Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2012
Hon. Thomas E. Mercure, Acting Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department, announced today that approximately 789 people are scheduled to be sworn in as newly admitted members of the New York State Bar by the Court at a ceremony at noon on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York.
The members of the Court presiding at the ceremony will include Acting Presiding Justice Mercure, Hon. Karen K. Peters, Hon. Bernard J. Malone Jr., Hon. Leslie E. Stein, and Hon. William E. McCarthy.
Acting Presiding Justice Mercure stated that the Court is very pleased that Hon. Dean G. Skelos, Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, will be in attendance and will address the new attorneys.
Justice McCarthy will administer the Constitutional oath of office to the applicants.
All of the new attorneys who will be sworn in on January 19 have passed the New York State Bar examination and will have been approved for admission by the Third Department’s Committees on Character and Fitness.
Applicants from at least 34 States, the District of Columbia, and 22 foreign countries will be admitted. Foreign countries represented include Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. The Third Department is responsible for the admission of out-of-State applicants and applicants from other countries.
The ceremony on January 19 is open to the public and all are invited and encouraged to attend. For further information, please contact Robert D. Mayberger, the Clerk of the Court (471-4777), or Daniel C. Brennan of the Admissions Office (471-4734).
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