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N.Y. Judiciary Law § 486: Practice of law by attorney who has been disbarred, suspended, or convicted of a felony

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  1. Judiciary Law
  2. Article 15. Attorneys and Counsellors

§ 486. Practice of law by attorney who has been disbarred, suspended,

or convicted of a felony. Any person whose admission to practice as an

attorney and counselor-at-law has been revoked or who has been removed

from office as attorney and counselor-at-law or, being an attorney and

counselor-at-law, has been convicted of a felony or has been suspended

from practice and has not been duly and regularly reinstated, who does

any act forbidden by the provisions of this article to be done by any

person not regularly admitted to practice law in the courts of record of

this state, unless the judgment, decree or order suspending him shall

permit such act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless otherwise

provided by section four hundred eighty-five-a of this article.

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