(7) A commercial legal entity may be established to carry on legal practice, provided that, with respect to its incorporation documents, the State of New York permits admission on application without examination for candidates who have practised in five of the preceding seven years, who are admitted to at least one mutual jurisdiction in the United States and who have studied at a law school recognized by the American Bar Association. The New York State Board of Law Examiners (BOLE) is responsible for approving and certifying each applicant for admission upon request. A person can be admitted to the Cayman Islands bar on one of three routes. A newly qualified person may qualify by holding either a Bachelor of Laws from the Cayman Islands Law School or an equivalent institution, or a non-legal degree as well as the Joint Professional Examination/Graduate Diploma in Law, and then completing the 9-month Professional Practice Course (“PPC”), followed by eighteen months as an article writer in a law firm. According to the Law Practitioners (Students) Regulations, 2012, only Caymanians or persons who have Caymanian status or who have otherwise been approved by the Cayman Islands Cabinet may perform the PPC. The abovementioned 89/48/EEC procedure makes it possible to recognise a lawyer`s foreign diploma in addition to passing an aptitude test in another Member State. [63] Alternatively, the active exercise of the law of the host Member State for a period of three years offers a pathway to the bar in the host country. The three-year period can be shortened by meeting other requirements. [63] The petition is addressed to both the Registrar of the Supreme Court on behalf of the Chief Justice and the Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Law Society of Kenya, and after approval by the Council of the Law Society, one of them is “called to the Bar Association”. The appeal is filed in open session by an oath before the Chief Justice, who announces the admission. As a general rule, several lawyers are admitted to the Bar during the same session. A person may be admitted as a lawyer or solicitor in the British Virgin Islands either by being admitted to the United Kingdom Bar or by attending one of the three regional law schools (Hugh Wooding Law School, Norman Manley Law School or Eugene Dupuch Law School). In 2015, the British Virgin Islands passed the Legal Profession Act 2015.
[19] Although the new admission rules under the Act have not yet come into effect, graduates of regional law schools will still be eligible for admission, but will be required to complete a one-year period of student body; and UK lawyers are only eligible for admission if they have five years of post-qualification experience. The new regulation will also allow high-level foreign lawyers to be admitted temporarily for a single case. An examination is carried out by the qualification committee of a bar bar. The exam is both written and oral, but the main test is oral. The written exam takes place in the form of computer tests and includes questions of professional conduct of the lawyer and the professional liability lawyer. After passing the written exam, candidates are allowed to take the oral exam. As part of the oral exam, the candidate must prove knowledge in various areas of law and imitate certain real legal tasks. The candidate who does not pass the qualifying exam can try to pass it again after only 1 year. [104] The Qualifications Commission is composed of seven lawyers, two judges, two representatives of the regional legislature and two representatives of the Department of Justice.
[105] Lawyers who, although not admitted to the New York Bar, are employed in new York State on a full-time basis as in-house counsel with a corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity that is not itself engaged in the practice of law or the provision of legal services outside of such an organization may apply to register as in-house counsel in New York. Applicants must be admitted to practice law in at least one jurisdiction that allows lawyers admitted to practice as in-house legal counsel in that jurisdiction. After passing the qualifying examination, a candidate must take the oath of attorney. From the moment of the swearing-in, he became a lawyer and member of the Bar of Russia, a respective federal subject. The Bar Association sends the relevant information to the territorial subdivision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, which includes the new lawyer in the register of lawyers of the relevant federal matter of Russia and, on the basis of this information, issues him a lawyer`s certificate, which is the only official document confirming the status of lawyer. Lawyer status is granted indefinitely and is not limited by age. There are only 1 bar bars in each federal subject of Russia. Each lawyer can only be a member of 1 bar bar and can only be registered in the register of lawyers of Russia, the respective federal subject. In case of moving to another region, the lawyer ceases to be a member of the Bar Association and must be excluded from the register of lawyers of the former place of residence (the lawyer`s certificate must be returned to the subdivision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, which issued it), then he becomes a member of the Bar and is registered in the register of lawyers of the new place. of residence (where he receives a new lawyer`s certificate) without examinations.
Any lawyer may carry out his professional activity throughout Russia, regardless of his membership of a particular regional bar and independently of a particular regional register in which he is registered. Lawyers carry out their professional activities individually (Law Firm) or as a member of the lawyer`s legal entity (College of Lawyers, Law Firm). The lawyer can open his own practice after at least 3 years of legal practice at the college or office.