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

Katsumi Shirai

On the New York attorney register since 2004 · office in Tokyo, Japan

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

Registration No.
4232088
Admitted
2004 · Third Department
Status
Currently registered
Next registration
Jul 2028

Katsumi Shirai is currently registered on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 2004 in the Third Department, with an office in Tokyo, Japan; next registration due Jul 2028. The status is the same in all 3 files we hold.

What this status means on the register

On the register, “Currently registered” means the attorney has filed the biennial registration the court system requires; the next one is due in the month shown. How many hold this status.

  1. Currently registered unchanged
  2. Currently registered unchanged
  3. Currently registered the first file we hold

We show the 3 register files of the last twelve months (Jul 3, 2026, Aug 6, 2026, Sep 29, 2026). A change of standing between them 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.

Others who list this employer on the register

246 other attorneys list Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP or one of its other names as their employer on the register. The 5 whose admission is closest to 2004, earliest first:

AttorneyAdmittedStatus
Dante William Apuzzo2004Currently registered
Christopher Charles Caffarone2004Currently registered
Andrew James Gajkowski2004Delinquent
Stanislaw Lewandowski2004Currently registered
Marques Ontiveros Peterson2004Due to re‑register

All 247 registrations that list Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged (methodology).

Where this record sits on the register

Katsumi Shirai studied at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (the register spells it “WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY”).

Same law school
1,878living graduates; 89.3% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in Tokyo, Japan
2,762living registrants give an office there (outside the U.S.)

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

How to confirm it officially

The register is published by the court system; PlainAttorney shows it as released. For a statement of an attorney’s standing, contact the Attorney Registration Unit of the NY Office of Court Administration (nycourts.gov/attorneys), or ask the Appellate Division in the attorney’s department. The register places the office outside New York, so a complaint would go to the grievance committee of the Third Department, which admitted this attorney (22 NYCRR 1240.7(a)(2)).

This page reads the register file of Sep 29, 2026; the court system publishes the file every few weeks, so its own search can be newer. The register shows only the current value: a suspension that ended before the files we hold, or discipline short of suspension such as a censure, leaves no trace here. Appellate Division decisions on attorney discipline are published in the New York Official Reports, online through the court system’s Law Reporting Bureau.

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