N.Y. Judiciary Law § 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.