In re McGinnis — 186 A.D. 938

Majority

p. 938

First Department,

December, 1918.

In the Matter of the Application of James McGinnis, Petitioner, for Admission to Practice Law in the State of New York.

Headnote

Attorney and client ■—• admission to the bar — clerkship.

Motion by the petitioner that this court cause an investigation to be made as to his character and fitness for admission to the bar and, upon ascertaining such, to admit petitioner to practice as an attorney and counselor at law.

Neither the statute referred to by the petitioner (Laws of 1918, chap. 105, § 1, subd. 2) nor the Rules for Admission to the Bar prescribed by the Court of Appeals confer any power upon this court to waive the requirement of such rules requiring clerkship.^[1] If any valid and extraordinary reason exists why the period of clerkship should be dispensed with in this particular case, the petitioner’s only possible relief is by application to the Court of Appeals. Present — Dowling, Laughlin, Smith, Page and Shearn, JJ. Application denied.

* See Judiciary Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 30; Laws of 1909, chap. 35), § 53, subd. 5, as amd. by Laws of 1918, chap. 105, § 1; Ct. App. Rules, Admission A ttys, etc., rules 3, 6, 7.— [Rep.