Important Bar News! Mental Health Questions Are Being Removed from N.Y. Application for Admission to the Bar!

[Student Affairs]

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced that the New York Application for Admission to Practice as an Attorney will no longer “ask intrusive questions about a candidate’s mental health conditions or treatment history.” To learn more, read page 25 of the State of the Judiciary report issued by the Chief Judge on February 26, 2020, located at http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/news/20 ... eech.pdf.