I read with puzzlement the front page news article in the June 22, 2015 New York Law Journal reporting the rejection by the Appellate Division, Second Department, of disbarred attorney Joel Brandes’ application for readmission to the Bar.
The basis for the rejection was that Brandes was unlawfully practicing law by rendering advice and services to other attorneys, while holding himself out as a paralegal. In explaining why the court found Brandes was practicing law, and was not just acting as a paralegal, the article quoted, in part, from the court’s decision: “that Mr. Brandes was ‘vastly more experienced in matrimonial and domestic relations matters than the attorneys for whom he was performing services,’ and therefore ‘the provision of such services can be deemed to be performing legal services for a client, namely, the attorney for whom he drafted the brief and documents.’”
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