Engaging in practice by person not admitted
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State Ex Rel. Indiana State Bar Ass'n v. Northouse (2006)
Most recently applied in Joseph C. Lehman v. State of Indiana (May 2016)
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.22.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. A person who:
(1) professes to be a practicing attorney;
(2) conducts the trial of a case in a court in Indiana; or
(3) engages in the business of a practicing lawyer;
without first having been admitted as an attorney by the supreme court commits a Class B misdemeanor.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.