N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 22 § 521.3

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 521.3 - Scope of practice

A person licensed to practice as a legal consultant under this Part may render legal services in this State; subject, however, to the limitations that he or she shall not:

(a) appear for a person other than himself or herself as attorney in any court, or before any magistrate or other judicial officer, in this State (other than upon admission pro hac vice pursuant to section 520.11 of this Title);

(b) prepare any instrument effecting instrument effecting the transfer or registration of title to real estate located in the United States of America;

(c) prepare:

(1) any will or trust instrument effecting the disposition on death of any property located in the United States of America and owned by a resident thereof; or

(2) any instrument relating to the administration of a decedent's estate in the United States of America;

(d) prepare any instrument in respect of the marital or parental relations, rights or duties of a resident of the United States of America, or the custody or care of the children of such a resident;

(e) render professional legal advice on the law of this State or of the United States of America (whether rendered incident to the preparation of legal instruments or otherwise), except on the basis of advice from a person duly qualified and entitled (other than by virtue of having been licensed under this Part) to render professional legal advice in this State on such law;

(f) in any way hold himself or herself out as a member of the bar of this State; or

(g) carry on his or her practice under, or utilize in connection with such practice, any name, title or designation other than one or more of the following:

his or her own name;

the name of the law firm with which he or she is affiliated;

his or her authorized title in the foreign country of his or her admission to practice, which may be used in conjunction with the name of such country; and the title "legal consultant," which may be used in conjunction with the words "admitted to the practice of law in (name of the foreign country of his or her admission to practice)."

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 22 § 521.3