PlainAttorney Register file of Sep 29, 2026 · NY Office of Court Administration, via data.ny.gov

Carlos Eduardo Rivas

On the New York attorney register since 2007 · office in San Jose, CA

PlainAttorney’s reading of the public register file, not a court record.

Registration No.
4546164
Admitted
2007 · First Department
Status
Delinquent
Next registration
Sep 2027

Carlos Eduardo Rivas is delinquent on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 2007 in the First Department, with an office in San Jose, CA; next registration due Sep 2027. Since Jul 3, 2026 it has moved only through the routine two-year cycle. The month shown is the next cycle’s; the delinquency concerns an earlier registration the register did not receive.

What this status means on the register

On the register, “Delinquent” means the attorney has a registration the register shows as due and not received. Under the rule a failure to register results in referral to the Appellate Division for disciplinary action; the register does not show whether a given attorney was referred.

  1. Delinquent unchanged
  2. was Due to re‑register now Delinquent changed since the Jul 3, 2026 file
  3. Due to re‑register the first file we hold

A change of standing between the 3 files of the last twelve months is struck through in red; the routine birthday cycle is not.

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; the Jul 3, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026 files for the history.

Where this record sits on the register

Carlos Eduardo Rivas studied at Columbia Law School. 3,978 of its 18,953 living graduates on the register were admitted in the 2000s, as Carlos Eduardo Rivas was.

Same law school
18,953living graduates; 87.4% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in San Jose, CA
315living registrants (outside New York State)

Of the 315 living registrants with an office in San Jose, CA, 128 were admitted before 2007 and 171 after.

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; living registrants only.

Questions this record leads to

  1. Columbia Law School graduates on the register18,953 living, 87.4% registered.
  2. New York-admitted attorneys in San Jose, CA315 living registrants give an office there.
  3. Admitted in 20078,913 people admitted in 2007 are on the register, 3,181 of them through the First Department.
  4. Every registration that reads “Delinquent”15,500 on the register file of Sep 29, 2026, by decade of admission.
  5. How to complain about a New York lawyerThe grievance committee for each county, and what it can do.

How to confirm it officially

For a statement of Carlos Eduardo Rivas’s standing, contact the Attorney Registration Unit of the NY Office of Court Administration (nycourts.gov/attorneys), or ask the Appellate Division, First Department, which admitted Carlos Eduardo Rivas in 2007. The register places the office outside New York, so a complaint would go to that department’s grievance committee (22 NYCRR 1240.7(a)(2)).

This page reads the register file of Sep 29, 2026, and the court system’s own search can be newer; the register shows only the current value, so a suspension that ended before the files we hold, or a censure, leaves no trace here (Appellate Division decisions are published through the court system’s Law Reporting Bureau).

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