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

Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim

On the New York attorney register since 2012 · office in New York, NY

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

Registration No.
4979357
Admitted
2012 · Second Department
Status
Currently registered
Next registration
Jan 2028

Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim is currently registered on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 2012 in the Second Department, with an office in New York, NY; next registration due Jan 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 Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim has filed the biennial registration the court system requires; the next one is due in Jan 2028.

  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

7 other attorneys list Free and Fair Litigation Group or one of its other names as their employer on the register; 5 of them were admitted before 2012, and all 8 give an office in New York, NY. The 5 whose admission is closest to 2012, earliest first:

AttorneyAdmittedStatus
Kevin Michael Trowel2008Currently registered
Monica Pilar Folch2009Currently registered
Daniel Nathan Frost2009Currently registered
Zack Griffin Goldberg2018Currently registered
Martha Jordan Reiser2020Currently registered

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

Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim studied at Harvard Law School. 3,482 of its 14,378 living graduates on the register were admitted in the 2010s, as Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim was.

Same law school
14,378living graduates; 86.1% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in New York, NY
93,604living registrants

Of the 93,604 living registrants with an office in New York, NY, 52,244 were admitted before 2012 and 39,126 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. Harvard Law School graduates on the register14,378 living, 86.1% registered.
  2. Attorneys with an office in New York, NY93,604 living registrants give an office there.
  3. New York County’s registered bar75,989 currently registered, 46.63 per 1,000 residents.
  4. Admitted in 20129,632 people admitted in 2012 are on the register, 2,535 of them through the Second 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 Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim’s standing, contact the Attorney Registration Unit of the NY Office of Court Administration (nycourts.gov/attorneys), or ask the Appellate Division, Second Department, which admitted Stephen Seungkun Cha-Kim in 2012. A complaint about this attorney would go to the First Department’s grievance committee, which covers New York County, where the register places the office.

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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