In a Feb. 26, 2016, Outside Counsel piece titled “Lowering the New York Bar: Will New Exam Prepare Attorneys for Practice?” we discussed the changes in store for the New York State Bar Exam, which will essentially be replaced by the Uniform Bar Exam in July. Given the scant knowledge of New York law required to pass the new bar exam, it is highly probable that there will be an increase in the number of newly admitted attorneys who have minimal knowledge of our state’s law.
Developments on another front will allow attorneys with no training in New York law to come here and provide legal services, at least on a temporary basis. This is all thanks to a new Part 523 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals, which became effective on Dec. 30, 2015. Part 523, titled “Rules of the Court of Appeals for the Temporary Practice of Law in New York,” tracks much of the language in Rule 5.5 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which provides for the “Multijurisdictional Practice of Law.”
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