this section shall be held to 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 otherwise prohibited  by  this  statute;  or  (3)  to  law   students  who have completed at least two semesters of law school, or 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   students or 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.