Keenan v. Mitsubishi Estate, New York, Inc.

"It is the policy of the State of New York to foster the availability of a wide range of professional services by lawyers qualified to render them” (New York Criminal & Civ. Cts. Bar Assn. v Jacoby, 61 NY2d 130, 136). To this end, residents of adjoining States may appear as attorneys in New York courts if they are *331duly admitted to the New York bar and if they maintain an "office for the transaction of law business *• * * within the [S]tate [of New York]” (Judiciary Law § 470; see, Rosenshein v Ernstoff, 176 AD2d 686).

At issue in the case at bar is whether plaintiffs counsel below…