In Re Ryzek

On August 5, 1924, applicant filed his formal application for admission to the bar. As required by the terms of section 279 of the Code of Civil Procedure the application went to the state board of bar examiners for investigation and report, the application having been based upon applicant’s admission to the bar of sister states and upon consequent practice therein. Section o 279 provides, among other things, that any person falling within a certain classification, who “has been admitted to practice law in the highest court of a sister state, . . . and who, after such admission, has been engaged in actual practice of law within such state . . . for a period of at least three years within the period of seven years immediately preceding the filing of his application, may be admitted to practice in all the courts of this state.” After due investigation the state board of bar examiners recommended that applicant be not admitted to the'bar “solely because of insufficient former practice.” Applicant now petitions that he be admitted notwithstanding this adverse recommendation.

It will be observed that the seven years within which appellant must have practiced three years in a sister…