A decision by New York’s highest court interpreting a state law requiring nonresident attorneys to have an office there in order to practice has raised hopes in New Jersey and elsewhere that the statute will ultimately be struck down as unconstitutional.
The March 31 ruling by the New York Court of Appeals in Schoenefeld v. State of New York might also have raised the stakes by its strict interpretation of the office requirement, if the challenge to it, mounted by a New Jersey solo practitioner, is ultimately unsuccessful, lawyers said.
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