In 2008 Princeton solo Ekaterina Schoenefeld began the hunt for her white whale: equal justice from New York for New Jersey attorneys. She persuaded a New York federal judge that the requirement of New York Judiciary Law section 470, requiring out-of-state lawyers to maintain a physical office in New York, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
In 2015, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed, holding that the law “was not enacted for the protectionist purpose of favoring New York residents in their practice of law. To the contrary, the statute was enacted [for the purpose of] eliminating a service of process concern.”
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