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

Zhi-Ping Chen

On the New York attorney register since 2012 · office in Los Angeles, CA

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

Registration No.
5042809
Admitted
2012 · First Department
Status
Delinquent
Next registration
Nov 2026

Zhi-Ping Chen is delinquent on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 2012 in the First Department, with an office in Los Angeles, CA; next registration due Nov 2026. The status is the same in all 3 files we hold. 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. Delinquent unchanged
  3. Delinquent 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.

Where this record sits on the register

Zhi-Ping Chen studied at Columbia Law School. 4,756 of its 18,953 living graduates on the register were admitted in the 2010s, as Zhi-Ping Chen was.

Same law school
18,953living graduates; 87.4% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in Los Angeles, CA
2,891living registrants (outside New York State)

Of the 2,891 living registrants with an office in Los Angeles, CA, 1,712 were admitted before 2012 and 1,088 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 Los Angeles, CA2,891 living registrants give an office there.
  3. Admitted in 20129,632 people admitted in 2012 are on the register, 2,617 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 Zhi-Ping Chen’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 Zhi-Ping Chen in 2012. 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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