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

Shand S. Stephens

On the New York attorney register since 2009 · office in San Francisco, CA

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

Registration No.
4747663
Admitted
2009 · First Department
Status
Currently registered
Next registration
Mar 2027

Shand S. Stephens is currently registered on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 2009 in the First Department, with an office in San Francisco, CA; next registration due Mar 2027. The status is the same in all 3 files we hold.

What this status means on the register

On the register, “Currently registered” means Shand S. Stephens has filed the biennial registration the court system requires; the next one is due in Mar 2027.

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

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

The register gives this attorney’s employer as “Dla Piper LLP (Us)”. We count that spelling with DLA Piper LLP, the name most registrants give for the firm now; the register does not say where the attorney works today.

627 other attorneys list DLA Piper LLP or one of its other names as their employer on the register; 240 of them were admitted before 2009. The 5 whose admission is closest to 2009, earliest first:

AttorneyAdmittedStatus
Becky Leigh Caruso2009Currently registered
Sima Gavriella Fried2009Currently registered
Shiu-Kay Hung2009Currently registered
Alexander Sergeevich Kolmakov2009Currently registered
Robert Craig Martin2009Currently registered

All 628 registrations that list DLA Piper 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

Shand S. Stephens studied at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) (the register spells it “UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW”). 208 of its 791 living graduates on the register were admitted in the 2000s, as Shand S. Stephens was.

Same law school
791living graduates; 86.3% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in San Francisco, CA
2,474living registrants (outside New York State)

Of the 2,474 living registrants with an office in San Francisco, CA, 1,117 were admitted before 2009 and 1,262 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. Everyone who lists DLA Piper LLP628 on the register, 240 of the others admitted before 2009.
  2. UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) graduates on the register791 living, 86.3% registered; 4 of them list DLA Piper LLP.
  3. New York-admitted attorneys in San Francisco, CA2,474 living registrants give an office there.
  4. Admitted in 200910,203 people admitted in 2009 are on the register, 3,831 of them through the First Department.
  5. Every registration that reads “Currently registered”286,911 on the register file of Sep 29, 2026, by decade of admission.
  6. What a New York lawyer may chargeThe court rules on fees, retainers and fee disputes, each cited.

How to confirm it officially

For a statement of Shand S. Stephens’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 Shand S. Stephens in 2009. 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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