Are you Licensed to Practice in Your State?

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on April 11th, 2005


• Filed in News, Risk Management & Compliance

The Association of Corporate Counsel reports on a recent Wisconsin case on the licensing of in-house counsel:

"A recent decision against an in-house lawyer in Wisconsin offers an
important lesson to other in-house counsel working in states in which
they are not admitted. In In re Mostkoff, Wis., No. 03-2640-BA,
3/24/05, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an in-house lawyer
who was admitted in Michigan, but had been located in and working for a
corporate client in Wisconsin "below radar" for several years, could
not be admitted to the Wisconsin bar under rules that would have
otherwise potentially authorized his presence going forward."

The ACCA has a comprehensive page on state licensing requirements for in-house counsel.  New Jersey, for example, instituted a licensing procedure for in-house counsel in 2004.