Tucker

Petitioners seek permission to take the examination given to attorneys from other states who apply for admission to practice here. They hold certificates as attorneys at law and solicitors in chancery and are entitled to *676 practice before the Supreme Court of New Jersey, but they have not acquired the status of counsellors at law and are not entitled to practice as such in the Court of Errors and Appeals.

The question for decision is whether petitioners “have been admitted to practice before the highest court of a sister state,” as required of out-of-state attorneys before being admitted here under the provisions of section 6062 of the Business & Professions Code.

The Court of Errors and Appeals is the court of “last resort in all causes” in the State of New Jersey (Const, of N.J., art. VI, § 1, 1), and it is therefore the “highest court” in that state.

An applicant for admission to practice law in all the courts of New Jersey must pass two examinations. If he is successful in the first examination, he is admitted as an attorney at law and solicitor in chancery. He is required thereafter to practice at least three years in the Supreme Court and to pass another examination…