N.Y. Judiciary Law § 476: Action against attorney for lending his name in suits and against person using name

§ 476. Action against attorney for lending his name in suits and

against person using name. If an attorney knowingly permits a person not

being his general law partner, or a clerk in his office, to sue out a

mandate, or to prosecute or defend an action in his name, he, and the

person who so uses his name, each forfeits to the party against whom the

mandate has been sued out, or the action prosecuted or defended, the sum

of fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action.